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lectures

/ˈlɛktʃə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈlɛktʃə/

lectures

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

lec - tu - res -> lectures

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) ဟောပြောချက်များ

Full entry

leave¹ / li:v / v (pt, pp left/ left/)

၁။ ထွက်ခွာသည်။ ခွာသည်။ They hate leaving home. ❍ Come on, it’s time we left. ❍ The plane leaves (Heathrow) for Dallas at 12.35.
၂။ (က) ထွက်သည်။ He left America in 1984 and never returned. ❍ Many children leave school at 16. ❍ My secretary has threatened to leave. ❍ (Brit ) go to sb’s leaving party. နှုတ်ဆက်ပွဲသို့သွားသည်။ (ခ) စွန့်ခွာသည်။ စွန့်ပစ်သည်။ She’s leaving him for another man.
၃။ (က) ထားခဲ့သည်။ Leave the dishes–I’ll wash them up later. ❍ The lemonade was too sweet, so he left it (ie did not drink it). ❍ Why do you always leave everything until the last moment? (ခ) ထားသည်။ Leave the door open, please. ❍ The bomb blast left 25 people dead. ဗုံးပေါက်၍ လူ(၂၅)ယောက်သေသည်။ ❍ Don’t leave her waiting outside in the rain. ❍ Leave the fish in the mixture for at least an hour.
၄။ ကျန်ရစ်သည်။ ချန်သည်။ a puppy leaving (behind) a trail of destruction in its wake ❍ Red wine leaves a stain. ❍ She left me with the impression that she was unhappy with her job. ❍ I’m afraid you leave me no choice.
၅။ be left (passive) ကျန်သည်။ There are six days left before we go. ❍ Is there any coffee left? ❍ How many tickets do you have left? ❍ (fig ) They are fighting for what is left of American trade unionism. ❍ The only course of action left to me was to notify her employer.
၆။ (mathematics ) ကြွင်းသည်။ Seven from ten / Ten minus seven leaves three (ie 10–7=3).
၇။ ~ sth/sb (behind) ကျန်ရစ်သည်။ ချန်ထားသည်။ I’ve left my purse on the bus. ❍ ‘Let’s drive off and leave her (behind),’ he suggested callously.
၈။ ကျန်ရစ်စေသည်။ ချန်ခဲ့သည်။ He leaves a widow and two children.
၉။ တာဝန်ပေးသည်။ ချန်ထား သည်။ You can leave the cooking to me. ❍ Leave an assistant in charge of the shop. ❍ Leave it with me—I’m sure I can sort it out. ❍ ‘Where shall we eat?’ ‘I’ll leave it entirely (up) to you (ie You can decide). ’ ❍ They left me with all the washing-up. ❍ I was left to cope on my own.
၁၀။ ~ sth (for sb ) ထားခဲ့သည်။ How many bottles did the milkman leave today? ❍ Someone left you this note / left this note for you.
၁၁။ ~ sth to sb ထားခဲ့သည်။ ပေးခဲ့သည်။ How much did he leave? ❍ leave all one’s money to charity ❍ She left you £ 500.
❏ be left over (from sth) [PHRV ] ပိုနေသည်။ ကျန်သည်။ There were lots of sandwiches left over. ❍ We have a few coins left over from our holiday in Greece. See also LEFTOVERS
❏ leave sth aside [PHRV ] အသာထားပါဦး။ ထားပါဦး။ Leaving the expense aside, do we actually need a second car?
❏ leave sb/sth behind [PHRV ]
၁။ (esp passive) ချန်ထားခဲ့သည်။ နောက်ကျကျန်ရစ်သည်။ Britain is fast being left behind in the race for new markets. ❍ She has left the rest of her class far behind.
၂။ ကျန်ရစ်ခဲ့သည်။ leave one’s childhood behind ❍ The train sped through the countryside leaving Edinburgh far behind.
❏ leave it at that [IDM ] (infml ) ဒီလိုပဲ ထားလိုက်ကြစို့။ We’ll never agree, so let’s just leave it at that, shall we?
❏ leave off (doing sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) ရပ်နားသည်။ Start reading from where you left off last time. ❍ He left off playing the piano to answer the door.
❏ leave sb/sth off (sth) [PHRV ] ကျန်နေရစ်သည်။ ချန် ထားခဲ့သည်။ You’ve left off a zero. ❍ We left him off the list.
❏ leave sb/sth out (of sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ မပါပါရစေနှင့်။ မပါပါစေနှင့်။ Leave me out of this quarrel, please—I don’t want to get involved. ❍
၂။ ဝိုင်းပယ်ခံရသည်။ He hadn’t been asked to the party and was feeling very left out.
၃။ ကျသည်။ She left out an ‘m’ in ‘accommodation’.
❏ leaver n (esp in compounds)… ထွက်သွားသူ။ school leavers.

