Newness

Definition

new /nju:; US nu:/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ အသစ္။ a new film/ novel/ car/ idea ❍ new clothes/ furniture. See also BRAND-NEW ၂။ (က) ~ (to sb) အသစ္အသစ္ေသာ။ အသစ္အဆန္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ learn new words in a foreign language ❍ a new (ie recently discovered) star ❍ Everything in the department still seems very new to her. (ခ) ~ (to sth) စိမ္းေနေသးေသာ။ မကြၽမ္းေသးေသာ။ I am new to this town. ❍ They are still new to the work. ❍ You're new here, aren't you? ၃။ မရင္းႏီွးေသးေသာ။ …သစ္။ a new job/ teacher/ home ❍ make new friends. ၄။ လတ္လတ္ဆတ္ဆတ္။ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး။ new potatoes/ carrots (ie ones dug from the soil early in the season) ❍ new (ie freshly baked) bread. ၅။ (usu with the ) ဆန္းသစ္ေသာ။ ေခတ္ေပၚ။ the new morality ❍ the newest fashions/ colours ❍ a new breed/ type of explorer. ၆။ (က) အစပ်ဳိးခါစျဖစ္ေသာ။ a new day ❍ a new era in the history of our country. (ခ) (ဘဝ)သစ္။ (ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္) အသစ္။ start a new life ❍ This government offers new hope to the people. (ဂ) စိတ္သစ္လူသစ္ ျဖစ္သြားေသာ။ အားသစ္ မာန္သစ္ရိွေသာ။ She looks a new woman since she changed jobs. newness n [U] ❏ (as) good as new [ IDM ] အသစ္တမွ်ေကာင္းေသာ။ I'll just sew up the lining and the coat will be as good as new. ❏ new- (forming compound adjs ) (အသစ္၊ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး အနက္ရိွေသာစကားလံုး)။ new-laid eggs ❍ enjoying their new-found freedom ❍ new-style trains/ contracts. ❏ New Age adj ေခတ္သစ္။ New Age travellers/ music. ❏ new broom n အထက္လူႀကီးအသစ္။ ❏ new deal n အစီအစဥ္သစ္။ ဆက္ဆံမႈစနစ္သစ္။ The government has promised a new deal for farmers. ❏ a new lease of life; ( US ) a new lease on life [ IDM ] တစ္ေသြးတစ္ေမြး။ Since recovering from her operation, she's had a new lease of life. ❍ A bit of oil and some paint could give that old bike a new lease of life. ❏ newly adv ေလာေလာလတ္လတ္။ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး။ မၾကာခင္က။ …ခါစ။ signs of newly acquired wealth ❍ a newly married couple. ❏ newly-wed n (usu pl ) မဂၤလာေဆာင္ၿပီးစ။ ❏ new moon n ၁။ လကြယ္။ လကြယ္ခ်ိန္။ ၂။ ဆန္းစလ။ လဆန္းစအခ်ိန္။ after the next new moon. Compare FULL MOON ❏ the New Testament n [sing] (သမၼာက်မ္းစာ) ဓမၼသစ္။ ❏ new town n ( Brit ) (တိုးခ်ဲ႕)ၿမိဳ႕သစ္။ ❏ new wave (also New Wave ) n [U, sing] (က) (အႏုပညာ) လိႈင္းသစ္။ New-wave films/ designs. (ခ) ၁၉၇၀ေက်ာ္ကာလက ေခတ္စားခဲ့ေသာ ေရာ့ခ္ဂီတပံုစံ။ early teen encounters with punk and new wave. ❏ the New World n [sing] ေတာင္အေမရိကတိုက္ႏွင့္ ေျမာက္အေမရိကတိုက္။ Compare THE OLD WORLD ❏ new year n [U,sing] ႏွစ္သစ္ႏွစ္ဆန္း။ Happy new Year! ❍ I'll see you in the new year. ❏ New Year's Day ( US New Year's) n [U] ႏွစ္ဆန္း တစ္ရက္ေန႔။ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁ ရက္။ ❏ New Year's Eve n [U] ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁ရက္။ ႏွစ္သစ္ကူး အႀကိဳေန႔။ ❏ turn over a new leaf [ IDM ] (ဘဝ) က႑သစ္ တစ္ရပ္ စတင္သည္။ Becoming a father made him turn over a new leaf.

Examples

1. They are going to build a new office block here.
2. We went to the new Tom Cruise film last week.
3. A revolutionary new wheelchair that operates by voice commands
4. I was enthusiastic and full of new ideas.
5. A new initiative to tackle unemployment
6. The course has little new to offer.
7. Is this camera new?
8. [brand/spanking new] : How can she afford to buy a brand new Ferrari?
9. Have you seen my new car? I bought it yesterday.
10. She’s hoping to move into her new flat next week.
11. Matthew’s got a new girlfriend.
12. She takes up the new post on January 26.
13. I could do with some new shoes.
14. I need to get a new passport – my old one’s expired.
15. A new approach to the problem
16. [new breed] : She is one of a new breed of politicians.
17. [new generation] : The exciting new generation of hand-held computers
18. New entrants do written tests in their first week.
19. Many firms help new employees with finding accommodation.
20. [new to] : We are new to the London area.
21. I showed her a new technique for catching the frogs.
22. Why not study a new language?
23. Police have now been given some new information.
24. Scientists have discovered a new drug for the treatment of depression.
25. [new to] : Many of these plants are entirely new to science.
26. This could be the beginning of a new era in transatlantic politics.
27. [whole new] : The scheme could mean a whole new way of life for residents.