Head-on

Definition

head /hed/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ဦးေခါင္း။ ေခါင္း။ He fell and hit his head. ❍The ball hit her on the head. ❍ My head aches. ❍ nod one's head (ie to indicate ‘yes’. ❍ HUMAN, INSECT (ခ) a head [sing] ေခါင္းတစ္လံုးစာ။ ေခါင္းတစ္လံုး။ The favourite won by a head. ❍ Tom is taller than John by a head. ၂။ [C] ( infml ) ေခါင္းကိုက္ျခင္း။ ေခါင္းခဲ ျခင္း။ I've got a terrible head this morning. ၃။ [C] စိတ္။ ဦးေႏွာက္။ Use your head (ie Think). ❍ The thought never entered my head. ၄။ [sing] ဉာဏ္ရည္။ စြမ္းရည္။ အထံု။ have a good head for business/ figures ❍ have no head for heights (ie feel GIDDY ၁ (က) and frightened in high places). ၅။ heads [sing v ] (ေခါင္းပန္း လွန္ရာတြင္) ေခါင္း။ We tossed a coin (eg to decide sth by chance) and it came down heads. Compare TAILS ၆။ head [pl] (တိရစၧာန္) ေကာင္ေရ၊ အေကာင္။ 50 head of cattle. ၇။ [C] ဦးေခါင္းႏွင့္ ပံုသဏၭာန္၊ အေနအထား တူေသာ အရာ။ (တူတြင္ ထု႐ိုက္ရေသာ အစိတ္အပိုင္း။ သစ္ပင္ပန္းပင္၏ ထိပ္ပိုင္းအရြက္စု၊ ပန္းအစု။ ) ေခါင္း။ ထိပ္။ the head of a nail/ a hammer/ an axe ❍ cut off the dead heads of the roses. ❍ HAMMER ၈။ [C usu sing ] အျမႇဳပ္။ ၉။ [C] တိပ္ရီေကာ္ဒါမွ ဟက္ဒ္။ ၁၀။ [C] (ဝက္ၿခံ၊ အနာစိမ္း စသည္) ျပည္ဖု။ The pimple came to a head before bursting. See also BLACKHEAD ၁၁။ [C usu sing ] တစ္ခုခု၏ ထိပ္ဆံုး၊ အျမင့္ဆံုးေနရာ။ ထိပ္။ ဦး။ the title at the head of the page ❍ stand at the head of the stairs ❍ at the head of the league table ❍ the head of the lake (ie where a river enters it). ၁၂။ [C] ပို၍ အေရးႀကီးေသာ၊ ထင္ရွားေပၚလြင္ေသာ အစြန္းပိုင္း။ ထိပ္။ ထိပ္ဘက္။ ေခါင္းရင္း။ ေခါင္းရင္းဘက္။ My father took his place at the head of the table. ❍ Place the pillows at the head of the bed. ၁၃။ [sing] (က) (တန္းစီရာတြင္) ထိပ္။ ေရွ႕။ be at the head of a queue ❍ march at the head of the regiment. (ခ) ထိပ္။ အထြတ္။ be at the head of one's profession. ၁၄။ [C] (က) ဦးေသွ်ာင္။ ဦးစီး။ အႀကီးအကဲ။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္။ ေခါင္း။ အခ်ဳပ္။ the head of the family ❍ heads of department ❍ a meeting of the heads of government ❍ a gathering of the crowned heads (ie kings or queens) of Europe ❍ a head teacher ❍ the head waiter ❍ head office (ie a company's central place of business). (ခ) (also Head ) ( esp Brit ) ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ႀကီး။ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ဆရာမႀကီး။ Report to the Head immediately! ၁၅။ [C usu sing ] (ေရ၊ ေရေႏြး ေငြ႕) ဖိအား၊ တြန္းအား။ They kept up a good head of steam. ၁၆။ [C usu sing ] (အရပ္အမည္သံုး) အငူ။ Beachy Head. ၁၇။ [C] ေခါင္းစဥ္။ a speech arranged under five heads. v ၁။ (က) ဦးေဆာင္သည္။ head a procession ❍ Her name headed the list. (ခ) ဦးေဆာင္သည္။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္သည္။ head a rebellion/ government/ delegation. ၂။ ေရွး႐ႈသည္။ ေရွး႐ႈသြားသည္။ Where are you heading/ headed? ❍ We'd better be heading back now. ❍ head for/ towards the town centre. ( fig ) Interest rates are heading towards 14%. ၃။ (esp passive) ေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္သည္။ The chapter was headed “My Early Life”. ၄။ (ေဘာလံုးကို) ေခါင္းျဖင့္ တိုက္သည္။ ေခါင္းတိုက္သည္။ head the ball (into the goal). ❏ a/ per head [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးႏႈန္း။ တစ္ေယာက္ႏႈန္း။ The meal cost £10 a head. ❏ above/ over sb's head [ IDM ] လိုက္မမီ။ The lecture was/went way above my head. ❏ bang, etc one's head against a brick wall [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေက်ာက္ခဲကိုႏို႔ညႇစ္သည္။ ဖြဲကိုဆန္ေထာင္းသည္။ Don't bother trying to teach him good manners—you're only bashing your head against