wording
/ˈwəːdɪŋ/
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wor - ding -> wording
word /wɜ:d/ n
၁။ (က) [C] စကားလုံး။ စကား။ What's the Spanish word for table? စားပွဲကို စပိန်စကားနှင့် ဘယ်လိုခေါ် သလဲ။ ❍ Tell me what happened in your own words. ❍ He couldn't put his feelings into words . မပြောပြတတ် အောင် ခံစားရတယ်။ ❍ I have no words/ can't find words to express (ie I have no adequate way of indicating) my gratitude.
(ခ) [C] စာလုံး။ စကားလုံး။ ဝေါဟာရ။ That word is not spelled correctly. ❍ The words in the dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order. See also FOUR-LETTER WORD, HOUSEHOLD WORD
၂။ (က) [C] စကား။ a word/ a few words of advice/ sympathy/ warning ❍ a man/ woman of few words (ie one who does not talk very much) ❍ Can I have a quick word with you? ❍ I don't believe a word of his story. ❍ She left without a word.
(ခ) words [pl] အပြော။ လေ။ We want fewer words and more deeds. See also WAR OF WORDS
၃။ [sing] ကတိစကား။ I never doubted/ questioned her word. ❍ I give you my word that this won't happen again. ❍ We only have his word for it that the cheque is in the post. ❍ As I expected, they kept/ broke their word. ❍ I trust her not to go back on her word.
၄။ [sing] (dated or fml )
(က) (a, the မပါဘဲသုံးသည်။ ) သတင်းစကား။ အကျိုး အကြောင်း။ အကြောင်းကြားချက်။ Please send (me)/ leave word of your safe arrival/ that you have arrived safely.
(ခ) the word ကောလာဟလ။ The word is that he's left the country.
၅။ (usu the word ) [sing] အမိန့်။ နှုတ်မိန့်။ Stay hidden until I give the word. ❍ He likes to think that his word is law (ie his commands will be obeyed).
၆။ the Word (also the word of God ) [sing] သမ္မာကျမ်းစာ။ preach the Word.
v (esp passive) စကားလုံးရွေးချယ်သုံးနှုန်းသည်။ a carefully worded reminder ❍ Be careful how you word your reply.
❏ be as good as one's word [IDM ] အပြောနှင့် အလုပ် ညီသည်။ You'll find that she's as good as her word.
❏ be not the word for sth/ sb [IDM ] (infml ) ဆီလျော်သော စကားလုံးမဟုတ်။ Lazy isn't the word for it! He never does any work at all.
❏ by word of mouth [IDM ] နှုတ်ဖြင့်။ ပါးစပ်နဲ့။ The news spread by word of mouth.
❏ (right) from the word go [IDM ] (infml ) အစချီ ကတည်းက။ She knew (right) from the word go that it was going to be difficult.
❏ (not) get a word in edgeways [IDM ] ကြားဖြတ်ပြောဖို့ (မ)ရ။ ရေပက်(မ)ဝင်။
❏ have a word in sb's ear [IDM ] တိုးတိုး တိတ်တိတ် ပြောသည်။ ကျိတ်ပြောသည်။
❏ have words (with sb) (about sth) [IDM ] စကားများ သည်။ ငြင်းကြခုံကြသည်။ I could hear them having words in the next room.
❏ in other words [IDM ] တစ်နည်းပြောရရင်တော့။ It was a perfectly ordinary day; in other words, I went to work and came home again.
❏ (not) in so many words [IDM ] အဲဒီအတိုင်း အတိအကျ ရယ်လို့တော့ မဟုတ်။ ‘ Did she say she hated you?’ ‘Not in so many words but it was obvious that she did’.
❏ in a word [IDM ] လိုရင်းတစ်လုံးတည်းပြောရရင်။ In a word, I think he's a fool.
