Light aircraft

Definition

light 1 / laÇt / n ၁။ [U] (က) အလင္းေရာင္။ အလင္း။ ေရာင္ျခည္။ the light of the sun / a lamp / the fire. (ခ) အလင္းေရာင္။ မီး။ the flickering light of a candle ❍ The light was beginning to fail (ie It was getting dark). ❍ This light is too poor to read by. ❍ ( fig ) A soft light (ie expression) came into her eyes as she looked at him. [ဥ] သူ႕ကို ၾကည့္လိုက္စဥ္ မိန္းကေလး၏ မ်က္ဝန္းတြင္ ၾကင္နာယုယေသာ အရိပ္အေယာင္ လႊမ္းလာသည္။ Compare DARK n See also FIRST LIGHT ၂။ [C] (ဓာတ္မီး၊ မီးေခ်ာင္းစေသာ) မီး။ turn / switch the lights on / off ❍ Far below us we could see the lights of the city. ❍ A light was still burning in his study. ❍ Keep going, the lights (ie traffic lights) are green. See also RED LIGHT ၃။ [C] မီးျခစ္။ ဓာတ္မီးျခစ္။ Have you got a light (eg for a cigarette)? ၄။ [U] နားလည္မႈ။ အျမင္မွန္ရျခင္း။ I wrestled with the puzzle for ages before the light finally dawned (ie I understood the solution). ၅။ [C] ( architecture ) ျပတင္း။ ေလသြန္။ leaded lights. ၆။ [U, C usu sing ] ( art ) အလင္း။ light and shade. See also LEADING LIGHT adj ၁။ လင္းေသာ။ လင္းလင္းက်င္းက်င္းရိွေသာ။ a light airy room ❍ In spring the evenings start to get lighter. ၂။ ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ။ ႏုေသာ။ light blue eyes ❍ Light colours suit you best. Compare DARK adj ၁၊ ၂ v ( pt , pp lit / lt / or lighted) ၁။ မီးညိႇသည္။ မီးစြဲသည္။ light a cigarette / candle / fire / match ❍ This wood is so damp it won’t light. ၂။ (မီး) ထြန္းသည္။ A single bulb lit the corrider. ❍ These streets are well /poorly lit. ❍ Nowadays, houses are mostly lit by electricity. ၃။ ( fml ) ထြန္းျပေပးသည္။ His way was lit by the moon. ❏ be/stand in sb’s light [ IDM ] (အလင္းေရာင္၊ မီးေရာင္) ကြယ္ရပ္သည္။ I can’t read — you’re in my light. ❏ bring sth to light [ IDM ] ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ သိခြင့္ရသည္။ New facts have been brought to light. ❏ cast / shed / throw light on sth [ IDM ] ေဖာ္ထုတ္ ေပးသည္။ ထြန္းျပသည္။ Recent research has shed new light on the causes of the disease. ❏ come to light [ IDM ] ေပၚလာသည္။ ေတြ႕ရိွလာသည္။ New evidence has recently come to light. မၾကာေသးမီက သက္ေသသာဓက ထပ္မံရရိွခဲ့သည္။ ❏ go out like a light [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမ့ေျမာသြားသည္ (သို႔) ႐ုတ္တရက္ အိပ္ေပ်ာ္သြားသည္။ ❏ in a good, bad, favourable, etc light [ IDM ] အေကာင္းျမင္သေဘာျဖင့္ (သို႔) အဆိုးျမင္သေဘာျဖင့္။ The newspapers have presented his actions in the worst possible light. ❍ It is hard to view his conduct in a favourable light. ❏ in the light of sth ; ( US ) in light of sth [ IDM ]…အရ။ review the plans in the light of past experience. ❏ light at the end of the tunnel [ IDM ] (အခက္အခဲ၊ ဒုကၡမ်ားမွ) လြတ္ေျမာက္ရန္ လမ္းစေရးေရး။ ❏ light bulb n = BULB ၂ ❏ light-coloured adj ( US -colored ) အေရာင္ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ။ ႏုေသာ။ I prefer light-coloured fabrics. ❏ lighting n [U] (က) (လမ္းစသည္)မီး။ street lighting. (ခ) (မီးေခ်ာင္းစသည္) မီး။ fluorescent lighting ❍ Subtle lighting helps people relax. ❍ help with sound and lighting (eg in the theatre). ❏ light meter n ဓာတ္ပံုမ႐ိုက္မီ အလင္းေရာင္အားတိုင္းရန္ ကိရိယာ။ ❏ light-pen n ၁။ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာေမာ္နီတာ ဖန္သားျပင္၌ ပံု အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးေရးဆြဲရန္၊ ေထာက္၍ေရြးခ်ယ္ႏိုင္ရန္ အလင္းေရာင္ တံု႔ျပန္မႈရိွသည့္ ေခါင္းပါေသာ ကေလာင္ပံုကိရိယာ။ ၂။ စာအုပ္၊ ပုလင္း၊ ဘူးစသည္တြင္ ႐ိုက္ႏိွပ္ မွတ္သားထားေသာ မ်ဥ္းသညာမွတ္ (ဘားကုတ္)ဖတ္ရန္ သံုးသည့္ အလားတူကိရိယာ။ ❏ light (sth) up [ PHRV ] ( infml )… မီးညိႇသည္။ light up a pipe. ❏ light up (with sth) [ PHRV ] ဝင္းထိန္သြားသည္။ ဝင္းလက္ သြားသည္။ Her eyes lit up with joy. ❏ light sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဝင္းထိန္သြားသည္။ ဝင္းလက္ သြားသည္။ A rare smile lit up his stern features. ၂။ ထြန္းထားသည္။ လင္းလက္သြားသည္။ a castle lit up with floodlights ❍ A flash of lightning lit up the sky. ❏ light-year n ၁။ ( astronomy ) တစ္ႏွစ္အတြင္း အလင္းေရာင္ ေပါက္ေရာက္သည့္ ခရီး(မိုင္သန္းေပါင္း ၆သန္းခန္႔)။ အလင္းႏွစ္။ ၂။ light-years [pl] (infml ) ကေမ႓ကမ႓ာ။ Racial equality still seems light-years away. ❏ see the light [ IDM ] အျမင္မွန္ရသည္။ ❏ see the light (of day) [ IDM ] ၁။ ( rhet ) ေမြးဖြားသည္။ ၂။ (အႀကံဉာဏ္၊ စိတ္ကူး) စတင္ ေပါက္ဖြားသည္။ The notion of a Channel Tunnel first saw the light of day more than a century ago. ❏ set light to sth [ IDM ] မီး႐ိႈ႕သည္။ light 2 / laÇt / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ေပါ့ေသာ။ အေလးခ်ိန္ ေလ်ာ့ေသာ။ Carry this bag — it’s the lightest. ❍ He’s lost a lot of weight — he’s three kilos lighter than he used to be. ၂။ ေပါ့ပါးေသာ။ ဝန္ေပါ့ေသာ။ light summer clothes ❍ This coat is light but very warm. ❍ The old bridge can only be used by light vehicles. ၃။ အေလးခ်ိန္ေလ်ာ့ေသာ။ This sack of potatoes is five kilos light. ၄။ ညင္သာေသာ။ ေပါ့ပါးေသာ။ a light tap on the shoulder ❍ light footsteps ❍ apply light pressure ❍ be light on one’s feet (ie graceful and quick). ၅။ ေပါ့ပါးေသာ။ take a little light exercise ❍ Since her accident she can only do light work. ၆။ ျမဴးႂကြေသာ။ အေပ်ာ္ဖတ္(စာေပ)။ light music / comedy / entertainment / conversation ❍ I took some light reading (eg a magazine) for the train journey. ၇။ မျပင္း ထန္ေသာ။ သက္သာေသာ။ ေပါ့ေသာ။ a light attack of indigestion ❍ He got off with a light sentence. ၈။ (ေလ)မထန္ေသာ။ (မိုး၊ ႏွင္း)ဖြဲဖြဲက်ေသာ။ (အေရာင္းအဝယ္) ပါးေသာ။ light showers of rain ❍ The wind is very light. ❍ Trading on the Stock Exchange was light today. ၉။ ပါးေသာ။ မြေသာ။ light traffic ❍ The river was visible through a light mist. ❍ This plant will only grow in light soil. ၁၀။ (က) နည္းနည္းမွ်။ ေတာ္႐ံုတန္႐ံု။ အေတာ္ အသင့္။ a light snack / supper / pudding. (ခ) အစာေၾက လြယ္ေသာ။ a light pudding. (ဂ) မြေသာ။ ရြေသာ။ Her souffles are always so light. ၁၁။ (အအိပ္) ဆတ္ေသာ။ My mother’s a very light sleeper and wakes at the slightest noise. ၁၂။ ( US also lite ) မျပင္းေသာ။ a light beer / white wine. ၁၃။ ရႊင္ပ်ေသာ။ ေသာကကင္းေသာ။ with a light heart ❍ He kept his voice light. adv ေပါ့ေပါ့ပါးပါး။ I always travel light. ❏ get off lightly / cheaply [ IDM ] ( infml ) သက္သက္ သာသာႏွင့္ လြတ္သြားသည္။ He got off lightly with a small fine. ❏ lightness n [U] ေပါ့ပါးျခင္း။ ညင္သာျခင္း။ lightness of heart ❍ lightness of touch (eg when playing the piano). ❏ light aircraft n ( pl unchanged) (ခရီးသည္ ၆ေယာက္ ေအာက္) အေပါ့စားေလယာဥ္။ ❏ (as) light as air / as a feather [ IDM ] အလြန္ေပါ့ေသာ။ ❏ light-fingered adj ( infml ) လက္ေဆာ့ေသာ။ ❏ light-headed adj ရီတီတီျဖစ္ေသာ။ After four glasses of wine he began to feel light-headed. ❏ light-hearted adj (က) ရႊင္ျမဴးဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a light-hearted after-dinner speech. (ခ) အပူအပင္ မရိွေသာ။ ရႊင္ရႊင္ပ်ပ်ျဖစ္ေသာ။ She felt light-hearted and optimistic. ❏ light-heartedly adv ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရႊင္။ ရႊင္ရႊင္ျမဴးျမဴး။ ရႊင္ရႊင္ပ်ပ်။ ❏ light heavyweight n (၇၂. ၅) ႏွင့္ (၇၉.၅) ကီလိုဂရမ္ အၾကား ကိုယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ရိွေသာ လက္ေဝွ႔သမား။ ❏ light industry n [C, U] အေသးစားစက္မႈ လက္မႈ လုပ္ငန္း။ ❏ lightly adv ၁။ ညင္သာစြာ။ ဖြဖြ။ ေပါ့ပါးသြက္လက္စြာ။ He kissed her lightly on the cheek. ❍ She ran lightly up the stairs. ၂။ ေပါ့ေပါ့တန္တန္။ Involvement in the conflict is not to be undertaken lightly. ၃။ ေပါ့ပါး သြက္လက္စြာ။ ‘I’ll be all right,’ she said lightly. ❏ make light of sth [ IDM ] ေပါ့ေပါ့တန္တန္ လုပ္သည္။ He made light of his injury. ❏ make light work of sth [ IDM ] ျမန္ျမန္ဆန္ဆန္၊ မပင္မပန္း လုပ္ေဆာင္သည္။ We made light work of the tidying up. light 3 / laÇt / v ( pt, pp lit / lt / or lighted ) ❏ light on/upon sb/sth [ PHRV ]( fml ) အမွတ္မထင္ ေတြ႕သည္။ Luckily, I lit on a secondhand copy of the book. ❏ light out ( US sl ) လစ္ထြက္သည္။ I lit out for home.

Examples

1. The room gets a lot of light in the afternoons.
2. [light shines] : Light from the street lamps was shining through a gap in the curtains.
3. [a beam/flash/shaft/ray of light] : The clouds parted and a single beam of light fell on the church.
4. [by the light of something] : The house could be clearly seen by the light of the moon.
5. [be/stand in someone’s light] : It’s harder when you keep standing in my light.
6. The grey light of dawn
7. The lamp produces a very warm soft light.
8. The light started to fade so we had to stop playing.
9. I could see a light in the window of the farmhouse.
10. [turn on/switch on/put on a light] : Could somebody put the light on?
11. [turn off/switch off/put off a light] : I turned the lights off and shut the door.
12. [a light comes on] : Lights were coming on in the street.
13. [a light goes off/out] : The light flickered and went out.
14. [a warning/security light] : A red warning light comes on when the brake fluid is low.
15. You’ve left your lights on.
16. I nearly drove through a red light.
17. [the lights] : Turn left at the lights.
18. Have you got a light?