Sea change

Definition

sea /si:/ n ၁။ [U] (often the sea , also esp rhet seas [pl]) ပင္လယ္။ fly over land and sea ❍ travel by sea ❍ people going on holiday in search of sun, sand and sea ❍ The waste was dumped in the sea. ❍ The river flows into the sea near Portsmouth. ❍ the cold sea(s) of the Antarctic ❍ freedom of the seas ❍ roam the seas ❍ a sea voyage ❍ a hotel room with a sea view. See also THE HIGH SEAS, THE OPEN SEA ၂။ [C] (often Sea , esp as part of a name) (က) (သမုဒၵရာေအာက္ ငယ္ေသာေရျပင္) ပင္လယ္။ the Mediterranean Sea ❍ the South China Sea. (ခ) (ေရခ်ဳိ၊ ေရငန္ အင္းႀကီး) ပင္လယ္။ the Caspian Sea ❍ the Sea of Galilee. ၃။ [C] (also seas [pl]) ပင္လယ္လိႈင္း။ လိႈင္းတံပိုး။ The tanker was foundering in heavy/rough/ mountainous seas. ၄။ [sing] ~ of sth အေျပာက်ယ္ေသာ။ တစ္ခြင္တစ္ျပင္ တင္းက်မ္းျပည့္ႏွက္ေနေသာ။ I stood amid a sea of corn. ❍ He looked down at the sea of faces beneath him. ❏ at sea [ IDM ] ၁။ သေဘၤာေပၚတြင္။ ပင္လယ္ျပင္တြင္။ spend three months at sea. ၂။ ဦးေႏွာက္႐ႈပ္လ်က္။ She tried to follow the instructions, but was soon completely at sea. ❏ go to sea [ IDM ] သေဘၤာသားလုပ္သည္။ ❏ out to sea [ IDM ] ပင္လယ္နက္ထဲသို႔။ ပင္လယ္ျပင္သို႔။ We gazed out to sea. ❍ She fell overboard and was swept out to sea. ❏ put (out) to sea [ IDM ] (သေဘၤာ၊ ေလွ) ဆိပ္ကမ္းမွ ခြာသည္။ ❏ sea air n [U] ပင္လယ္ေလ။ a breath of sea air. ❏ sea anemone n ပင္လယ္မိႈ။ ❏ the sea bed n [sing] ပင္လယ္ၾကမ္းျပင္။ ❏ sea bird n ပင္လယ္ေပ်ာ္ငွက္။ ❏ sea breeze n ပင္လယ္ေလညင္း။ ❏ sea change n (usu sing ) သိသိသာသာ ထူးထူးျခားျခား ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ။ one of those momentous events which cause a sea change in public attitudes. ❏ sea dog n ဝါရင့္သေဘၤာသား (သို႔) သက္ႀကီးရြယ္အို သေဘၤာသား။ ❏ sea-fish n ( pl unchanged) ပင္လယ္ငါး။ ❏ sea front (often the sea front ) n [sing] ၿမိဳ႕၏ ပင္လယ္ကမ္းေျခပိုင္း။ a hotel on the sea front ❍ a sea front restaurant. ❏ sea-green adj, n စိမ္းျပာေရာင္။ ❏ sea horse n ေရျမင္း။ ေရနဂါး။ ❏ sea legs n [pl] ပင္လယ္လိႈင္းၾကားေနက်င့္။ I feel a bit odd—I haven't got my sea legs yet. ❏ sea level n [U] ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ 50 metres above/below sea level. ❏ sea lion n (ပစိဖိတ္သမုဒၵရာ) ပင္လယ္ဖ်ံႀကီး။ ❏ Sea Lord n (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) ေရတပ္ဦးစီးဌာနခ်ဳပ္ ဘုတ္အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ (၄)ဦးအနက္ တစ္ဦးဦး။ ❏ sea power n ၁။ [U] ေရတပ္အင္အားျဖင့္ စိုးမိုးႏိုင္မႈ။ ၂။ [C] ေရတပ္အင္အားေကာင္းေသာႏိုင္ငံ။ ❏ sea shell n ခ႐ုခြံ၊ ေယာက္သြားခြံ စသည့္ ပင္လယ္သတၱဝါ အခြံ။ a large collection of sea shells. ❏ sea urchin n သံပျခဳပ္။ ေက်ာက္သေဘၤာ။ ❏ sea wall n ပင္လယ္ကမ္းေျခ ေရကာတာ။ ❏ sea water n [U] ပင္လယ္ေရ။

Examples

1. Tim went swimming in the sea.
2. He had a room overlooking the sea.
3. We’re renting a house by the sea (=close to the sea).
4. [into the sea] : I ran across the beach and into the sea.
5. [at sea] : Some older tankers need maintenance while at sea.
6. [by sea] : Most of his belongings will be transported by sea.
7. [out to sea] : She rowed the boat out to sea.
8. [lost at sea] : A service was held to commemorate those lost at sea.
9. [put to sea] : The cruiser put to sea yesterday from the port of Murmansk.
10. [the open sea] : The yacht was on the open sea in light winds.
11. [calm/rough/choppy/stormy seas] : A fishing boat is missing in rough seas off the Shetlands.
12. The sea was very choppy (=with many small waves).
13. The dam will create an enormous inland sea.
14. The North Sea
15. The Irish Sea
16. The peace and freedom of the seas