Existing

Definition

exist /Çg'zÇst/ v ၁။ (က) တည္သည္။ ရိွသည္။ laws that have existed for hundreds of years ❍ Do you believe fairies exist (ie that there are really fairies)? ❍ Does life exist on Mars? (ခ) ေတြ႕ႏိုင္သည္။ တည္ရိွသည္။ This plant exists only in Australia. ❍ Without conservation many species would cease to exist. ၂။ ~ (on sth) အသက္ဆက္ ေနရသည္။ ရပ္တည္ေနရသည္။ We cannot exist without food and water. ❍ He exists on rice and little else. ❍ I can hardly exist on the wages I'm getting. ❏ existence /-ǝns/ n ၁။ [U] ရိွျခင္း။ ျဖစ္တည္ျခင္း။ Do you believe in the existence of ghosts? ❍ This is the oldest Hebrew manuscript in existence (ie that exists). ❍ When did the world come into existence (ie begin to exist)? ❍ I was unaware of his existence until today. ၂။ (က) [sing] ရပ္တည္မႈ။ ဘဝ။ living a miserable existence miles from the nearest town ❍ We led a happy enough existence as children. (ခ) [sing, U] အသက္ရွင္ေရး။ ရပ္တည္ေရး။ The peasants depend on a good harvest for their very existence (ie simply in order to survive). ❍ They eke out a bare existence (ie hardly manage to live) on her low salary. ❏ existent /-ǝnt/ adj ( fml ) တကယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ တကယ္တည္ရိွ ေသာ။ Compare non-existent ❏ existing adj တည္ဆဲ။ existing rates of pay ❍ No changes need be made to the existing rules.

Examples

1. Dragons don’t exist.
2. Opportunities exist in our company for experienced engineers.
3. There is no evidence that life exists on other planets.
4. She walked past me as if I didn’t exist.
5. [exist to do something] : The union exists to promote your interests.
6. [cease to exist] : The company officially ceased to exist at midnight on March 31st.
7. [exist on] : You can’t exist on only 500 calories a day.
8. [exist for] : How can I exist for a week without seeing you?
9. You can’t exist for long without water.