Dim

Definition

dim /dÇm/ adj (-mmer, -mmest) ၁။ (က) မိွန္ေသာ။ မႈန္ေသာ။ မႈန္ဝါးေသာ။ in the dim glow of an oil-lamp ❍ the dim outline of the house in the moonlight. (ခ) (ေနရာ) ေမွာင္ေသာ။ မႈန္မႈန္ဝါးဝါး။ a dim corridor with no windows. ၂။ (မ်က္စိ) မႈန္ေသာ၊ ဝါးေသာ။ His eyesight is getting dim. ၃။ ေရးေရးသာမွတ္မိေသာ။ a dim memory/recollection ❍ ( joc ) Once, in the dim and distant past, I was a student here. ၄။ ( infml ) (လူ)ထံုေသာ၊ ထိုင္းေသာ။ v (-mm-) မိွန္လိုက္သည္။ မိွန္သြားသည္။ The stage lights (were) dimmed as the curtain rose. ❍ Old age hasn't dimmed her memory. ❏ dimly adv မႈန္မႈန္မႊားမႊား။ မိွန္မိွန္။ ေရးေရး။ a dimly lit room ❍ Dimly, across the surface of the lake, she saw a black figure. ❍ I can dimly (ie only just) remember my fourth birthday. dimness n [U] ❏ dim-wit n ( fml ) (esp as a form of address) ငတံုး။ ငအ။ ငတံုးတာ။ ❏ dim-witted adj ( infml ) တံုးေသာ။ အေသာ။ ❏ take a dim view of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) သေဘာမက်။ အျမင္မၾကည္လင္။ She took a dim view of my suggestion. dime /daÇm/ n အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ကေနဒါသံုး ဆယ္ဆင့္တန္ အေႂကြေစ့။ ❍ cent 1 ❏ a dime a dozen [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေပါစား။ Novels like this one are a dime a dozen.

Examples

1. The dim glow of the streetlamp
2. The room was very dim.
3. She caught a glimpse of a dim figure in the dark kitchen.
4. I had a dim recollection of a visit to a big dark house.
5. He only had a dim awareness of the issues involved.
6. Their hopes of victory were starting to look dim.