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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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in short order

US pronunciation

American soundin short order

inshortorder

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

in - short - order -> in short order

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

short /ʃↄ:t/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ (က) တိုသော။ နီးသော။ စိပ်သော။ a short line/dress/journey ❍ short grass ❍ It's only a short walk/distance from my house to the shops. ❍ She's had her hair cut very short. ❍ She walked with short quick steps. Compare LONG¹၁
(ခ) ပုသော။ နိမ့်သော။ a short person/ladder ❍ too short to reach the top shelf. Compare TALL
၂။ (က) (ကာလ)တိုတောင်းသော။ အကျဉ်း။ (မှတ်ဉာဏ်)နုံ့သော။ a short vacation/speech/film/ ceremony ❍ write a short report ❍ have a short memory (ie remember only things that have happened recently) ❍ The days get shorter (ie hours of DAYLIGHT become fewer) as winter approaches. (ခ) များမကြာမီ။ In two short years she became a star. ❍ A few short months ago she had been a happy, fun-loving girl. Compare LONG¹ ၁
၃။ (က) ~ (of sth) နည်းသော။ ရှားပါးသော။ မလုံ လောက်သော။ လိုသော။ I must hurry, I'm a bit short of time. ❍ I'm getting short of decent clothes. ❍ She was short of ideas for her essay. ❍ (infml ) I'm a bit short (ie of money) this week. (ခ) ~ on sth (infml ) လိုသော။ မပြည့်ဝသော။ He's short on tact. ❍ Her books are pretty short on originality.
၄။ ရှားပါးသော။ ခက်ခဲသော။ မလုံ လောက်သော။ Water is short at this time of year.
၅။ ~ (of sth) (သတ်မှတ်ချက်ပြည့်မီရန်)လိုသော။ We've raised £2000 but we're still £200 short of our target. ❍ Her last throw was only 3 centimetres short of the world record. ❍ This packet should contain 20 screws but it's two short. ❍ He was just short of his 80th birthday when he died. ❍ The missile landed short of its target. ❍ It took just short of two hours to do the work.
၆။ ~ for sth အတို။ အတိုကောက်။ ‘Ben’is usually short for ‘Benjamin’.
၇။ (က) ~ (with sb) လေသံတင်းမာသော။ I'm sorry if I was a bit short with you when you phoned but I was rather busy at the time.
(ခ) တုံးတိတိ။ He gave her a short, impatient answer.
၈။ ရဿ(သရ)။ Compare the short vowel in ‘pull’ and the long vowel in‘pool’.
၉။ ကြွပ်ရွသော။ မွရွသော။ a flan with a short crust.
n (infml )
၁။ = SHORT CIRCUIT
၂။ (Brit ) (esp pl ) (ရေမစပ်သည့်)အရက်ပြင်း။
၃။ (ပင်မ)ဇာတ်လမ်းမစမီ ပြသည့် ရုပ်ရှင်ကားတို။
v (infml ) = SHORT- CIRCUIT: The cable shorted.
❏ be caught/taken short [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ (esp Brit ) ချက်ချင်းအိမ်သာသွားလိုသည်။
၂။ (US ) ရုတ်တရက် ငွေပြတ် သွားသည်။
❏ by a short head [IDM ] (Brit ) (မြင်းပြိုင်ရာတွင်)နှာ တစ်ဖျားဖြင့်။ win/lose by a short head.
❏ cut sth/sb short [IDM ] လှေပြေးတုန်းတက်ကျိုးသည်။ ပြောနေတုန်း ဝင်တောသည်။ a career tragically cut short by illness ❍ I'm sorry to cut you short in midsentence.
❏ fall short of sth [IDM ] (လိုအပ်ချက်၊ အဆင့်)မမီ။ The money collected fell short of the amount required. ❍ The trip fell short of our expectations.
❏ for short [IDM ] အတိုကောက်။ Her name is ‘Frances’, or ‘Fran’ for short.
❏ give sb/sth / get short shrift [IDM ] တန်းပြီးပယ်ချသည်။ He went to complain to the boss, but got very short shrift.
❏ go short (of sth) [IDM ] ချို့တဲ့သည်။ If you have a decent job, you'll never go short. ❍ Many children go short of food.
❏ have/be on a short fuse [IDM ] စိတ်တိုသည်။ ကျွဲမြီးတို နေသည်။ Be careful how you approach him, he's got a short fuse. ❍ His temper was on a short fuse.
❏ in short [IDM ] တိုတိုပြောရရင်။ Things couldn't be worse, financially: in short, we're broke.
❏ in short order [IDM ] မကြာမတင်မှာပင်။ They turned the business into a thriving concern in very short order.