a brick wall! ❏ be/ stand head and shoulders above sb/sth [ IDM ] ေခါင္းတစ္လံုးသာသည္။ She's head and shoulders above all the other players. ❏ bite/ snap sb's head off [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေၾကာင္းမတန္ ေဒါသတႀကီးေငါက္ငမ္းသည္။ I was only two minutes late but she really bit my head off. ❏ bring sth/ come to a head [ IDM ] အေရးႀကီးၿပီ။ The atmosphere in the office has been tense for some time but this latest dismissal has brought matters to a head. ❏ bury/ hide one's head in the sand [ IDM ] ( derog ) မ်က္စိပိတ္၊ နားပိတ္၍ မသိခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္သည္။ ❏ from head to foot/ toe [ IDM ] ေျခဆံုးေခါင္းဆံုး။ တစ္ကိုယ္ လံုး။ The children were covered in mud from head to toe. See also FROM TOP TO TOE ❏ get it into one's head that… [ IDM ] ၁။ သေဘာေပါက္ သည္။ I wish he'd get it into his head that exams are important. ၂။ အေတြးေပါက္သည္။ He's got it into his head that we're all against him. ❏ give sb their head [ IDM ] လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ လုပ္ခြင့္ေပး သည္။ ❏ go to one's head [ IDM ] ၁။ (အရက္ေသာက္၍) ရီတီတီျဖစ္ သည္။ The whisky went straight to my head. ၂။ ဘဝင္ ျမင့္သြားသည္။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္သည္။ ❏ have a good head on one's shoulders [ IDM ] စဥ္းစားခ်င့္ခ်ိန္တတ္သည္။ လက္ေတြ႕က်က် လုပ္ႏိုင္စြမ္း ရိွသည္။ ❏ have one's head in the clouds [ IDM ] ၁။ စိတ္ပ်ံ႕လြင့္ သည္။ ၂။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္သည္။ ❏ have one's head screwed on (the right way) [ IDM ] ( infml ) စဥ္းစားခ်င့္ခ်ိန္တတ္သည္။ ❏ head-butt n ေခါင္းႏွင့္ တိုက္ျခင္း။ ေခါင္းႏွင့္ ေဆာင့္ျခင္း။ v : He was expelled for head-butting another boy. ❏ head cheese n ( US ) = BRAWN ၂ ❏ head-dress n ဦးေပါင္း။ ဦးေသွ်ာင္။ စည္းပံု။ မကိုဋ္။ ေခါင္းေပါင္း။ ❏ headed adj စာေခါင္းစီးပါေသာ။ headed notepaper. ❏ -headed ( in compound adjs ) ေခါင္း…၊ ဦး …။ a bald-headed man. ❏ head first [ IDM ] ၁။ ေဇာက္ထိုးမိုးေမွ်ာ္။ ဦးေစာက္ကြၽမ္းျပန္။ ဟပ္ထိုး။ She fell head first down the stairs. ၂။ စြတ္ရြတ္၍။ She plunged head first into a new career. ❏ head for sth [ PHRV ] ေရွး႐ႈသည္။ ဦးတည္သည္။ The talks are heading for a showdown. ❍ She's heading for trouble. ❏ head-hunt v လူေတာ္လူေကာင္း ရွာေဖြေရြးခ်ယ္ သိမ္းသြင္း သည္။ Did you apply for the job or were you head-hunted? ❏ head-hunter n ၁။ လုပ္ငန္း၊ ကုမၸဏီ စသည္ တစ္ခုခုအတြက္ အခေၾကးေငြယူ၍ ထိပ္ပိုင္းအမႈေဆာင္ ရွာေပးသူ၊ ကုမၸဏီ။ ၂။ ရန္သူကို ေခါင္းျဖတ္ယူသည့္အေလ့ရိွေသာ လူ႐ိုင္းမ်ဳိး။ ❏ headless adj ေခါင္းျပတ္။ a headless corpse. ❏ head sb/ sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ကာဆီးဟန္႔တားသည္။ head off reporters/ an angry mob. ၂။ တားဆီးသည္။ head off a quarrel. ❏ Head of State n ( pl Heads of State ) ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အႀကီးအကဲ။ ❏ head-on adj, adv (က) ေခါင္းခ်င္းဆိုင္၊ မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္ (တိုက္မိသည္)။ a head-on collision ❍ The cars crashed head-on. (ခ) ေခါင္းျဖင့္ (ဝင္ေအာင္းသည္)။ The car hit the tree head-on. (ဂ) မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္း ဆိုင္။ ထိပ္တိုက္။ a head-on confrontation between management and unions ❍ tackle a problem head-on (ie without trying to avoid it). ❏ head over heels [ IDM ] ၁။ ေရွ႕ကြၽမ္းထိုးလ်က္။ ၂။ အ႐ူး အမူး။ She's head over heels in love (with him). ❏ heads or tails? [ IDM ] (ေမ်ာက္ပန္းလွန္ရာတြင္) ေခါင္းလား၊ ပန္းလား။ ❏ head start n အေက်ာ။ အသာစီး။ Being able to read gave her a head start over the other pupils. ❏ head-to-head adj, adv မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္။ ထိပ္တိုက္။ a head-to-head confrontation with his old rival. ❏ heads