Chalky

Definition

chalk /tʃↄ:k/ n ၁။ [U] ထံုးေက်ာက္။ ေျမျဖဴ။ the chalk downs of southern England. ၂။ (က) [U] (စာေရး ရန္၊ ပံုဆြဲရန္) ေျမျဖဴ။ a stick of chalk ❍ a picture drawn in chalk on the blackboard ❍ a teacher with chalk on his jacket ❍ chalk dust. (ခ) [C] ေျမျဖဴခဲ။ ေျမျဖဴေတာင့္။ (a box of) coloured chalks. v ~ sth (up) (on sth) ေျမျဖဴျဖင့္ ေရးသည္၊ ဆြဲသည္။ a message chalked on the blackboard ❍ dishes chalked (up) on the menuboard in a restaurant ❍ chalk up one's score (eg when playing darts). ❏ chalk sth out [ PHRV ] ေျမျဖဴျဖင့္ ေကာက္ေၾကာင္း ေရး ဆြဲသည္၊ ပံုၾကမ္းဆြဲသည္။ The boys chalked out goalposts on the playground wall. ❏ chalk sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ရရိွေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ စာရင္းေပါက္သည္။ The team has chalked up its fifth win in a row. ❏ chalk sth up (to sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ေႂကြးစာရင္း၌ မွတ္ထားသည္။ Chalk this round up to me, please, barman. ❏ chalk sth up to sth [ PHRV ] ( US ) အေၾကာင္းတရားအျဖစ္ ယူဆသည္။ She was not a success in her first job but we can chalk it up to lack of experience. ❏ chalky adj ( -ier , -iest ) ထံုးေက်ာက္မ်ားေသာ။ ေျမျဖဴ ကဲ့သို႔ေသာ။ chalky soil ❍ His face was chalky white. chalkiness n [U]

Examples

1. chalk /tʃↄ:k/ n ၁။ [U] ထံုးေက်ာက္။ ေျမျဖဴ။ the chalk downs of southern England. ၂။ (က) [U] (စာေရး ရန္၊ ပံုဆြဲရန္) ေျမျဖဴ။ a stick of chalk
2. a picture drawn in chalk on the blackboard
3. a teacher with chalk on his jacket
4. chalk dust. (ခ) [C] ေျမျဖဴခဲ။ ေျမျဖဴေတာင့္။ (a box of) coloured chalks. v ~ sth (up) (on sth) ေျမျဖဴျဖင့္ ေရးသည္၊ ဆြဲသည္။ a message chalked on the blackboard
5. dishes chalked (up) on the menuboard in a restaurant
6. His face was chalky white. chalkiness n [U]