Grasping with the mind or imagination

Definition

see 1 /si:/ v ( pt saw /sↄ:/; pp seen /si:n/) ● Using the eyes မ်က္စိကိုအသံုးျပဳျခင္း။ ပကတိ မ်က္စိျဖင့္ ျမင္ျခင္း။ ၁။ (not in the continuous tenses) ျမင္သည္။ He looked for her but couldn't see her in the crowd. ❍ I looked out of the window but saw nothing. ❍ He could see (that) she had been crying. ❍ If you watch carefully you will see how I do it/how it is done. ❍ Did you see what happened? ❍ I hate to see you unhappy. ❍ She was seen running away from the scene of the crime. ❍ I saw you put the key in your pocket. ❍ She was seen to enter the building about the time the crime was committed. ၂။ (not usu in the continuous tenses; often used with can and could ) ျမင္(ႏိုင္)သည္။ ျမင္(ရ)သည္။ If you shut your eyes you can't see. ❍ She will never (be able to) see again (ie she has become blind). ❍ On a clear day you can see for miles from the top of the tower. ❍ Move out of the way, please — I can't see through you! ❍ It was getting dark and I couldn't see to read. ❍ feel ● Looking at sth ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ ၃။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ၾကည့္သည္။ ႐ႈ သည္။ In the evening we went to see a movie. ❍ Have you seen the new production of ‘Hamlet’ at the Playhouse? ❍ Fifty thousand people saw the match. ၄။ (only in the imperative) ၾကည့္။ ရွာၾကည့္။ See page 158. ● Meeting people ေတြ႕ဆံုျခင္း။ ၅။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ေတြ႕သည္။ ျမင္မိသည္။ I saw your mother in town today. ❍ Guess who I saw at the party yesterday? ၆။ (က) သြားေတြ႕သည္။ သြားလည္ သည္။ Come and see us again soon. (ခ) ~ sb ( about sth ) ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးသည္။ သြားေတြ႕သည္။ I'm seeing my solicitor tomorrow. ❍ You ought to see (ie discuss your illness, etc with) a doctor. ❍ What is it you want to see (ie talk with) me about? ၇။ အေတြ႕ခံသည္။ The manager can only see you for five minutes. ❍ She's too ill to see anyone at present. ၈။ (used esp in the continuous tenses) တြဲသည္။ တြဲခုတ္(ေန)သည္။ She doesn't want to see him any more. ❍ She's seeing (ie having a relationship with) a married man. ● Grasping with the mind or imagination စိတ္အာ႐ံုတြင္ ျမင္ျခင္း၊ ထင္ျမင္ျခင္း။ ၉။ (not usu in continuous tenses) (စိတ္အာ႐ံုတြင္)ျမင္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ ‘The box opens like this. ’‘Oh, I see. ’ ❍ He didn't see the joke. ❍ I don't think she saw the point of the story. ❍ I can see (ie recognize) the advantages of the scheme. ❍ Can't you see (that) he's deceiving you? ❍ Do you see what I mean? ၁၀။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) သေဘာရသည္။ ျမင္သည္။ ေတြ႕သည္။ I see things differently now. ❍ Lack of money is the main problem, as I see it (ie in my opinion). ❍ Try to see the matter from her point of view. ၁၁။ (not in the continuous tenses) ထင္သည္။ ျမင္သည္။ I can't see her changing her mind. ❍ Her colleagues see her as a future director. ● Discovering or checking sth စူးစမ္းသိျမင္ျခင္း။ ၁၂။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) (က) (သြား၊ ေမး၊ ေစာင့္)ၾကည့္သည္။ ‘Has the milkman been yet?’‘I'll just go and see. ’ ❍ ‘Is he going to recover?’‘I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see. ’ သူျပန္ေကာင္းလာမွာလား။ မသိဘူး၊ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရမွာေပါ့။ ❍ Could you go and see what the children are doing? ❍ I see (that) (ie I have read in the newspapers that) interest rates are going up again. (ခ) (ေတြး၊ စဥ္းစား)ၾကည့္သည္။ ‘Do you think you'll be able to help us?’