Character

Definition

character /'kærǝktǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] (က) စ႐ိုက္။ What does her handwriting tell you about her character ? ❍ His character is quite different from his wife's. ❍ Generosity is part of the American character. ❍ She has a very strong / weak character. (ခ) ဝိေသသလကၡဏာ။ the character of the desert landscape ❍ The whole character of the village has changed since I was last here. ❍ The day took on the character of (ie became like) a nightm are as disaster followed disaster. ၂။ [U] (က) ထူးျခားေသာ လကၡဏာ၊ အရည္အခ်င္း။ You may not like her, but she's got a lot of character. ❍ drab houses with no character. (ခ) ရဲရင့္ျခင္း။ သတၱိ။ a woman of character ❍ It takes character to say a thing like that. ❍ Some people think military service is character-building. ၃။ [C] (က) ( infml ) လူထူး။ လူတစ္မ်ဳိး။ a suspicious-looking character. (ခ) ( approv ) တစ္မ်ဳိး တစ္ဘာသာ ျဖစ္ေသာသူ။ She's a real / quite a character! ၄။ [C] ဇာတ္ေကာင္။ a major / minor character in the film. ❍ the characters in the novels of Charles Dickens. ၅။ [C] ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ။ damage sb's character. ၆။ [C] အကၡရာ။ စာ (လံုး)။ Chinese / Greek / Russian characters. ❏ character actor n ထူးျခားေသာဇာတ္ေကာင္ စ႐ိုက္မ်ဳိးကို ကျပသည့္ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္။ ❏ characterful adj ထူးျခားေသာ။ စိတ္ဝင္စားဖြယ္ေကာင္း ေသာ။ characterful cottages. ❏ characterless adj ( derog ) စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာ မရိွေသာ။ a characterless place. ❏ in/out of character [ IDM ] ပင္ကိုစ႐ိုက္၊ အခ်ဳိးအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ေသာ/မဟုတ္ေသာ။ Her behaviour last night was completely out of character.

Examples

1. Stinginess with money was one aspect of Steve’s character that I didn’t like.
2. [in/out of character] : I can’t understand why Simon refused to help; it seems so out of character.
3. He understood so much about our national character.
4. Each of his books has its own distinctive character.
5. The two villages are similar in size but very different in character.
6. [character of] : The house was not in keeping with the character of the surrounding area.
7. A traditional hotel with a lot of character and charm
8. How dare she cast a slur on my character?
9. My client is a man of good character.
10. The book has a solid plot and likeable characters.
11. [the main/central character] : The film’s central character is played by George Clooney.
12. McMahon is one of the sport’s most colourful characters.
13. A shady/suspicious/unsavoury character
14. [a reformed/changed character] : Jake used to be pretty wild
15. but he’s a reformed character now.
16. She was quite a character
17. I can tell you.
18. [a real character] : You’d like Joe
19. he’s a real character.
20. She had to stand up and make a speech to 500 people
21. so it was quite a test of character.
22. The team showed real character in coming back from two goals down.
23. [character-building] : The idea of competitive sport as a character-building activity
24. The password may be up to 12 characters long.