Feel one's age

Definition

feel / fi:l / v ( pt, pp felt /felt/) ၁။ စမ္းသည္။ စမ္းၾကည့္သည္။ စမ္းမိသည္။ feel a rock/a piece of cloth ❍ Can you feel the bump on my head? ❍ Can you tell what this is by feeling it? Feel how rough this is. ၂။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) သတိျပဳသည္။ အာ႐ံုခံစားရသည္။ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ပံုေပါက္သည္။ We all felt the earthquake tremors. ❍ Can you feel the tension in this room? ❍ After the accident, she couldn't feel anything (ie she lost the sense of touch) in her left leg. ❍ He seemed to feel no remorse at all. ❍ I could feel myself falling asleep. ❍ I can feel a nail sticking into my shoe. ❍ I felt something crawl(ing) up my arm. ၃။ ပူျခင္း၊ ေအးျခင္း၊ ရႊင္လန္းျခင္း၊ စိတ္မေကာင္းျခင္းစသည္ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာျဖစ္သည္။ feeling cold/hungry/ comfortable/sad/happy ❍ You'll feel better after a good night's sleep. ❍ She felt betrayed. ❍ I feel rotten about not taking the children out. ❍ How are you feeling today? ❍ He feels strongly about this issue. ၄။ မိမိကိုယ္ကိုမိမိ ထင္မိသည္။ Standing there on stage I felt a complete idiot. ၅။ ~ (to sb) (like sth/sb) ( not in the continuous tenses) ခံစားသည္။ ပံုေပါက္ သည္။ The water feels warm. ❍ Nothing feels right in our new house. ❍ How does it feel to be alone all day? This wallet feels (to me) like leather. ❍ It feels like rain (ie seems likely to rain). ၆။ ~ as if…/ as though… (not in the continuous tenses) စိတ္ထဲတြင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထင္သည္။ သေဘာရသည္။ I feel as if I'm going to be sick. ❍ My cold feels as though it's getting better. ❍ It felt as though a great weight had been lifted from us. ၇။ ခံစားမိသည္။ သတိထားမိသည္။ He feels the cold a lot. ❍ She felt her mother's death very greatly. ❍ We all felt the force of her arguments. ❍ The effects of the recession are being felt everywhere. ❍ Don't you feel the beauty of the countryside? ၈။ အာ႐ံုခံစားသည္။ သိသည္။ ခံစားသည္။ The dead cannot feel. ၉။ ထင္သည္။ ထင္ျမင္သည္။ ယူဆသည္။ ေတြးသည္။ We all felt (that) our luck was about to turn. ❍ I felt (that) I had to write and thank you for your kindness. ❍ She felt it (to be) her duty to tell the police. ❍ He felt the plan to be unwise/felt (that) the plan was unwise. ❍ I felt it advisable to do nothing. ၁၀။ ~ (about/ around) (for sb/sth) စမ္းၾကည့္သည္။ He felt in his pocket for some money. ❍ She felt along the wall for the door. ❍ I had to feel about in the dark for the light switch. n [sing] ၁။ စမ္းၾကည့္ျခင္း။ Let me have a feel. ၂။ the feel ထိေတြ႕မႈအာ႐ံု။ ေဖာ႒ဗၺာ႐ံု။ rough/smooth to the feel (ie when touched or felt). ၃။ the feel (က) အထိအေတြ႕။ You can tell it's silk by the feel. ❍ She loved the feel of the sun on her skin. (ခ) ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္။ ခံစားမႈ။ the feel of the place/ the meeting/ the occasion. ❏ feel one's age [ IDM ] အသက္ကေလး ေထာက္လာ သည္ကို သတိျပဳမိသည္။ My children's skill with computers really makes me feel my age! ❏ feel one's ears burning [ IDM ] အတင္းေျပာေနသည္ ဟု ထင္သည္။ ❏ feel for sb [ PHRV ] က႐ုဏာပြားသည္။ သနားမိသည္။ I really felt for her when her husband died. ❏ feel free (to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အားမနာပါႏွင့္။ ‘May I use your phone?’ ‘Feel free. ’ ❍ Feel free to ask questions if you don't understand. ❏ feel good [ IDM ] အားရေက်နပ္သည္။ It makes me feel good to know my work is appreciated. ❏ feel like sth/doing sth [ IDM ] အထင္ေရာက္သည္။ လုပ္ခ်င္စိတ္ေပါက္သည္။ I feel like (having) a drink. ❍ We'll go for a walk if you feel like it. ❏ feel (it) in one's bones (that…) [ IDM ] စိတ္ထဲက အလိုလို သိႏွင့္သည္။ I know I'm going to fail this exam — I can feel it in my bones. ❏ feelingly adv စိတ္ထိခိုက္စြာ။ He spoke feelingly about his dead father. ❏ feel oneself [ IDM ] ေနထိုင္ေကာင္းသည္။ I don't quite feel myself today. ❏ feel the pinch [ IDM ] ( infml ) က်ပ္တည္း ဆင္းရဲသည္။ As the level of unemployment rises, more and more families are starting to feel the pinch. ❏ feel up to (doing) sth [ PHRV ] လုပ္ခ်င္စိတ္ရိွသည္။ If you feel up to it, we could go for a walk after lunch. ❏ feel one's way [ IDM ] ၁။ စမ္းသြားသည္။ ၂။ စမ္းတဝါးဝါး ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ ေသြးတိုးစမ္းလ်က္ ရိွသည္။ At this early stage of the negotiations both sides are still feeling their way. ❏ get the feel of sth/of doing sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသားက်သည္။ အထာက်သည္။ I haven't got the feel of the gears in this car yet. ❏ have a feel for sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အထံု။ ပါရမီ။ He certainly has a feel for languages.

