ante
/ˈanti/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈanti/
ante
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US voice -> ante
Myanmar meaning
(n) တစ်ချပ်မှောက်စသည်ကဲ့သို့ ဖဲကစားနည်းတွင် ဖဲဝေမပေးမီတွင် တင်ရသောလောင်းကြေး။ ငွေပင်ငွေရင်းပမာဏ။ (pref) ရှေ့၌ဖြစ်သော၊ ရှေ့၌ရှိသော၊ အကြိုဖြစ်သောအနက်ဖြင့် ဆက်သော ရှေ့ဆက်စကားလုံး
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၁။ တစ်ချပ်မှောက်စသည်ကဲ့သို့ ဖဲကစားနည်းတွင် ဖဲဝေမပေးမီတွင် တင်ရသောလောင်းကြေး။ raise/up the ante.
၂။ [ဥ] ငွေပင်ငွေရင်းပမာဏ။ (fig ) The announcement merely upped the ante in the take-over battle.
ante- pref (with ns , adjs and vs )
(ရှေ့၌ဖြစ်သော၊ ရှေ့၌ရှိသော၊ အကြိုဖြစ်သောအနက်ဖြင့် ဆက်သော ရှေ့ဆက်စကားလုံး)။ ante-room ❍ antenatal ❍ antedate. Compare POST-, PRE-
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bet, gamble, stake, pot, a while ago, add, afore, aforetime, ahead, alee, antecedent to, antecedently, anted, anterior to, anteriorly, at an advantage, at one time, at the head, away back, back when, before, before now, before present, beforehand, buy in on, chance, charge up, cue in, flesh out, fleshing out, fore, forward, gaming, gone by, heat up, heating up, hike up, hitch on, hitherto, hook on, hook up with, hooked on, in advance, in advance of, in anticipation, in days gone by, in days of yore, in front, in front of, in old days, in the foreground, in the lead, in the past, into prominence, into view, jack up, jazz up, join together, joining together, lay down, lay odds, laying down, laying odds, long ago, one shot, one-shot, onwards, pay, payment, piggyback, play against, play for, play the ponies, plug into, pony up, pour it on, pour on, precedently, precendently, previous to, previously, price, prior to, put money on, raise, run up, say further, slap on, soup up, souped up, sped up, speed up, speeded up, speeding up, tack on, tempt fortune, time was, to the fore, toss up, until now, up to now, vanward, wager
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