size
/sʌɪz/
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- One strong syllable
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- Short i vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> size
(n) အရွယ်။ ပမာဏ။ ကြီးမားသောပမာဏ။ စံအတိုင်းအတာ။ သတ်မှတ်အရွယ်အစား။ ဆိုက်အကြီး၊အသေး၊နံပါတ်စသည်။ ပမာဏကိုတိုင်းဆသည်။ အခြောက်တိုက်အထင်တစ်ခွဲသားကြီးနေသူကိုအမြင်မှန်ရစေသည်။ အတော်အတန်ကြီးမားသော။ အရွယ်ရှိသော။ အကဲဖြတ်သည်။ သုံးသပ်သည်။ ချည်၊စက္ကူစသည်အရောင်တင်ကော်ရည်။ ကော်တင်သည်။
၁။ [U,C] အရွယ်။ ပမာဏ။ It's about the size of a matchbox. ❍ What's the size of your garden? ❍ an area the size of Scotland ❍ The house is just the right size for us. ❍ Flowerpots come in all shapes and sizes. ❍ Size isn't important; it's the quality that counts. ❍ (Brit ) They're both of a size (ie about the same size).
၂။ [U,sing] (ကြီးမားသော)ပမာဏ။ The sheer size of the place is impressive. ❍ It was a house of some size (ie a fairly large one). ❍ I couldn't believe the size of his debts.
၃။ [C] စံအတိုင်းအတာ။ (သတ်မှတ်)အရွယ်အစား။ ဆိုက်(အကြီး၊ အသေး၊ နံပါတ်စသည်)။ It's the right/wrong size for me. ❍ a size fifteen collar ❍ an economy/a family/a large size packet of cereal ❍ I take size nine shoes. ❍ You need a smaller size. ❍ Try this one for size (ie to see if it is the right size).
v ပမာဏကို တိုင်းဆသည်။
❏ cut sb down to size [IDM ] အခြောက်တိုက် အထင်တစ်ခွဲသားကြီးနေသူကို အမြင်မှန်ရစေသည်။
❏ sizeable (also sizable ) /-ǝbl/ adj အတော်အတန် ကြီးမား သော။ a sizeable town ❍ Coming first in the race was, for him, a sizeable achievement.
❏ -sized (also -size ) (forming compound adjs ) …အရွယ်(ရှိသော)။ a medium-sized garden ❍ a handy-sized dictionary ❍ cut sth into equal-sized pieces. See also PINT-SIZED
❏ size sb/sth up [PHRV ] (infml ) အကဲဖြတ်သည်။ သုံးသပ် သည်။ We sized each other up at our first meeting. ❍ He sized up the situation very quickly.
- [size of] : An engine size of 2000 cc
- Moscow’s metro system is less than half the size of New York’s.
- [reduce/increase the size of something] : The president has promised to reduce the size of the army.
- [in size] : After six months the tumour had doubled in size.
- [cut something to size] : The boards should be cut to size and nailed into place.
- [full size] : The plants should reach full size in about four years.
- [all shapes and sizes] : Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
- What size shoes do you take?
- [a larger/smaller size] : Do you have this skirt in a larger size?
- [size 8/10/12 etc] : This dress is a size 12.
- The sheer size of the organization makes communication difficult.
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