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hold together

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American soundhold together
holdtogether
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hold - together -> hold together

Myanmar meaning

[PHRV ] စည်းလုံးသည်။ သွေးစည်းသည်။ (အဆို၊ သီဝရီ စသည်) ယုတ္တိတန်သည်။ လက်ခံနိုင်ဖွယ်ရှိ သည်။

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hold1 /hǝƱld/ v (pt, pp held /held/)

၁။ ဆုပ်ကိုင်သည်။ ကိုင်သည်။ စွဲသည်။ ပွေ့သည်။ ပိုက်သည်။ ကိုက်ထားသည်။ She was holding an umbrella. ❍ The girl was holding her father's hand. ❍ They were holding hands (ie holding each other's hands) ❍ The lovers held each other tight. ❍ I held the rabbit by its ears. ❍ She was holding the baby in her arms. ❍ He held the knife in his teeth. ❍ The winning captain held the trophy in the air. ❍ Take the rope in your hands and hold tight.
၂။ (က) နိုင်သည်။ ခံသည်။ Is that branch strong enough to hold you/ your weight?
(ခ) ထိန်းထားသည်။ ထိန်းချုပ်ထားသည်။ Try to hold the thief until the police arrive. ❍ The dam could not hold the flood waters.
၃။ (ကိုယ်ဟန်အနေအထား တစ်မျိုးမျိုး) ထားသည်၊ နေသည်။ The wood is held in position by a clamp. ❍Hold your head up ❍ Hold your arms out. ❍ It took three policemen to hold him down. ❍ She held out her hand to take the cup. ❍ Hold (yourself ) still for a moment while I take your photograph.
၄။ (က) တောင့်သည်။ ခိုင်သည်။ ခံသည်။ I don't think the shelf will hold if we put anything else on it. ❍The wooden fence held steady in spite of the strong wind.
(ခ) ခိုင်မြဲ သည်။ ခံသည်။ How long will this fine weather hold? ❍ If their luck holds, they could still win the championship.
(ဂ) တည်သည်။ တည်ဆဲဖြစ်သည်။ The offer I made to you last week still holds. ❍ The argument still holds.
၅။ (က) ဝင်သည်။ ဆံ့သည်။ ကာသည်။ This barrel holds 25 litres. ❍ Will this suitcase hold all my clothes? ❍ The lift can hold up to six people. ❍ My brain can't hold so much information at one time. ❍ (fig ) Who knows what the future holds (for us )? ရှေ့ ဘာဖြစ်မယ်ဆိုတာ ဘယ်သူ သိမလဲ။
(ခ) အရက်ကို (ဣနြေ္ဒမပျက်) သောက်နိုင်သည်။ He's never been able to hold his drink.
၆။ ထိန်းထားသည်။ hold a fort/ garrison ❍ The town was held despite frequent enemy attacks. ❍ The governing party held the seat, but with a greatly reduced majority. ❍ The Dolphins held the lead until midway through the second half.
၇။ ထိန်းသိမ်းသည်။ ချုပ်နှောင်သည်။ ဖမ်းထား သည်။ Police are holding two men in connection with last Thursday's bank raid. ❍ The terrorists are holding three men hostage. ❍ He was held prisoner for two years.
၈။ (က) ကိုင်သည်။ ပိုင်သည်။ the player who holds the ace of spades ❍ An American conglomerate holds a major share in the company.
(ခ) ထမ်းဆောင်သည်။ Mrs Thatcher held the post of Prime Minister longer than anyone else this century. ❍ How long has he held office? ❍ She held the same position in the previous company she worked for.
(ဂ) ထိန်းသိမ်းထားသည်။ She holds the world record for the long jump. ❍ She holds the title of world champion.
၉။ ဆွဲဆောင်ထားသည်။ A good teacher must be able to hold her pupils' attention.
၁၀။ (က) အယူရှိသည်။ ယူဆသည်။ He holds strange views on religion. ❍ I hold the view that the plan cannot work.
(ခ) (fml ) သဘောထားသည်။ The parents will be held responsible for their child's behaviour. ❍ (fml ) I still hold that the government's economic policies are mistaken. ❍ These vases are held to be the finest examples of Greek art.
၁၁။ ကျင်းပသည်။ (ဆွေးနွေးမှု) ပြုလုပ်သည်။ hold a conversation with sb ❍ The meeting will be held in the community centre. ❍ The country is holding its first free elections for twenty years. ❍ The Motor Show is usually held in October.
