timing
/ˈtʌɪmɪŋ/
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ti - ming -> timing
(n) အချိန်ဇယား။ (v[ing]) အချိန်သတ်မှတ်နေ
၁။ [U] (က) အချိန်။ ကာလ။ past/ present/ future time ❍ The world exists in space and time.
(ခ) အချိန်။ ကာလ။ As time passed they saw less and less of each other. ❍ Time has not been kind to her looks (ie She is no longer as beautiful as she was). ❍ (old) Father Time (ie this process represented as an old man) ❍ Time heals all wounds.
၂။ [U] စံတော်ချိန်။ Greenwich Mean Time ❍ Time in California is eight hours behind London.
၃။ [U] အချိန်။ ကာလ။ That will take time (ie cannot be done quickly). ❍ We've been here for some time (ie for a fairly long time). ❍ I don't have (much) time for reading these days. ❍ I'll be back in six months'/ ten minutes' time. ❍ We have no time to lose (ie We must hurry). ❍ What a waste of time! ❍ We must lose/ waste no time in responding to the threat. ❍ I spent most of my time (in) sightseeing. ❍ Playing chess helped to pass the time. ❍ I'm rather pressed for time (ie in rather a hurry).
၄။ a time [sing] ကာလချိန်တာ။ ခဏတာ။ What a (long) time you've been! ❍ We waited for a time and then went home. ❍ I lived in Egypt for a time.
၅။ [U] အချိန်။ နာရီ။ What time is it?/ What is the time? ❍ Do you have the time (on you)?
၆။ [U,C] စံချိန်။ အချိန်။ The winner's time was 11.6 seconds. ❍ He ran the mile in record time (ie faster than any previous runner). ❍ Although she came second their times were only a tenth of a second apart.
၇။ [U] အချိန်။ get plenty of time off (ie time not working) ❍ spare/ free time ❍ full-/ part-time employment ❍ paid time and a half/ double time (ie at one and a half times/ twice the usual rate). See also SHORT TIME
၈။ [U,C] အချိန်။ ကာလ။ lunch-time by the time we reached home ❍ I agreed at the time but later I changed my mind. ❍ This is not the time to bring up that subject. ❍ Spring is my favourite time of year. ❍ Shall we fix a time for the next meeting? ❍ It's time we were going/ time for us to go (ie We should leave now). ❍ War and suffering had left the children old before their time. ❍ Time's up (ie The time allowed for sth is ended).
၉။ [C] (က) အကြိမ်။ အခါ။ အခေါက်။ this/ that/ another/ next/ last time ❍ the time before last ❍ for the first/ second/ last time ❍ I've told you countless times not to do that. ❍ He failed his driving test five times. ❍ She looks more lovely every time I see her. ❍ Sometimes she's fun to be with; at other times she can be very moody.
(ခ) အချိန် တစ်ခုအတွင်း ကြုံတွေ့ရပုံ။ We had a great time at the fair. ❍ What sort of time did you have?
၁၀။ [C often pl ] (က) ကာလ။ ခေတ်။ လက်ထက်။ in Stuart times/ the time of the Stuarts (ie when the Stuart kings ruled) ❍ in ancient/ prehistoric/ recent times ❍ Mr Curtis was the manager in my time (ie when I was working there). ❍ The Beatles were a bit before my time (ie before the period I can remember or became interested in pop music). (ခ) အချိန်။ အခါ။ ကာလ။ in time(s) of danger/ hardship/ prosperity ❍ University was a good time for me. ❍ Times are hard for the unemployed. ❍ Times have changed (ie things are different from how they used to be).
