Clamp

Definition

clamp /klæmp/ n ၁။ ညႇပ္။ ျပဳတ္တူ။ ၂။ ကားမရပ္ရေနရာ၌ ရပ္ထားေသာကားကို ေမာင္းမထြက္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ခ်ဳပ္သည့္ ကိရိယာ။ ဘီးခ်ဳပ္။ v ၁။ (က) ျပဳတ္တူျဖင့္ညႇပ္သည္။ Clamp both ends of the wood before you saw it. (ခ) ၿမဲၿမဲကိုက္ထား၊ ခဲထား၊ ညႇပ္ထား သည္။ He kept his pipe clamped between his teeth. ၂။ ~ A and B (together) ; ~ A to B ညႇပ္ျဖင့္ညႇပ္၍ တြဲ ထားသည္။ clamp two boards together. ၃။ (ကားကို)ဘီးခ်ဳပ္ျဖင့္ ခ်ဳပ္ထားသည္။ Oh, no—I've been clamped! ဒုကၡပါပဲလား၊ ငါ့ကားဘီးခ်ဳပ္ခံရၿပီ။ ❏ clamp down on sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တင္းက်ပ္သည့္ ဥပေဒ၊ အမိန္႔ စသည္ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည္။ အာဏာျဖင့္ ႏိွပ္ကြပ္သည္။ The government intends to clamp down on soccer hooliganism. ❏ clamp-down n ႐ုတ္ျခည္း အာဏာသံုး၍ႏိွပ္ကြပ္ျခင္း။ a government clamp-down on tax evasion.

Examples

1. [clamp something to/around/on something] : Jack has always got a mobile phone clamped to his ear.
2. [clamp to/around/on] : The animal’s jaws clamped on the stick as I tried to beat it off.