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ထိုး | hto3

(1) Apply force on the surface by pointing and pressing, pushing or striking but does not make deep penetration.

(1.1) poke (ˈpōk 🔊) on the surface with a stick or stick-like object.

တုတ်နဲ့ထိုး | doat neare1 hto3 - poke with a stick.

(1.2) stir with spatula (ˈspa-chə-lə 🔊).

ထမနဲထိုး | hta1-ma1-neare3 hto3 - outdoor making of sticky rice Htamanè (ˌstɪk.i ˈraɪs 🔊) on a large frypan (ˈfraɪpæn 🔊). [Watch this video.]

(1.3) press and run a motion across a flat surface.

မီးပူထိုး | mi3-bu2 hto3 - iron clothes (aɪrn 🔊).

ရွေပေါ်ထိုး | yway2-bau2 hto3 - plane a piece of wood (ˈplān 🔊) to make it smooth.

(1.4) jab; punch with the fist (ˈpənch 🔊).

လက်သီးထိုး | let-thi3 hto3 - boxing (ˈbɑːk.sɪŋ 🔊). [Watch this video.]

လက်သီးနဲ့ထိုး | let-thi3 neare1 hto3 - throw a punch.

(1.5) strike a bell (straɪk 🔊); ring a bell (rɪŋ 🔊) as in ခေါင်းလောင်းထိုး | khoun3-loun3 hto3. [Watch this video.]

(1.6) play violin (pleɪ ˌvaɪəˈlɪn 🔊); fiddle as in တယောထိုး | ta1-yau3 hto3. [Watch this video.]

(1.7) pick teeth.

သွားကြားထိုးတံ | thwa3-ja3-hto3-dun2 - toothpick (ˈtuːθ.pɪk 🔊).

(1.8) pole a boat (ˈpōl 🔊); punt as in လှေထိုး | hlay2 hto3.

(1.9) put up a gangplank (ˌgæŋˈplæŋk 🔊), gangway, gangboard a beam or a ramp for boarding a boat as in ကုန်းပေါင်ထိုး | kone3-boun2 hto3.

(1.10) pack a pistol (pæk 🔊) or mobile phone in the waist as in ခါးကြားထိုး | kha3 ja3 hto3.

(2) Point and penetrate a surface or go through a top layer by more than a centimeter.

(2.1) pierce; impale; thrust; prick; skewer (ˈskjuː.ɚ 🔊) through; stab with a dagger (ˈda-gər 🔊), knife, or sharp object.

ဓားနဲ့ထိုး | da3 neare1 hto3 - stab with a knife.

(2.2) fill up with something; pump; inject.

ဆေးထိုး | hsay3 hto3 - give an injection (ɪnˈdʒek.ʃən 🔊).

လေထိုး | lay2 hto3 - pump air to inflate tire (in-ˈflāt ˈtī(-ə)r 🔊).

(2.3) erect or put up a structure (that involves pushing in tent stakes into the ground.)

တဲထိုး | teare3 hto3 - put up a tent (tɛnt 🔊) or build a hut.

(2.4) [UK] plough the earth (plaʊ 🔊); [US] plow the earth as in ထယ်ထိုး | hteare2 hto3.

(2.5) pin a ဆံထိုး | za1-doe3 - hairpin (ˈher.pɪn 🔊) in ဆံထုံး | za1-dome3 - hair knot (nɑt 🔊) or a decorative item, such as ရင်ထိုး | yin2-doe3 - brooch (broʊtʃ 🔊) on clothing.

(2.6) be bitten by bugs; be eaten by moths (mɑθ 🔊) or worms as in ပိုးထိုး | po3 hto3.

(3) Make a marking on the surface with a sharp object.

(3.1) inscribe; tattoo (ta-ˈtü 🔊); mark. [Watch this video.]

လက်မှတ်ထိုး | let-hmut hto3 - sign one's name (saɪn 🔊); sign a signature (ˈsɪgnətʃər 🔊).

