Once

Definition

once /wʌns / adv ၁။ တစ္ႀကိမ္။ I've only been there once. ❍ He cleans his car once a week. ❍ She only sees her parents once every six months. ၂။ (က) တစ္ခ်ိန္က။ တစ္ခါက။ I once met your mother. ❍ He once lived in Zambia. (ခ) တစ္ခ်ိန္က။ တစ္ခါက။ This book was famous once, but nobody reads it today. ၃။ တစ္ႀကိမ္ တစ္ခါမွ်။ He never once offered/ He didn't once offer to help. conj ေသာအခါ။ … လွ်င္ …ခ်င္း။ Once you learn the basic rules, it's easy to play. ❍ How would we cope once the money had gone? ❏ all at once [ IDM ] ၁။ ႐ုတ္တရက္။ All at once the door opened. ❍ All at once she lost her temper. ၂။ တစ္ၿပိဳင္ တည္း။ I can't do everything all at once—you'll have to be patient. ❍ The bills came all at once. ❏ at once [ IDM ] ၁။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ Come here at once! ❍ She fell asleep almost at once. ၂။ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္း။ တစ္ခါတည္း။ ၿပိဳင္တူ။ Don't all speak at once! ❍ I can't do two things at once. ❍ The film is at once humorous and moving. ❏ (just) for once; just this once [ IDM ] ရွားရွားပါးပါး။ တစ္ခါတည္းသာ။ Just for once he arrived on time. ❍ Can't you be nice to each other just this once? ❏ the once n [sing] ( infml ) တစ္ႀကိမ္မွ်သာ။ She's only done it the once so don't be too angry. ❏ once again; once more [ IDM ] ေနာက္တစ္ႀကိမ္ ထပ္၍။ ေနာက္တစ္ေခါက္။ I'll tell you how to do it once again. ❍ Let's play it once more. ❏ once and for all [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္။ အၿပီးအျပတ္။ I'm warning you once and for all. ❍ He's travelled a lot but now he's back home once and for all. ❏ once bitten, twice shy [ IDM ] ( saying ) တစ္ခါေသဖူး ပ်ဥ္ဖိုးနားလည္။ ❏ once in a blue moon [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္လ ကိုးသီတင္း ၾကာမွ တစ္ႀကိမ္။ I only see her once in a blue moon. ❏ (every) once in a while [ IDM ] ရံဖန္ရံခါမွ။ Once in a while we go to a restaurant, but usually we eat at home. ❏ once or twice [ IDM ] တစ္ခါႏွစ္ခါမွ်။ I don't know the place well, I've only been there once or twice. ❏ once- over n [sing] ( infml ) ႐ုတ္ခနဲတစ္ခ်က္မွ်။ Before buying the car I gave it the once- over. ❍ The carpet needs a quick once- over with the hoover. ❏ once too often [ IDM ] (မင္းဒါႏွင့္စားခဲ့တာ) မ်ားၿပီ၊ မရေတာ့ဘူး။ You've tried that trick once too often. ❏ once upon a time [ IDM ] ေရွးေရွးတုန္းက။ Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess.

Examples

1. Cathy’s only been to visit us once.
2. I’d seen the show once before
3. but I enjoyed seeing it again.
4. I’m only going to say this once
5. so listen carefully.
6. [(just) the once] : We met just the once
7. but I still remember him very clearly.
8. Did you know that Dan was once a policeman?
9. Louise bought the house where her grandparents had once lived.
10. The once mighty US car industry was now facing strong competition from abroad.
11. Once we drove all the way to Edinburgh with four little kids in the back seat.
12. I once taught myself to knit
13. and I was pretty good at it.
14. Once we were through the gates
15. she went off and left me on my own.
16. I’m sure you’ll be very happy here once you get to know everyone.