၁၁။ [U] (music ) (က) စည်းချက်ဝါးချက်။ စည်းဝါး။ in waltz/ march time ❍ beating time to the music. (ခ) အသံ အနိမ့်အမြင့်၊ အဆွဲအငင်၊ အဖြတ်အတောက်။ သံနေသံထား။ quick time. See also DOWN TIME, EXTRA TIME, HALF-TIME, OPENING-TIME, PRIME TIME, SMALL-TIME, STANDARD TIME
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၁။ အချိန်ကိုက်သည်။ အချိန်သတ်မှတ်သည်။ You've timed your trip well ___ the weather's at its best. ❍ His remark was well/ badly timed (ie made at the right/ wrong moment). ❍ Kick-off is timed for 2.30. ❍ The train is timed to connect with the ferry. ❍ The bomb was timed to explode during the rush hour.
၂။ (sport ) (ရိုက်ချက်ကို) အချိန်ကိုက် ရိုက်သည်။ He timed that shot beautifully.
၃။ ကုန်လွန်မည့်အချိန်တာကို မှတ်သည်။ စံချိန်ယူသည်။ Please will you time my egg for me—I like it boiled for 41/2 minutes. ❍ Time me while I do/ Time how long it takes me to do two lengths of the pool. ❍ The winner was timed at 4 minutes 3.56 seconds.
❏ (and) about time (too) [IDM ] (infml ) ဖြစ်သင့်တာ ကြာပြီ။ I hear old Fred got promoted last week ___ and about time too, I'd say.
❏ ahead of time [IDM ] မျှော်မှန်းချိန်ထက်စောလျက်။
❏ ahead of one's time [IDM ] ခေတ်ရှေ့ပြေးလျက်။
❏ all the time [IDM ]
၁။ တစ်ချိန်လုံး။ That letter I was searching for was in my pocket all the time (ie while I was searching for it).
၂။ အမြဲ။ အမြဲတမ်း။ တစေ။ You can't be a businessman all the time (ie You have to develop other interests, etc).
❏ at all times [IDM ] အမြဲတမ်း။ အချိန်မရွေး။ Our staff are available to help you at all times.
❏ at one time [IDM ] တစ်ခါက။ တစ်ချိန်က။ အရင်က။ At one time I used to go skiing every winter.
❏ at a time [IDM ] တစ်ကြိမ်လျှင်။ တစ်ခါလျှင်။ Don't try to do everything at once ___ take it a bit at a time. ❍ Take the pills two at a time.
❏ at my, your, his, etc time of life [IDM ] ဒီအသက်အရွယ် မှာ။ ဒီအရွယ်ကျမှ။ He shouldn't be playing squash at his time of life (ie He is too old for it).
❏ at times [IDM ] တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ။ I get very depressed at times.
❏ behind the times [IDM ] ခေတ်နောက်ကျ လျက်။
❏ do time [IDM ] (sl ) ထောင်ကျသည်။ He's done time for armed robbery.
❏ every time [IDM ] ဖြစ်နိုင်လျှင်။ Some people enjoy mixing with the rich and famous, but not me ___ give me ordinary people every time.
❏ for the time being [IDM ] အခုနေအခါမှာတော့။ လောလော ဆယ်။ You'll have your own office soon but for the time being you'll have to share one.
❏ from time to time [IDM ] မကြာမကြာ။ မကြာခဏ။
❏ (in) half the time [IDM ]
၁။ အချိန်စော၍။ If you'd given the job to me I could have done it in half the time.
၂။ အကြာကြီး။ I'm not surprised he didn't finish the test: he spent half the time looking out of the window.
❏ have a hard, rough, tough, etc time (of it) [IDM ] အခက်ကြုံနေသည်။ အကျပ်ရိုက်နေသည်။ She had a hard time after her husband died.
❏ have a lot of time for sb/sth [IDM ] (infml ) စိတ်ဝင်စား သည်။
❏ have no time for sb/sth [IDM ] သဘောမကျ။ မကြိုက်။ I've no time for lazy people/ laziness.
❏ have the time of one's life [IDM ] (infml ) အပျော်ကြီး ပျော်ရသည်။ အပျော်ဆုံးဖြစ်သည်။ The children had the time of their lives at the circus.