❏ in short supply [IDM ] ရှားပါးသော။ လိုသလောက် မရ သော။ Fresh vegetables are in short supply at this time of year.
❏ little/nothing short of sth [IDM ] …ဆိုရမလောက်/…နှင့် ဘာမျှမထူး။ Our escape was little short of miraculous. ❍ This is nothing short of a disaster.
❏ make short work of sth/sb [IDM ] အလွယ်တကူ နွှာလွှတ်သည်။ The team made short work of their opponents.
❏ run short (of sth) [IDM ] ကုန်လုပြီ။ run short of petrol/time.
❏ short and sweet [IDM ] (often ironic ) တိုတိုနှင့်လိုရင်း။ Her visit was short and sweet—she barely came in the door.
❏ short back and sides n [sing] ဘေးနှစ်ဖက်နှင့် နောက်ပါးပါး(ဆံပင်ပုံ)။
❏ short-change v (esp passive)
၁။ (တမင်)လျှော့အမ်းသည်။ be short-changed in a shop.
၂။ ထိုက်တန်အောင် မချီးမြှင့်။ ပတ်လွှတ်သည်။ The staff feel that they've been short-changed by the management.
❏ short circuit (also infml short ) n လျှပ်စီးပတ်လမ်း ပြတ်ခြင်း။
v
၁။ (အဆက်မှား၍) လျှပ်စီးပတ်လမ်းပြတ်သည်။ မီးပြတ်သည်။ The lights short-circuited when I joined up the wires.
၂။ (မြန်မြန်ပြီးအောင် သမားရိုးကျလမ်း မလိုက်ဘဲ)ဖြတ်လမ်းလိုက် သည်။ short-circuit the normal procedures to get sth done quickly.
❏ short cut (also short cut ) n (က) ဖြတ်လမ်း။ I took a short cut across the field to get to school. (ခ) ဖြတ်လမ်း နည်း။ ဖြတ်လမ်း။ Becoming a doctor requires years of training — there are really no short cuts.
❏ short-handed adj လူအင်အား မလုံလောက်။ I'm sorry to keep you waiting—we're rather short-handed today.
❏ short-haul adj ခရီးတို(ပို့ဆောင်ရေး)။ short-haul flights/routes/aircraft. Compare LONG-HAUL
❏ short list n (usu sing ) (Brit ) ပဏာမအဆင့် အရွေးချယ်ခံ၊ ဆန်ခါတင်စာရင်း။ draw up a short list ❍ There are three people on the short list.
v ~ sb (for sth) (esp passive) ပဏာမအဆင့် ရွေးချယ်သည်၊ အရွေးချယ်ခံရသည်။ I was short-listed (for the job) but I didn't get it.
❏ short-lived /ʃↄ:t 'lÇvd; US 'laÇvd/ adj သက်ဆိုးမရှည် သော။ ကြာရှည်မခံသော။ a short-lived effect/relationship/success ❍ Her interest in tennis was very short-lived.
❏ shortness n [U] ဟိုက်ခြင်း။ suffer from shortness of breath (ie difficulty in breathing).
❏ short odds n [pl] နိုင်ရန်သေချာပေါက်နီးပါးဖြစ်၍ ဒိုင်က အလေးအနည်းဆုံး ပေးထားသည့်မြင်း စသည်။ There will be short odds on his winning a fourth title. Compare LONG ODDS
❏ short of sth [IDM ]
၁။ …မ မရင်တော့။ Short of a miracle, we're certain to lose.
၂။ မှတစ်ပါး။ မှလွဲ၍။ We did everything short of stealing to get the money.
❏ short order n (US ) အမြန်ပြင်၍ တည်ခင်းနိုင်သည့် စားဖွယ်မျိုး။ a short-order cook (ie one whose job is to cook such orders).
❏ short-range adj
၁။ တာတိုပစ်(ဒုံးစသည်)။ short-range nuclear weapons. Compare LONG-RANGE
၂။ ရေတို။ a short-range plan, project.
❏ short-run adj တာရှည်မခံသော။ short-run advantages/costs.
❏ short-sighted adj
၁။ (also esp US near-sighted ) အဝေးမှုန်။ wear glasses because one is short-sighted.
၂။ ရေရှည်ကိုမကြည့်တတ်သော။ မျက်မွေးတစ်ဆုံးသာကြည့်သော။ a short-sighted person/attitude/policy. See also NEAR-SIGHTED Compare LONG-SIGHTED
❏ short-sightedness n [U] အဝေးမှုန်။ surgery to correct short-sightedness ❍ political short-sightedness.
❏ short-staffed adj လူအင်အား မလုံလောက်သော။ We're very short-staffed because a lot of people are off sick.
❏ short-stay adj ခေတ္တ တည်းခိုရာ၊ ရပ်နားရာ။ a short-stay hostel/car park.
❏ short story n ဝတ္ထုတို။
❏ short temper n [sing] စိတ်။ ဒေါသ။ ဒေါ။ He has a very short temper. ❍ Her short temper has made her many enemies.
❏ short-tempered adj စိတ်တိုသော။ စိတ်ဆတ်သော။ Being tired often makes me short-tempered.
❏ short-term adj ရေတို။ အချိန်တို။ a short-term loan/agreement/goal/appointment. Compare LONG-TERM
❏ short-termism n [U] လတ်တလောအတွက်သာ ကြည့်တတ် ခြင်း။
❏ short time n [U] လျှော့ထားသော နေ့စဉ်အလုပ်ချိန်။ တာတိုလုပ်ချိန်။ workers on short time ❍ short-time working.
❏ short wave n [C,U] (abbr SW ) (ရေဒီယို) လှိုင်းတို။ a short-wave radio/broadcast. Compare LONG-WAVE, MEDIUM-WAVE

