Dictionary entry
In
Pronunciation: /ɪn/
Pronunciation
/ɪn/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) အထဲမှာ (prep) ၌
Definition
in 1 / Çn / adv part ၁။ (က) ထည့္ထားလ်က္။ ပါလ်က္။ The top drawer is the one with the cutlery in. ❍ I'm afraid I can't drink coffee with milk in. (ခ) အတြင္းသို႔။ အထဲသို႔။ She opened the bedroom door and went in. ❍ The children were playing by the river when one of them slipped and fell in. ၂။ (အထဲ၊ အိမ္ထဲ၊ အလုပ္ခြင္) မွာ၊ တြင္။ Nobody was in when we called. ❍ She's usually in by seven o'clock. ❍ I'm afraid the manager isn't in today. Compare OUT ၂ ၃။ တြင္ (ေရာက္ၿပီး၊ ရၿပီးျဖစ္လ်က္)။ Applications must be in by 30 April. ၄။ တြင္ (ဆိုက္ရန္)။ The coach is due in (ie It should arrive) at 6 o'clock. ၅။ (ဒီေရ) တက္လ်က္။ (စုတ္လာဘ္)ဝင္လ်က္။ It's one o'clock. The tide must be in. ❍ Is the tide coming in or going out? ❍ ( fig ) My luck's in—I won a new car in a raffle. ၆။ သိမ္းရန္။ သြင္းရန္။ The cows will be in for milking soon. ❍ It's time to get the wheat in. ၇။ ေခတ္စားလ်က္။ ေခတ္ထလာလ်က္။ Short skirts are (coming) in again. ၈။ ေရြးခ်ယ္ခံရလ်က္။ Several new Labour councillors got in at the last election. ၉။ ( sport ) (က) (ကစားလွည့္) က်ေရာက္လ်က္။ England were in first. (ခ) စည္းအတြင္းသို႔ က်ေရာက္လ်က္။ Her service was in. Compare OUT ၁၇ adj ( infml ) ေခတ္စားေသာ။ ေပၚပင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ the in place to go ❍ It's the in thing to do at the moment. prep ၁။ (ေနရာအားျဖင့္) (က) ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ the highest mountain in the world ❍ a country in Africa ❍ islands in the Pacific Ocean ❍ the biggest shop in town ❍ children playing in the street / swimming in the pool ❍ It's in that drawer. ❍ I read about it in the newspaper. ❍ Can you see the dog in the picture? (ခ) ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ lying in bed (Compare: sitting on the bed) ❍ sitting in an armchair ❍ Leave the key in the lock. ❍ a cigarette in her mouth ❍ What have you got in your hand / pocket? ၂။ ထဲ။ အထဲ။ He dipped his pen in the ink. ❍ Throw it in the fire. ❍ She got in her car and drove off. ၃။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ in 1999 ❍ in the 21st century ❍ in spring / summer ❍ in March (Compare: on 18 March) ❍ in the morning / afternoon / evening ❍ I'm getting forgetful in my old age. ❍ MORNING, TIME n ၄ ။ (က) ၌။ အတြင္း။ return in a few minutes / hours / days / months ❍ It will be ready in a weeks. ❍ She learnt to drive in three weeks (ie After 3 weeks she could drive). (ခ) ၌။ အတြင္း။ I haven't seen him in years. ❍ It's the first / only letter I've had in 10 days. ၅။ ဝတ္လ်က္။ boys dressed in their best clothes ❍ the man in the hat ❍ be in uniform / mourning / disguise / armour ❍ She was all in black. ၆။ ထဲ။ အထဲ။ go out in the rain ❍ He was sitting alone in the darkness. ၇။ (ျဖစ္၊ ရိွ၊ မိ)ေန။ အေနျဖင့္။ I'm in love! ❍ His things were in order / in a complete mess. ❍ The house is in good repair. ❍ He was in a rage. ❍ I'm in a hurry. ❍ It was said in anger / in fun. ❍ The apple trees are in blossom. ❍ My son is in his early thirties. ၈။ (က) ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ He's in the army / navy / air force. ❍ She's in business / insurance / computers / journalism. ❍ He's been in politics (ie a politician) for twenty years. (ခ) စဥ္။ အတြင္း။ In (ie While) attempting to save the child from drowning, she nearly lost her own life. ❍ In all the commotion I forgot to tell her the news. ၉။ တြင္။ မွာ။ be in a play / concert ❍ run in the 100 metres. ၁၀။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ There are 31 days in