❏ have time on one's hands/ time to kill [IDM ] (infml ) အားနေသည်။
❏ (it is) high/ about time [IDM ] အချိန်တန်ပြီ။ It's high time you stopped fooling around and started looking for a job. ❍ Isn't it about time we were going?
❏ in good time [IDM ] အချိန်မီ။ အချိန်တော်။ There wasn't much traffic so we got there in very good time.
❏ (all) in good time [IDM ] အချိန်ကျလျှင်။ အချိန်တန်လျှင်။ ‘Can we have lunch now ___ I'm hungry. ’ ‘All in good time. ’
❏ in (less than) no time [IDM ] မြန်မြန်။ ချက်ချင်း။ မကြာခင်။
❏ in/ out of time [IDM ] (music ) စည်းကိုက်ဝါးကိုက် (သို့) စည်းလွတ်ဝါးလွတ်။ tapping one's fingers in time to/ with the music.
❏ in one's own good time [IDM ] သူ့စိတ်တိုင်းကျမှ။ There's no point getting impatient with her; she'll finish the job in her own good time.
❏ in one's own time [IDM ] အားလပ်ခိုက်။
❏ in one's time [IDM ] တစ်သက်မှာ။ I've seen some slow workers in my time but this group are the slowest by far.
❏ in time [IDM ] အနှေးနှင့်အမြန်။ You'll learn how to do it in time.
❏ in time (for sth/ to do sth) [IDM ] အချိန်မီ။ အချိန်ကိုက်။ Will I be in time for the train/ to catch the train?
❏ keep time [IDM ]
၁။ (နာရီ) အချိန်မှန်သည်။ My watch always keeps excellent time.
၂။ (အဆို၊ အက) စည်းဝါးကိုက်သည်။
❏ keep up, move, etc with the times [IDM ] ခေတ်နှင့် အညီ ပြုမူဆောင်ရွက်သည်။
❏ make good, etc time [IDM ] ခရီးတွင်သည်။ We made excellent time and reached our destination by midday.
❏ many's the time (that); many a time [IDM ] အကြိမ်ကြိမ်။ အခေါက်ခေါက်။ မကြာမကြာ။ ခဏခဏ။ Many's the time (that) I've visited Rome. ❍ I've visited Rome many a time.
❏ nine times out of ten; ninety-nine times out of a hundred [IDM ] အမြဲလိုလို။
❏ (there is) no time like the present [IDM ] (saying ) (လုပ်ငန်းစရန်) လက်ရှိအချိန်လောက် ကောင်း သည့်အချိန်မရှိ။ စနေအင်္ဂါမရွေးနဲ့။ နေ့ရွှေ့ညရွှေ့ မရွှေ့နဲ့။
❏ on time [IDM ] အချိန်အတိအကျ။ အချိန်ကိုက်၊ အချိန်မှန်။ The train arrived (right/ bang) on time.
❏ play for time [IDM ] အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။
❏ take one's time (over sth/ to do sth/ doing sth) [IDM ]
၁။ အချိန်ယူသည်။ Take your time ___ there's no rush.
၂။ (ironic ) နှေးတော်မူပါပေ့။ You certainly took your time getting here!
❏ time after time; time and (time) again; times without number [IDM ] အကြိမ်ကြိမ်။ အထပ်ထပ်။
❏ time-and-motion adj (အထူးသဖြင့် စက်မှု လုပ်ငန်းတွင်) လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ၏ ထိရောက်မှုကို ဆန်းစစ်သော။ a time-and-motion study.
❏ time and tide wait for no man [IDM ] (saying ) နေပူတုန်းစပါးလှန်း။ မိုးရွာတုန်းရေခံ။ လသာတုန်းဗိုင်းငင့်။
❏ time bomb n ချိန်ကိုက်ဗုံး။ [ဥ]လောလောဆယ် မြုံနေသေး သော်လည်း တစ်ချိန်ချိန်တွင် အကြီး အကျယ်ဒုက္ခပေးမည့် ပြဿနာ။ (fig ) Next year's trial of the former minister is a political time-bomb for the government.
