Behind the times

Definition

time /taÇm/ n ၁။ [U] (က) အခ်ိန္။ ကာလ။ past/ present/ future time ❍ The world exists in space and time. (ခ) အခ်ိန္။ 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] စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္။ Greenwich Mean Time ❍ Time in California is eight hours behind London. ၃။ [U] အခ်ိန္။ 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] ကာလခ်ိန္တာ။ 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] အခ်ိန္။ နာရီ။ What time is it?/ What is the time? ❍ Do you have the time (on you)? ၆။ [U,C] စံခ်ိန္။ အခ်ိန္။ 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] အခ်ိန္။ 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] အခ်ိန္။ 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) အႀကိမ္။ အခါ။ အေခါက္။ 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) အခ်ိန္ တစ္ခုအတြင္း ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရပံု။ We had a great time at the fair. ❍ What sort of time did you have? ၁၀။ [C often pl ] (က) ကာလ။ ေခတ္။ လက္ထက္။ 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) အခ်ိန္။ 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) စည္းခ်က္ဝါးခ်က္။ စည္းဝါး။ in waltz/ march time ❍ beating time to the music. (ခ) အသံ အနိမ့္အျမင့္၊ အဆြဲအငင္၊ အျဖတ္အေတာက္။ သံေနသံထား။ quick time. See also DOWN TIME, EXTRA TIME, HALF-TIME, OPENING-TIME, PRIME TIME, SMALL-TIME, STANDARD TIME v ၁။ အခ်ိန္ကိုက္သည္။ အခ်ိန္သတ္မွတ္သည္။ 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 ) (႐ိုက္ခ်က္ကို) အခ်ိန္ကိုက္ ႐ိုက္သည္။ He timed that shot beautifully. ၃။ ကုန္လြန္မည့္အခ်ိန္တာကို မွတ္သည္။ စံခ်ိန္ယူသည္။ Please will you time my egg for me—I like it boiled for 4 1/ 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 ) ျဖစ္သင့္တာ ၾကာၿပီ။ I hear old Fred got promoted last week ___ and about time too, I'd say. ❏ ahead of time [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်ိန္ထက္ေစာလ်က္။ ❏ ahead of one's time [ IDM ] ေခတ္ေရွ႕ေျပးလ်က္။ ❏ all the time [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။ That letter I was searching for was in my pocket all the time (ie while I was searching for it). ၂။ အၿမဲ။ အၿမဲတမ္း။ တေစ။ You can't be a businessman all the time (ie You have to develop other interests, etc). ❏ at all times [ IDM ] အၿမဲတမ္း။ အခ်ိန္မေရြး။ Our staff are available to help you at all times. ❏ at one time [ IDM ] တစ္ခါက။ တစ္ခ်ိန္က။ အရင္က။ At one time I used to go skiing every winter. ❏ at a time [ IDM ] တစ္ႀကိမ္လွ်င္။ တစ္ခါလွ်င္။ 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 ] ဒီအသက္အရြယ္ မွာ။ ဒီအရြယ္က်မွ။ He shouldn't be playing squash at his time of life (ie He is too old for it). ❏ at times [ IDM ] တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ။ I get very depressed at times. ❏ behind the times [ IDM ] ေခတ္ေနာက္က် လ်က္။ ❏ do time [ IDM ] ( sl ) ေထာင္က်သည္။ He's done time for armed robbery. ❏ every time [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ႏိုင္လွ်င္။ Some people enjoy mixing with the rich and famous, but not me ___ give me ordinary people every time. ❏ for the time being [ IDM ] အခုေနအခါမွာေတာ့။ ေလာေလာ ဆယ္။ You'll have your own office soon but for the time being you'll have to share one. ❏ from time to time [ IDM ] မၾကာမၾကာ။ မၾကာခဏ။ ❏ (in) half the time [ IDM ] ၁။ အခ်ိန္ေစာ၍။ If