ထိုးကွင်းထိုး | hto3-gwin3 hto3 - tattoo (ta-ˈtü 🔊).

ကမ္ပည်းထိုး | ga1-byi3 hto3 - make a record by engraving (ɛnˈgreɪvɪŋ 🔊), inscribing, writing.

(4) Work with a thread-like object.

(4.1) fabricate by intertwining; do needlecraft or needlework (ˌnidlˈwʌrk 🔊) such as knit (ˈnit 🔊); weave (wiːv 🔊); crochet (krō-ˈshā 🔊); embroider (ɪmˈbrɔɪ.dɚ 🔊).

ကြိမ်ထိုး | kjain2 hto3 - weave cane furniture (ˈkān ˈfər-ni-chər 🔊).

ဇာထိုး | za2 hto3 - knit lace (ˈnit ˈlās 🔊) [Watch this video]; crochet (krō-ˈshā 🔊) [Watch this video.]

ဖွတ်မြီးထိုး | pfoot-mi3 hto3 - (i) braid (breɪd 🔊); plait (pleɪt 🔊). (ii) make a chain-stitch (ˌtʃeɪn ˈstɪtʃ 🔊) embroidery.

(5) Make a move in sports and games.

(5.1) assail; make an attack in war or in sports and games.

စီးချင်းထိုး | si3-jin3 hto3 - joust (dʒaʊst 🔊).

(5.2) play chess (ˈches 🔊) and checkers (ˈche-kərz 🔊).

ကျားထိုး | kja3 hto3 - play checkers.

(5.3) make a bet in gambling and play a game of chance with money.

ထီထိုး | hti2 hto3 - play lottery.

(6) Make a gesture to point at something.

(6.1) point with finger as in လက်ညှိုးထိုး | let-hnyo3 hto3.

(6.2) give a side-glance (saɪd glæns 🔊) as in မျက်စောင်းထိုး | myet-soun3 hto3.

(6.3) motion with head to be in downward position; somersault (ˈsə-mər-ˌsȯlt 🔊); plunge headlong (plʌndʒ ˈhed.lɑːŋ 🔊), head first.

ဒိုင်ဗင်ထိုး | dine2-bin2 hto3 - dive (ˈdīv 🔊). [Watch this video.]

(7) Light or sound to strike (or not strike) a surface.

(7.1) shine with headlights (ˌhɛdˈlaɪt 🔊), flashlight (ˌflæʃˈlaɪt 🔊), etc. as in မီးထိုး | mi3 hto3.

(7.2) use a projector for visual display; display subtitle (ˈsəb-ˌtī-tᵊl 🔊) as in စာတန်းထိုး | sa2-dun3 hto3.

(7.3) be in the direct sunlight or moonlight.

နေထိုး | nay2 hto3 - sunlight to fall on something.

(7.4) cast a shadow (ˈkast 🔊) as in အရိပ်ထိုး | a-yate hto3.

(7.5) screech; make a piercing sound.

(8) Abstracts involving "pushing" of offerings, money, air, intellect, etc..

(8.1) serve; wait on.

စားပွဲထိုး | za1-bweare3 doe3 - waiter (ˈwā-tər 🔊).

(8.2) give a bribe as in လာဘ်ထိုး | lut hto3.

လက်သိပ်ထိုး | let-thate hto3 - make under-the-table dealings.

(8.3) suffer a piercing pain, especially gastric pain (abdominal pain).

လေထိုး | lay hto3 - suffer from flatulence.

ဖြတ်ထိုးဉာဏ် | pfyut-hto3 nyan2 - wit; creative mind; ingenuity; ability to think outside the box; quick-thinking; intelligence associated with pattern recognition and capability to respond quickly to a given situation using a new method. [Also ထိုးထွင်းဉာဏ် | hto3-dwin3 nyan2.]