၁၂။ (ကားဘီး စသည်) ခြေကုပ်မြဲသည်၊ မချော်။ My new car holds the road well.
၁၃။ (က) (… ရပ်ညွှန်းအတိုင်း ဦးတည်) ရွေ့လျား သည်၊ ခုတ်မောင်းသည်၊ ပျံသန်းသည်။ The ship is holding a southeasterly course.
(ခ) (အသံမြင့်မြင့်) ဆွဲငင်သီဆိုနိုင် သည်။ hold a high note.
၁၄။ (ဖုန်းပြောမည့်သူ မအားသေး၍) ကိုင်ထားသည်၊ စောင့်သည်။ Mr Crowther's extension is engaged at the moment; will you hold (the line) ?
၁၅။ ဆိုင်းထားသည်။ Hold the front page (ie Do not print it until a certain piece of news is available)! ❍ Hold your fire (ie don't shoot). ❍ (US infml )Give me a hot dog, but hold the (ie don't give me any) mustard.
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၁။ (က) [sing] ဆုပ်ကိုင်ခြင်း။ တွယ်ရာ။ She kept a firm hold of her little boy's hand as they crossed the road. ❍ He lost his hold on the rope. (ခ) [C] ဆုပ်ကိုင်ခြင်း။ ဖမ်းကိုင်ခြင်း။ wrestling holds.
၂။ [sing] (က) ~ (on/ over sb/ sth ) နိုင်ချက်။ He has some kind of sinister hold over his younger brother. (ခ) ~ (on sb/ sth ) ဩဇာ။ အာဏာ။ ချုပ်ချယ်မှု။ The military has tightened its hold on the country.
၃။ [C] တွယ်စရာ။ ခြေကုပ်လက်တွယ်။ There are very few holds on the cliff face. See also FOOTHOLD, TOE-HOLD
❏ catch, grab, take etc hold of sb/ sth [IDM ]
၁။ ဖမ်းကိုင်သည်။ ဆုပ်ကိုင်သည်။ I threw the rope and he caught hold of it. ❍ I managed to grab hold of the jug before it fell.
၂။ လွှမ်းမိုးသည်။ A mood of hysteria had taken hold of the small community.
❏ get hold of sb/ sth [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ ရသည်။ Do you know where I can get hold of a second-hand carpet cleaner? ❍ Wherever did you get hold of that idea?
၂။ တွေ့သည်။ I've been trying to get hold of her for days but she's never at home.
❏ hold sth against sb [PHRV ] (infml ) အနုတ်လက္ခဏာ ဖြစ်စေသည်။ He's afraid that his criminal record will be held against him when he applies for jobs. ❍ He works for a rival company but I don't hold it against him.
❏ hold back (from doing sth ) [PHRV ] ချုပ်တည်းထား သည်။ She held back, not knowing how to break the terrible news. ❍ She didn't hold back from telling him what she thought of him.
❏ hold sb back [PHRV ] ဆွဲထားသည်။ Do you think that teaching all the children together holds the brighter ones back?
❏ hold sb/ sth back [PHRV ] တားသည်။ ထိန်းထားသည်။ The police were unable to hold back the crowd. ❍ The dam was not strong enough to hold back the flood waters.
❏ hold sth back [PHRV ]
၁။ လျှို့ဝှက်သည်။ ထိမ်ချန်သည်။ hold back information ❍ I think he's holding something back; he knows more than he admits.
၂။ ထိန်းသည်။ ချုပ်တည်းသည်။ ဆည်သည်။ She just managed to hold back her anger. ❍ He bravely held back his tears.
❏ hold sb down [PHRV ] ချုပ်ချယ်သည်။ The people are held down by a repressive military regime.
❏ hold sth down [PHRV ]
၁။ ထိန်းချုပ်သည်။ The rate of inflation must be held down.
၂။ (အလုပ် တစ်ခုခုကို) အတည်တကျလုပ်သည်။ He was unable to hold down a job after his nervous breakdown.
❏ hold forth [PHRV ] လေရှည်သည်။ He loves holding forth on any subject once he has an audience.
❏ hold good [IDM ] ကိုက်ညီသည်။ မှန်ကန်သည်။ The same argument does not hold good in every case.
❏ hold sth in [PHRV ] ချုပ်တည်းသည်။ ထိန်းသည်။ ဆည် သည်။ hold in one's feelings/ temper/ anger.
❏ hold it [IDM ] (infml ) စောင့်ပါဦး။ သည်းခံပါဦး။ Hold it a second—I don't think everyone's arrived yet.
❏ hold off [PHRV ] (မိုး၊ မုန်တိုင်း စသည်) စဲသည်၊ တန့် သည်၊ တိတ်သည်။ The rain held off just long enough for us to have our picnic.
❏ hold off (sth/ doing sth) [PHRV ] ဆိုင်းငံ့သည်။ ရွှေ့ဆိုင်း သည်။ စောင့်သည်။ Would it be better to buy a house now or hold off for a few months. ❍ Could you hold off (making) your decision until next week?
