Surface tension

Definition

surface /'sɜ:fÇs/ n ၁။ [C] (က) မ်က္ႏွာ။ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ the earth's surface ❍ the surface of a sphere. (ခ) မ်က္ႏွာ။ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ the polished surfaces of a diamond. (ဂ) မ်က္ႏွာ။ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ အျပင္။ the rough surface of the wall ❍ an uneven road surface ❍ clean/wipe all the kitchen surfaces (ie the tops and sides of cupboards, etc) ❍ a work surface (ie the top of a desk, table, etc) ❍ a surface wound (ie not a deep one) လွ်ပ္ထိေသာ ဒဏ္ရာ။ ❍ surface transport (ie road and rail travel) ေျမျပင္ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရး။ ❍ a surface worker (ie sb who works above ground at a mine). ေျမေပၚအလုပ္သမား။ ၂။ [C usu sing ] မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ the smooth surface of the lake ❍ bubbles rising to the surface (of a pool) ❍ oil floating on the surface of the water ❍ fish swimming just below the surface. ၃။ [sing] အျပင္ပန္း။ မ်က္ႏွာပန္း။ အေပၚယံ။ She looks relaxed, but there are lots of tensions below the surface. ❍ Look beyond the surface before you judge someone. ❍ Doubts began to rise to the surface. မသကၤာစရာမ်ား ေပၚထြက္လာသည္။ v ၁။ ~ sth (with sth) မံသည္။ က်ံသည္။ ကိုင္သည္။ ခင္း သည္။ surfacing the area with concrete ❍ The surfaced road ends at the farm. ၂။ ေပၚလာသည္။ The ducks dived and surfaced again several metres away. ၃။ (က) ျပန္ေပၚလာသည္။ (သတင္း၊ သဲလြန္စ) ေပၚသည္။ Doubts/Fears/Problems began to surface. ❍ I lost track of her for several years, but she suddenly surfaced again in London. ❍ No further information has surfaced as yet. (ခ) ( infml ) အိပ္ရာထသည္ (သို႔) သတိ လည္လာသည္။ He finally surfaced at midday. ❏ on the surface [ IDM ] အျပင္ပန္းအားျဖင့္။ အေပၚယံေၾကာ မွ်။ On the surface, it seems like a good idea. ❍ His charm is only on the surface. ❏ surface area n (usu sing ) မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ a leaf with a large surface area. ❏ surface mail n [U] ေလယာဥ္ျဖင့္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ မီးရထား၊ ကား၊ သေဘၤာျဖင့္ ေပးပို႔ေသာစာ။ ❏ surface tension n [U] ( techn ) (အရည္မ်ားတြင္) မ်က္ႏွာျပင္တင္းအား။ ❏ surface-to-air adj ေရျပင္-ေဝဟင္။ ေျမျပင္-ေဝဟင္။

Examples

1. Wipe the surface with a damp cloth.
2. A smooth/rough/hard surface
3. Road surfaces are slippery from the icy rain.
4. The surface of Mars
5. We saw fish swimming just under the surface of the water.
6. A farmer was spreading fertilizer over the surface of the soil.
7. Papers and books covered the surface of the desk.
8. All surfaces in the kitchen should be carefully cleaned.
9. Many tennis players dislike the grass surface at Wimbledon.
10. His favourite surface is clay.
11. Underneath his cool surface was a growing sense of insecurity.
12. [on the surface] : On the surface
13. they looked like a happily married couple.
14. [beneath the surface] : Hostility lies beneath the surface of calm in the region.
15. He could feel his frustration and rage rising to the surface.
16. A cube has six surfaces.