Water-hole

Definition

water /'wↄ:tǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] (က) ေရ။ a glass of water ❍ drinking water ❍ Fish live in (the) water. See also freshwater, salt-water, sea water (ခ) (ေသာက္သံုးရန္ ျဖန္႔ေဝေပးေသာ) ေရ။ water rationing/shortages ❍ There is hot and cold running water in all the bedrooms. ❍ The water was turned off for several hours each day during the drought. ❍ The pipe burst and water flowed everywhere. See also tap water (ဂ) (ကန္၊ ေခ်ာင္း၊ ျမစ္၊ သမုဒၵရာ) ေရ။ Don't go too near the edge or you'll fall in the water. ❍ Several fields are under water (ie flooded) after the heavy rain. (ဃ) ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ float on the water ❍ swim under (the) water. See also barley water, gripe-water, ice-water, mineral water, soda water, tonic water ၂။ waters [pl] (က) ေရထု။ the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean ❍ flood waters. (ခ) တိုင္းျပည္တစ္ခုခုႏွင့္ စပ္လ်က္တည္ေသာ ပင္လယ္ေရျပင္။ British (territorial) waters ❍ in home/foreign waters. ၃။ [U] ဒီေရအတက္အက် အေျခအေန။ ေရတက္၊ ေရက်။ (at) high/low water. v ၁။ အပင္ ေရေလာင္းသည္။ ဖ်န္းသည္။ water a flowerbed/lawn ❍ The garden needs watering. ၂။ (တိရစၧာန္) ေရခ် သည္။ water the horses. ၃။ မ်က္ရည္ဝဲသည္။ သြားရည္ရႊဲသည္။ The smoke made my eyes water. ❍ The delicious smell from the kitchen made our mouths water. ၄။ (usu passive) (ေခ်ာင္း၊ ဆည္) ေရေသာက္သည့္ (အရပ္)။ a country watered by many rivers. ၅။ (အရက္စသည့္အရည္တြင္) ေရေရာသည္။ watered wine. ❏ by water [ IDM ] ေရလမ္းျဖင့္။ ေရေၾကာင္းျဖင့္။ ❏ hold water [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေရပက္မဝင္ (ေအာင္ခိုင္လံုသည္)။ ❏ like water [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ေရလို) ေဖာေဖာသီသီ။ ဗံုးေပါလေအာ။ spend money like water ❍ The wine flowed like water at the party. ❏ a lot of/much water has flowed, etc under the bridge [ IDM ] (ျဖစ္ရပ္တစ္ခု၏ ေနာက္ပိုင္း၌) မ်ားစြာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ ေျပာင္းလဲခဲ့ၿပီ။ ❏ make/pass water [ IDM ] ( fml ) ဆီးသြားသည္။ အေပါ့သြား သည္။ ❏ water-bed n ေရေမြ႕ရာ။ ❏ water-bird n ေရေက်းေရငွက္။ ❏ water-biscuit n မခ်ဳိေသာ ပါးပါးရြရြ ဘီစကြတ္။ ❏ water-borne adj ၁။ ေရေၾကာင္းျဖင့္လာေသာ။ ၂။ ေရေၾကာင့္ကူးစက္ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔ေသာ (ေရာဂါ)။ Cholera is a water-borne disease. ❏ water-bottle ( Brit ) ( US canteen ) n ေရဘူး။ See also hot-water bottle ❏ water-buffalo n ( pl unchanged or -oes ) ကြၽဲ။ ❏ water-butt n တံစက္ၿမိတ္မိုးေရခံစည္ပိုင္း။ ❏ water-cannon n ( pl unchanged or -cannons ) လူစုခြဲ မီးသတ္ပိုက္။ ❏ water-closet n ( dated ) ( abbr WC ) ေရအိမ္။ ❏ water-colour ( US -color ) n (က) water-colours [pl] ေရေဆး။ (ခ) [C] ေရေဆးပန္းခ်ီကား။ ❏ water-colourist ( US -colorist ) n ေရေဆးပန္းခ်ီ ဆရာ။ ❏ water-cooled adj ေရျဖင့္အေအးခံေသာ။ a water-cooled nuclear reactor. ❏ water cooler n ေသာက္ေရေအးစက္။ ❏ water sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ အာနိသင္ေလ်ာ့ေအာင္ ေရေရာသည္။ He'd been serving watered-down beer to his customers. ၂။ မိန္႔ခြန္း၊ စာ စသည္မွ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ အသံုး အႏႈန္းမ်ားကို ေလ်ာ့ပါးေအာင္ ႏုတ္ပယ္တည္းျဖတ္ သည္။ This is a watered-down