Loser

Definition

lose / lu:z / v ( pt, pp lost /lɒst; US lↄ:st /) ၁။ ရွာမေတြ႕ ျဖစ္ သည္။ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးသည္။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္သြားသည္။ I’ve lost my keys. ❍ The tickets seem to be lost / to have got lost. ❍ She lost her husband in the crowd. ၂။ ဆံုး႐ံႈးသည္။ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးသည္။ lose a leg in a car crash ❍ lose one’s hair / teeth / good looks (ie as a result of getting old) ❍ He’s lost his job. ❍ He lost both his sons (ie They were killed) in the war. ❍ She’s just lost her husband (ie He has died recently). ❍ The ship was lost at sea. ❍ Many people lost their lives (ie were killed). ၃။ မရိွေတာ့ၿပီ။ နည္းသည္။ ပ်က္သည္။ ေၾကာင္သည္။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ ကုန္ခန္းသည္။ lose one’s confidence / composure / courage ❍ lose one’s nerve (ie the courage to do sth) ❍ lose interest in sth /sb (ie stop being interested in or attracted to sth/sb) ❍ lose one’s balance/ equilibrium ❍ He’s lost ten pounds in weight. ❍ I warn you, I’m rapidly losing my patience. ❍ The train was losing speed. ၄။ (က) ေပ်ာက္သည္။ His words were lost (ie could not be heard) in the applause. (ခ) ( infml ) မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္သည္။ I’m afraid you’ve lost me there. ၅။ ( infml ) မ်က္ျခည္ျဖတ္သည္။ We managed to lose our pursuers in the darkness. ၆။ (က) ~ (sth) (to sb) ႐ံႈးသည္။ အေရး နိမ့္သည္။ lose a game/a match/ a race / an election ❍ They only lost once all season. ❍ We lost to a stronger side. (ခ) ~ sth (to sth/sb) လက္လႊတ္လိုက္ရသည္။ ပါသြား သည္။ Railways have lost a lot of their passenger business (to the bus companies). ၇။ ေပ်ာက္သည္။ ဆံုး သည္။ lose one’s no - claim bonus (eg by making an insurance claim following an accident) ❍ You will lose your deposit if you cancel the holiday. ❍ Sit down or you’ll lose your seat. ၈။ အခ်ိန္ကုန္သည္။ အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။ We lost twenty minutes changing a tyre. ❍ Hurry — there’s no time to lose! ၉။ (က) ~ (sth) (on sth / by doing sth) အ႐ံႈးေပၚသည္။ နစ္နာသည္။ The business is losing money. ❍ We lost (a lot) on that deal. ❍ Poetry always loses (something) in translation. ❍ You will lose nothing/ You have nothing to lose by telling the truth. (ခ) ဆံုး႐ံႈးရသည္။ His carelessness lost him the job. ၁၀။ ေႏွးသည္။ ေနာက္က်သည္။ A good watch neither gains nor loses. ❍ This clock loses two minutes (ie becomes two minutes behind the correct time) a day. ❏ lose one’s bearings [ IDM ] လမ္းေပ်ာက္သည္။ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ ေပ်ာက္သည္။ ❏ lose count (of sth) [ IDM ] ေရရင္းႏွင့္ လက္စ ေပ်ာက္သည္။ ေမ့သြားသည္။ မမွတ္မိ။ I lost count and had to start again. ❍ She had lost count of the number of films they had seen together. ❏ lose face [ IDM ] မ်က္ႏွာပ်က္သည္။ မ်က္ႏွာငယ္ရသည္။ ❏ lose one’s grip (on sth) [ IDM ] ပိုင္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ျခင္းမရိွ။ Sometimes I feel I’m losing my grip. ❏ lose one’s head [ IDM ] ကေယာင္႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ lose heart [ IDM ] စိတ္ပ်က္အားေလ်ာ့သည္။ ❏ lose one’s heart (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] အစြဲႀကီး စြဲသည္။ ❏ lose oneself in sth [ PHRV ] ႏွစ္ျမႇဳပ္ထားသည္။ နစ္ေမ်ာသြားသည္။ I soon lost myself in the excitement of the drama. ❏ lose one’s marbles ( sl ) [ IDM ] ဦးေႏွာက္ေခ်ာင္သည္။ ❏ lose one’s mind [ IDM ] စိတ္ေနာက္သြားသည္။ ❏ lose out (on sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အခြင့္အေရး ဆံုး႐ံႈး ရသည္။ လက္လြတ္သြားသည္။ lose out on promotion. ❏ lose out to sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လႊမ္းမိုးခံရသည္။ ေဘးဖယ္ေပးရသည္။ small shops losing out to supermarkets. ❍ LOOSE 1 ❏ loser n အ႐ံႈးသမား။ a good / bad loser (ie sb who accepts defeat well/badly) ❍ a born loser (ie sb who regularly fails in life). ❏ lose sight of sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္ သြားသည္။ lose sight of land. ၂။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္သည္။ We must not lose sight of our original aim. ❏ lose the thread (of sth) [ IDM ] စကားအူ ေပါက္သည္။ အူခ်ာေပါက္သည္။ ❏ lose touch (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] အဆက္ျပတ္သည္။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္သည္။ I’ve lost touch with all my old friends. ❍ Let’s not lose touch with reality. ❏ lose one’s way [ IDM ] ၁။ လမ္းေပ်ာက္သည္။ မ်က္စိ လည္သည္။ We lost our way in the dark. ၂။ မ်က္စိ လည္သည္။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္သည္။ ❏ a losing battle [ IDM ] လႈပ္ေလျမဳပ္ေလ အေျခအေန။ It’s a losing battle trying to get the work finished on time. ❍ Researchers are fighting a losing battle against the disease. ❏ not lose sleep / lose no sleep over sth [ IDM ] ထည့္ စဥ္းစားရန္မလို။ It’s not worth losing sleep over.

Examples

1. Mike lost his job last year.
2. Register now and don’t lose your right to vote.
3. The family lost everything when their home burned down.
4. [lose someone something] : An unreasonably high exchange rate lost them export markets.
5. [lose something to someone] : They feared losing the sale to a rival company.
6. I hope you decide not to accept their offer
7. because we’ll be sorry to lose you.
8. I’ve lost my bag. Have you seen it?
9. You can easily lose a child in a busy street.
10. ‘How did you do in the quiz?’ ‘We lost.’
11. [lose to/against someone] : England lost 2–1 to Germany.
12. [lose by something] : They lost by only one point.
13. [lose someone something] : Those comments may well have lost them the election.
14. The plane lost cabin pressure and everyone had to use oxygen masks.
15. [lose 5 pounds/3kg/2 stone etc] : I lost 3kg when I was ill.
16. [lose weight] : He’s lost a lot of weight recently.
17. She lost her son in a car accident.
18. A plan to reduce the amount of working time lost through sickness
19. He must realize that an outstanding opportunity has been lost.
20. There’s no time to lose (=used for saying that it is necessary to do something as quickly as possible because the situation is urgent).
21. He lost his sight in an accident.
22. He’d lost his memory as a result of a stroke.
23. Peter lost a leg in a climbing accident.
24. He started losing his hair in his late twenties.
25. Jane started to lose interest in her schoolwork.
26. Many people have lost faith in the police force.
27. We’ve lost all hope of finding him alive.
28. The company lost more than £5 million last year.
29. I’m sorry
30. you’ve lost me there. Who’s Andrew?