the state of play

US pronunciation

American soundthe state of play

thestateofplay

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final y vowel sound

the - state - of - play -> the state of play

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

state¹ /steÇt / n

၁။ [C] အခြေအနေ။ အနေအထား။ a confused state of mind ❍ be in a state of shock ❍ a poor state of health ❍ in a state of undress (ie naked) ❍ not in a fit state to drive ❍ The house is in a very untidy state at the moment. ❍ These buildings are in a bad state of repair (ie need to be repaired). ❍ The government declared a state of emergency after the earthquake. ❍ She was in a terrible state (ie very upset, anxious, etc) when we arrived.
၂။ (also State ) [C] နိုင်ငံ။ the State of Israel ❍ member states of the European Union. ❍ COUNTRY ၁ See also CITY-STATE, NATION-STATE, POLICE STATE, WELFARE STATE
၃။ (also State ) [C] ပြည်နယ်။ How many States are there in the United States of America? ❍ the state of California. Compare COUNTY, PROVINCE ၁
၄။ (also the State ) [U] နိုင်ငံတော်အစိုးရ။ matters/affairs of state ❍ European heads of state ❍ Church and State ❍ free education provided by the state ❍ state-owned/ -sponsored/ -controlled industries.
၅။ [U] (နိုင်ငံတော်အဆင့်)အခမ်းအနား။ The Queen was in her robes of state. ❍ The President was driven in state through the streets.
၆။ the States [pl] (infml ) အမေရိက ပြည်ထောင်စု။ I've never been to the States.
adj (also State )
၁။ အစိုးရ။ နိုင်ငံတော်။ state education ❍ state schools (ie free school run by public authorities) ❍ state secrets ❍ a state pension
၂။ နိုင်ငံတော်အဆင့် (အခမ်းအနား၊ အဆောင်အယောင်)။ a state occasion ❍ the state apartments ❍ a state visit (eg by a king or queen to another country) ❍ the state opening of Parliament.
❏ in / into a state [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ အထိတ်တလန့်။ She got herself into a state about her exams. ❍ He was in a real state when I last saw him.
၂။ ညစ်ပတ်ပေရေလျက်။ What a state this place is in!
❏ the State Department n အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၏ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန။
❏ statehood n [U]
အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာပိုင် နိုင်ငံအဖြစ်။
❏ stateless adj နိုင်ငံမဲ့ (ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)။
statelessness n [U]
❏ a state of affairs [IDM ] အခြေအနေ။ အခြင်းအရာ။ What a shocking state of affairs!
❏ state-of-the-art adj သက်ဆိုင်ရာပညာရပ်တွင် ခေတ်အမီ ဆုံး၊ အဆင့်အမြင့်ဆုံး။
a state-of-the-art computer program.
❏ the state of play [IDM ]
၁။ ခရစ်ကက်ပွဲ အရှုံးအနိုင်။
၂။ နှစ်ဖက်အားပြိုင်မှုရလဒ်။
What is the latest state of play in the disarmament talks?
❏ turn State's evidence (US ) (turn King's/Queen's evidence ) [IDM ] (အစိုးရသက်သေအဖြစ်)ဖော်ကောင်လုပ်သည်။

state² /steÇt / v

၁။ အတည်တကျ ပြောဆိုရေးသားသည်။ အဆိုရှိသည်။ ထုတ်ဆိုသည်။ ထွက်ဆိုသည်။ ဖော်ပြသည်။ state one's views ❍ an article in which she states the case for military action ❍ There's no need to state the obvious (ie obvious facts, etc). ❍ A police surgeon stated that the man had died from wounds to the chest and head. ❍ This report clearly states what the problems are.
၂။ သတ်မှတ်(ထား)သည်။
at stated times/intervals ❍ You must work the hours stated. ❍ Follow the instructions (as) stated below.

More examples

[the state of] : We’re collecting data on the state of the environment.
[a state of] : The country is drifting into a state of chaos.
[a sorry state] : The British transport system is in a bit of a sorry state.
The curators believe the painting can be restored to its original state.
A friend found the girl in the street in a distressed state.
[state of] : The impact seemed to startle him into a state of panic.
[in an awful/dreadful/terrible state] : By the time he got home, he was in a terrible state.
The State of Michigan had revoked the licence.
Should the state play a bigger role in industry?
The ruling banned the state-run news media from promoting political candidates.
She was in a state on the day of her driving test.
The room was in a state as the children had been playing there.

Synonyms

condition, situation, position, status, circumstances, shape, accompaniment, affirm, air, articulate, assert, asseverate, attitude, aver, avow, body politic, bring out, cachet, capacity, case, category, ceremonial, ceremony, chances, chaos, character, chime in, circumstance, come out with, commonwealth, community, confusion, consequence, contingency, country, declare, deliver, describe, dignity, disarray, disorder, display, element, elucidate, enounce, enumerate, enunciate, environment, essential, estate, event, eventuality, explain, expound, express, federation, fix, footing, form, formal, frame of mind, give, give blow-by-blow, give rundown, glory, government, grandeur, humor, imperative, imperial, interpret, juncture, kingdom, land, limitation, magnificence, maintain, majestic, majesty, mess, mood, municipal, narrate, nation, national, nature, occasion, occurrence, official, outlook, pass, phase, pitch, plight, pomp, posture, predicament, prerequisite, present, prestige, pronounce, propound, proviso, public, put, rank, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, republic, reputation, requirement, royal, say, set forth, sovereignty, speak, specify, spiel, spirits, splendor, stand, standing, state of affairs, state-owned, state-run, stately, station, stature, stipulation, style, tell, territory, testify, throw out, time, turmoil, union, utter, vent, ventilate, voice, welfare

Antonyms

ask, be quiet, conceal, confuse, dullness, good fortune, hide, insignificance, listen, misrepresent, mumble, question, refrain, suppress, take, unimportance, withhold