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Shell bean

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Definition

shell /ʃel/ n ၁။ (က) [C,U] အခြံမာ။ အခြံ။ Oysters, snails and tortoises all have shells. ❍ collecting shells on the beach ❍ walnut/coconut/clam shells ❍ broken pieces of shell. ❍ NUT, SHELLFISH, SNAIL See also EGGSHELL, SEA SHELL, TORTOISESHELL (ခ) [C] ေႂကြေစ့ပံု။ ခ႐ုခြံပံု။ pasta shells. ၂။ [C] (က) အေဆာက္အအံု၊ သေဘၤာ စသည္၏အျပင္ကိုယ္ထည္ခ်ည္းသက္သက္။ အခြံ။ Only the shell of the factory was left after the fire had been put out. ❍ ( fig ) My life has been an empty shell since he died. (ခ) ကိုယ္ထည္ခြံ။ အကာ။ the body shell of a car ❍ The tunnel is lined with a concrete shell. ၃။ [sing] ဟန္။ အျပင္ပန္း။ develop a shell of indifference. ၄။ [C] (က) အေျမာက္ဆန္။ လက္နက္ႀကီးက်ည္ဆန္။ shell, mortar and sniper fire ❍ The building was destroyed by an artillery shell. Compare CARTRIDGE ၁,SHOT 1 ၄ (ခ) ( US ) = CARTRIDGE ၁ v ၁။ အခြံခြာသည္။ shell peas/peanuts/mussels ❍ 200g of shelled prawns. ၂။ (အေျမာက္၊ လက္နက္ ႀကီးျဖင့္) ပစ္သည္။ shell the enemy positions. ❏ come out of / go into, etc one's shell [ IDM ] အံု႔ပုန္း၊ အထီးက်န္ ဘဝကို စြန္႔သည္ (သို႔) ယင္းဘဝတြင္ ေအာင္းသည္။ She has really come out of her shell and is chatting to everyone. ❍ Losing his job seems to have made him retire into his shell. ❏ shell bean n ( US ) (အေတာင့္လိုက္မစားရဘဲ)အဆန္ထုတ္ စားရေသာ ပဲသီးေတာင့္မ်ဳိး။ ❏ shelling n [U] အေျမာက္ျဖင့္ပစ္ခတ္ျခင္း။ a night of heavy shelling. ❏ shell out (sth) (for sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေငြထုတ္ရ သည္။ The children expect me to shell out (the money) for their party. ❏ shell-shock n [U] အေျမာက္၊ လက္နက္ႀကီးဒဏ္ မျပတ္ ခံရျခင္းေၾကာင့္ စိတ္ေခ်ာက္ခ်ားမႈေဝဒနာ။ suffer from shell-shock. ❏ shell-shocked adj ၁။ ယင္းေဝဒနာခံစားေနရေသာ။ ၂။ ထူပူၿပီး မွင္တက္မိသြားေသာ၊ ၾကက္ေသေသသြားေသာ။ I felt totally shell-shocked when she told me he had died. ❏ shell suit n (ေပါ့ပါးေတာက္ေျပာင္ေသာအစျဖင့္ ခ်ဳပ္ထား ေသာ) အက်ႌ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီ သက္သက္။ (အခမ္းအနားဝတ္မဟုတ္ သည့္ ဝတ္စံု)။ Compare TRACK SUIT

Examples

  1. A crab shell
  2. The kids were collecting shells on the beach.
  3. Pieces of egg shell
  4. Anti-aircraft shells