❏ hold sb/ sth off [PHRV ] ခုခံသည်။ တွန်းလှန်သည်။ Though outnumbered, they held off (repeated attacks by ) the enemy for three days.
❏ hold on [PHRV ]
၁။ (usu imperative) နေပါဦး။ စောင့်ပါဦး။ Hold on a minute while I get my breath back.
၂။ တောင့်ခံသည်။ အောင့်အည်းသည်။ အောင့်သည်။ They managed to hold on until help arrived. ❍ I don't think I can hold on much longer (eg I have an urgent need to go to the toilet).
❏ hold sth on [PHRV ] တွယ်သည်။ ထိန်းသည်။ These nuts and bolts hold the wheels on. ❍ This knob is only held on by sticky tape.
❏ hold on (to sth/ sb) [PHRV ] ဖက်တွယ်သည်။ တွယ်သည်။ ဆုပ်ကိုင်သည်။ He held on (to the rock) to stop himself slipping. ❍ It's very windy—you'd better hold onto your hat.
❏ hold onto sth [PHRV ] သိမ်းထားသည်။ ကိုင်ထားသည်။ ဆုပ်ထားသည်။ You should hold onto your oil shares. ❍ I'd hold onto that house for the time being; house prices are rising sharply at the moment.
❏ hold out [PHRV ]
၁။ ခုခံသည်။ ထိန်းသည်။ They held out bravely against repeated enemy bombing.
၂။ တောင့်ထားသည်။ အောင့်ထားသည်။ We can stay here for as long as our supplies hold out. ❍ I can't hold out much longer—I must find a toilet.
❏ hold sth out [PHRV ] (အခွင့်အလမ်း၊ မျှော်လင့်ချက် စသည်) ပေးသည်။ The forthcoming peace talks hold out the hope/ praspect/ opportunity of real progress. ❍ Doctors hold out little hope of her recovering.
❏ hold out for sth [PHRV ] (infml ) တောင့်ခံသည်။ တင်းခံ သည်။ Union negotiators are holding out for a more generous pay settlement.
❏ hold out on sb [PHRV ] (infml ) ထိမ်ချန်သည်။ I'm not holding out on you—I honestly don't know where he is.
❏ hold sth over [PHRV ] (often passive) ဆိုင်းထားသည်။ The matter was held over until the next meeting.
❏ hold to sth [PHRV ] ဆုပ်ကိုင်ထားသည်။ ဖက်တွယ်ထား သည်။ She always holds to this view passionately.
❏ hold sb to sth [PHRV ]
၁။ ကတိတည်စေသည်။ အတည် ဖြစ်စေသည်။ ‘I'll buy you a drink if we win. ’ ‘ I'll hold you to that!’ ❍ We must hold the contractors to (ie not allow them to charge a higher price than) their estimates.
၂။ ထိန်းထားသည်။ The league leaders were held to a 0-0 draw.
❏ hold together [PHRV ]
၁။ စည်းလုံးသည်။ သွေးစည်းသည်။ The Tory Party always holds together in times of crisis.
၂။ (အဆို၊ သီဝရီ စသည်) ယုတ္တိတန်သည်။ လက်ခံနိုင်ဖွယ်ရှိ သည်။ Their case doesn't hold together once you start examining the evidence.
❏ hold sth together [PHRV ] ဆိုင်းထားသည်။ ထိန်းထား သည်။ My old radio is held together with elastic bands. ❍ The country needs a leader who can hold the nation together.
❏ hold sb/ sth up [PHRV ]
၁။ ကြန့်ကြာစေသည်။ နောက်ကျ သွားသည်။ An accident on the eastbound lane is holding up traffic. ❍ My application was held up by the postal strike. ❍ Our flight was held up by fog. See also HOLD-UP
၂။ (စံ)ပြု သည်။ (နမူနာ)ပြသည်။ She's always holding up her children as models of behaviour.
❏ hold-up n (က) အဟန့်အတား။ အနှောင့်အယှက်။ a hold-up on the motorway ❍ We should arrive in half an hour, barring hold-ups. (ခ) (ဘဏ်၊ ဆိုင် စသည်) အနုကြမ်းစီးခြင်း။ After the hold-up, the gang made their getaway in a stolen car.
❏ hold up sth [PHRV ] လုယက်သည်။ အနုကြမ်းစီးသည်။ hold up a bank/ post office ❍ Masked men held up a security van in South London yesterday.
❏ hold with sth [PHRV ] (used in negative sentences or in, question) သဘောတူသည်။ ထောက်ခံသည်။ I don't hold with some of these modern theories on education.
❏ there is no holding sb [IDM ] တားမရပါ။ Once she gets onto the subject of politics there's no holding her.
❏ with no holds barred [IDM ] (ပြိုင်ပွဲ စသည်တွင်) နည်းလမ်းသတ်မှတ်ချက မ်ထားဘဲ။ a no-holds-barred situation.