‘I don't know, I'll have to see. ’ မင္း…တို႔ကို ကူညီႏိုင္မွာလား။ မသိဘူး၊ ၾကည့္ေသးတာေပါ့။ ❍ I'll see what I can do to help. ၁၃။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ေသခ်ာေအာင္ၾကည့္သည္။ စစ္ၾကည့္သည္။ See that all the doors are locked before you leave. တံခါးေတြ အကုန္ေသာ့ခတ္သလားဆိုတာ မသြားခင္စစ္ၾကည့္ဦး။ ❍ Could you see (that) the children are in bed by 8 o'clock? ❍ I'll see that it's done. ● Experiencing or witnessing ေတြ႕ႀကံဳျခင္း။ ျမင္ေတြ႕ျခင္း။ ၁၄။ (not in the continuous tenses) ႀကံဳသည္။ ေတြ႕သည္။ မ်က္ျမင္ျဖစ္သည္။ He has seen a great deal in his long life. သူ႕သက္တမ္းရွည္ႀကီး တစ္ေလွ်ာက္မွာ အမ်ားႀကီးျမင္ခဲ့၊ ေတြ႕ခဲ့၊ ႀကံဳခဲ့ၿပီ။ ❍ These shoes have seen a lot of wear (ie have been worn a lot). ၁၅။ (not in the continuous tenses) (က) ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ တိုက္ဆိုင္သည္။ This year sees the tercentenary of Handel's birth. ဒီႏွစ္ဟာ Handel ရဲ႕ အႏွစ္ ၃၀၀ ေျမာက္ ေမြးေန႔နဲ႔ ႀကံဳတယ္/ေမြးေန႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ (ခ) ျမင္ကြင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ျမင္ရသည္။ This stadium has seen many thrilling football games. ဒီအားကစား႐ံုဟာ သည္းလိႈက္ ရင္ဖို ေဘာလံုးပြဲေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကို ျမင္ခဲ့ဖူးၿပီ။ (ဂ) (ႀကံဳရသည္အထိ) အသက္ ရွည္သည္၊ ရိွသည္။ I hope I never (live to) see the day that computers replace books. ကြန္ပ်ဴတာေတြက စာအုပ္ေတြကို ေခ်ာင္ထိုးလိုက္မည့္ အခ်ိန္ထိေတာ့ ေနရမွာမဟုတ္ ပါဘူး။ ● Other meanings အျခားအနက္အဓိပၸာယ္မ်ား။ ၁၆။ လိုက္ပို႔သည္။ I saw the old lady across (ie helped her to cross) the road. ❍ May I see you home (ie go with you as far as your house)? ❍ My secretary will see you out (ie of the building). ၁၇။ (ေလာင္းေၾကး)ဆတူထပ္သည္၊ လိုက္သည္။ ❏ for all (the world) to see [ IDM ] ကြက္ကြက္ကြင္းကြင္း၊ ေပၚေပၚထင္ထင္ (ျမင္ရေလာက္ေအာင္)။ ❏ see about sth/doing sth [ PHRV ] အေရးယူသည္။ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ လုပ္ေပးသည္။ I must see about (ie prepare) lunch soon. ❍ I'll have to see about getting the roof repaired. အိမ္ေခါင္မိုးျပင္ဖို႔ကိစၥ လုပ္ရဦးမယ္။ ❍ He says he won't help us, does he? Well, we'll soon see about that (ie I will insist that he does help). ❏ see for oneself [ IDM ] (မေက်နပ္လွ်င္၊ မယံုလွ်င္) ကိုယ္တိုင္သြားၾကည့္။ If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself! ❏ see a lot, nothing, etc of sb [ IDM ] တပူးတြဲတြဲ တြဲ သည္/မတြဲ။ They've seen a lot/nothing/little/more/less of each other recently. ❏ see sth in sb/sth [ PHRV ] စြဲသည္။ မက္သည္။ I can't think what she sees in him. ဒီေကာင္ကို ဘာမ်ားမက္ေနလဲ မသိပါဘူး။ ❏ seeing that…; ( infml ) seeing as (how)… [ IDM ] … တဲ့အတြက္။ ေသာေၾကာင့္။ … လို႔။ Seeing that he's been ill all week he's unlikely to come. ❏ see sb off [ PHRV ] ၁။ လိုက္လံပို႔ေဆာင္ႏႈတ္ဆက္သည္။ We all went to the airport to see her off. ၂။ ေမာင္းထုတ္ သည္။ Some boys were trespassing in our garden but I saw them off pretty quickly. ❏ see sth out [ PHRV ] (not in the continuous tenses) (…ကုန္သည္အထိ)အလံုအေလာက္ရိွသည္။ We have enough logs to see the winter out. ေဆာင္းကုန္ေအာင္အထိ သံုးေလာက္ ေအာင္ ထင္းရိွတယ္။ ❏ see over sth [ PHRV ] သြားၾကည့္သည္။ အေသအခ်ာ ေလ့လာသည္။ We need to see over the house before we can make you an offer. ❏ see through sb/sth [ PHRV ] (not in the continuous tenses) (လွည့္ကြက္၊ ေျခလွမ္း စသည္ကို) ျမင္သည္၊ ရိပ္စားမိသည္။ We saw through him from the start. ❍ I can see through your little game (ie am aware of the trick you are trying to play on me). ❏ see sth through [ PHRV ] (not usu in the continuous tenses) ဆံုးခန္းတိုင္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ ၿပီးဆံုးသည္ထိလုပ္သည္။ She's determined to see the job through. ❏ see sb through (sth) [ PHRV ] (not in the continuous tenses) (ပို႔မည့္ပို႔)ကူးတို႔ေရာက္ေအာင္ ပို႔ေပးသည္။ Her courage and good humour saw her through the bad times. သူ႕သတၱိနဲ႔စိတ္ဓာတ္က သူ႕အခက္အခဲ ေတြကို ေက်ာ္လြန္ေစႏိုင္ ခဲ့တယ္။ ❍ That overcoat should see me