In spirit

Definition

spirit /'spÇrÇt / n ၁။ [U, C] စိတ္။ ဝိညာဥ္။ He is troubled in spirit/His spirit is troubled. ❍ ( infml ) I might go for a run if the spirit moves me (ie if I feel like it). ၂။ [C] ဝိညာဥ္။ လိပ္ျပာ။ the spirits of the dead ❍ He is dead, but his spirit lives on. ❍ It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits. See also THE HOLY SPIRIT. ၃။ [C] ( dated ) နတ္၊ တေစၧ၊ မွင္စာ စသည္။ ၄။ [C] (ရဲရင့္ေသာ၊ ရက္ေရာေသာ၊ တြန္႔တိုေသာ၊ ဦးစီးဦးေဆာင္ ျပဳေသာ စသည္) ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ a brave/proud/generous/mean/free spirit ❍ kindred spirits ❍ one of the leading spirits of the reform movement. ၅။ [U] (ရဲရင့္တက္ႂကြေသာ) စိတ္ဓာတ္၊ အားမာန္။ show a little fighting spirit ❍ break sb's spirit (ie destroy sb's will, independence, etc) ❍ Although they lost, the team played with tremendous spirit. ၆။ [U, sing] (အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအေပၚ ႐ိုင္းပင္းလိုေသာ) စိတ္။ They have (an) amazing team spirit. ❍ There's not much community spirit round here. See also PUBLIC SPIRIT. ၇။ [sing] စိတ္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္။ do sth in a spirit of fun/mischief ❍ approach sth in the wrong/right spirit ❍ ‘OK, I'll try. ’ ‘That's the spirit (ie the right attitude). ’ ❍ The party was successful because everyone entered into the spirit of the thing. ၈။ (က) [sing] စိတ္ဓာတ္။ the spirit of the times ❍ the pioneer spirit ❍ the Christmas spirit. (ခ) [U] ဆိုလိုရင္း။ အႏွစ္သာရ။ obey the spirit, not the letter (ie the narrow meaning of the words) of the law. ၉။ (က) [C usu pl ] ( esp Brit ) အရက္။ I don't drink whisky or brandy or any other spirits. (ခ) [U] အရက္ျပန္။ insects preserved in spirit. See also METHYLATED SPIRITS, SURGICAL SPIRIT, WHITE SPIRIT ၁၀။ spirits [pl] စိတ္ဓာတ္။ in high spirits (ie cheerful) ❍ in low/poor spirits (ie sad or depressed) ❍ raise sb's spirits (ie make sb more cheerful) ❍ A glass of brandy will help you to keep your spirits up. ❏ in spirit [ IDM ] စိတ္ႏွလံုးအားျဖင့္။ I shall be with you in spirit (ie thinking about you though not with you physically). ❏ spirit sb/sth away/off [ PHRV ] မ, ထုတ္သြားသည္။ The band were spirited away at the end of the concert before their fans could get near them. ❏ spirited /'spÇrÇtÇd / adj မာန္ပါေသာ။ အသက္ပါေသာ။ တက္ႂကြေသာ။ a spirited attack/reply/conversation ❍ a spirited horse. ❏ -spirited ( forming compound adjs) စိတ္ေနစိတ္ထား ရိွေသာ။ mean-spirited ❍ high-spirited children. ❏ spiritedly adv တက္တက္ႂကြႂကြ။ မာန္ပါပါ။ ❏ the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak) ( saying ) စိတ္သာရိွသည္ (အတၱေဘာကမလိုက္ႏိုင္/ ေသြးသားကို မလြန္ဆန္ ႏိုင္)။ ❏ spiritless adj ၁။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က် [ေသာ]။ စိတ္အားငယ္[ေသာ]။ The old man seemed dejected and spiritless. ၂။ အသက္ မပါေသာ။ စိတ္မပါေသာ။ ❏ spirit-level (also level) n (လက္သမားသံုး)ေရခ်ိန္။

Examples

1. Compassion is only one aspect of the human spirit.
2. An adventurous/creative/independent spirit
3. A spirit of cooperation
4. You become aware of a powerful community spirit.
5. She tried singing to keep her spirits up.
6. [lift/raise someone’s spirits] : The bad weather did nothing to lift her spirits.
7. [high/good spirits] : Dad’s in high spirits today
8. isn’t he?
9. She was admired for her spirit and passion.
10. Each country should honour the spirit of the treaty.
11. The spirit behind the words the author has written
12. His spirit will always be with us.
13. Evil spirits