Scent

Definition

scent /sent/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ရနံ႔။ သင္းရနံ႔။ the scent of pines/ new-mown hay ❍ These flowers have no scent. (ခ) [C] အနံ႔။ a delicate scent of lavender ❍ a musky scent. ၂။ [U] ( esp Brit ) ေရေမႊး။ a bottle of scent ❍ put some scent on before going out ❍ a scent bottle. ၃။ (က) [U,C usu sing ] (လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္တို႔ကို အနံ႔ခံလိုက္ရာ၌) အနံ႔။ follow/ lose/ pick up/ recover the scent ❍ Hounds hunt by scent. (ခ) [sing] အနံ႔။ ေျခရာ။ Scientists are on the scent of a cure. ❍ He grew a beard to put/ throw reporters off the scent (ie to stop them following him). ၄။ [sing] ~ of sth တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ျဖစ္သည့္ အရိပ္အေယာင္။ အနံ႔။ အနံ႔အသက္။ သတင္း။ a scent of danger/ fear/ trouble/ victory. v ၁။ (က) အနံ႔ခံသည္။ အနံ႔ရသည္။ The dog scented a rat. (ခ) အနံ႔ရသည္။ အနံ႔အသက္ခံမိသည္။ scent a crime ❍ scent victory ❍ scent blood (ie the possibility of defeating sb and gaining REVENGE ၁(က)) ❍ The press have already scented a story. ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) (esp passive) (ေရေမႊး)ဆြတ္သည္။ ရနံ႔သင္းသည္။ အနံ႔သတ္သည္။ scented candles/note paper/ soap ❍ roses that scent the air ❍ a handkerchief scented with lavender.

Examples

1. An apple with a rich flavour and scent
2. The sweet fresh scent of newly baked bread filled the house.
3. [pick up a scent] : Police tracker dogs picked up the man’s scent in the forest.
4. [be on the scent] : The dogs were soon on the fox’s scent.
5. The police were following a false scent.
6. The first scent of suspicion