Impulse

Definition

impulse / 'Çmpʌls / n ၁။ (က) [U, C usu sing ] ~ ( to do sth ) ႐ုတ္တရက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေသာဆႏၵ။ စိတ္ေပါက္ျခင္း။ resist / stifle an impulse ❍ He felt an irresistible impulse to giggle. ❍ On (an) impulse, I picked up the phone and rang my sister in Australia. (ခ) [U] စိတ္လိုက္မာန္ပါရိွျခင္း။ a man of impulse. ၂။ [U, C usu sing ] တြန္းအား။ ေစ့ေဆာ္မႈ။ give an impulse to industrial expansion ❍ His performance lost impulse in the slow movement. ၃။ [C] ႂကြက္သား၏အာ႐ံုေၾကာကို ႏိႈးဆြမႈ။ ❑ impulse buying n [U] ႀကိဳတင္မစဥ္းစားထားဘဲ စိတ္ကူး ေပါက္သလိုဝယ္ျခင္း။

Examples

1. [an impulse to do something] : Jenny felt a sudden impulse to play some music.
2. [control/resist an impulse] : She struggled to resist the impulse to laugh.
3. [on (an) impulse] : He saw them get into the car and on an impulse he followed them.
4. [act on impulse] : Acting on impulse
5. he knocked on her door.
6. The sexual/creative impulse