Double-dealing

Definition

double /'dʌbl/ adj ၁။ ႏွစ္ဆျဖစ္ေသာ။ a double helping ❍ two double whiskies ❍ a new bleach with double strength for killing germs. ၂။ အစံုလိုက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ႏွစ္ခုတြဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ You're not supposed to park on double yellow lines. ❍ double doors ❍ a double-page advertisement ❍ ‘Otter’ is spelt with a double t. ၃။ ႏွစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a double bed ❍ a double room (eg in a hotel). ၄။ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိး။ ႏွစ္ခြ။ a double meaning/purpose/aim ❍ It has the double advantage of being both easy and cheap. n ၁။ [U] (အေရအတြက္၊ ပမာဏ) ႏွစ္ဆ။ He gets paid double for doing the same job I do. ၂။ [C] (က) ခြၽတ္စြပ္။ She's the double of her mother at the same age. (ခ) (႐ုပ္ရွင္) စြန္႔စားခန္း၌ အစားထိုးသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္။ ၃။ [C] ပံုမွန္ ထက္ ႏွစ္ဆပါေသာ အရက္ခြက္။ Two Scotches, please—and make those doubles, will you? ၄။ doubles [pl] (တင္းနစ္)ႏွစ္ေယာက္တြဲပြဲ။ mixed doubles (ie in which each pair consists of a man and a woman). ၅။ the double [sing] ( sport ) အားကစားတစ္ရာသီ အတြင္း ပြဲႀကီးႏွစ္ပြဲ (သို႔) ၿပိဳင္ဘက္တစ္ဦး၊ အသင္းတစ္သင္းကို ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ She's going for the double this year—the Olympics and the World Championship. ၆။ [C] ျမားငယ္ပစ္ကစားပြဲ တြင္ အျပင္စည္းဝိုင္းကိုထိ၍ အမွတ္ႏွစ္ဆရေသာ ျမားခ်က္။ v ၁။ ႏွစ္ဆတက္သည္။ ႏွစ္ဆျဖစ္ေစသည္။ The price of houses has virtually doubled over the past few years. ❍ If you double all the quantities in the recipe it will be enough for eight people. ၂။ ႏွစ္ေခါက္ခ်ဳိးသည္၊ ေခါက္သည္။ double a blanket for extra warmth. ၃။ ~ as sth ႏွစ္မ်ဳိး အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္သည္။ When we have guests, the sofa doubles as an extra bed. adv ႏွစ္ခု။ ႏွစ္ထပ္။ ႏွစ္ေခါက္။ When I saw her and her twin sister I thought I was seeing double. သူတို႔ အႁမႊာ ညီအစ္မကို ေတြ႕လိုက္ရေတာ့ ပံုတူကိုယ္ပြားႏွစ္ခု ျမင္လိုက္ရသလို ပါပဲ။ ❍ fold a blanket double ေစာင္ကို ေခါက္ခ်ဳိးေခါက္လိုက္ ပါ။ ❍ I had to bend double to get under the table. စားပြဲ ေအာက္ဝင္ဖို႔ ခါးကို ေခါက္ခ်ဳိးခ်ဳိးလိုက္ရတယ္။ det …ထက္ႏွစ္ဆ။ …၏ႏွစ္ဆ။ His income is double hers. ❍ He earns double what she does. ❍ We need double the amount we already have. ❏ at the double; ( US ) on the double [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေျပးတက္။ အလ်င္အျမန္။ ျမန္ျမန္။ The boss wants you—you'd better get upstairs at the double. ❏ double act n