May. ❍ all the paintings in the collection / in the exhibition ❍ I recognize his father in him (ie His character is partly similar to his father's). ၁၁။ အသြင္၊ အလိုက္၊ ပံုျဖစ္ေအာင္။ a novel in three parts ❍ stand in groups ❍ sit in rows ❍ She has her hair in a pony-tail. ❍ Roll it up in a ball. ❍ Tourists queue in (their) thousands to see the tomb. ၁၂။ လို။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ မွာ။ speak in English ❍ write a message in code ❍ notes written in biro / ink / pencil ❍ printed in italics / capitals ❍ summarize one's ideas in a few words ❍ speak in a loud voice ❍ pay in cash (Compare: by cheque) ❍ see oneself in the mirror. ၁၃။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ He's behind the others in reading but a long way ahead in maths. ❍ be lacking in courage ❍ a country rich in minerals ❍ three feet in length / depth / diameter ❍ He's blind in one eye. ၁၄။ ျဖစ္ေသာ (ျဖစ္တဲ့)။ We have lost a first-rate teacher in Jim Parks. ၁၅။ တြင္။ a slope / gradient of one in five ❍ taxed at the rate of 15p in the pound ❍ One in ten said they preferred their old brand of margarine. ❑ be in for sth [ IDM ] ( in fml ) ရင္ဆိုင္ရေတာ့မွာပဲ။ He's in for a nasty shock / surprise! ❍ I'm afraid we're in for a storm. ❑ be/get in on sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပါဝင္သည္။ အသိ ေပးသည္။ I'd like to be in on the scheme. ❍ Are you in on her secret? ❑ be (well) in with sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပလဲနံပ သင့္သည္။ အဆင္ေျပသည္။ He's well in with the boss. ❑ in and out (of sth) [ IDM ] အိမ္ဦးႏွင့္ၾကမ္းျပင္ သြား ေနရသည္။ He's been in and out of hospital (ie often ill and in hospital) all year. ❑ the ins and outs (of sth) [ IDM ] ခေရေစ့တြင္းက်။ know all the ins and outs of a problem ❍ He's been here for years—he should know the ins and outs of the job by now. ❑ in that / Çn ðǝt / [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းမူကား။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ ဆိုေသာ္။ Privatization is said to be beneficial, in that it promotes competition. in 2 abbr ( pl unchanged or ins ) (also symb ") လက္မ (အတိုင္း အတာ)။ 4 in x (ie by) 2 in (4" x 2") ❍ He is 6ft 2 in (tall). Compare FT, YD in- 1 (also im- ) pref ၁။ (အတြင္းသို႔/အေပၚမွဟု အနက္ ရိွေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ intake ❍ imprint. ၂။ (အေျခအေန ဖန္တီးမႈျပေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ inflame ❍ imperil. in- 2 (also il- , im- , ir- ) pref မ။ မဟုတ္။ infinite ❍ illogical ❍ immorally ❍ irrelevance. ❍ UN- -in / Çn / comb form (လူအမ်ား ပါဝင္မႈေဖာ္ျပေသာ ႀကိယာ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ a sit-in ❍ teach-ins.
Examples
- He had left his passport in his coat pocket.
- She’s downstairs in the sitting room.
- If convicted
- Goldman faces 20 years in prison.
- There’s room for all of us in Dad’s car.
- Have you seen a bag with some tools in?
- The books are printed in Hong Kong.
- The largest stadium in the world
- A picnic in the park
- Most evenings we stay in and watch television.
- I asked to speak to the manager but he wasn’t in.
- We noticed a crack in the wall.
- The bacteria in our drinking water
- [in the air/in the sky/in space] : There wasn’t a cloud in the sky.
- It was the astronauts’ first experience of living in space.
- Further details can be found in Section 25.
- [in the middle/centre] : A new department store in the centre of London
- What’s that you’ve got in your hand?
- They lay together in each other’s arms.
- I invited her in for a drink.
- The door was open so I just walked in.
- The water’s very deep – don’t fall in!
