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The strap

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Definition

strap /stræp/ n (esp in compounds) ၁။ [C] လက္ပတ္ႀကိဳး။ သိုင္းႀကိဳး။ (ကား၊ ရထားတို႔တြင္) လက္ကိုင္ကြင္းႀကိဳးျပား။ an adjustable watch-strap ❍ ankle straps on a shoe ❍ bra straps ❍ a rucksack with padded shoulder-straps ❍ My camera strap has broken. ၂။ the strap [sing] (ေရွး) (ဒဏ္ခတ္ရာတြင္သံုးေသာ)က်ာပြတ္။ v ၁။ (သားေရပတ္ႀကိဳးျပား စသည္ျဖင့္)ခ်ည္သည္၊ တုပ္ေႏွာင္သည္၊ ဆိုင္းသည္၊ ပတ္သည္။ They strapped their equipment on (to their backs). ❍ Make sure the passengers are strapped in (to their seats) before driving off. ❍ The truck's load had been securely strapped down. ၂။ ~ sth (up) ပတ္တီးစည္းေပးသည္။ His injured arm was tightly strapped (up). ❏ strapless /'stræplǝs/ adj (esp of a dress or BRASSIERE) ပခံုးသိုင္းႀကိဳးမပါေသာ။ ❏ strapped adj ~ (for sth) ( infml ) ေငြျပတ္[ေသာ]။ ဘိုင္က်[ေသာ]။ I'm a bit strapped (for cash) at the moment—can I pay you later? ❏ strapping adj ႀကီးထြားႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ လံုးႀကီးေပါက္လွ။ They have four strapping children.

Examples

  1. The bag was hanging on the chair by its strap.
  2. He unbuckled the strap and lifted the lid.
  3. A watch strap
  4. A dress with thin shoulder straps