Picture-book

Definition

picture /'pÇktʃǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ပန္းခ်ီကား။ hang a picture on the wall ❍ His picture of lions won a prize. ❍ The little girl drew a picture of her house and coloured it in. (ခ) ဓာတ္ပံု။ They showed us their wedding pictures. ❍ She's taking a picture of the children. (ဂ) ႐ုပ္ပံု။ Will you paint my picture? ❍ He's got his picture (ie a picture showing him) in the paper. ၂။ [C] ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား ဖန္သားေပၚရိွ ႐ုပ္ပံု။ ႐ုပ္ျမင္ပံု။ dramatic satellite pictures of the war ❍ The picture is much clearer with the new aerial. ၃။ (က) [C] ႐ုပ္ရွင္ကား။ a low-budget picture ❍ Have you seen her latest picture? See also MOTION PICTURE (ခ) the pictures [pl] ( dated Brit infml ) ႐ုပ္ရွင္။ We don't often go to the pictures. ၄။ [C usu sing ] (ေျပာဆိုေရးဖြဲ႕ထားသည့္) ပံုလႊာ၊ ပံု။ Her book gives a good/colourful picture of everyday life in ancient Rome. ❍ The picture presented by the report was misleading. ❍ Her description helped the police to build up an accurate picture of what had happened. ❍ In his mind he formed a picture of where they would live. ❍ If you study the figures closely, a gloomy/disturbing/grim picture emerges. ၅။ the picture [sing] အေျခအေန။ The overall picture is unchanged. ၆။ (usu a picture ) [sing] ( infml ) မ်က္စိပသာဒျဖစ္ေသာ အရာ၊ ႐ႈခင္း။ ႐ႈခ်င့္စဖြယ္ အလွပန္း။ The girls were/looked a picture in their pretty dresses. v ၁။ (က) စိတ္ကူးၾကည့္သည္။ ပံုေဖာ္ၾကည့္သည္။ He tried to picture what it would be like to spend months entirely alone. ❍ She pictured him lying dead on the roadside. ❍ I can still picture the house I grew up in. (ခ) ~ sb/sth as sth ျမင္ေအာင္ျပသည္။ ပံုေဖာ္သည္။ He is often pictured as an outsider. ၂။ (ပံုတြင္) ျမင္ရသည္၊ ျမင္ႏိုင္ သည္၊ ေတြ႕ရသည္၊ ေတြ႕ႏိုင္သည္။ They were pictured against a background of flowers. ❍ The winner was Mark Davis, pictured above with the competition judges. ❏ be/look the picture of health, happiness, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပကတိက်န္းမာပံု၊ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာပံု (စသည္) ရသည္။ ❏ get the picture [ IDM ] ( infml ) နားလည္တယ္ မဟုတ္လား။ သေဘာေပါက္တယ္ေနာ္။ There we all were—each of us hoping that someone else would speak first. You get the picture? ❏ in the picture [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေျခအေနအားလံုး သိထားသည္။ Our plans are now well advanced so I need to put you in the picture. တို႔အစီအစဥ္ေတြ အေတာ္ ခရီးေရာက္ေနၿပီ။ မင္းသိထားရေအာင္ ေျပာမယ္။ ❏ picture-book n ႐ုပ္ပံုစာအုပ္။ ❏ picture-gallery n ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္း။ ❏ picture postcard n (ပံုပါေသာ) ပို႔စကတ္။ ❏ picture rail n ပန္းခ်ီကားမ်ားခ်ိတ္ဆြဲရန္ နံရံကပ္ သစ္သားေဖာင္းတန္း။ ❏ picture window n အကန္႔မကန္႔ထားေသာ မွန္ျပင္က်ယ္ ျပတင္းေပါက္။

Examples

1. I noticed a picture on the dining-room wall.
2. A children’s book with bright colourful pictures
3. [picture of] : She showed me a picture of the house where she was born.
4. A picture of a peaceful country scene
5. [draw/paint a picture] : She asked children to draw pictures of their family.
6. [take a picture] : I’ll stand over here
7. and you can take the picture.
8. Some viewers are suffering from poor picture quality on all channels.
9. I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times.
10. [a mental picture] : She had a mental picture of Samuel’s face.
11. [picture of] : My friends had a rather distorted picture of my life.
12. [paint a picture (of something)] : The report paints a rather gloomy picture of life in the inner cities.
13. It won the award for Best Picture.
14. The picture has changed a lot in the last couple of weeks.
15. The general picture was one of neglect and decline.