lines
/lʌɪn/
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li - nes -> lines
(v) ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်။ ကောက်ကြောင်း။ underline (n) communictaion lines (n[pl]) စစ်သည်အိမ်တန်းလျားများ (v[sg]) ခံ
၁။ [C] (က) မျဉ်းကြောင်း။ အစင်းအကြောင်း။ a straight / wavy / dotted / diagonal line ❍ Don’t park on the double yellow lines (ie those painted at the side of a road). ❍ Draw a line from A to B. (ခ) (မျက်နှာ) အရေးအကြောင်း။ a face covered in lines and wrinkles.
၂။ [U] (ပန်းချီ)ကောက်ကြောင်း။ Note the artist’s delicate use of line and texture.
၃။ lines [pl] ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်။ ကောက်ကြောင်း။ the sleek lines of a racing car.
၄။ (က) (usu the line ) [C usu sing ] (ကစားကွင်းရှိ)မျဉ်းကြောင်း။ be first across the (finishing) line (ie in a race) ❍ If the ball crosses the line it’s out. (ခ) [C] နယ်နိမိတ်မျဉ်း။ cross the line (ie border) from Mexico into the USA. See also COASTLINE
၅။ [C] ရှေ့ဖျားတပ်များ တစ်လျှောက် ရှိ မျက်နှာစာ။ ရှေ့တပ်တန်း။ the front line (ie that nearest to the enemy) ရှေ့တန်း။ ❍ behind enemy lines. ရန်သူ့ နောက်ကျော။
၆။ [C] (လူ၊ ပစ္စည်းစသည် စီတန်းထားသော) အတန်း။ a line of people waiting at the Post Office ❍ stand/wait in line ❍ get into line ❍ long lines of houses.
၇။ [C usu sing ] မျိုးရိုး။ အဆက်အနွယ်။ a line of kings ❍ in the male/female line ❍ She comes from a long line of musicians.
၈။ (က) [C] စာတန်း။ စာကြောင်း။ page 5, line 13 ❍ Start each paragraph on a new line. ❍ A sonnet is a poem with 14 lines.
(ခ) [C] (infml ) စာတို။ Write me a line if you’ve time.
(ဂ) lines [pl] သရုပ်ဆောင်သူ ပြောရမည့်စကား။ Have you learnt your lines yet?
(ဃ) lines [pl] (in some schools) (ပြစ်ဒဏ်အဖြစ် ရေးကူးရသော) စာကြောင်း။ She gave me 50 lines for not doing my homework.
၉။ [C] (က) ကြိုး။ ကြိုးတန်း။ a fishing-line ❍ Hang the clothes (out) on the line.
(ခ) (esp nautical ) ကြိုး။ throw sb a line.
၁၀။ [C] (တယ်လီဖုန်း၊ ဓာတ်မီး) လိုင်း၊ ကြိုး။ a bad (eg noisy) line ❍ He was shouting down the line to someone. ❍ I’m sorry, the line is engaged. ❍ Strong winds have blown down many power lines. See also HOT LINE, PARTY LINE, OFF-LINE, ON-LINE
၁၁။ [C] (က) မီးရထားလမ်း။ The train was delayed because of ice on the line.
(ခ) မီးရထားလမ်း။ a branch line ❍ the main line ❍ a busy commuter line.
၁၂။ [sing] လမ်းစဉ်။ သဘောထား။ ရပ်တည်ချက်။ the official line ❍ a line of argument ❍ Don’t take that line with me. ❍ The police are taking a firm/hard line on drug pushers.
၁၃။ [sing] ~ (of sth ) လမ်း။ လမ်းကြောင်း။ be in the line of fire (ie the direction in which guns, etc are fired) ❍ the line of attack. See also FIRING-LINE
၁၄။ [C] (သယ်ယူပို့ဆောင်ရေး) ကုမ္ပဏီ။ a shipping line.
၁၅။ the line [sing] (က) (Brit ) ခြေလျင်(တပ်)။ a line regiment. (ခ) (US ) တိုက်ခိုက်ရေး(တပ်)။
၁၆။ [sing] (က) စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း(သို့) ထုတ်လုပ်မှုလုပ်ငန်း (သို့) ကျွမ်းကျင်မှု နယ်ပယ်။ He’s something in the banking line. ❍ Her line is more selling than production. ❍ That’s not (much in) my line (ie not one of my skills or interests). (ခ) ထုတ်ကုန်အမျိုးအစား။ stock a new line (ie range of products) ❍ This shop has a nice line in winter coats. See also ASSEMBLY LINE, PRODUCTION LINE
v
၁။ (esp passive) မျဉ်းသားထားသည်။ အရေးအကြောင်း ထင်သည်။ lined paper (ie with lines printed on it) ❍ a face lined with age and worry.
