half-truth
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half - truth -> half truth
half /hɑ:f;US hæf/ n (pl halves /hɑ:vz; US hævz/)
၁။ ထက်ဝက်။ တစ်ဝက်။ two and a half ounces/hours/ miles ❍ the mountainous half of the island ❍ Mum's broken the chocolate into halves—here's your half. ❍ John and Liz shared the prize money between them—John used his half to buy a word processor. ❍ The second half of the book is more exciting than the first. ❍ ALL1
၂။ အပိုင်း။ ပထမပိုင်း (သို့) ဒုတိယပိုင်း။ No goals were scored in the first half.
၃။ (Brit ) တစ်ဝက်ခလက်မှတ်။ ကလေး လက်မှတ်။ Two and two halves to the city centre, please.
၄။ = HALF-BACK: playing (at) left half.
၅။ (infml esp Brit ) (အထူးသဖြင့် ဘီယာ) ပိုင့်ဝက်။ Two halves of bitter, please.
indef det ထက်ဝက်။ တစ်ဝက်။ တစ်ခြမ်း။ half the men. ❍ half an hour/ a half-hour (ie 30 minutes) ❍ half a pint/a half-pint ❍ half a dozen/ a half-dozen (ie 6) ❍ He has a half share in the firm. ❍ Half the fruit was bad. Compare ALL, BOTH ❍ ALL
indef pron ထက်ဝက်။ Half of six is three. ❍ Half of the plums are rotten. ❍ Half of the money is mine. ❍ I only need half. ❍ Out of 36 children, half passed.
adv
၁။ တစ်ဝက်တစ်ပျက်။ The jug was half full.
၂။ တစ်ဝက်တစ်ပျက်။ တစ်ပိုင်းတစ်စ။ half cooked. မကျက် တကျက်။ half-closed eyes. မပွင့်တပွင့်။ I'm half inclined to agree.
❏ and a half [IDM] (infml) ပုံမှန်ထက်သာလွန်သော။ That was a game and a half!
❏ at half-mast [IDM ] (အလံ) တိုင်ဝက်တင်လျက်။ Flags were (flown) at half-mast everywhere on the day of the hostage's funeral.
❏ break, chop, cut, tear, etc sth in half [IDM ] နှစ်ပိုင်း ချိုးသည်၊ နှစ်ပိုင်းခုတ်ထစ်သည် စသည်။ ထက်ပိုင်းပိုင်းသည်။ ထက်ခြမ်း ခြမ်းသည်။ ထက်ဝက် ဝက်သည်။ I once saw a man tear a telephone directory in half.
❏ do nothing/ not do anything by halves [IDM ] မစားရလျှင်အလျှင်း၊ စားရလျှင်ဆီထမင်း ဆိုသကဲ့သို့ လုပ်တတ် သည်။ He's not a man who does things by halves—he either donates a huge sum or gives nothing.
❏ go half and half/ go halves (with sb) [IDM ] တစ်ယောက်တစ်ဝက်စီ မျှဝေခံသည်။ That was an expensive meal—let's go halves.
❏ half-and-half adj ထက်ဝက်စီ။ ညီတူညီမျှ။ ဆတူ။ ‘How do you like your coffee?’ ‘Half-and-half (ie Half coffee and half milk), please. ’
❏ half as many, much etc again [IDM ] ထက်ဝက် ထပ်တိုးခြင်း။ ၅၀ % ထပ်တိုးခြင်း။ Spending on health is half as much again as it was in 1982.
❏ half-back (also half ) n (ဘောလုံးပွဲ၊ ဟော်ကီ ကစားခြင်း စသည်တွင်) အလယ်တန်းလူ။
❏ half-baked adj (infml ) မကျက်တကျက်။ မနပ်တနပ်။ မကျေမညက်။ a half-baked idea.
❏ half board n [U] တစ်နပ်နှုန်း။ Compare FULL BOARD
❏ half-brother n အဖေတူအမေကွဲ ညီ၊ အစ်ကို၊ မောင်။ အမေတူအဖေကွဲ ညီ၊ အစ်ကို၊ မောင်။
❏ half-caste (also half-breed) n, adj (usu offensive ) ကပြား။
❏ half-crown (also half a crown) n (in Britain before 1971) ကရောင်းဝက်။ ၂ သျှီလင်ခွဲ။
❏ half day n နေ့ဝက် (အထူးသဖြင့် မွန်းလွဲပိုင်း တစ်ချိန်လုံး)။
❏ half dollar n ဒေါ်လာဝက်။ ဆင့်ငါးဆယ်။
❏ half-hearted adj စိတ်မပါ့တပါ။ ဟက်ဟက်ပက်ပက်မရှိ သော။ make a half-hearted attempt at conversation.
