wholly
/ˈhəʊli/
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whol - ly -> wholly
၁။ (တစ်) … လုံး။ (သုံးရက်လုံး၊ တစ်မြို့လုံး စသည်။ ) အားလုံး။ three whole days ❍ We drank a whole bottle each ❍ The whole town was destroyed by the earthquake. ❍ The whole country (ie All the people in it) mourned the death of the president. ❍ I've sold the whole lot (ie everything). ❍ Let's forget the whole affair/matter/thing. ❍ Tell me the whole truth. ❍ half
၂။ အကောင်လိုက်။ အလုံးလိုက်။ cook sth whole (ie without cutting if into pieces) ❍ swallow sth whole (ie without chewing (chew) it).
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၁။ [C] (ပြည့်စုံသော) တစ်ခု။ Four quarters make a whole. ❍ As members of society we are all parts of a greater whole. အသင်းဝင်တစ်ယောက်ချင်း အနေနဲ့ တို့အားလုံး ဟာ အသင်းကြီးတစ်ခုလုံးရဲ့ အစိတ်အပိုင်း တစ်ခုစီပါပဲ။ ❍ half
၂။ [sing] ~ of sth (esp Brit ) တစ်…လုံး။ She spent the whole of the year in hospital. wholeness n [U]
❏ as a whole [IDM ]
၁။ တပေါင်းတစည်းတည်း။ Is the collection going to be divided up or sold as a whole?
၂။ အားလုံးအနေနှင့်။ ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်။ The population as a whole is/are in favour of the reform.
❏ go the whole hog [IDM ] (infml ) မခြွင်းမချန် လုပ်သည်။ We painted the kitchen, and then decided to go the whole hog and redecorated the other rooms as well.
❏ on the whole [IDM ] ခြုံငုံလျက်။ ခြုံကြည့်သော်။ On the whole, I'm in favour of the idea.
❏ the whole bag of tricks/ caboodle/ she bang/ shooting match [IDM ] (infml ) ရှိရှိသမျှ အကုန်။ I just threw the whole caboodle in the back of the car. ❍ They bought the house, the land, the stables — the whole shooting match.
❏ a whole lot [IDM ] (infml ) အများကြီး။ I'm feeling a whole lot better.
❏ a whole lot (of sth) [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်ပုံတစ်ခေါင်း။ There were a whole lot of people I didn't know. ❍ I lost a whole lot of money.
❏ whole milk n [U] မလိုင်အပြည့်ပါသောနို့။
❏ whole note n (US ) = semibreve
❏ whole number n (mathematics ) ကိန်းပြည့်။
❏ wholly /'hǝƱlli/ adv အပြည့်အဝ။ လုံးလုံးလျားလျား။ ရာနှုန်းပြည့်။ not a wholly successful book ❍ I'm not wholly convinced by your argument.
- His whole body was trembling.
- My whole family came to watch me playing in the concert.
- The whole process will take months.
- [the whole thing] : Come on, let’s just forget the whole thing.
- [the whole story/truth] : She told Tilly the whole story about what had happened.
- Add three whole eggs plus two additional yolks.
- Some of the statues were broken, but others were still whole.
- [a whole range/series] : There is a whole range of therapies that may be suitable.
- [a whole lot] : I feel a whole lot better today.
- [a whole host] : We’ve had a whole host of problems.
- [in the whole world] : They’re the best icecreams in the whole world.
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