More examples

She’s short and slim, with light brown hair and blue eyes.
You’ll need three short boards for the shelves.
The theatre is a relatively short distance from here.
The fence posts are all six inches short.
The sleeves are much too short.
[a short while] : He was here for a short while last week.
[a short period/spell] : After a short period living in London, she moved back to Glasgow.
[a short stay] : I’m sorry this has been such a short stay.
[a few short hours/days/weeks] : In a few short weeks he’ll be going back to school.
Could you give us a short summary of what happened?
[a short article/book/poem] : It was a short book and she read it in one night.
[short for] : Memo is short for memorandum.
[for short] : My name is Elizabeth, or Liz for short.
Have you got any change on you? I’m £20 short (=I have £20 less than I need).
We’re one waitress short tonight, so everyone will have to work harder.
[short on] : He’s very bright but a little short on personality.
[short of] : They were three short of a majority, so the vote wasn’t passed.
[short of money/food/clothing] : Many of our clients are short of money.
Dad wasn’t working and money was short.
Skilled workers are in short supply around here.
She’s very busy and can be a little short at times.

Synonyms

small, little, petite, dumpy, tiny, squat, diminutive, undersized, stunted, B movie, aback, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, abruptly, aphoristic, bad-tempered, bare, blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, brief film, brisk, bristle, brittle, brochure, brusque, bunco, by surprise, caboodle, cheat, chunky, close to the ground, compact, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, cribbing, crisp, crumbly, crunchy, curt, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, deficient, delicate, denotatiton, diminished, direct, discourteous, do a number on, do number on, double cross, double deal, double dealing, double-deal, doublecross, epigrammatic, exiguous, failing, fast talk, few z's, fleeting, forthwith, fragile, friable, gist, give bum steer, gruff, hosing, impolite, in a nutshell, inadequate, inconsiderate, insufficient, intendment, irascible, jerk around, lacking, laconic, lessened, limited, low, low on, meager, meat, microsleep, midstream, momentary, name of game, nap, nature of beast, nature of the beast, needing, niggardly, nitty gritty, not long, not protracted, not tall, nub, nubbin, offhand, part with, passing, pint-sized, pithy, pocket, pocket-sized, pointed, poor, precise, pull one's leg, pulling one's leg, put by, quick, rapid, rationality, rationalness, rhyme or reason, rope in, rude, runty, sandbag, sawed-off, scammed, scant, scanty, scarce, sense, sententious, shafting, sharp, sharply, short and sweet, short movie, short-handed, short-lived, short-spoken, short-tempered, short-term, shortened, shorts, shy, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, snappy, snifter, snippety, snippy, snowed

Antonyms

abound, abundant, adequate, be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, big, courteous, crawl with, crawling with, enduring, enormous, enough, friendly, gradually, great, have a full plate, having a full plate, high, huge, important, kind, large, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived, polite, sufficient, tall, thick, unabridged

Cross references

small little petite dumpy tiny squat diminutive undersized stunted B movie aback abbreviate abbreviated abridged abrupt abruptly aphoristic bad-tempered bare blunt boiled down breviloquent brief brief film brisk bristle brittle brochure

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