Paper

Definition

paper /'peÇpǝ(r)/ n ၁။ စကၠဴ။ a piece/ sheet of paper ❍ writing-paper ❍ tissue- paper ❍ recycled paper ❍ a paper bag/ handkerchief/ towel. See also BLOTTING-PAPER, CREPE PAPER, GREASE-PROOF PAPER, NOTE PAPER, TOILET PAPER WRAPPING PAPER ၂။ [C] သတင္းစာ။ Where's today's paper? ❍ a daily/ Sunday paper ❍ a national/ local paper. See also EVENING PAPER ၃။ [C] (က) (usu pl ) စာရြက္။ His desk is always covered with papers. (ခ) papers [pl] စာရြက္ စာတမ္း။ Immigration officials will ask to see your papers. ၄။ [C] (က) စာေမးပြဲေမးခြန္း။ ေမးခြန္းလႊာ။ The geography paper was difficult. (ခ) အေျဖစာရြက္၊ စာအုပ္။ အေျဖလႊာ။ She spent the evening marking exam papers. ၅။ စာတမ္း။ စာတမ္းငယ္။ He's giving/ reading a paper at the conference on the results of his research. See also GREEN PAPER, WHITE PAPER ၆။ [C, U] နံရံကပ္ ပန္းေျပာက္စကၠဴ။ WALLPAPER: a pretty striped paper for the bedroom. v ပန္းေျပာက္စကၠဴကို နံရံေပၚတြင္ကပ္သည္။ We're papering the bathroom. ❏ on paper [ IDM ] ၁။ စာျဖင့္။ Could you put a few ideas down on paper? ၂။ သေဘာတရားအားျဖင့္။ စာအရ။ It's a fine plan on paper, but will it work in practice? ❍ She looks good on paper (ie has good qualifications). ❏ paper-boy n ( fem paper-girl ) သတင္းစာပို႔သမား ကေလး။ ❏ paper-chase n ေနာက္ပါလူမ်ား လမ္းသိႏိုင္ရန္ ေရွ႕ေဆာင္ ေျပးသူက စကၠဴစမ်ားခ်ေပးေသာ ေတာလမ္းျဖတ္ေျပးပြဲ။ ❏ paper-clip n စကၠဴညႇပ္။ ကလစ္။ ❏ paper-knife n စာအိတ္ဖြင့္ဓား။ ❏ paper-money n [U] ေငြစကၠဴ။ ❏ paper over the cracks ( in sth ) [ IDM ] ဆင္ေသကို ဆိတ္ေရႏွင့္ဖံုးရန္ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ Critics of government policy argue that the new measures introduced to fight crime are simply papering over the cracks. ❏ paper sth over [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပန္းေျပာက္စကၠဴျဖင့္ ပိတ္ဖံုး လိုက္သည္။ We papered over the stains on the wall. ၂။ ဆင္ေသကို ဆိတ္ေရႏွင့္ဖံုးရန္ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ ❏ paper-pusher n ( US ) = PEN- PUSHER ❏ paper round n သတင္းစာပို႔အလုပ္။ ယင္းသို႔ပို႔ရသည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ Some children do a paper round before school. ❏ paper tiger n မာန္ျဖင့္ ဟိန္းေဟာက္ေနေသာ္လည္း စင္စစ္ ဘာမွ်မတတ္ႏိုင္သူ။ စကၠဴက်ား။ သႀကၤန္အေျမာက္။ ❏ paper-thin adj ပါးလႊာေသာ။ ပါးလွပ္ေသာ။ beautiful paper-thin material ❍ ( fig ) a paper-thin line between success and failure. ေအာင္ျမင္မႈႏွင့္ က်႐ံႈးမႈၾကား စကၠဴပါး တမွ်သာ ျခားနားမႈ (ရိွသည္)။ ❏ papery /'peÇpǝri/ adj ပါးလႊာေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေသာ (အသား အေရ)။ wrinkled, papery skin.

Examples

1. A parcel wrapped in brown paper
2. [a piece/sheet of paper] : Stuart handed me a piece of paper with an address written on it.
3. He sat down and read the paper.
4. The story was in all the papers.
5. Is that today’s paper?
6. We had to show our papers at the security desk.
7. His private papers include a diary of his first year in parliament.
8. Some important papers are missing from the files.
9. I had a maths paper in the afternoon.
10. Please hand your papers in now.
11. [present a paper] : Leading scholars have been invited to present papers at the conference.
12. [paper on] : He has published many papers on the subject.
13. [paper on] : I have to write a paper on the Cuban Revolution.