frontiers
/ˈfrʌntɪə/
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fron - tiers -> frontiers
(n[pl]) နယ်ခြားတပ်များ
၁။ (esp the front ) (က) [C usu sing ] ရှေ့။ ရှေ့ပိုင်း။ ဦးပိုင်း။ ရှေ့မျက်နှာစာ။ ရှေ့ခြမ်း။ The front of the building was covered with ivy. ❍ Place the statue so that the front faces the light. ❍ The book has the author's picture on the front. ❍ The front of the car was badly damaged. ❍ Several shop fronts were damaged by the explosion. ❍ You've spilt some food down your front (ie the clothes covering your chest). See also Y-FRONTS (ခ) [sing] ရှေ့။ ရှေ့တန်း၊ ရှေ့ပိုင်း။ ဦးပိုင်း။ Keep your eyes to the front and walk straight ahead. ❍ The teacher made me move my seat to the front of the classroom. ❍ There's a garden at the front of the house. ❍ I prefer to travel in the front of the car (ie next to the driver). Compare BACK n ၁, REAR1 ၁
၂။ the front [sing] (ကမ်းခြေ) မျက်နှာစာ။ walk along the (sea) front. See also PROMENADE
၃။ [ C usu sing] ရှေ့တန်း စစ် မျက်နှာ။ be sent to/ serve at the front ❍ The army is fighting on two fronts.
၄။ [sing] အပြင်ပန်း။ ဟန်။ Her rudeness is just a front (for her shyness). ❍ put on a bold front
❍ The prime minister stressed the need to present a united front to opposition attack . အတိုက်အခံတို့ကို ညီညွတ်စွာ ရင်ဆိုင်ရန် အရေးကြီးကြောင်းဝန်ကြီးချုပ်က ပြောကြား သည်။
၅။ [C usu sing ] ~ (for sth ) (infml ) ဟန်ပြ။ ဗန်းပြ။ The travel company is just a front for illegal drug trafficking.
၆။ [C] လေစိုင်ဆုံ။ A cold/ warm front is moving in from the west.
၇။ [C] [ဥ] စစ်မျက်နှာ။ on the domestic / economic/ education front ❍ The government has acted swiftly on several fronts to tighten security.
adj ရှေ့။ မျက်နှာဖုံး။ on the front page of the newspaper ❍ front teeth ❍ the horse's front legs ❍ the front wheels of the car ❍ They keep the front room for visitors. ❍ the front door (ie the door that serves as the main entrance to a house) ❍ get a front seat at the theatre (ie near and with a good view of the stage). Compare BACK adj ၁ , REAR1 ၁, HIND adj ၁
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၁။ ~ (onto) sth မျက်နှာပြုသည်။ မျက်နှာမူသည်။ ဦးတည်သည်။ မျက်နှာစာတွင်ရှိသည်။ hotels that front onto the sea. ❍ Attractive gardens fronted the houses.
၂။ မျက်နှာစာကို ဆင်ယင်သည်။ a house fronted with Cotswold stone ❍ a glass -fronted bookcase.
၃။ (infml ) (က) ရှေ့တန်းတင် ထားသည်။ ဦးဆောင်သည်။ a company fronted by a former rock star. (ခ) (Brit ) ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား အစီအစဉ်ကို တင်ပြသည်။ Dan Davies will front tonight's discussion on race relations.
❏ the front bench n [CGp] ဗြိတိသျှလွှတ်တော်တွင် အစိုးရနှင့်အတိုက်အခံပါလီမန်အမတ်များ ထိုင်ရာရှေ့ခုံ နှစ်တန်း။ a front-bench spokesman on defence.
❏ front-bencher n ရှေ့ခုံတန်းတွင် ထိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော လွှတ်တော် အမတ်။ Compare (THE) BACK BENCH
❏ the front line n [sing]
၁။ ရှေ့တန်း (စစ်မျက်နှာ)။ Tanks are being deployed all along the front line. ❍ front-line troops.
၂။ ရှေ့တန်း။ in the front line of research.
❏ front man n (infml )
၁။ ခေါင်းဆောင်။
၂။ (Brit ) ရုပ်မြင် သံကြားအစီအစဉ်တင်ပြသူ။
❏ front-of-house n [U] (က) (ဇာတ်ရုံ) ရှေ့ခုံတန်း။ There was an expectant atmosphere front-of-house. (ခ) ပွဲကြည့်ပရိသတ် ဆိုင်ရာ။ the front-of-house manager.
❏ front-page adj မျက်နှာဖုံး (သတင်း)။ front-page news.
❏ front runner n ရှေ့ကပြေးနေသူ။ He is one of the front runners in the Presidential election.
❏ in front adv
၁။ ရှေ့တွင်။ ရှေ့မှာ။ a building with a statue in front . ❍The children walked in twos with one teacher in front and one behind.
၂။ ရှေ့မှ။ ရှေ့မှာ။ ရှေ့က။ Car number 23 has overtaken the leader and is now in front. Compare BEHIND adv part
❏ in front of prep
၁။ ရှေ့မှ။ ရှေ့မှာ။ ရှေ့က။ ရှေ့တွင်။ The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake. ❍ The bus stops right in front of our house. ❍ I keep a photograph of my family in front of me on the desk. ❍ She's entitled to put ‘Professor’ in front of her name. Compare BEHIND prep ❍ BEFORE prep
၂။ ရှေ့တွင်။ ရှေ့မှာ။ The cheques must be signed in front of the cashier at the bank. ❍ Please don't talk about it in front of the children.
❏ out front [IDM ] (ဇာတ်ရုံ) ရှေ့ခုံတန်း။
❏ put on, show, etc a bold/ brave front [IDM ] ဟန်ကိုယ့်ဖို့ဟူ၍ တင်းထားသည်။
❏ up front [IDM ] (infml ) ကြိုတင်ပေးငွေ။ စရန်ငွေ။ We'll pay you half up front and the other half when you've finished the job.
- House/shop fronts (=the parts that face the road)
- [the front of something] : Attach a recent photograph to the front of your application.
- [on the front] : A book with a picture of a tiger on the front
- [down the front] : The dress had buttons down the front.
- I always sleep on my front.
- Go round to the front and I’ll let you in.
- [the north/south/east/west front of something] : Monet’s famous series of paintings of the west front of Rouen cathedral
- The glasses are in the cabinet near the front.
- [in/at the front (of something)] : Tom was sitting at the front of the bus.
- The man at the front of the queue
- If you can’t see the blackboard, come and sit at the front.
- He had signed his name in the front of the book.
- There’s bad news on the job front – two factories are going to close.
- His main problems were in maths and science, but he has made progress on both fronts.
- [front for] : They kept a shop as a front for dealing in stolen goods.
- He always pretended he didn’t care but we knew it was just a front.
- [put on a front] : She’s putting on a brave front, but she’s really very worried.
- A warm/cold front
- The National Liberation Front
- A walk along the front
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