Nature

Definition

nature /'neÇtʃǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] သဘာဝ။ the wonders of nature ❍ manufactured substances not found in nature. ၂။ (often Nature) [U] သဘာဝတရား။ contrary to the laws of Nature ❍ It's best to let nature take its course. ❍ man's constant attempts to control nature. See also MOTHER NATURE ၃။ (က) [C,U] သဘာဝဗီဇ။ ဗီဇ။ appeal to sb's better nature (ie the generous part of their character) ❍ It's against his nature (ie not his natural reaction) to be unkind. ❍ There is no cruelty in her nature. ❍ Cats and dogs have quite different natures—dogs like company, cats are independent. ❍ She is proud by nature. See also HUMAN NATURE, SECOND NATURE (ခ) [sing] သေဘာသဘာဝ။ Chemists study the nature of gases. ❍ He knows nothing of the nature of my work. ၄။ [sing] အမ်ဳိးအစား။ မ်ဳိး။ Things of that nature do not interest me.  against nature [ IDM ] သဘာဝမဟုတ္ေသာ။ ကိုယ္က်င့္ တရားႏွင့္မညီေသာ။ a crime against nature. ❏ (go, etc) back to nature [ IDM ] ေတာသဘာဝအတိုင္း ျပန္လည္၍ ေနထိုင္သည္။ man's yearning to get back to nature.  in the nature of sth [ IDM ] ႏွင့္တူသည္။ ဟန္ရိွသည္။ His speech was in the nature of an apology.  -natured (forming compound adjs ) … စိတ္ သေဘာထားရိွေသာ။ good -natured. ❏ nature reserve n ေဘးမဲ့ေတာ။  nature study n [U] အပင္မ်ား၊ တိရစၧာန္မ်ား၊ ပိုးမႊားမ်ားကို (ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၌) ေလ့လာျခင္း။  nature trail n (ေတာေတာင္သဘာဝ၊ အပင္၊ အေကာင္တို႔ကို ေလ့လာႏိုင္ေသာ) ေတာတြင္းလူသြားလမ္း။

Examples

1. An opportunity to enjoy the beauty of nature in Alaska
2. Barone’s interest was in nature
3. wildlife
4. and birds.
5. He’s always loved pitting his skills against the forces of nature.
6. [nature of] : It’s the nature of plastic to melt under high temperatures.
7. They must understand the nature of our opposition to nuclear testing.
8. [by its (very) nature] : Medical records
9. by their very nature
10. contain sensitive information.
11. [true nature] : Dunston refused to reveal the true nature of her work.
12. [in nature] : The role of the Board is only advisory in nature.
13. The pony has a very gentle nature.
14. [by nature] : Apes are curious by nature.
15. [in someone’s nature] : It isn’t in my nature to be pushy or aggressive.
16. [someone’s better nature] : If we can appeal to Charlotte’s better nature we can work out a compromise.
17. His behaviour was inappropriate for a meeting of this nature.
18. [in the nature of] : The consultation will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a formal enquiry.