bù
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Definition
Verb:
- To compensate, to make up for: To add something to offset a deficiency, loss, or shortfall.
- To supplement: To add an extra amount to complete a required total.
Adjective:
- Dishevelled, unkempt, tangled: Used primarily to describe messy, matted, or wildly uncombed hair.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Công ty phải bù lỗ từ quý trước. (The company must compensate for losses from the previous quarter.)
- Học sinh phải học bù vào thứ Bảy. (The students have to make up for the lesson on Saturday.)
- Adjective:
- Đầu tóc cô ấy trông thật bù sau chuyến đi đường dài. (Her hair looked very dishevelled after the long journey.)
Advanced Usage
- Mathematical Term: In geometry, "góc bù" refers to supplementary angles (two angles whose sum is 180 degrees).
- Góc 70 độ và góc 110 độ là hai góc bù. (A 70-degree angle and a 110-degree angle are supplementary angles.)
Variants and Related Words
- Làm bù (v): To work extra hours or days to compensate for time off.
- Tôi phải làm bù hai ngày vì đã nghỉ ốm. (I have to work two compensatory days because I was sick.)
- Nghỉ bù (v): To take a compensatory day off.
- Nhân viên được nghỉ bù vào thứ Hai. (The employee gets a compensatory day off on Monday.)
- Đầu bù tóc rối (idiomatic phrase): Literally "dishevelled head and tangled hair"; describes a very messy appearance.
- Cậu bé thức dậy với đầu bù tóc rối. (The boy woke up with dishevelled and tangled hair.)
Synonyms
- Compensate: To make up for something lost or missing.
- Offset: To counterbalance or compensate for.
- Dishevelled: Untidy, especially of hair or appearance.
Related Idioms
- Lấy công chuộc tội: To atone for a mistake or sin through good deeds (conceptually related to making up for something).
- Lợi bù hại: The advantages offset the disadvantages; a mixed bag.
- Dự án này có lợi bù hại. (This project has pros that balance out the cons.)
verb
- To make good, to make up, to compensate
- làm bùto put in compensating work
- nghỉ bùto have some time off in compensation
- lấy vụ thu bù vụ chiêmto make good the failure of the winter crop with an autumn crop
adj
- Dishevelled, unkept
- đầu bù tóc rốidishevelled and tangled hair