Large

Definition

large /lɑ:dʒ / adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ ႀကီးေသာ။ ေျမာက္ျမားေသာ။ မ်ားေသာ။ a large number of people ❍ a large amount of money ❍ A large family needs a large house. ❍ She inherited a large fortune. ❍ He has a very large appetite. ❍ large engineering companies ❍ The club has a very large membership. ❍ FAT 1 ၂။ အႀကီးစား။ ဆိုက္ႀကီး။ Buy the large packet — it works out cheaper. ❍ This sweater is size large. Compare MEDIUM adj , SMALL ၃။ အျမင္က်ယ္ေသာ။ ပမာဏႀကီးမားေသာ။ take the large view ❍ a large and complex problem. ❍ BIG ❏ at large [ IDM ] ၁။ အမ်ားစုအေနျဖင့္။ the opinion of students / voters / society at large. ၂။ ဖမ္းမမိေသး။ လြတ္ေနဆဲ။ The escaped prisoner is still at large. ❏ by and large [ IDM ] အမ်ားအားျဖင့္။ ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္။ By and large, I agree with you. ❏ in large part [ IDM ] ပို၍။ He was in large part to blame. ❏ (as) large as life [ IDM ] ( joc ) အရွင္လတ္လတ္။ I thought she'd gone to Australia but there she was, (as) large as life. ❏ largely adv အဓိကအားျဖင့္။ a largely empty train ❍ It was largely a matter of poor management. ❍ The case was reopened largely because of new medical evidence. largeness n [U] ❏ larger than life [ IDM ] အဟန္႔ေကာင္းေသာ။ ေပၚလြင္ ထင္ရွားေသာ။ Everything about her is larger than life. ❏ large-scale adj ၁။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ ျဖစ္ေသာ၊ ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ။ large-scale unemployment/ destruction ❍ a large-scale police search. ၂။ အခ်ဳိးႀကီးႀကီး။ စေကးႀကီးႀကီး။ Compare SMALL-SCALE ❏ largish adj ခပ္ႀကီးႀကီး။ ခပ္မ်ားမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ။

Examples

1. The house had an exceptionally large garden.
2. A large man with a long ginger beard stood in the doorway.
3. ‘What size do you take?’ ‘Large.’
4. The range of possibilities is quite large.
5. Samples were drawn from a large number of different occupations.
6. They had lent large sums of money to two companies in Northern Ireland.
7. If you are dealing with a large firm
8. make sure you see the local manager.