Dictionary entry

Fathom

Pronunciation: /ˈfað(ə)m/

Pronunciation

/ˈfað(ə)m/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ခြောက်ပေ။ တစ်လံ။

Definition

fathom / 'fæðǝm / n ေရအနက္တစ္လံ။ ေရ ၆ေပအနက္ (သို႔) ၁.၈မီတာအနက္။ The harbour is four fathoms deep. ❍ The ship sank in twenty fathoms. v ~ sb/sth (out) နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ For reasons that I have never been able to fathom, the jury found him guilty. ❍ I'm trying to fathom out the motives behind his proposal.

Examples

  1. fathom / 'fæðǝm / n ေရအနက္တစ္လံ။ ေရ ၆ေပအနက္ (သို႔) ၁.၈မီတာအနက္။ The harbour is four fathoms deep.
  2. The ship sank in twenty fathoms. v ~ sb/sth (out) နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ For reasons that I have never been able to fathom, the jury found him guilty.
  3. I'm trying to fathom out the motives behind his proposal.