Covering

Definition

cover /'kʌvǝ(r)/ v ၁။ ~ sth (up/ over) (with sth) ဖံုးသည္။ အုပ္သည္။ ၿခံဳသည္။ လႊမ္းသည္။ ကာသည္။ ကြယ္သည္။ Cover the chicken loosely with foil. ❍ She covered her face with her hands. ❍ He covered the cushion with new material. ❍ He covered (up) the body (with a sheet). ❍ She covered her knees (up) with a blanket. ❍ The hole was quickly covered (over). ❍ ( fig ) He laughed to cover (ie hide) his nervousness. ၂။ ဖံုးလႊမ္းသည္။ Snow covered the ground. ❍ Flood water covered the fields near the river. ❍ Much of the country is covered by forest. ၃။ ~ sb/ sth in/ with sth ႀကဲပက္သည္။ သုတ္ လိမ္းသည္။ ေပက်ံသည္။ The players were soon covered in/ with mud. ❍ The wind blew in from the desert and covered everything with sand. ၄။ ၿခံဳငံုသည္။ အက်ံဳးဝင္ သည္။ ပတ္သက္သည္။ Her lectures covered the subject thoroughly. ❍ The survey covers all aspects of the business. ❍ a report covering the years 1984 to 1994 ❍ the salesman covering the northern part of the country (ie selling to people in that region) ❍ Do the rules cover (ie Can they be made to apply to) a case like this? ❍ The scheme will not be covered by any EU directives. See also COVERAGE ၂ ၅။ (က) ေငြလံုေလာက္သည္၊ ဖူလံုသည္။ £ 50 should cover your expenses. (ခ) ေငြေၾကးအလံု အေလာက္ ပံ့ပိုးသည္၊ ေပးသည္။ Your parents will have to cover your tuition fees. ❍ The show barely covered its costs. ပြဲ က စရိတ္ေက်႐ံုပဲရိွတယ္။ ၆။ (က) ခရီးေပါက္သည္။ By sunset we had covered thirty miles. (ခ) က်ယ္ဝန္းသည္။ က်ယ္ျပန္႔သည္။ The reserve covers an area of some1140 square kilometres. ၇။ (အျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို) သတင္းေရးသည္။ She's covering the Labour Party's annual conference. See also COVERAGE ၁ ၈။ ~ (for sb) အစားဝင္လုပ္သည္။ I'll cover for Jane while she's on vacation. ၉။ ~ sb/ sth ( against/ for sth) (အသက္၊ အိုးအိမ္ စသည္) အာမခံထားသည္။ Are you fully covered against/ for fire and theft? ❍ Does this policy cover my husband to drive? ၁၀။ (က) ေျခာက္လွန္႔ပစ္ခတ္သည္။ ကာပစ္ပစ္သည္။ Cover me while I move forward. ❍ The artillery gave us covering fire (ie shot to protect us). (ခ) (အေျမာက္၊ ခံတပ္ စသည္ျဖင့္) ေဒသတစ္ခု၏ လံုၿခံဳမႈကို ထိန္းထားသည္။ The artillery is covering every approach to the town. (ဂ) ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ခ်ိန္ရြယ္ထားသည္။ Cover her while I phone the police. ❍ Keep them covered! n ၁။ [C] (က) အဖံုး။ အအုပ္။ အစြပ္။ a plastic cover for a personal computer ❍ a cushion/ duvet cover ❍ Some chairs are fitted with velvet/ floral covers. See also LOOSE COVERS, DUST-COVER (ခ) (ေသတၱာ၊ တြင္း ေပါက္ဝ စသည္၏)အဖံုး။ a manhole cover. ၂။ [C] စာအုပ္ ဖံုး။ a book with a leather cover ❍ the front cover of the December issue ❍ read a book from cover to cover (ie from beginning to end) ❍ The magazine had a picture of a horse on the cover (ie the front cover). ၃။ the covers [pl] အိပ္ရာဖံုး။ ။ She crept under the covers and was soon asleep. ၄။ [U] ခိုစရာအရိပ္အာဝါသ။ အမိုးအကာ။ The land was flat and treeless and gave no cover to the troops. ❍ As soon as the rain started we ran for cover. ❍ There was nowhere we could take cover (ie go for protection) from the storm. ❍ The bicycles are kept under cover (ie in a shelter or shed). ၅။ [U] ကာပစ္ပစ္ျခင္း။ အကာအကြယ္။ ခုခံပစ္ခတ္ျခင္း။ Artillery gave cover (ie fired at the enemy to stop them firing back) while the infantry advanced. ❍ The operation will not be possible without air cover (ie protection by military aircraft). ၆။ [C usu sing ] (က) ~ (for sth) အေယာင္ျပ။ ဗန္း ျပ။ His business was a cover for drug dealing. (ခ) [ဥ] မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး။ Several agents had to leave the country when their cover was blown (ie revealed). ၇။ [U] ~ (against sth) (အသက္အိုးအိမ္)အာမခံ။ take out a policy that gives extra cover against fire ❍ have fully comprehensive cover. ၈။ [U] ~ (for sb) အစားဝင္လုပ္ျခင္း။ a midwife who provides emergency cover (for sick colleagues). ၉။ [C] စာအိတ္၊ စကၠဴဘူး စသည္။ under plain cover (ie in an envelope or a parcel that does not show who sent it, what its contents are, etc) ❍ ( commerce ) Your order is being dispatched under separate cover (ie in a separate envelope or parcel). ❏ break cover [ IDM ] ပုန္းေအာင္းရာမွ ထြက္လာသည္။ ❏ cover charge n (အခ်ဳိ႕စားေသာက္ဆိုင္တြင္) အစားအေသာက္ အျပင္ ဟိုဟိုသည္သည္ေၾကး။ ❏ covered adj ၁။ ~ in/ with sth ႁပြတ္ေနေသာ။ ထူေသာ။ trees covered in/ with blossom/ fruit ❍ The furniture was all covered in dust. ❍ Not so long ago the country was covered with wind-mills. ❍ His hands were covered in blood. ❍ ( fig ) I was covered in/ with confusion/ embarrassment (ie very confused and embarrassed). ၂။ အမိုးရိွေသာ။ မိုးထားေသာ။ covered seating ❍ a covered market. ❏ cover girl n (မဂၢဇင္း) မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးမယ္။ ❏ cover sth in [ PHRV ] အမိုးလုပ္သည္။ အမိုးမိုးသည္။ We're having the yard/ passage/ terrace covered in. ❏ covering /'kʌvǝrÇŋ/ n (က) အဖံုး။ အအုပ္။ အေဆာင္း။ အကာ။ a protective covering ❍ vinyl floor covering ❍ Melt the cake covering. (ခ) (ဆီးႏွင္း၊ ဖုန္ စသည္)တင္ေနျခင္း။ a light covering of snow on the ground. ❏ covering letter ( Brit ) ( US cover letter ) n ေပးပို႔ေၾကာင္း အေၾကာင္းၾကားစာ။ ❏ cover story n ၁။ (မဂၢဇင္း၊ စာေစာင္)မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးေဆာင္းပါး။ The issue generated more letters than any previous cover story. ၂။ (အမွန္ကို ဖံုးကြယ္ရန္)လံၾကဳပ္။ You need a good cover story in case anyone asks you what you're doing there. ❏ cover sth up [ PHRV ] ( derog ) ထိမ္ခ်န္ကြယ္ဝွက္သည္။ ဖံုးဖိသည္။ The government is trying to cover up the full extent of the scandal. ❏ cover- up n (usu sing ) ( derog ) မေကာင္းမႈကို ဖံုးကြယ္မႈ။ An army spokesman said there had been no cover-up. ❏ cover up for sb [ PHRV ] (အျပစ္)ဖံုးဖံုဖိဖိ လုပ္ေပးသည္။ ❏ under (the) cover of sth [ IDM ] ၁။ အကာအကြယ္ ယူလ်က္။ We travelled under cover of darkness. ၂။ ပံုေဆာင္လ်က္။ under cover of anonymity. See also UNDERCOVER