ႏွစ္ပါးသြား၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္တြဲ၊ စံုတြဲ ကျပ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္သူ။ ❏ double agent n ႏွစ္ဖက္ခြၽန္သူလွ်ဳိ။ ❏ double back [ PHRV ] ႐ုတ္တရက္ေနာက္ေၾကာင္း ျပန္လွည့္ သည္။ The road ahead was flooded so we had to double back. ❏ double-barrelled adj ၁။ ႏွစ္လံုးျပဴး(ေသနတ္)။ ၂။ ( Brit ) (မ်ဳိး႐ိုးအမည္) မ်ဥ္းတိုျဖင့္ ဆက္ထားေသာ ႏွစ္လံုးတြဲ (နာမည္)။ (as in Day-Lewis): a double-barrelled surname. ❏ double-bass n တေယာအုပ္စုတြင္အႀကီးဆံုးႏွင့္ အသံအနိမ့္ဆံုး တေယာ။ တေယာႀကီး။ ❍ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ❏ double bill n တစ္ႀကိမ္တည္းတြင္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ႏွစ္ကားတြဲ ျပ ျခင္း။ (႐ုပ္ရွင္)ႏွစ္ကားေပါင္း။ (ဇာတ္) ႏွစ္ဇာတ္ထုပ္ေပါင္း။ ❏ double bluff n အမွန္ေျပာသည္ကို လိမ္ညာသည္ထင္ေအာင္ လွည့္ျဖားျခင္း။ ❏ double-book v (ႀကိဳတင္၍ ေရာင္းရာ၊ စာရင္းသြင္းရာ၌) ခံုနံပါတ္ခ်င္း၊ အခန္းနံပါတ္ခ်င္း ထပ္သြားသည္။ Compare OVERBOOK ❏ double-breasted adj ရင္ဖံုးႏွစ္ထပ္ပါေသာ (ကုတ္၊ အက်ႌ)။ ❏ double-check v ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ထပ္စစ္သည္။ ေသခ်ာစြာ စိစစ္သည္။ double-check the figures/arrangements. — n : a system of checks and double-checks. ❏ double chin n ေမးႏွစ္ထပ္။ ❏ double cream n [U] ( Brit ) ႏို႔အဆီမ်ားေသာ မလိုင္ပ်စ္။ ❏ double-cross v ( derog ) အယံုသြင္းၿပီးမွ လိမ္လည္သည္။ သစၥာေဖာက္သည္။ He double-crossed the rest of the gang and disappeared with all the stolen money. — n : a thriller about a double-cross that goes wrong. ❏ double-dealer n ( derog ) လူလိမ္လူညာ။ double-dealing n [U] ❏ double-decker n ၁။ ( esp Brit ) ႏွစ္ထပ္ဘတ္စကား။ ၂။ ( esp US ) အဆာႏွစ္လႊာပါ အသားညႇပ္ေပါင္မုန္႔။ ❏ double Dutch n [U] ( Brit infml ) အဓိပၸာယ္မရိွေသာ စာ၊ စကား။ This article's so full of jargon it's just double Dutch to me. ❏ double-edged adj ၁။ အသြားႏွစ္ဖက္ (ဓား စသည္)။ ၂။ မရွင္းလင္းေသာ၊ ဝါးေသာ၊ အဓိပၸာယ္ႏွစ္မ်ဳိး ထြက္ေသာ (စကား)။ a double-edged comment/compliment/reply. ၃။ ျခားနား ဆန္႔က်င္မႈ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးႏွစ္ခုပါေသာ (အရာ)။ a double-edged problem/aspect. ❏ double entendre /du:bl ɒ'tɒdrǝ/ n ( French ) အနက္ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးထြက္ေသာ စကား။ (တစ္မ်ဳိးက ညစ္ညမ္းအနက္ရိွသည္။ ) ❏ double-figure adj ၁၀ မွ ၉၉ အထိ။ double-figure pay rises (ie of 10% or more). ❏ double figures n [pl] ဂဏန္းႏွစ္လံုးပါကိန္း။ (၁၀-၉၉)။ ဆယ္ကိန္း။ The inflation rate is into double figures (ie at or above 10% a year). ❏ double-glaze v ျပတင္းေပါက္စသည္တြင္ မွန္ႏွစ္ထပ္ တပ္သည္။ The house is double-glazed throughout. double-glazing n [U]: have double-glazing installed. ❏ double-jointed adj ေကြးႏိုင္၊ ၫႊတ္ႏိုင္၊ ေရွ႕ေနာက္ ခ်ဳိး ႏိုင္ လွန္ႏိုင္သည့္ အ႐ိုးအဆစ္ရိွေသာ။ အ႐ိုးအဆစ္ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္း ေသာ။ ❏ double life n ေၾကာင္သူေတာ္။ လူႀကီးလူေကာင္း အေရၿခံဳ။ The world learnt of his extraordinary double life when his mistress sold her story to the newspapers. ❏ double or quits [ IDM ] (ေလာင္းကစားတြင္) သူေဌးျဖစ္ ေခြးျဖစ္ ထိုးျခင္း။ ❏ double-park v (usu passive) လမ္းေဘးတြင္ ရပ္ထား ေသာကားႏွင့္ ယွဥ္ရပ္သည္။ ကားႏွစ္ထပ္ရပ္သည္။ I can't stay long—I'm double-parked. ❏ double-quick adj, adv ( infml ) အလြန္လ်င္ျမန္ေသာ။ အလြန္လ်င္ျမန္စြာ။ We finished the job in double-quick time. ❏ double standards n က်င့္ဝတ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ လိုသူအေပၚ တစ္မ်ဳိး၊ မလိုသူအေပၚ တစ္မ်ဳိးထားသည့္ စံႏႈန္း။ စံႏွစ္မ်ဳိး။ He seems to adopt a double standard: it's apparently all right for him to have affairs but not for her. ❏ doublet /'dʌblǝt/ n ေရွးေခတ္အမ်ဳိးသား ကိုယ္က်ပ္ အက်ႌတို။ in doublet and hose. ❏ double take n (ျဖစ္ေပၚၾကားသိရခ်က္ကို ျပက္ရယ္သည့္ သေဘာ စသည္ျဖင့္) ၾကက္ေသေသၿပီး တအံ့တဩျဖစ္ရပံု (ျဖင့္တံု႔ျပန္မႈ)။ He did a double take when I said I was getting married. ❏ double-talk n [U] ေဝ့လည္ေၾကာင္ပတ္စကား။ ဟိုလိုလို သည္လိုလိုေျပာျခင္း။ He gave us no real reasons, just the usual politician's double-talk. — v : double-talk one's way out of trouble. ❏ double time n [U] အခ်ိန္ပိုအတြက္ရေသာ၊ ပံုမွန္လုပ္ခ၏ ႏွစ္ဆ။ အခ်ိန္ပိုလုပ္ခ။ ❏ double (sb) up [ PHRV ] ခါးကိုၫြတ္ေနေအာင္ ကုန္းသည္။ be doubled up with laughter/pain. . ရယ္ရလြန္းလို႔ အူႏိွပ္ ေနရတယ္/ နာလြန္းလို႔ ေခြေခါက္ေနရတယ္။ ❏ double up (on sth/with sb) ( infml )[ PHRV ] ႏွစ္ဦးတြဲ သံုးရသည္။ double up on books in a class ❍ We've only one room left: you'll have to double up with Peter. ❏ doubly /'dʌbli/ adv (used before adjs ) ၁။ ႏွစ္ဆ။ ႏွစ္ခါ။ ႏွစ္ျပန္။ Make doubly sure (ie Check twice) that all the doors are locked. ၂။ ႏွစ္ဖက္ႏွစ္လမ္း။ စြယ္စံု။ She is doubly gifted: as a writer and as a painter.

Examples

1. He went through the double doors.
2. Place the sausages on a double layer of kitchen paper.
3. A double murder
4. He had suffered a double tragedy
5. losing both parents within a short period.
6. The measures should achieve the double benefit of protecting the environment and reducing traffic.
7. [a double meaning] : She suspected his words might have a double meaning.
8. Double chocolate chip cookies
9. A double whisky
10. [a double portion/helping] : A double portion of chips
11. Sometimes I would work a double shift
12. which was 16 hours.
13. A double bed
14. A double garage