Wearing

Definition

wear /weǝ(r)/ v ( pt wore /wↄ:(r)/; pp worn /wↄ:n/) ၁။ ဝတ္ဆင္ သည္။ ဆင္ျမန္းသည္။ ဆံ၊ မုတ္ဆိတ္(ပံုစံ တစ္မ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး)ထားသည္။ wear a beard/coat/hat/ring/watch ❍ Bowler hats are not often worn nowadays. ❍ She was wearing sun-glasses. ❍ She never wears green (ie green clothes). ❍ He wore a gold chain round his neck. ❍ She wears her hair long (ie has long hair). ၂။ (မ်က္ႏွာတြင္အမူအရာ) ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ He/His face wore a puzzled frown. ❍ ( fig ) The house wore a neglected look. အိမ္ႀကီးက ပစ္ထားတဲ့ပံုစံ ေပါက္ေနတယ္။ ၃။ (ထိပြတ္ဖန္မ်ား၍ စားၿပီး) ပါးသြားသည္။ The sheets have worn thin. ❍ The carpets are starting to wear. ❍ I have worn my socks into holes. ❍ The stones had been worn smooth by the constant flow of water. ၄။ (ထိပြတ္ဖန္မ်ား၍ စားၿပီး) ေပါက္ၿပဲသည္၊ အေၾကာင္းအရာ ထင္သည္။ I've worn holes in my socks. ❍ The children have worn a path across the field where they walk each day to school. ❍ The water had worn a channel in the rock. ၅။ တာရွည္ခံသည္။ အသံုးခံသည္။ You should choose a fabric that will wear (well) (ie last a long time). ❍ Fashion shoes often wear very badly (ie do not last long). ❍ ( fig ) Despite her age she had worn well (ie still looked quite young). ၆။ ( Brit infml ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ ေမးခြန္းႏွင့္ ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက်၌ သံုးသည္။ ) ေအာင့္အည္းလက္ခံသည္၊ သည္းခံသည္။ He wanted to sail the boat alone but his parents wouldn't wear it. n [U] ၁။ ဝတ္ဆင္ျခင္း။ casual clothes for everyday wear ❍ Cotton is suitable for wear in summer. ၂။ (esp in compounds) (ကာလ၊ ေဒသ၊ ပုဂၢလ အလိုက္) အဝတ္အထည္။ children's/ladies'/men's wear ❍ formal/informal wear ❍ sportswear. See also footwear, underwear ၃။ (က) တာရွည္ခံမႈ။ အသံုးခံမႈ။ This carpet will stand very heavy wear. (ခ) သံုးဖန္မ်ား၍၊ ကာလေညာင္း၍ ယိုယြင္းမႈ။ My shoes are showing (signs of) wear. ၄။ သံုးႏိုင္ေသးျခင္း။ There is still a lot of wear left in that old coat. ❏ wearable /'weǝrǝbl/ adj ဝတ္ေပ်ာ္ေသာ။ ဝတ္ရန္ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ a wardrobe full of clothes that are no longer wearable. ❏ wear and tear [ IDM ] ယိုယြင္းပ်က္စီးမႈ။ ေဟာင္းႏြမ္း ပ်က္စီးမႈ။ The insurance policy does not cover damage caused by normal wear and tear. ❏ wear (sth) away [ PHRV ] ပြန္းသြားသည္။ ပါးသြား သည္။ The inscription on the coin had worn away. ❍ The steps had been worn away by the feet of thousands of visitors. ❏ wear (sth) down [ PHRV ] ပါးသြား၊ ပြန္းသြား၊ စားသြား၊ ေသးသြားသည္။ The tread on the tyres has (been) worn down to a dangerous level. ❏ wear sb/sth down [ PHRV ] ခ်ံဳးက်သြားေစသည္။ အားေပ်ာ့သြားေစသည္။ She was worn down by overwork. ❍ This relentless pressure is beginning to wear down his opponent's resistance. ❏ wearer /'weǝrǝ(r)/ n ဝတ္ဆင္သူ။ These shoes will damage the wearer's feet. ❏ wear one's heart on one's sleeve [ IDM ] ရင္တြင္း ခံစားခ်က္ (အထူးသျဖင့္) အခ်စ္ကို လွစ္ျပသည္။ ❏ wearing /'weǝrÇŋ/ adj ပင္ပန္း(ေစ)ေသာ။ ကသီေသာ။ I've had a wearing day. ❍ My elderly mother finds shopping very wearing. ❏ wear (sth) off [ PHRV ] တျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္ ေပ်ာက္ျပယ္ သြားသည္၊ ပြန္းသြားသည္။ The pain is slowly wearing off. ❍ Children love new toys, but the novelty soon wears off. ❍ The dish-washer has worn the glaze off the china. ❏ wear on [ PHRV ] (အခ်ိန္) တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ ကုန္လြန္သည္။ As the evening wore on, she became more and more nervous. ❏ wear (sth) out [ PHRV ] သည္းခံႏိုင္မႈ၊ အသံုးဝင္မႈ စသည္ ကုန္ဆံုးသြားသည္။ Her patience had/was at last worn out. ❍ I wore out two pairs of boots on the walking tour. ❏ wear oneself/sb out [ PHRV ] ဖတ္ဖတ္ေမာသည္။ ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ျဖစ္သည္။ They were worn out after a long day spent working in the fields. ❍ Just listening to his silly chatter wears me out. ❏ wear the pants/trousers [ IDM ] ( often derog ) အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးတြင္ မိန္းမကစိုးမိုး ျခယ္လွယ္သည္။ It's quite clear who wears the trousers in that house! ❏ wear thin [ IDM ] သည္းခံႏိုင္မႈ၊ ထိေရာက္မႈ စသည္ ေလ်ာ့ပါးသည္။ My patience is beginning to wear very thin. ❍ Don't you think that joke's wearing a bit thin (ie because we've heard it so many times)?

Examples

1. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt.
2. She wasn’t wearing any make-up.
3. I don’t have anything to wear to my interview.
4. He wears glasses now.
5. It was fashionable for men to wear their hair long.
6. They all wore puzzled frowns.
7. His shoes were wearing at the heel.
8. The carpet has worn thin in places.
9. [wear something in something] : You’ve worn a hole in your jeans.
10. We tried that excuse but they wouldn’t wear it.