Charm

Definition

charm /tʃɑ:m/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္။ ဆြဲေဆာင္မႈ။ ညိႇဳ႕ ဓာတ္။ a woman of great charm ❍ He has a lot of charm. ❍ the charm of the countryside in spring. (ခ) [C] ဆြဲ ေဆာင္ႏိုင္သည့္အရည္အခ်င္း။ က်က္သေရ။ a woman's charms (ie her beauty or attractive manner). ၂။ [C] (က) အလွ ဆင္သည့္ ပစၥည္း။ a charm- bracelet. (ခ) လက္ဖြဲ႕။ အေဆာင္။ a lucky charm. ၃။ [C] မႏၲန္။ v ၁။ စိတ္တိမ္းၫြတ္လာေအာင္ ဆြဲေဆာင္သည္။ ညိႇဳ႕သည္။ He charms everyone he meets. ❍ He was charmed by her vivacity and high spirits. ၂။ (esp passive) ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ကာကြယ္ထားသည္။ မ,သည္။ He has led a charmed life (ie has escaped many dangers, as if protected by magic). ❍ She has entered the charmed circle of the President's political advisers. ❏ charmer n ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္လိင္ကို တိမ္းၫြတ္ေစႏိုင္သူ။ See also SNAKE-CHARMER ❏ charm sth from/out of sb/sth [ PHRV ] ဂါထာမႏၲန္ အစြမ္းျဖင့္ ရယူသည္။ She could charm the birds from the trees! ❏ charming adj ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္အလြန္ေကာင္းေသာ။ a charming man/village/song. ❍ nice charmingly adv ❏ charmless /'tʃɑ:mlǝs/ adj ဆြဲေဆာင္မႈမရိွေသာ။ a charmless town. ❏ work like a charm [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခ်က္ခ်င္း တန္ခိုးျပ သည္၊ အစြမ္းျပသည္။ Those new pills you gave me worked like a charm.

Examples

1. Even journalists succumbed to Roosevelt’s easy charm.
2. [great/considerable/immense charm] : She is a woman of great personal charm.
3. [turn on the charm] : They were reluctant to let us in until Sue turned on the charm.
4. Visitors are delighted by the village’s more rustic charms.
5. The place held no charms for me – it was bare and isolated.
6. The building has been modernized but retains its traditional charm.
7. A classic children’s tale that has lost none of its charm
8. A good-luck charm
9. A gold charm
10. A charm bracelet