Dictionary entry

Clock tower

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) နာရီစင်။

Definition

clock /klɒk/ n ၁။ (တိုင္ကပ္၊ စားပြဲတင္)နာရီ။ The kitchen clock says (ie shows) it's ten past six. ❍ The clock struck twelve/noon/midnight. ❍ What time is it by the church clock? ❍ a clock face with numbers on. See also ALARM CLOCK, BODY CLOCK, GRANDFATHER CLOCK ၂။ ( infml ) မိုင္ႏႈန္း စသည္ျပ ဒိုင္ခြက္။ မီတာဒိုင္ခြက္။ a second-hand car with 20,000 miles on the clock. v ၁။ ~ sth (up) စံခ်ိန္၊ မွတ္တမ္း ရိွသည္။ He clock- ed 9.6 seconds in the 100 metres. သူမီတာတစ္ရာကို ၉.၆ စကၠန္႔နဲ႔ ေျပးထားတယ္။ ❍ My car has clocked up 50,000 miles. ငါ့ကားဟာ မိုင္ငါးေသာင္းအထိ ေမာင္းၿပီးၿပီ။ ❍ The company clocked up sales of over £2 million last year. ဒီကုမၸဏီဟာ မႏွစ္က ႏွစ္သန္းေက်ာ္ဖိုး ေရာင္းရတယ္။ ၂။ ခ်ိန္မွတ္နာရီျဖင့္ မွတ္သည္။ The police often clock motorists on this stretch of road. ❏ around/round the clock [ IDM ] ေန႔ေရာညပါ။ ၂၄နာရီ။ Surgeons are working round the clock to save his life. ❍ Doctors must provide a round-the-clock service. ❏ clock (sb) in/on ; clock (sb) out/off [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ( US punch (sb) in/out ) အလိုအေလ်ာက္ အခ်ိန္မွတ္စက္ျဖင့္ အလုပ္တက္ခ်ိန္၊ ဆင္းခ်ိန္ကိုမွတ္သည္။ Workers usually clock off at 5.30. အလုပ္သမားမ်ား ညေနငါးနာရီခြဲတြင္ အလုပ္မွပံုမွန္ဆင္းၾကသည္။ ❍ What is clock-in/clocking-in time at your office? မင္းတို႔႐ံုး ဘယ္အခ်ိန္တက္သလဲ။ ❏ clock radio n ႏိႈးစက္ပါ ေရဒိယို။ ❏ clock tower n နာရီစင္။ ❏ clock-watcher n ( usu derog ) အလုပ္သိမ္းရန္ နာရီ တၾကည့္ၾကည့္ လုပ္တတ္သူ။ ❏ put/turn the clock back [ IDM ] ေခတ္ေနာက္ျပန္သည္။ The new censorship law will put the clock back (by) 50 years. ❏ put the clock/clocks forward/back [ IDM ] (အခ်ဳိ႕ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား၌ အစိုးရအမိန္႔ျဖင့္) ေႏြရာသီအစ၌ တစ္နာရီေရွ႕တိုး၍ အဆံုး၌ မူလအတိုင္း တစ္နာရီျပန္ဆုတ္သည္။ Remember to put your clocks back (one hour) tonight. ❏ work against the clock [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္လုလုပ္သည္။

Examples

  1. The only sound was the clock ticking.
  2. [the kitchen/church/bedside clock] : I glanced at the kitchen clock.
  3. [the clock strikes one/five/eleven (o’clock)] : The church clock struck 10 o’clock.
  4. [adjust/set a clock] : I’ll need to adjust the clock. It’s slow again.