about

/əˈbaʊt/

US pronunciation

American sound/əˈbaʊt/

əˈbaʊt

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ə - ˈbaʊt -> about

Full entry

about / ǝ'baƱt / adv

၁။ ခန့်။ လောက်။ It costs about $ 10. ❍ He's about the same height as you ❍ She drove (for) about ten miles. ❍ He arrived (at) about ten o'clock.
၂။ (infml ) သလောက်။ လောက်။ I'm (just) about ready. ❍ This is about the best we can hope for in the circumstances.
၃။ (infml ) (သည်းခံ၊ ဆို) နိုင်ရုံတစ်မည်။ I've had (just) about enough (ie too much) of your complaining. ❍ He's been promoted and about time too ( ie it ought to have happened earlier). See also JUST ABOUT
adv part
၁။ ထိုထိုဤဤ။ ဟိုဟိုသည်သည်။ ဟိုမှာသည်မှာ။ The children were rushing about. ❍ book lying about on the floor ❍ He looked about, trying to work out where he was.
၂။ မရေမရာ။ ဟိုလိုလိုသည်လိုလို။ လတ်လျား လတ်လျား။ I waited about but nobody came. ❍ People were just standing about on street corners.
၃။ ဝန်းကျင်တွင်။ အနီးအနားတွင်။ There was nobody about ❍ She's somewhere about, I saw her a few moments ago.
၄။ နေရာအနှံ့အပြားတွင် (ဖြစ်သည်၊ ပေါ်ပေါက်သည်)။ There's a lot of flu' about (Many people are suffering from it).
၅။ နောက်ပြန်။ နောက်။ put the ship about ❍ About turn!
၆။ မူမှန်မှ ဆန့်ကျင်လျက်။ The wrong way about.
prep
၁။ (က) နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍။ နှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍။ နဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့။ Tell me about it. ❍ What is he so angry about? ❍ He is very careful about his appearance. ❍ there's nothing you can do about it ❍ There's something strange about the whole affair. (ခ) နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော။ နဲ့ပတ်သက်တဲ့။ a book about flowers ❍ Commerce is all about making money.
၂။ (က) အနှံ့။ ပတ်ပတ်လည်။ ဟိုဟို သည်သည်။ walking about the town ❍ papers strewn about the floor ❍ He came out of the door and looked about him. (ခ) သိုင်းကာ (ဖက်သည်၊ ဝတ်ဆင်သည်)။ He put his arms about her. ❍ She wore a shawl about her shoulders.
၃။ အနီးအနားတွင်။ I dropped the key somewhere about here.
၄။ နေခိုက်တွင်။ while you're about it…
❏ about-turn (also about-face ) n
၁။ (စစ်မိန့်သံ) နောက်လှည့်။
၂။ အလှည့်အပြောင်း။ These new measures indicate an about-turn in government policy. See also U-turn
❏ be about to do sth [IDM ] (လုပ်၊ ပြော၊ သွား စသည်) ခါနီးတွင်၊ မည်လုပ်တုန်း။ I was about to say when you interrupted me. ❍ We're about to start. ❍ I'm not about to admit defeat.
❏ how/what about… ? [IDM ]
၁။ ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ မည်သို့ နည်း။ What about his qualifications (ie Is he qualified) for the job?
၂။ ဘယ်လိုသဘောရသလဲ။ ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ How about going to France for our next anniversary? ❍ What about a cup of tea?
❏ that's (just) about all / it [IDM ] ဤမျှသာ (ပင်)။ ဒီလောက်ပါပဲ။ "Do you have any other comment?" "No. I think that's about it for now. "
❏ that's about it / the size of it [IDM ] ဒီလောက်ပဲ ရှိပါတယ်။

More examples

Think about what I’ve told you.
She kept saying horrible things about my mother.
Jokes about the president
[all about] : They’d forgotten all about poor Harry.
I’m worried about Dad.
There’s nothing to get excited about.
About that money I owe you – I can pay you back next week.
It’s about Jack – he’s been so depressed lately.
About 250 people were killed in the explosion.
Anthea must be about the same age as you.
I woke up at about 3 am.
[round about] : It must have been round about six when we got home.
The girls were dancing about the room in high spirits.
Abe was tired of wandering about on his own.
Diana turned about and marched out of the room.
Don’t leave important papers lying about on your desk.
There were articles of clothing scattered about the room.
The building was in darkness and there was no one about.
You shouldn’t have been spraying weedkiller while there were children about.
Rasula wore a garland of flowers about her neck.
The prophet had gathered about him a band of faithful followers.
They’ve kept us waiting about all morning.
Dad was pottering about in the garden.
Stop messing about. We’ve got a job to do.

Synonyms

concerning, regarding, in relation to, on the subject of, on, with reference to, as regards, a propos, vis-à-vis, re, adjacent, all but, almost, any which way, anyhow, approaching, approximately, apropos, around, arrangement, as concerns, as good as, as much as, as respects, as to, back, backward, beside, close to, dealing with, encircling, for all intents and purposes, going on for, here and there, in connection with, in essence, in general, in regard to, in respect to, in reverse, in the ball park, in the neighborhood, in the region of, just about, more or less, near, nearby, nearly, nigh, nigh on, not far off, of the order of, on the order of, or, practically, pretty nearly, quantity, referring to, regressive, relating to, relative, relative to, respecting, roughly, roughly speaking, round, something like, surrounding, through, throughout, touching, touching on, well-nigh, with regard to, with respect to

Antonyms

afar, away, distant, far, remote