At the moment

Definition

moment /'mǝƱmǝnt / n ၁။ [C] အလြန္တိုေတာင္းေသာ ကာလ။ လက္ဖ်စ္တစ္တြက္၊ မ်က္စိတစ္မိွတ္ကာလ။ မၾတာ။ တဒဂၤ။ ခဏ။ He thought for a moment before replying. ❍ It was all over in a few moments. ❍ She answered without a moment's hesitation. ❍ Could you wait a moment, please? ❍ One moment, please (ie Please wait a short time). ❍ I'll be back in a moment (ie very soon). ❍We arrived not a moment too soon (ie It was almost too late when we arrived). ၂။ [sing] အခိုက္။ the moment of birth ❍ At that (very) moment the phone range. ❍ From this moment on (ie After this) she began to be afraid of him. ၃။ [C] အခါသမယ။ wait for the right moment ❍ Is this a suitable moment to discuss my salary? ❏ at the moment [ IDM ] ေလာေလာဆယ္။ ယခု။ Her extension is engaged at the moment. Would you like to hold or try again later? ❍ He's unemployed at the moment and has been for over six months. ❏ for the moment/present [ IDM ] ယာယီအားျဖင့္။ ခဏတာမွ်။ We're happy living in a studio for the moment but we'll want somewhere bigger one day. ❏ have one's/its moments [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ဝင္စား ဖြယ္ရာ အခန္းပါသည္။ The play had its moments but overall it was very disappointing. ဒီျပဇာတ္မွာ ေကာင္းကြက္ ကေလး တခ်ဳိ႕တေလေတာ့ ပါပါရဲ႕။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အားလံုးၿခံဳၾကည့္ ရင္ေတာ့ မစြံဘူး။ ❏ the man, woman, boy, girl, etc of the moment [ IDM ] ေရပန္းစားေနသူ။ ❏ the moment of truth [ IDM ] အဆံုးအျဖတ္ ေပးမည့္အခ်ိန္။ ❏ of moment [ IDM ] ( fml ) အလြန္အေရးႀကီးေသာ၊ အေရးပါ ေသာ။ These are matters of great moment.

Examples

1. Jane began to speak
2. but at the same moment Helen appeared.
3. If only he had not chosen that moment to walk into the room.
4. [very/precise/exact moment] : At that precise moment there was a knock on the door.
5. [(up) until that moment] : Ellie had never really given it much thought up until that moment.
6. [moment of] : This is the proudest moment of my career.
7. He paused for a few moments before giving his answer.
8. [brief moment] : For a brief moment their eyes met.
9. [spare moment] : He studied in every spare moment he could find.
10. [the right moment] : This is surely the right moment to make amends.
11. [big moment] : As he stood up
12. James knew his big moment had arrived.
13. [seize the moment] : I saw he was alone and seized the moment.