Dictionary entry

Stone-cold

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

လုံးဝအေးစက်နေသော။

Definition

stone /stǝƱn/ n ၁။ [U] ေက်ာက္တံုး။ ေက်ာက္ခဲ။ ေက်ာက္။ a house built of (Cotswold) stone ❍ stone walls/ buildings/ floors/ statues ❍ The ground is (as) hard as stone. See also LIMESTONE, SAND-STONE, SOAP STONE ၂။ [C] ေက်ာက္ခဲ။ ေက်ာက္စရစ္။ a pile of stones ❍ Some children were throwing stones into the pond. See also ROLLING STONE ၃။ [C] ေက်ာက္တံုး။ ေက်ာက္ျပား။ These words are carved on the stone beside his grave. See also GRAVESTONE, MILLSTONE, PAVING-STONE, STEPPING-STONE, TOMBSTONE ၄။ (also precious stone ) [C] ေက်ာက္မ်က္။ ေက်ာက္။ a sapphire ring with six small stones. ၅။ (also esp US pit) [C] အေစ့။ cherry/ plum/ peach stones. ❍ FRUIT ၆။ [C] (esp in compounds) (ေက်ာက္ကပ္၊ ဆီးအိမ္ စသည္တြင္တည္ ေသာ)ေက်ာက္။ an operation to remove kidney stones. See also GALLSTONE ၇။ [C] ( pl unchanged) ( abbr st ) ( Brit ) စတုန္ (၁၄ေပါင္/ ၆.၅ကီလိုႏွင့္ ညီမွ်သည္)။ He weighs over 10 stone. ❍ two stone of potatoes. See also CORNERSTONE, DRYSTONE, FOUNDATION-STONE, HAILSTONE, LODESTONE v ၁။ ခဲႏွင့္ေပါက္(သတ္)သည္။ be stoned to death. ၂။ အေစ့ ထုတ္သည္။ ထြတ္သည္။ stoned date/ olives. ❏ leave no stone unturned [ IDM ] မရမေနရွာသည္။ လက္ေၾကာတင္းတင္းလုပ္သည္။ ❏ the Stone Age n [sing] ေက်ာက္ေခတ္။ Stone Age settlements. ❏ stone-cold adj ေအးစက္ေသာ။ The body was stone-cold. ❍ This soup is stone-cold. ❏ stone-cold sober အရက္လံုးဝ ေသာက္မထားေသာ။ ❏ stone the crows [ IDM ] ( Brit sl ) (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ ျခင္းကိုျပေသာ အာေမၮိတ္)။ ေသဟဲ့နႏၵိယ။ Well, stone the crows, he's done it again! ❏ stoned adj ( sl ) (က) (အရက္)အမူးလြန္[ေသာ]။ (ခ) (မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါးျဖင့္)ၿငိမ္ေန[ေသာ]။ ❏ stone-dead adj စင္းစင္းေသေသာ။ ❏ stone-deaf adj နားလံုးလံုးပင္းေသာ။ (နား) စုပ္စုပ္ပင္း ေသာ။ Compare TONEDEAF ❏ stoneless adj ( Brit ) အေစ့မပါေသာ။ အေစ့ထုတ္။ stoneless dates. ❏ a stone's throw [ IDM ] ခဲတစ္ပစ္။ We live a stone's throw from here/ within a stone's throw of here.

Examples

  1. Grey stone
  2. A stone wall
  3. Children threw stones at him.
  4. A paving stone
  5. A diamond ring with five stones
  6. I’ve lost nearly two stone.
  7. I need to go to the doctor to get my kidney stones removed.
  8. The church is a stone's throw from Lennon's childhood home on Menlove Avenue. He sang in the choir and frequently played in the graveyard
  9. which he referred to with characteristic irreverence as the 'bone orchard'.