Examples

1. Cover the food until you are ready to eat it.
2. [cover someone/something with something] : They covered her with a blanket.
3. [be covered with/by something] : The floor was covered with plastic sheeting.
4. A rug covered the hole in the carpet.
5. Bob covered his eyes
6. unable to look at the body.
7. Bruises covered his entire body.
8. [be covered with/in something] : His clothes were covered in mud.
9. All the furniture was covered with dust.
10. They covered the path with rose petals.
11. Dense forest covers the lower slopes of the mountain.
12. Section 5 covers holiday allowances for part-time workers.
13. Her new book covers the period from 1870 to 1918.
14. The programme covers all aspects of health and safety at work.
15. The rights of unmarried fathers are not covered by this legislation.
16. We will be covering the game live on Saturday afternoon.
17. Clare Gray covered the Paris fashion shows for The Times.
18. We need £1
19. 000 a month to cover the rent.
20. The warranty does not cover damage caused by misuse of the product.
21. [cover someone for something] : His car insurance covers him for business use.
22. [cover someone to do something] : Are you covered to drive a truck?
23. [cover someone against something] : You need to be covered against fire.
24. We had to cover the last three miles on foot.
25. Her new album covers some old Beatles classics.
26. His partner covered him while he ran across the prison yard.
27. You go first while we cover the back door.