- The guards fired a few shots in the air.
- Look in the top drawer of my desk.
- The dog stood motionless with its tail sticking straight up in the air.
- What time does your flight get in?
- The train from Paddington was just pulling in.
- The ferry won’t be in for another hour.
- What time did you get in last night?
- I’m going to be late
- so don’t expect me in till after ten.
- Mel Gibson was born in 1956.
- In winter the lake freezes over.
- Let’s meet again in the morning
- at around 9.30.
- The dance was popular in the 1920s.
- The exams are in six weeks’ time.
- Wait
- I’ll be with you in a minute or two.
- Unemployment has risen by over 15% in the past year.
- In the last few minutes we have received reports of an explosion on board an oil tanker.
- Ernie had suffered two heart attacks in the space of a week.
- I haven’t laughed so much in years.
- It was the president’s first public appearance in three months.
- Owen’s brother died in the war.
- I sometimes look back and think of all the things I’ve done in my life.
- There are 1000 kilograms in a tonne.
- Lions often hunt in pairs.
- People began to arrive in twos and threes.
- One in twelve of the adult population suffers from stress.
- [in the twenties/fifties/seventies etc] : A hot summer’s day with temperatures in the upper 20s
- Most students got marks in the seventies or eighties.
- Damage is estimated in the thousands of dollars.
- [in your teens/twenties/thirties etc] : My daughter is in her mid-thirties now.
- Income tax now stands at 22 pence in the pound.
- Bailey was in the long-distance cycle race.
- Leeds United fans took part in a massive street party.
- She’s a teacher and her husband works in publishing.
- There have been amazing advances in medical science.
- The crisis in farming
- A university degree in economics
- I’m sorry my room’s in such a mess.
- The army retreated in confusion.
- She wants to travel around the world while she’s still in good health.
- Kevin is in trouble again.
- Their lives were in danger.
- We wanted to get married because we were very much in love.
- Are we all in agreement?
- The United States will work in co-operation with her allies.
- She looked so beautiful in her wedding dress.
- A man in a clown’s hat came and sat beside her.
- There’s going to be a change in the weather.
- The recent rise in oil prices
- We are trying to teach mathematics in a more interesting way.
- The houses are all built in the traditional style.
- You have to pay in cash.
- We all sat in silence.
- She called out to me in a loud voice.
- [in tears] : Some of the children were in tears.
- [in English/Spanish etc] : Go on
- say something in French.
- There are instructions in eight languages.
- [in ink/pencil/chalk/oils etc] : A short note written in pencil
- There were artists painting in oils and watercolours.
- Write your name and address in capital letters.
- Kenny’s been in the Boy Scouts since he was eight.
- She has a number of Picasso’s paintings in her private collection.
- We all sat round in a circle.
- The vines are planted out in straight rows.
- The names are listed in alphabetical order.
- The girls were all dressed in white.
- Are these curtains available in green?
- Have you been waiting outside in the rain?
- Flags were fluttering in the breeze.
- Mr Micawber is one of the best-loved characters in English literature.
- The disaster is vividly recalled in James Cameron’s film Titanic.
- Debbie Reynolds co-starred with Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain.
- Who’s in the new movie with Brad Pitt?
- I saw the house advertised in the local paper.
- She’s so selfish in her attitude to other people.
- The words are similar but there is a difference in meaning.
- Fill in your name and address at the top of the form.
- I typed in my password and my email address.
- The children were busy colouring in the maps they had drawn.
- She spoke more in disappointment than in anger.
- In my enthusiasm I quite forgot Dr Ziegler’s warning.
- Homework must be handed in tomorrow morning.
- Have you sent in your application form?
- I shall collect your books in at the end of the lesson.
- [be in] : Tax forms must be in by the end of September.
- There is a lot of fat in cheese and butter.
- Do you take milk in your tea?
- Smoked salmon? We’ll have some in on Thursday.
- In Nelson Mandela the people had a leader that they could respect and admire.
- We hope things will get better now the Tories are in.
- [get in] : The Labour candidate got back in with an increased majority.
- Pale colours are definitely in this summer.
- [the in thing (to do)] : We used to go to boring cocktail parties just because it was the in thing to do.
- They kicked the door in and charged through.
- The roof caved in and buried all of them.