Dictionary entry

Spiral

Pronunciation: /ˈspʌɪr(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/ˈspʌɪr(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ပတ်ရစ်၍တက်သော။ခရုပတ်ရစ်ခွေသော။ဝက်အူရစ်တက်သော။

Definition

spiral /'spaÇrǝl / adj ရစ္ပတ္ႏြယ္တက္ေသာ။ ေၾကာင္လိမ္(ေလွကား)။ a spiral staircase ❍ A snail's shell is spiral in form. n ၁။ (က) (ဝဲကေတာ့၊ စပရင္တို႔ကဲ့သို႔) ရစ္ပတ္ေျပးသည့္ မ်ဥ္း။ (ခ) ဝဲကေတာ့ပံု၊ ႏြယ္လိမ္ႏြယ္ရစ္ပံု အလိပ္လိပ္။ spirals of dust whipped up by the wind. ၂။ မနားတမ္း ထိုးတက္ျခင္း (သို႔) ထိုးဆင္းျခင္း။ the vicious spiral of rising wages and prices ❍ the destructive spiral of violence in the inner cities ❍ Sales suffered yet another downward spiral. v ( -ll- ; US also -l- ) ၁။ ခ်ာလပတ္လည္ ေလွ်ာက်သည္ (သို႔) တလိပ္လိပ္ ရစ္တက္သည္။ The falling leaf spiralled to the ground. ❍ The smoke spiralled upwards. ၂။ အေတာ မသတ္ ထိုးတက္သည္။ Prices/Interest rates are still spiralling. ❍ Spiralling costs are forcing some businesses to cut staff. ❏ spiral down [ PHRV ] တစ္ရစ္ၿပီးတစ္ရစ္ ထိုးဆင္းသည္။ prices spiralling steadily down.

Examples

  1. The endless spiral of violence and hatred
  2. [upward/downward spiral] : A downward economic spiral