stress

stress /stres/ n

၁။ (က) [U] ဖိစီးမှု။ ကြောင့်ကြစိတ်။ သောက။ be under/suffer from stress ❍ In times of stress, she finds music a great relaxation. ❍ Stress is believed to be a factor in several illnesses.
(ခ) [C usu pl ] ဖိစီးမှု။ သောက။ emotional stresses ❍ He finds the stresses of his job difficult to cope with.
၂။ [U] ~ (on sth) အလေး ထားခြင်း။ အရေးစိုက်ခြင်း။ She lays/puts great stress on punctuality. ❍ I think the company places too much stress on cost and not enough on quality.
၃။ [C, U] (က) ဖိရွတ်ခြင်း။ ဂရုသံ။ primary/secondary stress ❍ In ‘strategic’ the stress is/falls on the second syllable. Compare INTONATION ၁ (ခ) ဖိ၍သီဆိုတီးမှုတ်ခြင်း။ Put a stress on the first note in each bar.
၄။ [C, U] ~ (on sth) ဒဏ်ဖြစ်စေသော၊ ပုံပန်းပျက်စေသောဖိအား၊ ညှစ်အား၊ ညှပ်အား။ High winds put great stress on the structure. ❍ a stress fracture of a bone (ie one caused by such pressure).
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၁။ အရေးစိုက်သည်။ အလေးထားသည်။ အလေးပေး သည်။ He stressed the importance of treating customers politely. ❍ I must stress that what I say is confidential.
၂။ (ဝဏ္ဏကို)ဖိရွတ်သည်။ You stress the first syllable in ‘happiness’.
❏ stressed adj ~ (out) ဖိစီးနေ[သော]။ သောကရောက် [သော]။ feel stressed ❍ She has a heavy workload at the moment and is very stressed (out).
❏ stressful /-fl/ adj ဗျာများရသော။ She finds her new job very stressful.
❏ stress mark n ဖိသံသင်္ကေတ။ In the word ‘sympathetic’/sÇ- mpǝ'θetÇk/ the primary stress (') is on the third syllable, and the secondary stress (_') is on the first syllable.