❏ in words of one syllable [IDM ] စကား ရိုးရိုး ကလေးဖြင့်။
❏ a man/ woman of his/ her word [IDM ] စကားတည်သူ။
❏ not have a good word to say for sb/ sth [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်ခွန်းမျှအကောင်းမပြော။ He doesn't have/ seldom has a good word to say for his brothers.
❏ not a word (to sb) (about sth) [IDM ] တစ်ခွန်းတောင် မဟလိုက်ပါနဲ့။ Not a word (to Mary) (about what I've told you)!
❏ put in/ say a (good) word for sb [IDM ] အကောင်း ပြောဆိုပေးသည်။
❏ put words into sb's mouth [IDM ] သူ့စကားကို ကိုယ့် စကားလုပ်သည်။ She accused the journalist of putting words into her mouth.
❏ say/ be one's last/ final word (on sth) [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံး အဆုံးအဖြတ်ပေးသည်။ နောက်ဆုံး အဆုံးအဖြတ် ဖြစ်သည်။ That's unlikely to be her last word on the subject.
❏ take sb at their word [IDM ] သူ့စကားကို အတည်ယူ သည်။
❏ take sb's word for it (that…) [IDM ] ပြောသည့်အတိုင်း ယုံသည်။ I can't prove I'm not lying — you'll just have to take my word for it.
❏ take the words (right) out of sb's mouth [IDM ] သူများပြောမည့်စကားကို ဦးအောင် ပြောသည်။ စကားဦးသည်။
❏ too funny, outrageous, sad, shocking, etc for words [IDM ] စကားနှင့် ပြောမပြ နိုင်လောက်အောင်။ The whole situation was too stupid for words.
❏ (upon) my word! [IDM ] (dated or fml ) (တအံ့တဩနှင့် ပြောသော အာမေဍ္ဍိတ်စကား)။ ဟောဗျား။ ဟောတော့။ ဟယ်။ My word, you're back early!
❏ word for word [IDM ] တစ်သဝေမတိမ်း။ လုံးစေ့ ပတ်စေ့။ His story matches yours almost word for word. ❍ a word-for-word account/ translation.
❏ wording n [U,C usu sing ] စကားအသုံးအနှုန်း၊ သုံးနှုန်းပုံ။ a complicated form of wording.
❏ sb's word is as good as their bond [IDM ] သူ့ စကားကတကယ်စိတ်ချရတယ်။
❏ wordless adj (fml ) ထုတ်ဖော်မပြောသော။ wordless grief/ sympathy. wordlessly adv
❏ one's word of honour [IDM ] တကယ်ပြောတာပါ။ I give you my word of honour I didn't do it.
❏ word-perfect (US letter-perfect ) adj နှုတ်တက်ရ သော။ အလွတ်ရသော။ အာဂုံ ဆောင်နိုင်သော။
❏ word processor n စာစီစာရိုက်ကွန်ပျူတာ ပရိုဂရမ်။ Compare TYPEWRITER
❏ word processing n [U] ယင်းဖြင့် စာစီစာရိုက် ခြင်း။ word processing skills.
❏ wordy adj (derog ) စကားလုံးဖောင်းပွသော။ an eloquent, if rather wordy, speech.wordily /-Çli/ adv, wordiness n [U]
- The first word that many babies speak is ‘Mama’.
- Can you read the words on this page?
- The Latin word for a table is ‘mensa’.
- I was remembering the words of my old friend.
- [in your own words] : Tell us in your own words how the accident happened.
- I can hum the tune, but I don’t know the words.
- [want a word (with someone)] : David wants a quiet word with you.
- [have a word (with someone)] : Can I have a quick word with you?
- [word about/on] : Let me say a word on the subject of security.
- [say a few words] : I would just like to say a few words about our guest.
- We’ve had no word from Brian yet.
- [send word] : He sent word that they had arrived safely.
- [word spreads] : Word of the incident spread quickly.
- A word of advice – don’t take anything Gina says too seriously.
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