About-face

Definition

about / ǝ'baƱt / adv ၁။ ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ It costs about $ 10. ❍ He's about the same height as you ❍ She drove (for) about ten miles. ❍ He arrived (at) about ten o'clock. ၂။ ( infml ) သေလာက္။ ေလာက္။ I'm (just) about ready. ❍ This is about the best we can hope for in the circumstances. ၃။ ( infml ) (သည္းခံ၊ ဆို) ႏိုင္႐ံုတစ္မည္။ I've had (just) about enough (ie too much) of your complaining. ❍ He's been promoted and about time too ( ie it ought to have happened earlier). See also JUST ABOUT adv part ၁။ ထိုထိုဤဤ။ ဟိုဟိုသည္သည္။ ဟိုမွာသည္မွာ။ The children were rushing about. ❍ book lying about on the floor ❍ He looked about, trying to work out where he was. ၂။ မေရမရာ။ ဟိုလိုလိုသည္လိုလို။ လတ္လ်ား လတ္လ်ား။ I waited about but nobody came. ❍ People were just standing about on street corners. ၃။ ဝန္းက်င္တြင္။ အနီးအနားတြင္။ There was nobody about ❍ She's somewhere about, I saw her a few moments ago. ၄။ ေနရာအႏွံ႔အျပားတြင္ (ျဖစ္သည္၊ ေပၚေပါက္သည္)။ There's a lot of flu' about (Many people are suffering from it). ၅။ ေနာက္ျပန္။ ေနာက္။ put the ship about ❍ About turn! ၆။ မူမွန္မွ ဆန္႔က်င္လ်က္။ The wrong way about. prep ၁။ (က) ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍။ ႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍။ နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔။ Tell me about it. ❍ What is he so angry about? ❍ He is very careful about his appearance. ❍ there's nothing you can do about it ❍ There's something strange about the whole affair. (ခ) ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာ။ နဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့။ a book about flowers ❍ Commerce is all about making money. ၂။ (က) အႏွံ႔။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္။ ဟိုဟို သည္သည္။ walking about the town ❍ papers strewn about the floor ❍ He came out of the door and looked about him. (ခ) သိုင္းကာ (ဖက္သည္၊ ဝတ္ဆင္သည္)။ He put his arms about her. ❍ She wore a shawl about her shoulders. ၃။ အနီးအနားတြင္။ I dropped the key somewhere about here. ၄။ ေနခိုက္တြင္။ while you're about it… ❏ about-turn (also about-face ) n ၁။ (စစ္မိန္႔သံ) ေနာက္လွည့္။ ၂။ အလွည့္အေျပာင္း။ These new measures indicate an about-turn in government policy. See also U-turn ❏ be about to do sth [ IDM ] (လုပ္၊ ေျပာ၊ သြား စသည္) ခါနီးတြင္၊ မည္လုပ္တုန္း။ I was about to say when you interrupted me. ❍ We're about to start. ❍ I'm not about to admit defeat. ❏ how/what about… ? [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘယ္လိုလဲ။ မည္သို႔ နည္း။ What about his qualifications (ie Is he qualified) for the job? ၂။ ဘယ္လိုသေဘာရသလဲ။ ဘယ္လိုလဲ။ How about going to France for our next anniversary? ❍ What about a cup of tea? ❏ that's (just) about all / it [ IDM ] ဤမွ်သာ (ပင္)။ ဒီေလာက္ပါပဲ။ "Do you have any other comment?" "No. I think that's about it for now. " ❏ that's about it / the size of it [ IDM ] ဒီေလာက္ပဲ ရိွပါတယ္။

Examples

1. Think about what I’ve told you.
2. She kept saying horrible things about my mother.
3. Jokes about the president
4. [all about] : They’d forgotten all about poor Harry.
5. I’m worried about Dad.
6. There’s nothing to get excited about.
7. About that money I owe you – I can pay you back next week.
8. It’s about Jack – he’s been so depressed lately.
9. About 250 people were killed in the explosion.
10. Anthea must be about the same age as you.
11. I woke up at about 3 am.
12. [round about] : It must have been round about six when we got home.
13. The girls were dancing about the room in high spirits.
14. Abe was tired of wandering about on his own.
15. Diana turned about and marched out of the room.
16. Don’t leave important papers lying about on your desk.
17. There were articles of clothing scattered about the room.
18. The building was in darkness and there was no one about.
19. You shouldn’t have been spraying weedkiller while there were children about.
20. Rasula wore a garland of flowers about her neck.
21. The prophet had gathered about him a band of faithful followers.
22. They’ve kept us waiting about all morning.
23. Dad was pottering about in the garden.
24. Stop messing about. We’ve got a job to do.
25. George was groping about in the dark
26. trying to find the light switch.
27. Looking about me
28. I could see no sign of the others.
29. Pam’s about the only person that I can trust.
30. On this continent
31. Redmond is about as far west as you can go.
32. He’s offended just about everybody.
33. One thing I like about Tony
34. he always says exactly what he thinks.
35. There was something about her that made him uneasy.
36. There’s a lot of illness about.
37. I was looking for a real fur jacket. You don’t see them about much nowadays.