trám

Thân thiện

Một người thợ dùng nhựa trám để trám khe hở trên một chiếc thuyền gỗ.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To caulk, to seal, to stop up: The primary meaning is to fill a gap, crack, or seam (especially in a boat or structure) with a waterproof substance to make it tight and prevent leakage.
   • To fill (a tooth): In dentistry, it specifically means to fill a cavity in a tooth with a suitable material.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Thợ thủ công đang trám các khe hở trên thuyền gỗ. (The craftsman is caulking the gaps on the wooden boat.)
  • Bác sĩ nha khoa sẽ trám chiếc răng sâu cho bạn. (The dentist will fill your cavity.)
  • Họ dùng xi măng để trám khe nứt trên tường. (They used cement to seal the crack in the wall.)

Advanced Usage

• "trám miệng" (idiomatic): Literally "to seal someone's mouth," meaning to bribe someone to keep them quiet or to stop them from talking.
  • Kẻ gian đã tìm cách trám miệng nhân chứng. (The criminal tried to bribe the witness to keep quiet.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cây trám (Noun): A type of large tree (genus ), some species of which produce edible fruit and resin used for incense.
  • Quả trám có thể dùng để muối hoặc kho cá. (Canarium fruit can be used for pickling or cooking with fish.)
• Trám trổ (Verb): To inlay or decorate with intricate patterns (often using different materials like mother-of-pearl).
  • Chiếc tủ được trám trổ rất tinh xảo. (The cabinet is inlaid very intricately.)

Synonyms

• Bịt: to plug, to stop up (often with a simple object).
• Lấp: to fill in (a hole, often with earth).
• Hàn: to weld (metal); can also mean to fill/seal in some technical contexts (e.g., for dental filling).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• trám lại: to seal up again, to re-caulk.
  • Sau cơn bão, chúng tôi phải trám lại con thuyền. (After the storm, we had to re-caulk the boat.)

Related Idioms

• Đút lót để trám miệng: To give a bribe to silence someone. (A more explicit version of the idiomatic usage above).
  • Hắn ta bị cáo buộc đút lót để trám miệng các quan chức. (He was accused of bribing officials to keep them silent.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to cault, to stop, to close; to fill (tooth)