leave² /li:v / n [U]

၁။ (က) (esp in compounds) ခွင့်။ She’s on maternity leave. See also COMPASSIONATE LEAVE, SICK-LEAVE (ခ) ခွင့်ရက်။ ခွင့်။ take a month’s leave ❍ How much annual leave do you get? ❍ She’s home on leave from her regiment. ❍ HOLIDAY
၂။ ~ to do sth (fml) ခွင့်။ ခွင့်ပြုချက်။ be given leave to appeal against the sentence ❍ I beg leave to address the Council.
❏ by / with your leave [IDM ] (fml ) ခွင့်ပြုချက်အရ။
❏ leave of absence n [U] (fml ) တာဝန် ပျက်ကွက်ခွင့်။ ask for leave of absence to attend a wedding.
❏ leave-taking n [U, sing] (fml ) (ခွဲခွာချိန်တွင်) နှုတ်ဆက် ခြင်း။ a tearful leave-taking.
❏ take (one’s) leave (of sb) [IDM ] (fml ) နှုတ်ဆက်သည်။ I took my leave of the little group.
❏ take leave of one’s senses [IDM ] (dated or joc) ရူးနေသည်။ ရူးသွားသည်။ Have you all taken leave of your senses?
❏ without as/so much as a by your leave [IDM ] (infml ) ရိုင်းစိုင်းစွာ။ ခွင့်မတောင်း ဘာမတောင်း။

More examples

We left London at three in the afternoon.
Your plane leaves in ten minutes.
If they leave after lunch, they should arrive by dark.
We have to leave within the hour in order to be on time.
The ship left before dawn.
They left by the back door.
[leave for] : She leaves for work at 7.30 every morning.
[leave someone to something] : I’ll leave you to your crossword puzzle.
[leave someone to do something] : I’ll leave you to get on with your book.
She left her home town for the bright lights of New York.
[leave home] : He didn’t leave home until he was 24.
The kids were devastated when Ben left.
His wife has threatened to leave him.
He decided to leave the company after 15 years.
At 16 he left school in order to work and support his family.
I’m leaving at the end of the month.
Leave your things by the door.
I’ll only be a minute so I’ll leave my coat on.
Massage the conditioner into your hair and leave it in for a few minutes.
I left my homework on the bus.
Chris left a message on your answerphone.
I’ll leave a note for Leigh.
Wherever ants go, they leave a chemical trail for other ants to follow.
I don’t want to leave my mother at home on her own.

Synonyms

go away, depart, go, run off, abscond, disappear, abandon, abandon physically, adieu, allot, allow, allowance, apportion, assent, assign, authority, authorization, avoid, back out, be gone, beat it, begone, bequeath, bequest, break away, bring about, cause, cease, cede, clear out, come away, commit, concession, confide, consent, consign, cut out, decamp, defect, defer, delay, demise, departure, desert, desist, devise, dispensation, ditch, donate, drop, drop out, dump, effect, elope, embark, emigrate, entrust, escape, evacuate, exit, farewell, flee, flit, fly, forbear, forget, forsake, freedom, furlough, give, give notice, give over, give the slip, give up, go forth, go-ahead, goodbye, green light, hand down, hand over, have, head out, hold off, holiday, issue, knock off, lay down, leave behind, leave of absence, leave-taking, legate, let, let be, let continue, let go, let stay, liberty, maroon, migrate, mislay, move, move out, neglect, offed, offing, okay, omit, outs, part, parting, pass on, permission, permit, place, pull out, push off, put, put aside, put away, put down, put off, quit, refer, refrain, relinquish, remove oneself, renounce, resign, result in, retire, retirement, ride off, run along, sabbatical, sally, sanction, say goodbye, scram, set aside, set down, set out, shoo, skiddoo, slip out, split, start, step down, stop, suffer, sufferance, surrender, take a hike, take leave, take off, terminate, time off, time out, tolerance, transmit, vacate

Antonyms

arrive, begin, care, come, come in, complete, continue, denial, difference, disagreement, disallow, disapproval, do, face, finish, go, greeting, hello, help, hold, imprisonment, incarceration, initiate, join, keep, keep on, limitation, maintain, prohibition, protest, receive, refusal, refuse, reject, remain, remove, restraint, restriction, retain, start, stay, stop, take, veto, withhold, workday

Cross references

go away depart go run off abscond disappear abandon abandon physically adieu allot allow allowance apportion assent assign authority authorization avoid back out be gone beat it begone bequeath bequest break away bring about cause cease

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