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inch

/ɪn(t)ʃ/

US pronunciation
American sound/ɪn(t)ʃ/
inch
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> inch

Myanmar meaning

(n) လက်မ။ ၂.၅၄ စင်တီမီတာနှင့် ညီမျှသောအတိုင်းအတာ။ လက်မတင်ကလေး။ နည်းနည်းမျှ။ မိုးရေချိန်လက်မ။ ဆီးနှင်းထုလက်မ။

Full entry

inch / Çntʃ / n

၁။ (abbr in ) လက်မ။ ၂.၅၄ စင်တီမီတာနှင့် ညီမျှသောအတိုင်းအတာ။ I'm three inches taller than she is.
၂။ လက်မတင်ကလေး။ နည်းနည်းမျှ။ He escaped death by an inch. ❍ We argued for an hour but he wouldn't budge (ie change his attitude or ideas) an inch.
၃။ မိုးရေချိန်လက်မ။ ဆီးနှင်းထုလက်မ။ Three inches of rain have fallen in Manchester in the last two days.
v ~ (sth ) forward, past, through, etc (sth ) တဖြည်းဖြည်း နှင့် သတိရှိရှိရွေ့ရှားသည်၊ ရွေ့ရှားစေ သည်။ inch the car forward ❍ He inched (his way) through the narrow passage.
❑ by inches [IDM ] သီသီကလေး။ The car missed me by inches.
❑ every inch [IDM ]
၁။ နေရာအနှံ့။ The police examined every inch of the house for clues.
၂။ လုံးလုံး လျားလျား။ He looked every inch a gentleman.
❑ give sb an inch (and they'll take a mile / yard) [IDM ] (saying ) အနည်းငယ်အလျှော့ပေးပါကမျက်နှာသာပေး ရွှေရေး ပန်းကန်တက်ဆိုသကဲ့သို့ ကမ်းတက်တတ် သည်။
At this stage of the negotiations, neither side is prepared to give an inch.
❑ inch by inch [IDM ] တရွေ့ရွေ့။
They climbed the steep mountain inch by inch.
❑ within an inch of sth / doing sth [IDM ] လက်မတင် ကလေး။ လုနီးပါး။ He came within an inch of being killed. ❍ He threatened to thrash the boy within an inch of his life (ie very severely).

More examples
  • The car stopped only about three inches from the edge of the cliff.
  • [an inch high/long/wide] : The insect was about an inch long.
  • The gun was inches away from his face.
  • The city was cut off for hours after 10 inches of snow fell overnight.
Synonyms
creep, crawl, shuffle, move slowly, edge, edge your way, fingerbreadth, one thirty-sixth of a yard, square
Cross references
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