Dictionary entry

Early closing

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) [U] (Brit) တစ်ပတ်တစ်ရက် ညနေပိုင်း စောစောဆိုင်ပိတ်သော ထုံးစံ။

Definition

early /'ɜ:li/ adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ ေစာေသာ။ early potatoes (ie ones that are ready to eat early in the season) ❍ an early breakfast (eg at 5 am) ❍ an early riser. Compare LATE adj ၁ ၂။ အဦးအစ။ the early morning နံနက္ေစာေစာ။ ❍ in early spring ❍ He's in his early twenties . သူဟာအသက္ ၂၀ သာသာပဲရိွေသးတယ္။ ❍ one of Mozart's early works မိုးဇက္၏ ငယ္၊ ႏုစဥ္က လက္ရာ။ ❍ in the early days of space exploration. အာကာသ စူးစမ္းရွာေဖြမႈ ေခတ္ဦးတြင္။ Compare LATE adj ၂ adv ၁။ ေစာေစာ။ ေစာၿပီး။ I got up early today. ❍ The bus arrived five minutes early. Compare LATE adv ၁ ၂။ ေစာေစာပိုင္း။ အစပိုင္း။ Two players were injured earlier in the season. ❍ I knew quite early (on) in the course that I wasn't going to enjoy it. Compare LATE adv ၂ earliness n [U] ❏ at your earliest convenience [ IDM ] ( fml esp commerce ) ေဆာလ်င္စြာ။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သမွ် အေစာဆံုး။ Please telephone at your earliest convenience. ❏ an early bird [ IDM ] ( joc ) ေစာေစာေရာက္လာသူ၊ ေစာေစာထသူ စသည္။ You're an early bird this morning! ❏ early closing n [U] ( Brit ) တစ္ပတ္တစ္ရက္ ညေနပိုင္း ေစာေစာဆိုင္ပိတ္ေသာ ထံုးစံ။ It's early closing (day) today. ❏ early days (yet) [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) (ခန္႔မွန္း ေျပာဆိုရန္) အခ်ိန္ေစာလြန္းေသးသည္။ I'm not sure if our book will be a success—it's early days yet. ❏ the early hours [ IDM ] သန္းေခါင္ေက်ာ္။ သန္းလြဲ။ They were dancing till the early hours. See also THE SMALL HOURS ❏ early warning n [U, sing] (အႏၲရာယ္ကို) ႀကိဳတင္ သတိေပးခ်က္။ provide early warning of attack ❍ a famine early warning system ❍ an early warning of heart disease.

Examples

  1. In the early 1980s
  2. several thousand jobs were lost.
  3. The temperature drops to below freezing in the early evening.
  4. The plants flower in early spring.
  5. From an early age
  6. Chaplin believed in his talents.
  7. Memories of my early childhood
  8. Julia is in her early thirties.
  9. The project is still in its very early stages.
  10. It is too early to predict whether the unemployment rate has peaked.
  11. [in the early days] : We didn’t think much about the environment in those early days.
  12. In the early Middle Ages
  13. Spring was unusually early that year.
  14. Let’s have an early lunch and then go to the cinema.
  15. Is it too early to phone them?
  16. My train was ten minutes early.
  17. [early for] : You’re a little early for the party.
  18. The early settlers used to heat their cabins with coal.
  19. Early editions of the novel
  20. Early peaches/roses