you'd given the job to me I could have done it in half the time. ၂။ အၾကာႀကီး။ 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 ] အခက္ႀကံဳေနသည္။ အက်ပ္႐ိုက္ေနသည္။ She had a hard time after her husband died. ❏ have a lot of time for sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ဝင္စား သည္။ ❏ have no time for sb/sth [ IDM ] သေဘာမက်။ မႀကိဳက္။ I've no time for lazy people/ laziness. ❏ have the time of one's life [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေပ်ာ္ႀကီး ေပ်ာ္ရသည္။ အေပ်ာ္ဆံုးျဖစ္သည္။ The children had the time of their lives at the circus. ❏ have time on one's hands/ time to kill [ IDM ] ( infml ) အားေနသည္။ ❏ (it is) high/ about time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္တန္ၿပီ။ 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 ] အခ်ိန္မီ။ အခ်ိန္ေတာ္။ There wasn't much traffic so we got there in very good time. ❏ (all) in good time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္က်လွ်င္။ အခ်ိန္တန္လွ်င္။ ‘Can we have lunch now ___ I'm hungry. ’ ‘All in good time. ’ ❏ in (less than) no time [ IDM ] ျမန္ျမန္။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မၾကာခင္။ ❏ in/ out of time [ IDM ] ( music ) စည္းကိုက္ဝါးကိုက္ (သို႔) စည္းလြတ္ဝါးလြတ္။ tapping one's fingers in time to/ with the music. ❏ in one's own good time [ IDM ] သူ႕စိတ္တိုင္းက်မွ။ There's no point getting impatient with her; she'll finish the job in her own good time. ❏ in one's own time [ IDM ] အားလပ္ခိုက္။ ❏ in one's time [ IDM ] တစ္သက္မွာ။ I've seen some slow workers in my time but this group are the slowest by far. ❏ in time [ IDM ] အေႏွးႏွင့္အျမန္။ You'll learn how to do it in time. ❏ in time (for sth/ to do sth) [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္မီ။ အခ်ိန္ကိုက္။ Will I be in time for the train/ to catch the train? ❏ keep time [ IDM ] ၁။ (နာရီ) အခ်ိန္မွန္သည္။ My watch always keeps excellent time. ၂။ (အဆို၊ အက) စည္းဝါးကိုက္သည္။ ❏ keep up, move, etc with the times [ IDM ] ေခတ္ႏွင့္ အညီ ျပဳမူေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ ❏ make good, etc time [ IDM ] ခရီးတြင္သည္။ We made excellent time and reached our destination by midday. ❏ many's the time (that); many a time [ IDM ] အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္။ အေခါက္ေခါက္။ မၾကာမၾကာ။ 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 ] အၿမဲလိုလို။ ❏ (there is) no time like the present [ IDM ] ( saying ) (လုပ္ငန္းစရန္) လက္ရိွအခ်ိန္ေလာက္ ေကာင္း သည့္အခ်ိန္မရိွ။ စေနအဂၤါမေရြးနဲ႔။ ေန႔ေရႊ႕ညေရႊ႕ မေရႊ႕နဲ႔။ ❏ on time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္အတိအက်။ အခ်ိန္ကိုက္၊ အခ်ိန္မွန္။ The train arrived (right/ bang) on time. ❏ play for time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသည္။ ❏ take one's time (over sth/ to do sth/ doing sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ အခ်ိန္ယူသည္။ Take your time ___ there's no rush. ၂။ ( ironic ) ေႏွးေတာ္မူပါေပ့။ You certainly took your time getting here! ❏ time after time; time and (time) again; times without number [ IDM ] အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္။ အထပ္ထပ္။ ❏ time-and-motion adj (အထူးသျဖင့္ စက္မႈ လုပ္ငန္းတြင္) လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား၏ ထိေရာက္မႈကို ဆန္းစစ္ေသာ။ a time-and-motion study. ❏ time and tide wait for no man [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေနပူတုန္းစပါးလွန္း။ မိုးရြာတုန္းေရခံ။ လသာတုန္းဗိုင္းငင့္။ ❏ time bomb n ခ်ိန္ကိုက္ဗံုး။ [ဥ]ေလာေလာဆယ္ ၿမံဳေနေသး ေသာ္လည္း တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္တြင္ အႀကီး အက်ယ္ဒုကၡေပးမည့္ ျပႆနာ။ ( fig ) Next year's trial of the former minister is a political time-bomb for the government. ❏ time capsule n အနာဂတ္တြင္ ေဖာ္ၾကည့္ ႏိုင္ေအာင္ မ်က္ေမွာက္ ေခတ္ကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည့္ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ထည့္ျမႇဳပ္ ထားသည့္ ဘူး စသည္။ ❏ time-consuming adj အခ်ိန္မ်ားမ်ားေပးရေသာ၊ အခ်ိန္စား ေသာ၊ လက္ဝင္ေသာ(အလုပ္)။ Some of the more time-consuming jobs can now be done by machines. ❏ time frame n သတ္မွတ္ခ်ိန္။ သတ္မွတ္ကာလ။ We expect to complete the project within a fairly short time frame. ❏ time hangs heavy (on one's hands) [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ ကုန္ခဲသည္။ ❏ time-honoured ( US -honored ) adj ထံုးမီစံမွ်။ ❏ time is on sb's side [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ရိွပါေသးသည္။ 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 ] အခ်ိန္ က်ၿပီ။ အခါသင့္ၿပီ။ ❏ time-lag n ၾကားကာလ။ the time-lag between a flash of lightning and the thunder. ❏ time-lapse adj ( techn ) (ပန္းတစ္ပြင့္ ဖူးရာမွ ပြင့္ျခင္းစသည္) ကာလၾကာေညာင္းသည့္ ျဖစ္စဥ္ တစ္ရပ္ကို ပံုကြက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ႐ိုက္ယူၿပီးေနာက္ ဖလင္ကို ပံုမွန္ႏႈန္းျဖင့္ျပျခင္း။ ❏ time-limit n အခ်ိန္အကန္႔အသတ္။ ကန္႔သတ္ခ်ိန္။ set a time-limit for the completion of a job. ❏ the time of day [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္နာရီ။ အခ်ိန္။ ❏ time out n ( US ) (အားကစားပြဲမ်ားတြင္) ခဏတစ္ျဖဳတ္ ပြဲရပ္ေပးျခင္း။ ❏ timer n (often in compounds) စံခ်ိန္ယူသူ (သို႔) အခ်ိန္ တိုင္းကိရိယာ။ an oven timer. See also EGG- TIMER, OLD-TIMER ❏ time-scale n အခ်ိန္အေလ်ာက္ လုပ္ရသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္။ What's the time-scale on this job? ❏ time-server n ( derog ) ဝတ္ေက်တမ္းေက်လုပ္ရင္း အကြက္ ေခ်ာင္းေနသူ။ ❏ time-serving adj , n [U] ဝတ္ေက်တမ္းေက်မွ်လုပ္ေသာ။ time-serving bureaucrats. ❏ time-share n [U] အပန္းေျဖအနားယူရန္ အိမ္ကိုစုေပါင္းယူၿပီး အလွည့္က်အနားယူသည့္ အစီအစဥ္။ time-share apartments. ၁။ အခ်ိန္ဆိုင္ရာေဖာ္ျပခ်က္မ်ား အတိတ္၊ ပစၥဳပၸန္၊ အနာဂတ္ကို ရည္ၫႊန္းေသာ ေန႔၊ ရက္၊ ရက္သတၱပတ္ စသည္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာ္ ေအာက္ပါ အတိုင္း ပစၥဳပၸန္႐ႈေထာင့္ကေန၍ ေျပာဆိုရသည္။ 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။ အခ်ိန္ျပဝိဘတ္မ်ား 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 အလုပ္တက္အလုပ္ဆင္းမွတ္တမ္း။ ❏ time signal n (ေရဒီယိုစသည္မွ) စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ အခ်က္ေပးသံ။ ❏ time signature n ( music ) သေကၤတျဖင့္ ေတးတစ္ပုဒ္ကို ျပရာတြင္ စစခ်င္း နရီစည္းကိုေဖာ္ျပသည့္ ဂဏန္းမ်ား။ ❍ MUSIC ❏ time-span n အခ်ိန္ပိုင္း။ အခ်ိန္တာ။ ❏ time switch n သတ္မွတ္ေပးထားသည့္အခ်ိန္၌ ပြင့္သည့္ ခလုတ္။ The central heating is on a time-switch. ❏ time warp n (အတိတ္မွ ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားကို ပစၥဳပၸန္၌ ျဖစ္ ေလဟန္ စသည္ျဖင့္) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္နယ္၌ အခ်ိန္ကို မူမွန္မွ လႊဲေျပာင္းျပဳျပင္မႈ။ ❏ time was (when)… [ IDM ] အဲဒီအခ်ိန္တုန္းကေတာ့။ Time was you could get a good three-course meal for less than a pound. ❏ time (alone) will tell, etc [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္တန္ရင္ ႏြားပိန္ ကန္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ Time will show which of us is right. ❏ time-worn adj သံုးဖန္မ်ား၍ ႐ိုးအီေနၿပီျဖစ္ေသာ။ a time-worn expression (ie one that is used too often). ❏ time zone n တူညီေသာ ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္အကန္႔။ After the long flight it took us a while to adjust to the new time zone. ❏ timing n ၁။ [U] (က) အခ်ိန္ကိုက္မႈ။ a timing device ❍ The timing of the announcement was rather unexpected. (ခ) အကြက္ဝင္ေအာင္ အခ်ိန္ကိုက္ေျပာဆိုလုပ္ကိုင္ ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ 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] အခ်ိန္ဇယား။ Please check your flight timings carefully. ❏ work, etc against time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္မီၿပီးႏိုင္ရန္ ေန႔မီးညမီး လုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. Time seemed to pass more quickly than before.
2. What time does the film start?
3. What time is it?
4. [tell the time] : We’re teaching them how to tell the time.
5. [at this time of day] : She won’t be busy at this time of day.
6. It was six o’clock in the morning
7. Pacific Standard Time.
8. [a long/short time] : She thought about it for a long time.
9. She left a short time ago.
10. [a/the length of time] : There have been improvements in the length of time patients have to wait for treatment.
11. In the time between the wars
12. Not since Roman times had a single nation been so powerful.
13. [time of] : It was a time of tremendous political uncertainty.
14. [someone’s time as something] : She thoroughly enjoyed her time as manager.
15. [someone’s time at something] : He speaks of his time at university as a happy one.
16. [an easy/hard time] : When the kids were young it was a particularly hard time.
17. [the time (when) someone does something] : Do you remember the time we drove the car to Paris?
18. [the first/second/last etc time] : It was the first time we’d met.
19. [(the) next time] : The next time you need financial advice
20. come and see me.
21. [a good/bad time] : It’s my job to make sure the guests have a good time.
22. [at the/that/this time] : I was sitting by the window at the time.
23. [at the time of doing something/at the time you do something] : You can get travel insurance at the time of booking.
24. [at the time of writing] : No medical evidence was available at the time of writing.
25. She left the bar a few minutes before closing time.
26. [time for] : They said they would call us when it was time for dinner.
27. [it’s time (that) someone did something/was doing something] : Isn’t it time the children went to bed?
28. It’s time we were leaving.
29. When would be a good time to discuss it?
30. I’m afraid now isn’t a very convenient time for me.
31. [the right/wrong time] : Now seemed the right time to make a change.
32. Check the temperature two or three times a day.
33. She will have less time to spend with family and friends now.
34. Bad weather could add another hour to your journey time.
35. We have reduced the delivery time from four days to two.
36. She’s cut two seconds off her previous best time.
37. A piece in 6–8 time
38. Alright
39. everyone
40. time's up. Please turn in your spelling tests.