commanding

/kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/

kəˈmɑːndɪŋ

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Open ah vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

kə - ˈmɑːndɪŋ -> commanding

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အမိန့်ပေးနိုင်သော။ အထက်စီး၌တည်နေသော။ အသာစီးရ နေသော။ ဩဇာရှိသော။ ခံ့ညားသော။ (v[ing]) အမိန့်ပေးနေ

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command /kǝ'mɑ:nd; US -'mænd/ v

၁။ အမိန့်ပေးသည်။
Do as I command (you). ❍ (rhet ) I am yours to command (ie Tell me what you want me to do)! ❍ (fml ) The tribunal has commanded that all copies of the book (must) be destroyed. ❍ The officer commanded his men to fire. ❍ order²
၂။ ဩဇာအာဏာရှိသည်။ ကွပ်ကဲ အုပ်ချုပ်သည်။ Does seniority give one the right to command? ❍ The ship's captain commands all the officers and men.
၃။ (no passive) ခံယူထိုက်သည်။ Great men command our respect. ❍ The plight of the famine victims commands everyone's sympathy.
၄။ (no passive) (နေရာ၊ ခံတပ် စသည်) အထက်စီး၌တည်နေသည်။ The castle commanded the entrance to the valley. ❍ (fig ) The house commands a fine view.
၅။ (fml ) (no passive) ရသည်။ ပိုင်သည်။ command funds/skill/resources ❍ She commands a six-figure salary.
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၁။ [C] (က) အမိန့်။ Her commands were quickly obeyed. ❍ Give your commands in a loud, confident voice.
(ခ) (computing ) ကွန်ပျူတာကို ညွှန်ကြားခြင်း။
၂။ [U] (esp military ) ကွပ်ကဲမှု။ to have/take command of a regiment. ❍ He should not be given command of troops. ❍ Who is in command (ie in charge) here? ❍ The army is under the command of General Smith. ❍ He has twenty men under his command. See also SECOND IN COMMAND
၃။ Command [C] စစ်တိုင်း။ ရေ တပ်၊ လေတပ်စခန်း ဌာနချုပ်။ Western Command ❍ Bomber Command.
၄။ [U, sing] ~ (of sth) …စွမ်းရှိသည်။ He has (a) good command of the French language (ie can speak it well). ❍ She has enormous funds at her command. ❍ He has no command over himself (ie cannot control his feelings, temper, etc).
❏ at/by sb's command [IDM ] (fml ) အမိန့်အရ။ I am here at the King's command.
❏ be at sb's command [IDM ] အမိန့်နာခံရန် အသင့်။
❏ commanding adj
၁။ အမိန့်ပေးနိုင်သော။ one's commanding officer.
၂။ အထက်စီး၌တည်နေသော။ အသာစီးရ နေသော။ The fort occupies a commanding position. ❍ One team has already built up a commanding lead.
၃။ ဩဇာရှိသော။ ခံ့ညားသော။ a commanding voice/tone/look.
❏ command performance n နိုင်ငံအကြီးအကဲ၏ ဆန္ဒအရ တင်ဆက်ကပြသော ပွဲသဘင်။ (အကြီးအကဲကိုယ်တိုင် ကြွရောက် ချီးမြှင့်သည်။ )

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Synonyms

authority, control, rule, domination, power, sway, dominion, ability, absolutism, act, adjuration, adjure, administer, aplomb, appoint, appreciation, authorization, authorize, ban, bar, be in charge, beckon, behest, bid, bidding, boss, call, call for, call on, call the signals, call upon, canon, caveat, charge, check, citation, cite, coach, coerce, coercion, commandment, compel, compulsion, conduct, conquer, constrain, constraint, curb, debar, decree, demand, despotism, determine, devoir, dictate, dictation, dictum, direct, direction, directive, dominate, domineer, duty, edict, enact, enactment, enjoin, exact, exaction, exercise power, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, fiat, forbid, force, force upon, give directions, give orders, govern, government, grant, grasp, grip, guide, have authority, have power, head, hinder, hold, hold office, imperative, impose, imposition, inflict, influence, inhibit, injunction, instruct, instruction, interdict, interdiction, jurisdiction, knack, know-how, knowledge, law, lay down the law, lead, leadership, manage, management, mandate, mark out, might, notification, obligation, oblige, officiate, oppress, ordain, order, ordinance, ordinate, overbear, override, precept, predominate, prerogative, prescribe, prescript, preside over, prevail, primacy, proclaim, proclamation, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, push, put foot down, regulate, regulation, reign, reign over, repress, request, require, requirement, requisition, responsibility, restrain, restraint, right, royalty, rule out, run, send for, set

Antonyms

abandon, advance, aid, allow, allowance, answer, approve, ask, assist, cancel, comply, conceal, consent, contradict, contradiction, countermand, disallow, disorganization, encourage, follow, free, freedom, give up, help, hinder, ignorance, inability, irresponsibility, lawlessness, leave, leave alone, let go, liberate, lose, mismanage, neglect, obey, oppose, opposition, permission, permit, prevent, recall, refuse, reject, release, request, retreat, reversal, reverse, revocation, revoke, serve, start, stop, submission, submit, subordination, surrender, veto, weakness, yield