❏ half-heartedly adv စိတ်မပါ့တပါ။
❏ half-hour (also half an hour ) n နာရီဝက်။ မိနစ်သုံးဆယ်။ He should arrive within the next half-hour.
❏ half-hourly adj, adv နာရီဝက်တိုင်း။ နာရီဝက်တစ်ခါ။ a half-hourly news bulletin ❍ The buses run half-hourly.
❏ half-life n သက်တမ်းဝက်။
❏ half -light n [sing] မလင်းတလင်း။ in the half-light of dawn.
❏ half a minute, second, tick, etc [IDM ] (infml ) ခဏလေး။ တစ်အောင့်လေး။ I'll be ready in half a minute.
❏ half moon n
၁။ လခြမ်း။ လဝက်။
၂။ လဝက် (အချိန်)။
၃။ လခြမ်းပုံ။ လဝက်ပုံ။ အဍ္ဎစန္ဒက။
❏ half-note n (US ) (ဂီတ) သံဝက်သင်္ကေတ။ = MINIM
❏ the half of it [IDM ] (infml ) (usu in negative sentences) အရေးအကြီးဆုံးအပိုင်း။ You don't know the half of it.
❏ half one, two,etc [IDM ] (Brit infml ) = HALF PAST ONE, TWO, etc
❏ half past one, two, etc [IDM ] (…နာရီနှင့်) မိနစ်
၃၀။ (…နာရီ)ခွဲ။
❏ half-price adv ထက်ဝက်ဈေး။ ထက်ဝက်နှုန်း။ တစ်ဝက်ခ။ Children are (admitted) half-price.
❏ half -sister n အဖေတူအမေကွဲညီမ၊ အစ်မ၊ နှမ။ အမေတူ အဖေကွဲညီမ၊ အစ်မ၊ နှမ။
❏ half -term n (in Britain) နှစ်ဝက် ကျောင်းပိတ်ရက်။
❏ half-timbered adj အုတ်ညှပ်။
❏ half-time n [U] (အားကစားချိန်ပထမပိုင်းအပြီး) အားလပ် ချိန်။ The score at half time was 2-2. ❍ the half-time score.
❏ half-tone n (US ) = SEMITONE
❏ half-truth n (usu derog ) မမှန်တစ်ဝက်မှန်တစ်ဝက်။ The newspaper reports are a mixture of gossip, lies and half-truths.
❏ half-yearly adj, adv ၆ - လ တစ်ကြိမ်။ ခြောက်လပတ်။ နှစ်ဝက်။ meetings held at half-yearly intervals ❍ Royalty statements are sent out half-yearly.
❏ how the other half lives [IDM ] မိမိနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် ဖြစ်သောလူ့အလွှာတွင် နေမှုထိုင်မှု။ ။ He's rich and arrogant—he couldn't care less how the other half lives.
❏ not half [IDM ] (sl ) ကမ်းကုန်အောင်။ ပယ်ပယ်နယ်နယ်။ အရမ်း။ He didn't half swear (ie He swore violently). ❍ ‘Was she annoyed?’ ‘Not half!’ ( ie She was extremely annoyed. )
❏ not half as [IDM ] ခြေဖျားတောင်မမီ။ Her new boyfriend isn't half as good-looking (as her last one).
- The rebel army now controls over half the country.
- The students spend half their time on practical work.
- [half of] : Prices rose by over 15% during the second half of 1988.
- Would anyone like the other half of my pizza?
- When we interviewed employees, nearly half of them complained of stress.
- [divide/cut/split etc something in half] : Peel the potatoes and cut them in half.
- One and a half million people have been driven from their homes.
- Jasmine started school when she was four and a half.
- [half an hour/a mile etc] : We had to wait half an hour for a bus.
- [half hour/mile etc] : She walked the half mile from Fleet Street back to her office.
- [half a dozen/a half dozen] : Half a dozen eggs
- [half something (and) half something] : The fabric is half nylon, half cotton.
- Marie is half Vietnamese, half French (=one of her parents is from Vietnam, the other is from France).
- The fearsome creature was half man and half beast.
- [half and half] : There used to be a lot more men than women in the medical school, but now it’s about half and half.
- Through the half open door I could hear the sound of Alan’s voice.
- The rocks were half under water.
- I only half understood the instructions.
- [half-empty/half-full] : A half-empty milk bottle
- Your mother’s been going half crazy worrying about you.
- I seem to spend half my life cleaning up after those kids.
- Neither team scored in the first half.
- A pint of lager and a half of Guinness, please.
- Two and two halves to London Bridge, please.
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