Strainer

Definition

strain 1 /streÇn/ v ၁။ အားစိုက္သည္။ အားစိုက္လြန္း၍ (ႂကြက္သား၊ အေၾကာ) ဒဏ္ျဖစ္သည္၊ မ်က္သည္။ (မ်က္စိ) ေညာင္းသည္။ (အသံ)နာသည္၊ အက္သည္။ strain a muscle/one's heart ❍ strain one's eyes (eg by reading in a bad light) ❍ strain one's voice (ie by speaking or singing too long or too loudly). ❍ Those cases look very heavy—don't strain yourself. ၂။ အားစိုက္ရသည္။ She spoke very quietly and I had to strain my ears to hear her. ❍ People were straining to see what was going on. ၃။ (အေျခအေန) တင္းမာေစသည္။ (သည္းခံစိတ္၊ ယံုၾကည္မႈ)ကုန္ခန္းသည္။ The dispute has severely strained relations between the two countries. ❍ Their constant complaints are straining my patience. ❍ The story certainly strains one's credulity (ie is very hard to believe). ၄။ စစ္သည္။ strain vegetables/tea ❍ strain (off) the water from the boiled cabbage. n ၁။ (က) [C, U] ပင္ပန္းမႈဒဏ္။ ပူပင္ ေသာကဒဏ္။ အားအင္ ကုန္ခန္းျခင္း။ ဝန္ပိျခင္း။ the stresses and strains of modern life ❍ There's a lot of strain at work because we're so busy. ❍ The transport system cannot cope with the strain of so many additional passengers. ❍ She has a lot of personal problems and is under great strain. ❍ Having to concentrate for so long was a real strain. ❍ I found it a strain making conversation with him. (ခ) ပူပင္ေသာကဒဏ္။ suffering from nervous strain. ၂။ [C, U] (အေၾကာတင္ျခင္း၊ မ်က္ျခင္း)ဒဏ္။ a groin strain. ၃။ [C, U] (က) ဆြဲအား။ ဆန္႔အား။ တင္းအား။ The rope broke under the strain. (ခ) ဆြဲအားဒဏ္။ rope with a 100 kg breaking strain. ဆြဲ အားဒဏ္ ကီလို၁၀၀-ဂရမ္အထိ ခံႏိုင္ ေသာ ႀကိဳး။ ၄။ [C usu pl ] ( fml ) ဂီတသံ။ သီခ်င္း။ hear the strains of the church organ. ❏ strain at sth [ PHRV ] အစြမ္းကုန္အားစိုက္သည္။ ႐ုန္းကန္ သည္။ ကုန္း႐ုန္း ပယ္လွန္သည္။ rowers straining at the oars ❍ The dogs were straining at the lead, eager to be off. ❏ strain at the leash [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္မႈကို) ကုန္း႐ုန္းပယ္လွန္သည္။ youngsters straining at the leash to escape parental control. ❏ strained adj ၁။ တင္းမာေသာ။ မေျပျပစ္ေသာ။ There was a strained atmosphere throughout the meeting. ❍ Relations between the two families are rather strained. ၂။ ပင္ပန္းႏြမ္းနယ္ေသာ။ စိုးရိမ္ေသာက ေရာက္ ေသာ။ She looked very strained when I last saw her—I think she's working too hard. ၃။ မူမမွန္ေသာ။ လုပ္…ေသာ။ a strained laugh. ❏ strainer n အရည္စစ္။ ေရစစ္။ a tea strainer. ❏ strain every nerve (to do sth) [ IDM ] အစြမ္းကုန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ The team will be straining every nerve to perform well. strain 2 /streÇn/ n ၁။ (usu sing ) ~ (of sth) ဗီဇ။ စ႐ိုက္။ There's a strain of madness in the family. ၂။ မ်ဳိး။ a new strain of wheat ❍ strains of mosquitoes that are resistant to insecticide.

Examples

1. [a strain on something] : This war will put a great strain on the economy.
2. [the strain of something] : I can’t take the strain of another move.
3. [under strain] : Eleanor was feeling overworked and under strain.
4. [under strain] : All that lifting is putting his back under severe strain.
5. A thigh strain
6. [strain of] : A strain of human flu virus
7. [strain of] : There’s a strain of meanness that runs in their family.