❏ time capsule n အနာဂတ်တွင် ဖော်ကြည့် နိုင်အောင် မျက်မှောက် ခေတ်ကို ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့် ပစ္စည်းများ ထည့်မြှုပ် ထားသည့် ဘူး စသည်။
❏ time-consuming adj အချိန်များများပေးရသော၊ အချိန်စား သော၊ လက်ဝင်သော(အလုပ်)။ Some of the more time-consuming jobs can now be done by machines.
❏ time frame n သတ်မှတ်ချိန်။ သတ်မှတ်ကာလ။ We expect to complete the project within a fairly short time frame.
❏ time hangs heavy (on one's hands) [IDM ] အချိန် ကုန်ခဲသည်။
❏ time-honoured (US -honored ) adj ထုံးမီစံမျှ။
❏ time is on sb's side [IDM ] အချိန်ရှိပါသေးသည်။ Although she failed the exam she has time on her side: she'll still be young enough to take it again next year.
❏ the time is ripe for sth/ sb to do sth [IDM ] အချိန် ကျပြီ။ အခါသင့်ပြီ။
❏ time-lag n ကြားကာလ။ the time-lag between a flash of lightning and the thunder.
❏ time-lapse adj (techn ) (ပန်းတစ်ပွင့် ဖူးရာမှ ပွင့်ခြင်းစသည်) ကာလကြာညောင်းသည့် ဖြစ်စဉ် တစ်ရပ်ကို ပုံကွက်ပေါင်းများစွာ ရိုက်ယူပြီးနောက် ဖလင်ကို ပုံမှန်နှုန်းဖြင့်ပြခြင်း။
❏ time-limit n အချိန်အကန့်အသတ်။ ကန့်သတ်ချိန်။ set a time-limit for the completion of a job.
❏ the time of day [IDM ] အချိန်နာရီ။ အချိန်။
❏ time out n (US ) (အားကစားပွဲများတွင်) ခဏတစ်ဖြုတ် ပွဲရပ်ပေးခြင်း။
❏ timer n (often in compounds) စံချိန်ယူသူ (သို့) အချိန် တိုင်းကိရိယာ။ an oven timer. See also EGG- TIMER, OLD-TIMER
❏ time-scale n အချိန်အလျောက် လုပ်ရသည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်။ What's the time-scale on this job?
❏ time-server n (derog ) ဝတ်ကျေတမ်းကျေလုပ်ရင်း အကွက် ချောင်းနေသူ။
❏ time-serving adj, n [U] ဝတ်ကျေတမ်းကျေမျှလုပ်သော။ time-serving bureaucrats.
❏ time-share n [U] အပန်းဖြေအနားယူရန် အိမ်ကိုစုပေါင်းယူပြီး အလှည့်ကျအနားယူသည့် အစီအစဉ်။ time-share apartments.
၁။ အချိန်ဆိုင်ရာဖော်ပြချက်များ
အတိတ်၊ ပစ္စုပ္ပန်၊ အနာဂတ်ကို ရည်ညွှန်းသော နေ့၊ ရက်၊ ရက်သတ္တပတ် စသည်နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော် အောက်ပါ အတိုင်း ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ရှုထောင့်ကနေ၍ ပြောဆိုရသည်။
past present future
morning yesterday this tomorrow
afternoon morning, morning,
morning,
evening etc etc etc
night last night tonight tomorrow night
day yesterday today tomorrow
week last week this week next week
month last month this month next month
year last year this year next year
၂။ အချိန်ပြဝိဘတ်များ
in (the)
parts of the day (not night) in the morning(s),etc
months in February
seasons in (the) summer
years in 1995
decades in the 1920 s
centuries in the 20th century
on (the)
days of the week on Saturday(s)
dates on (the) 20th (of) May
specific days on Good Friday
on New Year's Day
on my birthday
on the following day
at (the)
clock time at 5 o'clock
at 7.45 pm
night at night
holiday periods at Christmas
at the weekend
❏ time sheet n အလုပ်တက်အလုပ်ဆင်းမှတ်တမ်း။
❏ time signal n (ရေဒီယိုစသည်မှ) စံတော်ချိန် အချက်ပေးသံ။
❏ time signature n (music ) သင်္ကေတဖြင့် တေးတစ်ပုဒ်ကို ပြရာတွင် စစချင်း နရီစည်းကိုဖော်ပြသည့် ဂဏန်းများ။ ❍ MUSIC
❏ time-span n အချိန်ပိုင်း။ အချိန်တာ။
❏ time switch n သတ်မှတ်ပေးထားသည့်အချိန်၌ ပွင့်သည့် ခလုတ်။ The central heating is on a time-switch.
