Claw

Definition

claw /klↄ:/ n ၁။ တိရစၧာန္၊ ငွက္တို႔၏ ေျခသည္းလက္သည္း။ Cats have sharp claws. ❍ The eagle held a mouse in its claws. ၂။ (ကဏန္း၊ ပုစြန္ စသည္၏) လက္မ။ PINCER: a lobster's claw. ၃။ စက္လက္မ။ v ~ (at) sb/sth ကုတ္ျခစ္သည္။ The cats clawed at each other. ❍ The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation. ❍ His face was badly clawed. ❏ claw sth back [ PHRV ] (အစိုးရက) ေပးထားသည့္ေငြကို အခြန္ေကာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္ရယူသည္။ ❏ claw-back n အခြန္ေကာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ေပးထားေသာ ေငြကို ျပန္ရေအာင္လုပ္ျခင္း။ ❏ claw-hammer n သံႏုတ္တူ။ ဆိတ္ခ်ဳိ။ ❏ claw one's way across , through , up , etc [ IDM ] ကုပ္တက္သည္။ [ဥ] က်ားကုတ္က်ားခဲ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ They slowly clawed their way up the cliff. ❍ ( fig ) She clawed her way to the top of her profession by hard work and ruthless determination. ❏ get one's claws into sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အျပင္း အထန္ေဝဖန္သည္။ After four defeats in a row the press have really got their claws into the England team. ၂။ ( derog ) (အမ်ဳိးသမီးက) အရကုပ္သည္၊ အမိဖမ္းသည္။ She's really got her claws into him!

Examples

1. claw /klↄ:/ n ၁။ တိရစၧာန္၊ ငွက္တို႔၏ ေျခသည္းလက္သည္း။ Cats have sharp claws.
2. The eagle held a mouse in its claws. ၂။ (ကဏန္း၊ ပုစြန္ စသည္၏) လက္မ။ PINCER: a lobster's claw. ၃။ စက္လက္မ။ v ~ (at) sb/sth ကုတ္ျခစ္သည္။ The cats clawed at each other.
3. The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation.