Hands up

Definition

hand /hænd/ n ၁။ [C] လက္။ take/ lead sb by the hand ❍ get down on one's hands and knees ❍ have one's hands in one's pockets ❍ two lovers holding hands ❍ Buckets of water were passed from hand to hand (ie from one person to another in a line) to put the fire out. ❍ He struck the table hard with his right hand. See also LEFT-HAND, RIGHT-HAND ၂။ ahand [sing] (infml) အကူအညီ။ အေထာက္အပံ့။ Could you give (me) a hand with the washing-up? ❍ Do you want/ need a hand? ၃။ [sing] ပါဝင္ျခင္း။ I bet he had a hand in the kidnapping. ❍ Do I detect your hand in this? ၄။ [C] (in compounds) (နာရီစသည္) လက္တံ။ အတံ။ …တံ။ the hour-/ minute-/second-hand of a watch. ၅။ [C] (က) အလုပ္သမား။ လုပ္သား။ farm-hands. (ခ) သေဘၤာသား။ All hands on deck! ၆။ [sing] လက္ေျမာက္ျခင္း။ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ျခင္း။ He has a light hand with pastry (ie He makes it well). ၇။ (in compounds) လက္ျဖစ္။ hand-built/ -crafted/ -drawn/ -knitted/ -painted. ၈။ [C] (က) ဖဲကစားသူတစ္ဦးအား ေဝထား ေသာ ဖဲခ်ပ္စံု။ have a good/bad/poor hand. (ခ) ဖဲကစား ရာတြင္ တစ္လွည့္၊ တစ္လက္။ Let's play one more hand. ၉။ [sing] လက္ေရးလက္သား။ have a legible hand ❍ It was written in her own hand. ၁၀။ [sing]( dated or fml ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးက ေပးသည့္) လက္ထပ္ခြင့္။ He asked for her hand (in marriage). ၁၁။ [C](ျမင္းေဒါက္ တိုင္းရာ၌) လက္တစ္ဝါး။ (၁၀. ၁၆ စင္တီမီတာ)။ v ~ sth (to sb) ေပးသည္။ ေဝသည္။ ကမ္းသည္။ လွမ္းသည္။ He handed round the chocolates. Please hand me that book. She handed it to the boy. ❏ at first, second, etc hand [ IDM ] တိုက္႐ိုက္၊ တစ္ဆင့္ခံ စသည္။ I only heard the news at second hand. ❏ (close/ near) at hand [ IDM ] လက္တစ္ကမ္းမွာ။ Her sister was always near at hand. ❍ Help was close at hand. ❏ at sb's hands [ IDM ] … လက္ထဲမွာ။ I did not expect such unkind treatment at your hands. မင္းငါ့အေပၚ ဒီေလာက္႐ိုင္းလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ❏ bind/tie sb hand and foot [ IDM ] ၁။ ဝက္တုပ္တုပ္သည္။ ၂။ မလႈပ္သာေအာင္ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားသည္။ ❏ by hand [ IDM ] ၁။ လက္ျဖစ္။ made by hand. ၂။ လူႀကံဳျဖင့္ (သို႔) ကိုယ္တိုင္။ The note was delivered by hand. ❏ be a dab, an old, a poor, etc hand (at sth) [ IDM ] ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈ၊ အေတြ႕အႀကံဳ ရိွသည္/ မရိွ။ He's an old/a dab hand at this game (ie very experienced). ❍ I was never much of a hand (ie never very good) at cookery. ❏ fall, etc into sb's, etc hands [ IDM ] လက္တြင္းသို႔က် ေရာက္သည္။ The town fell into enemy hands. ❍ I would hate my diary to get into the wrong hands. ❏ be good with one's hands [ IDM ] လက္ရာေျမာက္သည္။ ❏ hand sth back (to sb) [ PHRV ] ျပန္ေပးသည္။ She handed (me)back the letter. ❍ Control of the territory was handed back to China. ❏ hand baggage n [U] ( esp US ) = HAND LUGGAGE ❏ hand sth down (to sb) [ PHRV ] ၁။ လက္ဆင့္ကမ္းသည္။ stories handed down from generation to generation ❍ Most of my clothes were handed down to me by my older brother. ငါ့အဝတ္အစား အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကေတာ့အစ္ကိုရဲ႕အက်ေတြပဲ။ ၂။ ( esp US ) ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာသည္။ hand down a budget/legal decision/verdict. ❏ -handed (in compound adjs) ၁။ …လက္ရိွေသာ။ …လက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ empty-handed. လက္ခ်ည္းသက္သက္။ ၂။ (က) (ဘယ္၊ ညာ) သန္ေသာ။ Are you left-handed? (ခ) …လက္ျဖင့္၊ …လက္အတြက္ ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ။ a one-handed catch ❍ a right-handed glove. See also RED-HANDED, SHORT-HANDED, SINGLE-HANDED ❏ handful /'hændfƱl/ n ၁။ [C] ( pl -fuls ) ~ ( of sth ) လက္တစ္ဆုပ္စာ။ pick up a handful of sand. ၂။ [sing] ~ ( of sb/ sth ) လက္တစ္ဆုပ္စာ။ အနည္းငယ္။ Only a handful of people came. ၃။ a handful [sing] ( infml ) ထိန္းရသိမ္းရ ခက္ေသာ လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္။ That young lad is quite a handful (ie is lively or often causes trouble). ❏ hand-grenade n လက္ပစ္ဗံုး။ ❏ hand-held adj လက္ကိုင္။ a hand-held camera/ computer. ❏ hand sth in (to sb) [ PHRV ] တင္ျပသည္။ ေပးအပ္သည္။ အပ္ႏွံသည္။ She handed in her resignation. ❍ A petition containing 50000 signatures was handed in at the mayor's office. ❍ Luckily, somebody found my keys and handed them in to the police. ❏ (be) hand in glove (with sb) [ IDM ] တစ္က်ိတ္တည္း တစ္ႀကံတည္း။ He was found to be hand in glove with the enemy. ❏ hand in hand [ IDM ] ၁။ လက္ခ်င္းတြဲလ်က္၊ လက္ခ်င္း ခ်ိတ္လ်က္။ ❍ ARM 1 ၂။ အတူတြဲလ်က္။ ဒြန္တြဲလ်က္။ War and suffering go hand in hand. ❏ hand it to sb [ IDM ] ( infml) (always with must or have ( got ) to ) ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ ခ်ီးက်ဴးသည္၊ ခ်ီးမြမ္းသည္။ You've got to hand it to her—she is extremely clever. ❏ hand luggage (also esp US hand baggage ) n [U] လက္ဆြဲဝန္စည္စလယ္။ ❏ hand-me-downs n [pl] (အဝတ္အစား) အက်မ်ား။ ❏ hand sth on (to sb) [ PHRV ] လက္ဆင့္ကမ္းသည္။ Please hand on the magazine to your friends. ❏ hand sth out (to sb) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဝသည္။ ငွသည္။ ေဝငွသည္။ ျဖန္႔ေဝသည္။ Please hand these photocopies out (to the rest of the class) for me. ၂။ (အႀကံ၊ အျပစ္) ေပးသည္။ stiff sentences handed out by the courts to habitual offenders. ❏ hand-out n ၁။ ေပးစာကမ္းစာ။ လူ ေပးသူေပး။ be dependent on hand-outs. ၂။ (က) လက္ကမ္းေၾကညာခ်က္။ လက္ကမ္းေၾကာ္ျငာစာ။ (ခ) (သတင္းစာတိုက္သို႔ပို႔ေသာ)လက္ကမ္း ေၾကညာခ်က္၊ လက္ကမ္း စာလႊာ။ election hand-outs. (ဂ) (ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအားျဖန္႔ေဝေသာ) မွတ္စုအက်ဥ္း။ ❏ hand-over n လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးအပ္ျခင္း။ လႊဲေပးျခင္း။ လႊဲျခင္း။ the smooth hand-over of power from the military to civilian government. ❏ hand (sth) over (to sb) [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးသည္။ လႊဲေပးသည္။ လႊဲအပ္သည္။ hand over power to an elected government ❍ I am resigning as chairman and handing over to my deputy. ❏ hand sb/ sth over (to sb) [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးအပ္ သည္။ အပ္ႏွံသည္။ They handed him/their weapons over to the police. ❏ hand over fist [ IDM ] အေျမာက္အျမား။ တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္း။ သဲ့ယူသလို။ The company is making money hand over fist. ❏ hand-over-fist adv ေဟာခနဲေဟာခနဲ (ဝင္သည္၊ ထြက္ သည္)။ They're losing money hand-over-fist. ❏ hand sb over to sb [ PHRV ] (သတင္းေၾကညာဆဲ၊ တယ္လီဖုန္းေျပာဆဲတြင္) သက္ဆိုင္သူက ဝင္ေျပာႏိုင္ရန္ လႊဲေပး သည္။ I'm handing you over now to our home affairs correspondent. ❏ hand-picked adj လက္ေရြးစင္။ ❏ hands off (sth/ sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) မထိနဲ႔။ လက္ေရွာင္။ ဝင္မပါႏွင့္။ Hands off my sandwiches/my girlfriend! ❏ hands-off adj လက္ေရွာင္ေသာ။ the government's hands-off approach to industrial disputes. ❏ hands-on adj လက္ေတြ႕။ have hands-on experience of a computer keyboard. ❏ hands up [ IDM ] ၁။ လက္ေထာင္။ လက္ညိႇဳးေထာင္။ Hands up, anyone who knows the answer. ၂။ လက္ ေျမႇာက္။ Hands up and don't move! ❏ hand to hand [ IDM ] (of fighting) အနီးကပ္။ လက္ တစ္ကမ္း။ hand-to-hand combat. ❏ have one's hands free/ tied [ IDM ] စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္/ မလုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္။ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္/ မလြတ္ မလပ္။ ❏ have one's hands full [ IDM ] အလုပ္မ်ားသည္။ အလုပ္ ႐ႈပ္သည္။ ❏ hold sb's hand [ IDM ] ႏွစ္သိမ့္အားေပးသည္။ အားေပးကူညီ သည္။ I don't need anyone to hold my hand. ❏ in (sb's) capable, good, etc hands [ IDM ] ပိုင္ႏိုင္ ကြၽမ္းက်င္စြာ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲႏိုင္ျခင္း။ I've left the department in Bill's very efficient hands. အားထားရေသာလက္ထဲမွာ။ ❏ in hand [ IDM ] ၁။ လက္က်န္။ We still have some money in hand. ၂။ ထိန္းထားႏိုင္ေျခ။ The situation is well in hand. ၃။ ေဆာင္ရြက္ဆဲ။ the job in hand ❍ The work is in hand and will soon be completed. ❏ in one's/ sb's hands [ IDM ] လက္ထဲမွာ။ The affair is no longer in my hands. ❍ Put the matter in the hands of a lawyer. ❍ The painting is in private hands. ❏ keep one's hand in [ IDM ] လက္မက်ေအာင္ ေလ့က်င့္ သည္။ လက္ေသြးသည္။ I like to play tennis regularly, just to keep my hand in. ❏ lay/get one's hands on sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ေတြ႕သည္။ ရသည္။ The book's here somewhere, but I can't lay my hands on it just now. ❍ I need to get my hands on a good computer. ၂။ ( infml ) မိသည္။ If I ever lay my hands on the thief, he'll be sorry. ❏ lift/raise a/one's hand against sb [ IDM ] ရန္မူသည္။ ❏ many hands make light work [ IDM ] ( saying ) တစ္ေယာက္တစ္လက္ ေက်ာင္းသားလက္။ ❏ not do a hand's turn [ IDM ] ဘာမွ်လုပ္ေဖာ္မရ။ He never does a hand's turn around the house. ❏ off one's hands [ IDM ] လက္လြတ္သြားေသာ။ လက္လႊတ္ရ ေသာ။ They'll be glad to get their son off their hands financially. ❏ on either/every hand [ IDM ] ( fml ) ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုးမွာ၊ အားလံုးမွာ။ ႏွစ္ေနရာစလံုးမွာ၊ ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ။ ❏ on hand [ IDM ] အဆင္သင့္။ အရန္သင့္။ Our trained staff will be on hand to help you. ❏ on one's hands [ IDM ] လက္မလြတ္ေသးေသာ။ လက္ မလႊတ္ရေသးေသာ။ She's got three small children on her hands. ❏ on the one hand…on the other (hand)… [ IDM ] ဒါေပမဲ့။ သို႔ေသာ္ျငားလည္း။ On the one hand I want to travel abroad, but on the other I don't want to give up my job. ❏ out of hand [ IDM ] ၁။ ထိန္းမႏိုင္သိမ္းမရ။ Inflation is getting out of hand. ၂။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မစဥ္းမစား။ The proposal was rejected out of hand. ❏ out of one's hands [ IDM ] မပိုင္ေတာ့။ I can't help you, I'm afraid—the matter is out of my hands. ❏ play into sb's hands [ IDM ] သူခိုး ဓား႐ိုးကမ္းမိသည္။ ❏ put one's hand in one's pocket [ IDM ] လက္လြယ္ သည္။ လက္ဖြာသည္။ ❏ take sb in hand [ IDM ] လိမၼာေရးျခားရိွေအာင္သင္ေပးသည္။ Those children of his need to be taken in hand. ❏ take sth into one's own hands [ IDM ] တာဝန္ယူ၍ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ I decided to take matters into my own hands and inform the police. ❏ throw one's hand in [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ လက္ေျမႇာက္သည္။ ❏ to hand [ IDM ] လက္လွမ္းမီေသာ။ I don't have the information to hand. ❏ turn one's hand to sth [ IDM ] လုပ္တတ္ကိုင္တတ္ရိွသည္။ She can turn her hand to all sorts of jobs.

Examples

1. Mrs Bennet put her hands over her ears to shut out the noise.
2. [something in your hand] : He was holding a mug of coffee in his left hand.
3. [hold someone’s hand] : He sat by the bed and held her hand.
4. [hold hands] : The park was full of young couples holding hands.
5. [take someone by the hand] : George took her by the hand and helped her out of the car.
6. [hand in hand] : They walked along the cliff top hand in hand.
7. [shake hands] : The two men introduced themselves and shook hands.
8. It was a large farm
9. with over 20 hired hands.
10. [give someone a hand] : Can you give me a hand with these boxes?
11. [a hand] : Would you like a hand with the cleaning up?
12. [lend a hand] : Lydia lent a hand (=helped) with the costumes.
13. [a big hand for someone] : A big hand for the band
14. ladies and gentlemen!
15. [give someone a big hand] : Let’s give the children a big hand.
16. [play your hand] : Everything depends on how the company plays its hand.
17. The manuscript was written in the author’s own hand.