❏ time warp n (အတိတ်မှ ဖြစ်ရပ်များကို ပစ္စုပ္ပန်၌ ဖြစ် လေဟန် စသည်ဖြင့်) စိတ်ကူးယဉ်နယ်၌ အချိန်ကို မူမှန်မှ လွှဲပြောင်းပြုပြင်မှု။
❏ time was (when)… [IDM ] အဲဒီအချိန်တုန်းကတော့။ Time was you could get a good three-course meal for less than a pound.
❏ time (alone) will tell, etc [IDM ] အချိန်တန်ရင် နွားပိန် ကန်ပါလိမ့်မယ်။ Time will show which of us is right.
❏ time-worn adj သုံးဖန်များ၍ ရိုးအီနေပြီဖြစ်သော။ a time-worn expression (ie one that is used too often).
❏ time zone n တူညီသော ဒေသစံတော်ချိန်အကန့်။ After the long flight it took us a while to adjust to the new time zone.
❏ timing n
၁။ [U] (က) အချိန်ကိုက်မှု။ a timing device ❍ The timing of the announcement was rather unexpected. (ခ) အကွက်ဝင်အောင် အချိန်ကိုက်ပြောဆိုလုပ်ကိုင် နိုင်စွမ်း။ an actor with brilliant comic timing (ie one who knows the funniest moment to deliver a line) ❍ He's not playing his shots well ___ his timing is faulty. ❍ Split-second timing is essential for the plan to succeed.
၂။ [C] အချိန်ဇယား။ Please check your flight timings carefully.
❏ work, etc against time [IDM ] အချိန်မီပြီးနိုင်ရန် နေ့မီးညမီး လုပ်သည်။
- Time seemed to pass more quickly than before.
- What time does the film start?
- What time is it?
- [tell the time] : We’re teaching them how to tell the time.
- [at this time of day] : She won’t be busy at this time of day.
- It was six o’clock in the morning, Pacific Standard Time.
- [a long/short time] : She thought about it for a long time.
- She left a short time ago.
- [a/the length of time] : There have been improvements in the length of time patients have to wait for treatment.
- In the time between the wars
- Not since Roman times had a single nation been so powerful.
- [time of] : It was a time of tremendous political uncertainty.
- [someone’s time as something] : She thoroughly enjoyed her time as manager.
- [someone’s time at something] : He speaks of his time at university as a happy one.
- [an easy/hard time] : When the kids were young it was a particularly hard time.
- [the time (when) someone does something] : Do you remember the time we drove the car to Paris?
- [the first/second/last etc time] : It was the first time we’d met.
- [(the) next time] : The next time you need financial advice, come and see me.
- [a good/bad time] : It’s my job to make sure the guests have a good time.
- [at the/that/this time] : I was sitting by the window at the time.
- [at the time of doing something/at the time you do something] : You can get travel insurance at the time of booking.
- [at the time of writing] : No medical evidence was available at the time of writing.
- She left the bar a few minutes before closing time.
- [time for] : They said they would call us when it was time for dinner.
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