Examples

1. I was feeling quite cheerful when we set out.
2. Sam felt cold and utterly miserable.
3. Are you feeling ill?
4. I don’t feel very well.
5. How do you feel now?
6. I feel such a fool for believing him.
7. He never felt at ease with interviewers or photographers.
8. [feel like] : When I came back to England
9. I felt like a stranger.
10. [feel as if/as though] : I felt as though someone had just punched me in the stomach.
11. [feel sadness/happiness/anger/relief etc] : She felt some sadness when the time came to leave.
12. [feel guilt/remorse] : Richard felt no guilt at all for what he had done.
13. [feel the need to do something] : Cara felt the need to talk to someone.
14. [feel (a) pain] : He felt a sudden pain in his chest.
15. [feel the cold/heat] : Children don’t seem to feel the cold as much as adults do.
16. It felt strange being on my own again.
17. It certainly felt good to be back home.
18. [feel like/as if/as though] : The clock said it was only eight o’clock but it felt like midnight.
19. She felt the child’s forehead to see if he was feverish.
20. Feel this scarf – it’s incredibly soft!
21. Your hair feels so soft.
22. [feel like] : The table felt like plastic
23. not wood.
24. Can you feel the draught coming from under the door?
25. I could feel his hot breath on my neck.
26. [feel someone/something do something] : I suddenly felt something brush against my arm.
27. [feel someone/something doing something] : I felt him pulling against me.
28. [feel yourself do/doing something] : Donna felt herself dozing and sat upright.
29. Sarah could feel the man’s presence before she saw him.
30. [feel (that)] : I felt I was being watched.
31. [feel (that)] : I feel that more should be done to help young people.
32. [feel about] : I don’t know how Mary feels about eating meat.
33. [feel strongly about something] : I know that Sally feels quite strongly about this issue.
34. [feel something (to be) something] : We felt it an appropriate gesture in the circumstances.
35. [feel it appropriate/necessary/important etc to do something] : He always felt it necessary to explain his actions.
36. [feel the effects/repercussions/benefits etc of something] : People should feel the benefits of the tax cuts by next month.
37. [feel someone’s death] : I’m sure we all feel his death very keenly.
38. [feel around/about] : I felt around on the ground but couldn’t find the torch.
39. [feel (around/about) for someone/something] : Adam felt in the pocket of his shorts for the key.