hold2 /hǝƱld/ n

သင်္ဘော၊ လေယာဉ်တို့၏ ဝမ်း။ ဝမ်းလိုဏ်။ ကုန်ခန်း။

More examples
  • Can you hold my bag for a moment?
  • [hold something in/under/between something] : He held the book in his hand.
  • She was holding the catalogue under her arm.
  • Barry was holding a coin between his finger and thumb.
  • He held the sandwich between his teeth.
  • She was holding a baby in her arms.
  • Can you hold this parcel for me so I can tape it up?
  • He was held by a single rope.
  • [hold something steady] : We had to hold our cups steady as the boat rocked.
  • [hold something shut/still/apart etc] : Hold the torch still.
  • She was holding her hand to her heart.
  • Ruth held her head in her hands.
  • He sat beside her and held her.
  • [hold someone tight/close] : She kissed him and held him tight.
  • The corner cupboard holds a TV and CD player.
  • How much does this jug hold?
  • The stadium holds 80, 000 people.
  • The government agreed to hold a referendum.
  • The presidential election was held on April 26.
  • She is the first woman to hold this post.
  • He held a position of trust and responsibility.
  • [hold office] : President Mitterrand held office for 14 years.
  • She certainly holds some interesting views.
  • Three per cent of our shares are now held by US investors.
Synonyms
grasp, clutch, grip, clasp, seize, cling to, embrace, cleave to, stick, accommodate, adhere, apply, arrange, arrest, assemble, assume, attach, authority, aver, be equipped for, be in effect, be in force, be the case, be valid, bear, believe, bet bottom dollar, bind, bolster, bottle up, brace, buttress, buy, call, call together, cargo bay, carry, carry on, catch, celebrate, check, cherish, claim, clamp, cleave, clench, clinch, cling, clout, command, compartment, comprise, conduct, conduct meeting, confine, consider, contain, continue, control, convene, cork up, cradle, credit, cross one's heart, cuddle, deem, detain, dominance, dominion, draw out, enclose, endure, enfold, enjoy, entertain, esteem, exist, extend, fasten, feel, fix, fondle, foothold, footing, freeze to, function, handhold, handle, hang on, have, have bearing, have hunch, have sneaking suspicion, have space for, hold close, hold good, hold on, hold tight, hold true, hug, imprison, incarcerate, include, influence, judge, keep, keep close, keep out, keep up, lap up, last, lay money on, lock, lock up, maintain, not let go, nourish, occupancy, occupation, occupy, officiate, okay, operate, opine, organize, own, ownership, palm, persevere, persist, possess, possession, possession; grasp, power, preside, press, presume, prop, pull, purchase, put a lock on, reckon, regard, remain, remain true, remand, resist, restrain, retain, retention, run, seat, secure, sense, set store by, shore up, shoulder, shut in, solemnize, spell
Antonyms
abandon, aid, allow, assist, avoid, cancel, cease, desert, disbelieve, dispossession, disregard, dodge, drop, exclude, fail, follow, forget, forsake, free, give, give up, go, halt, hang up, help, ignore, lack, leave, let go, liberate, loose, loosen, lose, miss, mistrust, need, neglect, offer, permit, quit, refuse, reject, release, stop, unfasten, untie, want, weaken, weakness
Cross references
graspclutchgripclaspseizecling toembracecleave tostickaccommodateadhereapplyarrangearrestassembleassumeattachauthorityaverbe equipped forbe in effectbe in forcebe the casebe validbearbelievebet bottom dollarbind
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