Dictionary entry

Glue-sniffing

Pronunciation: /ˈɡluːsnɪfɪŋ/

Pronunciation

/ˈɡluːsnɪfɪŋ/

Myanmar Meaning

မူးယစ်ဆေး ၊ အဖြစ် ကော်များမှ အခိုးအငွေ့များကို ရှုရှိုက်ခြင်း။

Definition

glue / glu: / n [U,C] ေကာ္။ mend a broken cup with glue ❍ a bottle/ tube of glue ❍ He sticks to her like glue (ie never leaves her). Compare ADHESIVE n , CEMENT n ၂ (က) v ~ A (to/ onto B) ; ~ A and B (together) ေကာ္ ကပ္သည္။ ေကာ္ကပ္၍ဆက္သည္။ glue the leg (back) onto the chair ❍ glue two pieces of cardboard together. ❏ glued to sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) မခြာဘဲ ကပ္ေနသည္။ ကပ္ထားသည္။ He's glued to the television (ie watching it with great interest). ❍ with his ear glued to the keyhole (ie listening hard to a conversation in another room). ❏ glue-sniffing n [U] (မူးယစ္ထံုထိုင္းေစရန္) အေငြ႕ျပန္ေသာ ေကာ္မ်ဳိးကို႐ႉျခင္း။ ❏ gluey /'glu:i / adj ေစးကပ္ေသာ။ ေစးပိုင္ေသာ။ a gluey mess.

Examples

  1. A pot of glue
  2. Is the monarchy the glue that keeps the United Kingdom together?