Dictionary entry
Early warning
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(n) (U, sing) (အန္တရာယ်ကို) ကြိုတင် သတပေးချက်။
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
- In the early 1980s
- several thousand jobs were lost.
- The temperature drops to below freezing in the early evening.
- The plants flower in early spring.
- From an early age
- Chaplin believed in his talents.
- Memories of my early childhood
- Julia is in her early thirties.
- The project is still in its very early stages.
- It is too early to predict whether the unemployment rate has peaked.
- [in the early days] : We didn’t think much about the environment in those early days.
- In the early Middle Ages
- Spring was unusually early that year.
- Let’s have an early lunch and then go to the cinema.
- Is it too early to phone them?
- My train was ten minutes early.
- [early for] : You’re a little early for the party.
- The early settlers used to heat their cabins with coal.
- Early editions of the novel
- Early peaches/roses