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idea

/ʌɪˈdɪə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ʌɪˈdɪə/
ʌɪˈdɪə
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

ʌɪ - ˈdɪə -> idea

Myanmar meaning

(n) စိတ်ကူး။ အတွေးအခေါ်။ အကြံအစည်။ သဘော သဘာဝ။ ထင်မြင်ချက်။ အတွေး အခေါ်။ ခံယူချက်။ ထင်မြင်ယူဆချက်။ သဘောပေါက်နားလည်မှု။ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်။ (မိုက်မဲစွာ ပြောဆိုသည်၊ တုန်လှုပ်စရာ ပြောဆိုသည်ဟု ထင်မြင်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြသော အာမေဍ္ဍိတ်)။

Full entry

idea / aÇ'dÇǝ; US -'di:ǝ / n

၁။ [C] စိတ်ကူး။ အတွေးအခေါ်။ အကြံအစည်။ He's full of good / bright ideas. ❍ That's an (ie a good) idea.
၂။ [U, sing] သဘော သဘာဝ။ This book gives you some idea / a good idea of life in ancient Greece. ❍ Have you any idea what I mean?
၃။ [C] ထင်မြင်ချက်။ အတွေး အခေါ်။ ခံယူချက်။ He has some very strange ideas.
၄။ [sing] ထင်မြင်ယူဆချက်။ What gave you the idea / Where did you get the idea (that) I was rich? ❍ I have an idea it's going to rain.
၅။ the idea [sing] သဘောပေါက်နားလည်မှု။ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်။ We take turns to play a card—do you get the idea (ie understand)? ❍ The idea of the game is to get all your pieces to the other side of the board. ❍ What's the (big) idea of turning up three hours late?
၆။ (မိုက်မဲစွာ ပြောဆိုသည်၊ တုန်လှုပ်စရာ ပြောဆိုသည်ဟု ထင်မြင်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြသော အာမေဍ္ဍိတ်)။ The idea of it! ❍ What an idea!
❑ give sb ideas [IDM ] မျှော်လင့်ချက်ပေးသည်။ Don't give her ideas — you know how difficult it is to get into show business.
❑ have no idea [IDM ] လုံးဝမသိ။ ‘What's the time?’ ‘I’ve no idea. ’ ❍ He has no idea how to manage people.
❑ one's idea of sth [IDM ] သဘောထား။ If this is your idea of a joke, I'm not amused.
❑ not have the first idea [IDM ] အခြေခံသဘော ကိုမျှမသိ၊ နားမလည်။ Many young people today haven't the first idea how to behave!
❑ run away with the idea that… [IDM ] (infml ) ထင်မှတ်သည်။ (မရှိ၊ မဖြစ်ဟူသော ဝါကျများ၌ သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။ ) Don't run away with the idea that this job is going to be easy.

More examples
  • What a brilliant idea!
  • [have an idea] : Then I had an idea: we could stay with Mark.
  • [idea for] : An idea for a new TV show
  • [get an idea for something] : Where do you get the ideas for your stories?
  • [get the idea to do something] : How did you get the idea to remove the window from the outside?
  • [have/get the idea of doing something] : Then she got the idea of sending the poems to a publisher.
  • [idea about/on something] : I don’t agree with his ideas about education.
  • Her ideas on the subject were not ones I shared.
  • [have an idea] : She has some pretty strange ideas about how to bring up children.
  • [idea of] : We didn’t have a clear idea of what to expect from the training course.
  • Standing in the rain for two hours was not my idea of fun.
  • [be my idea of heaven/paradise/bliss] : Lying by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.
  • [idea of] : I had only a basic idea of how the machine worked.
  • [have no idea] : They had no idea what time they were supposed to arrive.
  • [not have the slightest/faintest/foggiest/remotest idea] : He didn’t have the slightest idea of how she really felt.
  • [idea behind/of] : What’s the idea behind these proposals?
  • [the idea is to do something] : The idea is to make more people rich.
  • [have other ideas] : My parents wanted me to be a doctor, but I had other ideas.
  • [with the idea of doing something] : He had arrived at the school with the idea of starting a band.
  • The policy is based on the idea that some industries need to be protected from market forces.
  • [idea of] : I’m a great believer in the idea of democracy.
Synonyms
thought, design, plan, scheme, suggestion, proposal, initiative, inspiration, brainchild, brainstorm, aim, anticipation, appreciation, approximation, attest to, awareness, belief, believed abstraction, brain wave, check up, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash, form, gist, goal, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, incarnated, indication, inkling, intent, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, knowledge, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, or, outline, overview, pattern, perception, planned, point, précis, purpose, reason, reify, sense, significance, sketch, snapshot, solution, something understood, substantiate, summary, suspicion, teaching, theory, try out, understanding, view, viewpoint
Antonyms
concrete, disbelief, insignificance, measurement, reality, thing, truth
Cross references
thoughtdesignplanschemesuggestionproposalinitiativeinspirationbrainchildbrainstormaimanticipationappreciationapproximationattest toawarenessbeliefbelieved abstractionbrain wavecheck upclueconceptconceptionconclusionconvictiondoctrineendessence
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