The flicks

Definition

flick / flÇk / n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ဆတ္ခနဲလႈပ္ရွားျခင္း၊ ေတာက္ျခင္း။ We have electricity at the flick of a switch. ❍ He threw the ball back with a quick flick of the wrist. See also FLIP ၂။ [C usu sing ] (စာအုပ္၊ မဂၢဇင္း စသည္ကို) လွန္ေလွာ ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ I've had a quick flick through the catalogue. See also FLIP ၃။ (က) [C] ( dated infml ) ဓာတ္ရွင္။ ဓာတ္ကား။ (ခ) the flicks [pl] ( dated infml ) အရိပ္ျပပြဲ႐ံု။ ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ံု။ What's on at the flicks? v ၁။ ~ A (with B); ~ B (at A) ဆတ္ခနဲ႐ိုက္သည္။ He flicked me with the wet towel/flicked the wet towel at me. ၂။ ~ sth (off, on, etc ) ဆတ္ခနဲ (လုပ္)သည္။ flick the light switch (on) (ie turn on the light) ❍ She flicked back her hair. ❍ He flicked the knife open. ❍ Cliff was ready to flick the ball into the goal. ၃။ ဆတ္ခနဲ (လႈပ္၊ ေရြ႕) သည္။ The cow's tail flicked from side to side. ❍ flick an eyelid ❍ His eyes flicked away towards the door. ❏ flick sth away ; flick sth from/off sth [ PHRV ] ဆတ္ခနဲသုတ္ပစ္သည္။ ဆတ္ခနဲေတာက္ပစ္သည္။ She saw him flick away a tear. ❍ The waiter flicked the crumbs off the table. ❏ flick-knife n ( pl -knives ) ( US switch-blade ) အသြားကိုသြင္းႏိုင္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ အထိန္းခလုတ္ပါ ဓားေျမႇာင္။ ေမာင္းျပန္ဓား။ ❏ flick through (sth) [ PHRV ] လွန္ေလွာၾကည့္သည္။ Sam flicked through a magazine while he waited.

Examples

1. He flicked a speck of cigarette ash off his sleeve.
2. [flick something over/across/at/into/back/down etc] : She flicked back her long dark hair.
3. Martin flicked the ball at the goalpost.
4. [flick something open] : He flicked open the file in front of him.
5. [flick over/across etc] : A branch flicked across her face.
6. The figures on the clock flicked to 5:36.
7. [flick something on/off] : He flicked on the car radio.
8. Linda’s eyes flicked across the map.
9. She flicked a glance at the door.