even

/eɪˈvɛn/

US pronunciation

American sound/eɪˈvɛn/

eɪˈvɛn

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

eɪ - ˈvɛn -> even

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ချောမွတ်သော။ ပုံမှန်ဖြစ်သော။ (adv) တောင်မှ။ (n) ညနေ။

Full entry

even¹ /'i:vn/ adv

၁။ ပင်လျှင်။ တောင်။ တောင်မှ။
He never even opened the letter (ie so he certainly didn't read it). ❍ He didn't answer even my letter (ie so he certainly didn't answer any others). ❍ It was cold there even in summer (ie so it must have been very cold in winter). ❍ Even a child can understand it (ie so adults certainly can).
၂။ ပို၍ပင်။ ပိုလို့တောင်။ ထက်။ သာတောင်။ You know even less about it than I do. မင်းကငါ့လောက်တောင် မသိဘူး။ (ငါက မင်းထက် ပိုသိတယ်။ ) ❍ Sally drives fast, but Jane drives even faster. ❍ She's even more intelligent than her sister.
၃။ သည့်အပြင်။ တဲ့အပြင်။
It's an unattractive building, even ugly/ugly even.
❏ even as [IDM ] (fml ) (used as a compound conj ) တစ်ပြိုင်တည်းပဲ။ တစ်ချိန်တည်းမှာပဲ။
Even as he shouted the warning the car skidded.
❏ even if/though [IDM ] (used as conjs ) ရသည့်တိုင်။ သော်လည်း။ လင့်ကစား။
I'll get there, even if I have to walk all the way. ❍ I like her even though she can be annoying at times.
❏ even now/then [IDM ]
၁။ တာတောင်။ အခုတောင်။ I've shown him the photographs but even now he won't believe me. ❍ Even then he would not admit his mistake.
၂။ (fml ) (with continuous tenses only, often between the auxiliary and the main v ) ယခုပင်လျှင်။ ခုပဲ။ The troops are even now preparing to march into the city.
❏ even so [IDM ] (used as a conj ) သော်ငြားလည်း။ သော်လည်းပဲ။ ပေမည့်လည်း။ There are a lot of spelling mistakes; even so, it's quite a good essay.

even² /'i:vn/ adj

၁။ ညီညာသော။ ပြန့်ပြူးသော။
The footpath is not very even. Compare UNEVEN ၁
၂။ ပုံမှန်။ ပြေပြစ် သော။
an even colour ❍ even breathing ❍ Her stitches weren't very even. ❍ This wine cellar stays at an even temperature all year round. Compare UNEVEN ၂
၃။ (က) တူညီသော။
Our scores are now even.
(ခ) အတွဲညီသော။ လိုက်ဖက်သော။
an even game ❍ I'd say the two players are pretty even. Compare UNEVEN ၃
၄။ စုံဂဏန်း ဖြစ်သော။
an even number of people ❍ 4, 6, 8, 10, etc are even numbers. Compare ODD ၂
၅။ အေးဆေးသော။ တည်ငြိမ်သော။
of an even disposition ❍ an even-temperated baby ❍ She tried to keep her voice quiet and even (ie not showing any emotion).
v ညီမျှအောင်လုပ်သည်။ ညီစေသည်။
Chelsea evened the score just after half-time.
❏ be/get even (with sb) [IDM ] (infml ) တန်ပြန်သည်။ လက်တုံ့ပြန်သည်။ ကလဲ့စားချေသည်။ He swore he'd get even with his brother.
❏ break even [IDM ] လုပ်ငန်းတစ်ခုကို အရှုံးမရှိဘဲ လက်စသတ်သည်။
We should begin to break even later in the year.
❏ an even chance (of doing sth) [IDM ] ၅၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း သေချာတယ်။ I'd say she has an even chance of winning the match. ❍ He's got a less than even chance.
❏ even-handed adj တရားမျှတသော။
an even-handed approach ❍ even-handed justice.
❏ even money; evens [IDM ] (အလောင်းအစား) ဆတူ အလျော်အစား။ အလားအလာ ၅၀
ရာခိုင်နှုန်း စီ ရှိသော။
The evens favourite ❍ ‘Will he win?’ ‘It's even money. ’
❏ even out [PHRV ] ပြေသွားသည်။ ညီညာသွားသည်။ ပုံမှန် ဖြစ်သည်။
The path rose steeply for a while and then evened out. ❍ House prices keep rising and falling but they should eventually even out.
❏ even sth out [PHRV ] မျှအောင်ဖြန့်ပေးသည်။ Payments can be evened out on a monthly basis over the year. ❍ He tried to even out the distribution of work among his employees.
❏ even (sth) up [PHRV ] ညီမျှသွားသည်။ ညီမျှသွားစေသည်။ Moving John and Michael to the back row will even things up a bit (ie make a more balanced group).
❏ on an even keel [IDM ] (စိတ်ခံစားမှု) ပုံမှန်ပြန်ဖြစ်သည်၊ အနည်ထိုင်သည်။ It took him a long time to get back on an even keel after his wife died. evenly adv : evenly balanced/matched ❍ evenly divided/distributed ❍ Breathe slowly and evenly. ❍ ‘I shan't be coming next week,’ she said evenly. evenness /'i:vǝnnǝs/ n [U]

More examples

It always feels cold in this room, even in summer.
Even the dog refused to eat it.
Lucy’s face brightened a little – she even managed to smile.
[not even] : He never stopped working, not even at Christmas.
They didn’t even offer me a cup of tea.
[even now] : Even now, after all these years, he cannot mention her name without crying.
[even then] : They’re going to spend £5 billion on our railway network, and even then it won’t be as good as the French system.
She admits things are bad, but argues they were even worse under the previous government.
If anything, local people are treated even more harshly than foreigners.
Her latest novel was very good, even brilliant.
The quarrel might have ended in violence – murder, even.
Why's she going out with that creep? I literally can't even.
When I’m hungover, I just can’t even.

Synonyms

still, yet, after all, align, alike, all the more, all the more so, at the same time, balance, balanced, calm, coequal, comparable, composed, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, cool, coterminous, despite, direct, disinterested, dispassionate, disregarding, drawn, dusk, equable, equal, equalize, equalized, equanimous, equitable, equivalent, even-steven, even-tempered, evening, exact, fair, fair and square, fifty-fifty, flat, flatten, flush, for all that, grade, homogenous, honest, horizontal, horse to horse, howbeit, identical, impartial, imperturbable, in spite of, indeed, just, just as, lay, level, make smooth, match, matching, metrical, much, neck and neck, nightfall, nonpartisan, notwithstanding, on a par, on level pegging, pancake, parallel, peaceful, placid, planate, plane, plumb, proportional, proportionate, regular, regularize, right, roll, same, serene, similar, smack in the middle, smooth, so much as, square, stabile, stabilize, stable, steady, straight, straightforward, sundown, sunset, surfaced, symmetrize, tied, tranquil, true, twilight, unbiased, unbroken, unchanging, undeviating, undisturbed, unexcitable, unfluctuating, uniform, uninterrupted, unprejudiced, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwrinkled, well-balanced, withal

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