version of the original proposal. ❏ watered silk n [U] အေရာင္လိႈင္းေျပးေနသည့္ ပိုးထည္။ ❏ water-hole (also watering-hole ) n စမ္း။ ေရထြက္။ ❏ water-ice n [U, C] ေအးခဲထားေသာ သစ္သီးအေဖ်ာ္။ ယင္းေဖ်ာ္ရည္။ ❏ watering-can /'wↄ:tǝrÇŋ kæn/ n ေရပန္းကရား။ See also rose 2 ၃ ❏ watering-hole n = water-hole ❏ watering place n ( dated esp Brit ) လူမ်ား သြားေရာက္၍ ေသာက္ၾက၊ ခ်ဳိးၾကသည့္ စမ္းေရထြက္။ ❏ water-jump n ျမင္း၊ အေျပးသမားတို႔ ခုန္ေက်ာ္ ေျပးလႊားရန္ ေရအိုင္၊ ေရေျမာင္း စသည္။ ❏ waterless adj ေရမရိွေသာ။ waterless deserts/regions. ❏ water-level n (က) ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ below the water-level. (ခ) ယင္းမ်က္ႏွာျပင္အျမင့္။ build a dam to raise the water-level. ❏ water-lily n ၾကာပင္။ ❏ water-line n ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာနံေဘးႏွင့္ ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္ ထိစပ္ရာမ်ဥ္း။ ေရ႐ိုး။ ❏ water-main n ေျမေအာက္ပင္မေရပိုက္လိုင္း။ ❏ water-meadow n ေဆာင္းရာသီ၌ ပံုမွန္ေရျမဳပ္ေလ့ရိွေသာ ျမစ္ကမ္းနံေဘးလယ္ကြင္း။ fertile water-meadows. ❏ water-melon n [C, U] ဖရဲသီး။ eating a slice of water-melon. ❏ water-mill n ေရရဟတ္စက္။ ❏ (like) water off a duck's back [ IDM ] ဘာမွ် အရာ မထင္။ သဲထဲေရသြန္။ Their comments were (like) water off a duck's back. ❏ water-pistol n (ကေလးကစားစရာ) ေရေသနတ္။ ❏ water polo n [U] ေရကူးရင္း ေဘာလံုးပစ္၍ ဂိုးသြင္းရေသာ ကစားနည္း။ ဝါတာပိုလို။ ❏ water-power n [U] (စက္လည္ပတ္ရန္၊ လွ်ပ္စစ္ ဓာတ္ထုတ္ရန္) ေရအား။ ❏ water-rat (also water-vole ) n ေရႂကြက္။ ❏ water-rate n ( Brit ) အမ်ားသံုးေရသံုးစြဲခႏႈန္း။ ❏ water-resistant adj ေရစိမ္ခံ။ water-resistant sun-cream. ❏ water-ski n ( pl -skis ) (usu pl ) ေရလႊာေလွ်ာစီး ပ်ဥ္ျပား။ v ( pt , pp -skied ; pres p -skiing ) ေရလႊာေလွ်ာစီးသည္။ go water-skiing. ❏ water-softener n [C, U] ေရေစးကို ေရသြက္ ျဖစ္ေစေသာ ဓာတုပစၥည္း။ ❏ water-supply n (usu sing ) (က) ေရေလွာင္ ေရေဝစနစ္။ (ခ) ျဖန္႔ေဝရန္ သိုေလွာင္ေရပမာဏ။ a clean/contaminated water-supply. ❏ water-table n ေျမေအာက္ေရျပင္။ The water-table has gone down because of the lack of rain. ❏ water-tower n ေရစင္။ ❏ water under the bridge [ IDM ] အတိတ္မွာ က်န္ခဲ့ၿပီ။ The divorce was very painful but it's all water under the bridge now. ❏ water-vole n = water-rat ❏ water-wheel n ေရရဟတ္။ ❏ water-wings n [pl] ေရကူးသင္ရာ၌ လြယ္ထားရေသာ ေလအိတ္။

Examples

1. Soldiers were able to get food and water across the border.
2. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.
3. Just add water to the cake mix.
4. A glass of water
5. Sparkling/carbonated water (=water for drinking that has gas added to it)
6. The monthly water bill
7. From the hotel there’s a beautiful view of the water.
8. The hotel grounds slope gently down to the water.
9. [by water] : Island residents have their mail delivered by water.
10. The water was calm and still.
11. Swimming under the water
12. The boat sailed into international waters.
13. British fishing waters
14. The clear waters of the Adriatic Sea
15. Young couples thrown headfirst into the unknown waters of parenthood
16. [stormy/turbulent etc waters] : There seemed to be stormy waters ahead for the government.
17. [murky waters] : Someone mentions drugs and the waters turn very murky.