through the winter. ဒီကုတ္အက်ႌက ေဆာင္းတြင္းတစ္တြင္းလံုးအတြက္ ဖူလံု မွာပါ။ ❍ I've only got $50 to see me through until pay-day. လကုန္ေအာင္ထိ စခန္းသြားဖို႔ ေဒၚလာ(၅၀)ပဲရိွတယ္။ ❏ see-through adj ေရႊေလွာင္စကၠဴလို။ ပါးပါးလွပ္လွပ္။ a see-through blouse. ❏ see to sth [ PHRV ] လုပ္ကိုင္ေပးသည္။ ၾကည့္ေပးသည္။ The photocopier isn't working; I'll have to get somebody to see to it. ဒီစက္ကပ်က္ေနျပန္ၿပီ၊ တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ ေတာ့ ၾကည့္ေပးခိုင္းရဦးမယ္။ ❍ Will you see to the arrangements for the next committee meeting? ❏ see to it that… [ PHRV ] ေသခ်ာပါေစ။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္ပါ။ See to it that you're ready on time! ❏ see you around [ IDM ] ( infml ) = SEE YOU ❏ see you; (I'll) be seeing you [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ခြဲခြာရာ၌ ႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား)။ ေနာက္ဆံုၾကေသး တာေပါ့။ I'd better be going now. See you! see 2 /si:/ n ( fml ) ခရစ္ယာန္ဂိုဏ္းအုပ္ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး (သို႔) ဂိုဏ္းခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး ဩဇာသက္ေရာက္ေသာ စီရင္စုနယ္ေျမ။ See also THE HOLY SEE

Examples

1. She laughed when she saw the expression on his face.
2. [see what/where/who] : Did you see who it was?
3. [see (that)] : I could see she was upset.
4. [see someone/something doing something] : Didn’t you see him talking to her earlier?
5. If the operation is successful
6. he will be able to see again.
7. [see to do something] : It was too dark to see to read.
8. [can’t see a thing] : She can’t see a thing without her contact lenses.
9. We saw Hamlet at the National Theatre last week.
10. Have you seen the film American Beauty?
11. The border guard asked to see her passport.
12. Are you seeing Jane tomorrow?
13. [see you] : See you at the station at 6 o’clock.
14. I saw David in town the other day.
15. When can Mr Martin see me?
16. [see someone about something] : She’s seeing the doctor about her leg tomorrow.
17. We still see each other a couple of times a month.
18. [see of someone] : I’ve been seeing a lot of my sister recently.
19. Peter still isn’t well enough to see anyone.
20. See chapter 12.
21. [see] : This contributed to the success of the Republicans (see above).
22. I think I see the problem here.
23. [see why/what/who/how] : I see why you’re angry.
24. [see (that)] : No one could see he was to blame.
25. [see] : I can’t see that it matters who does it.
26. He didn’t see what all the fuss was about.
27. [see what someone means] : ‘It’s not fair to go without him.’ ‘Yes
28. I see what you mean.’
29. [see someone/something as something] : This was seen as an attempt to fool the voters.
30. He seems to see me as a threat.
31. [see things differently (from someone)] : A scientist sees things differently from an artist.
32. [see someone as something] : Can you really see her as the president?
33. [see doing something] : I just can’t see them winning the game.
34. [see yourself] : Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?
35. As we saw in Chapter 2
36. the reasons for the war were complex.
37. [see (that)] : If you read his report
38. you’ll see that he recommends a cautious approach.
39. [see who/what/why] : I’ll go and see what he wants.
40. [see if/whether] : He went back to see whether they needed any help.
41. This little girl has seen so much misery in her time.
42. The region has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the war.
43. [see someone home] : Can I see you home?
44. [see someone across the road] : I’ll see him across the road.
45. [see someone to the door] : My secretary will see you to the door.
46. I’ll see your 20 dollars.