will roll ( for sth ) [ IDM ] ( usu joc ) အျပစ္က်မည္။ ❏ head wind n ေလဆန္။ Compare TAIL WIND ❏ hold one's head high [ IDM ] ဂုဏ္ယူဝင့္ႂကြားသည္။ ❏ in one's head [ IDM ] ေခါင္းထဲမွာ။ ဦးေႏွာက္ထဲမွာ။ How do you keep all those telephone numbers in your head? ❏ in over one's head [ IDM ] အိုးနင္းခြက္နင္းျဖစ္သည္။ I lacked experience of big business and was soon in over my head. ❏ keep one's head [ IDM ] ေခါင္းေအးေအးထားသည္။ ❏ keep one's head above water [ IDM ] ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္႐ံုမွ်သာ ရိွသည္။ I'm managing to keep my head above water, though I'm not earning much. ❏ keep one's head down [ IDM ] လွ်ဳိေနသည္။ ❏ laugh, scream, etc one's head off [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေအာ္ႀကီးဟစ္က်ယ္ (ရယ္သည္၊ ေအာ္သည္၊ ငိုသည္)။ The baby was screaming its head off but no one heard it. ❏ make head or tail of sth [ IDM ] (used with can, be able to, etc) နားလည္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I can't make head (n)or tail of these instructions. ❏ need, etc (to have) one's head examined [ IDM ] ( infml ) မိုက္မဲသည္။ ႐ူးသည္။ ႐ူးေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ He swims in the sea in winter—he ought to have his head examined! ❏ off one's head [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္႐ူးသည္။ He's (gone) completely off his head! ❏ on sb's/ one's (own) head be it [ IDM ] (သူ၊ မင္း) ထိုက္ႏွင့္ (သူ၊ မင္း) ကံ။ You wanted to try this new route, not me, so on your head be it. ❏ out of one's head [ IDM ] ( sl ) မဟန္ႏိုင္။ မထိန္းႏိုင္ မသိမ္းႏိုင္။ ❏ over sb's head [ IDM ] ေက်ာ္၍ (ရာထူးတိုးေပးသည္)။ (အဆင့္) ေက်ာ္၍ (ေျပာသည္၊ လုပ္သည္)။ I couldn't help feeling jealous when she was promoted over my head. ❍ When her boss refused to listen to her, she went over his head to the managing director. ❏ put sth into sb's head [ IDM ] အႀကံေပးသည္။ Who's been putting such ideas into your head? ❏ put our/ your/ their heads together [ IDM ] ေခါင္းခ်င္း ႐ိုက္ၾကသည္။ I'm sure we can solve the problem if we all put our heads together. ❏ put sth out of one's head [ IDM ] ေခါင္းထဲမွ ထုတ္ပစ္ လိုက္။ You should put any idea of marriage right out of your head. ❏ (do sth) standing on one's head [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြယ္ကေလးႏွင့္။ She could pass the exam standing on her head. ❏ stand/ turn sth on its head [ IDM ] ေျပာင္းျပန္လွန္ပစ္ သည္။ She stood my argument on its head. ❍ Their unexpected victory has turned the season on its head. ❏ take it into one's head to do sth/ that… [ IDM ] မဆင္မျခင္ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ She suddenly took it into her head to dye her hair green. ❍ He's taken it into his head that I'm spreading rumours about him. ❏ turn sb's head [ IDM ] ဘဝင္ျမင့္ေစသည္။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္ေစ သည္။ The success of his first novel completely turned his head. ❏ two heads are better than one [ IDM ] ( saying ) သမဂၢာနံ တေပါ သုေခါ။ တစ္ေယာက္အားႏွင့္ယူေသာ္မရ၊ တစ္ေသာင္းအားႏွင့္ယူေသာ္ရ၏။

Examples

1. A bruise on the side of her head
2. A thought suddenly came into my head.
3. I don’t want to put any ideas into your head.
4. [in/inside your head] : He did the sums quickly in his head.
5. She did not speak the words
6. but instead whispered them inside her head.
7. The ceremony was attended by heads of government from eleven countries.
8. The head waiter
9. [head of] : We walked straight to the head of the queue.
10. 300 head of cattle
11. I’ll toss a coin. You choose heads or tails.
12. The manager was antagonised by Ben and wanted his head on a plate.