Scratch

Definition

scratch /skrætʃ/ v ၁။ (က) ကုတ္သည္။ That cat won't scratch (you). ❍ The dog is scratching at the door. ❍ You've scratched the table with your knife. (ခ) ေရးျခစ္သည္။ ယက္သည္။ ျခစ္သည္။ scratch a line on a surface ❍ scratch (out) a hole in the soil ❍ He'd scratched his name in the bark of the tree. (ဂ) ျခစ္ထုတ္သည္။ ပယ္ ဖ်က္သည္။ scratch the rust off the lock ❍ Mind he doesn't scratch your eyes out. ❍ ( fig ) Her name had been scratched off the list. ၂။ (ယား၍) ကုတ္သည္။ Stop scratching (yourself). ❍ Scratching the rash will only make it worse. ၃။ ~ sb/oneself/sth (on sth) ျခစ္မိသည္။ She scratched herself while pruning the roses. ❍ He's scratched his hand on a nail. ၄။ တဂ်စ္ဂ်စ္ျမည္သည္။ My pen scratches. ၅။ ~ (sb/sth) (from sth) (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲမွ)ထြက္ သည္။ I had to scratch (from the marathon) because of illness. ❍ The horse had to be scratched (from its first race). n ၁။ [C] ကုတ္ရာ။ ျခစ္ရာ။ ပြန္းရာ။ ပဲ့ရာ။ Her hands were covered with scratches from the thorns. ❍ It's only a scratch (ie a very slight injury). ❍ He escaped without a scratch (ie was not hurt at all). ၂။ [sing] ကုတ္ျခင္း။ I like a good scratch! adj ၁။ ( esp Brit ) ရရာစုေပါင္းစပ္ေပါင္း။ a scratch meal/team/orchestra. ၂။ (ေဂါက္သီး စသည္၌) အေက်ာမဲ့။ a scratch golfer/player/race. ❏ scratch about/around (for sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ယက္၍ (အစာ)ရွာသည္။ chickens scratching about in the farmyard. ၂။ လွန္ေလွာရွာသည္။ ကုတ္ကုတ္ကတ္ကတ္ (စဥ္းစား သည္)။ scratching around in the rubble looking for bits of junk ❍ ( fig ) She was scratching around for something to say. ❏ scratch one's head [ IDM ] ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ စဥ္းစား သည္။ We've been scratching our heads for days over this problem. ❏ scratch pad n ( esp US ) ေရးမွတ္ၿပီး ဆုတ္ခြာႏိုင္ေသာ မွတ္စုစာအုပ္ငယ္။ ❏ scratch the surface (of sth) [ IDM ] အေပၚယံ အပယိက မွ်သာ ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္း ႏိုင္သည္။ This article is short and only scratches the surface of the topic. ❍ The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface. ❏ scratchy adj ၁။ ယားက်ိက်ိရိွေသာ။ scratchy clothes/wool. ၂။ ျခစ္ရာဗရပြႏွင့္ သံေသးသံေၾကာင္ေဖာက္ေသာ (ဓာတ္ျပား စသည္)။ ၃။ တဂ်စ္ဂ်စ္ျမည္ေသာ(ကေလာင္သြား)။ ၄။ လက္ရာ ၾကမ္းၾကမ္းေသာ့ေသာ့ (ပံု၊ ပန္းခ်ီ)။ ❏ (be/come) up to scratch; (bring sb/sth) up to scratch [ IDM ] အဆင့္မီသည္။ အဆင့္မီေအာင္ျပင္သည္။ ေကာင္းေအာင္မြမ္းမံသည္။ Is her school- work up to scratch? သူ ေက်ာင္းစာ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ လိုက္ႏိုင္ ရဲ႕လား။ ❍ We'll have to bring the house up to scratch before we sell it. အိမ္ကိုမေရာင္းမီ အဆင့္မီေအာင္ တို႔ျပင္ဆင္ရ လိမ့္မယ္။ ❏ you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours [ IDM ] ( saying ) အၿမီးစားဖက္ ေခါင္းစားဖက္ အေပးအယူလုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. Stop scratching!
2. Scratch my back for me
3. will you.
4. Don’t worry: the cat won’t scratch you.
5. The tree’s branches had scratched his hands and they were bleeding.
6. Someone’s scratched my car door.
7. [scratch at] : I could hear the dog scratching at the back door.
8. The turntable allows the DJ to mix and scratch the music that is being played.
9. From beat mixing
10. to scratching
11. to tone play – he does it all.
12. A badly scratched CD