၂။ စီတန်းလျက်ရှိသည်။ a road lined with trees ❍ Crowds of people lined the route of the procession.
❏ along the line [IDM ] (infml ) လုပ်ရင်းကိုင်ရင်း။ တစ်လျှောက်လုံး။ We obviously went wrong somewhere along the line. ❍ He’s created problems all (ie at every stage) along the line.
❏ along/on the same, etc lines [IDM ] အလားတူ။ အတိုင်း။ produce another programme on the same lines ❍ The novel develops along traditional lines.
❏ bring sth, come, fall, get, move, etc into line (with sb/sth) [IDM ] လိုက်နာသည်။ He’ll have to fall into line with the others.
❏ get, have, etc one’s lines crossed [IDM ] (infml ) နားကြားလွဲသည်။ တလွဲသဘောပေါက်သည်။
❏ give sb/get/have a line on sth [IDM ] (infml ) သတင်း ပေးသည် (သို့) တစ်စုံတစ်ရာသိထားသည်။
❏ hold the line [IDM ] (တယ်လီဖုန်း)ကိုင်ထားပါ။ Hold the line while I see if she’s here.
❏ in (a) line (with sth) [IDM ] တစ်ဖြောင့်တည်း။ မျဉ်း တစ်ပြေးတည်း။ Place your right toe in line with your left heel.
❏ in line for sth [IDM ] လျာထားခံရသော။ ရမည့် အလားအလာရှိသော။ She’s in line for promotion.
❏ in the line of duty [IDM ] တာဝန်အရ။
❏ in line with sth [IDM ] တစ်ပြေးညီ။ သဘောချင်း ထပ်တူ။ It’s in line with government policy.
❏ lay it on the line [IDM ] (infml ) ရှင်းရှင်း၊ ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်း၊ တည့်တည့်ပြောသည်။ Let me lay it on the line — I think you’re cheating.
❏ line-drawing n ကောက်ကြောင်းပုံ။
❏ (choose, follow, take, etc) the line of least resistance [IDM ] အလွယ်လိုက်သည်။
❏ line printer n (computing ) စာတစ်ကြောင်းချင်း ရိုက် သည့် ပုံနှိပ်စက်။
❏ line up (for sth) [PHRV ] (esp US ) တန်းစီသည်။
❏ line (sb) up [PHRV ] တန်းစီသည်။ line up the suspects / get the suspects to line up.
❏ line sth up [PHRV ] (infml ) (အလုပ်)တန်းစီနေသည်။ စီစဉ်သည်။ I’ve got a lot lined up (ie I’m very busy) this week. ❍ He’s lined up a live band for the party.
❏ line-up n
၁။ လူတန်း။ a line-up of men in an identification parade.
၂။ (ကွင်းဆင်းယှဉ်ပြိုင်ရန်၊ ပြသရန် လျာထားသော) အစီအစဉ်။ Jones will be missing from the team line-up. ❍ A horror movie completes this evening’s TV line-up.
❏ (put sth) on the line [IDM ] (infml ) စိုးရိမ်ရသည်။ If this goes wrong your job’s on the line.
❏ out of line (with sb/sth) [IDM ]
၁။ ကျွံထွက်နေသည်။ One of the soldiers is out of line.
၂။ ကွဲပြားသည်။ out of line with current thinking ❍ Our prices are out of line with those of our competitors.
~ sth (with sth ) (esp passive)
(လိုင်နင်)ခံသည်။ (အနား)ကွပ်သည်။ တန်းစီထားသည်။
an overcoat lined with silk ❍ fur-lined gloves ❍ (fig ) The walls of the room were lined with books.
❏ line one’s (own)/sb’s pocket(s) [IDM ] လာဘ်စား သည် (သို့) လာဘ်ထိုးသည်။
- Draw a straight line.
- Each horizontal line on the graph represents fifteen minutes.
- It was hard to tell whether the ball had crossed the line.
- The starting line
- His only previous conviction is for parking on a double yellow line.
- There were small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes.
- The line between Northern Ireland and the Republic
- The country is still divided along ethnic lines.
- [line between] : The programme blurs the line between news and entertainment.
- [a line] : There is a fine line between resolving the crisis peacefully and giving in to terrorism.
- My daughter now wants her own phone line in her bedroom.
- It’s a very bad line – put the phone down and I’ll call you back.
- The advice line is open from 6pm to 10pm on weekdays.
- A chat line
- The London to Brighton line
- There are plans to reopen the railway line.
- Train services have been cancelled due to repair work on the line.
- [line of thought] : He impatiently dismissed this line of thought.
- [line of argument] : You also need to develop a persuasive line of argument.
- [line of enquiry] : What are the main lines of enquiry you intend to pursue?
- [take a line] : Environmental groups took a very tough line with the industry.
- [line on] : Forsyth appears to have hardened his line on Europe.
- A line of text
- He forgot his lines.
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