One-

Definition

one /wʌn / n, pron, det ၁။ ၁။ တစ္။ ဧက။ ၂။ တစ္။ The fee will be one hundred and fifty pounds. ❍ The distance between them was over one thousand metres. ၃။ တစ္။ There's only one piece of cake left. ❍ I found eight people living in one room. ၄။ (က) တစ္။ One of my friends lives in Brighton. ❍ She's the only one who tried to help me. ❍ One place I'd really like to visit is Bali. (ခ) တစ္ (…တည္း)။ He's the one person I can always trust. ❍ The one way to succeed is to work hard. (ဂ) တစ္။ one morning/ afternoon last week ❍ One day (ie At an indefinite time in the future) you'll be grateful for my advice. ၅။ ( usu fml ) (ဆိုသူ) တစ္ (ဦး)။ The author of the article turned out to be one Stanley Carter. ၆။ တစ္။ The two girls are so alike that strangers find it difficult to tell (the) one from the other. ❍ I see you add the egg before the milk— that's one way of doing it (ie there are other, possibly better, ways). ၇။ တစ္ (က်ိတ္တည္း၊ လမ္းတည္း)။ They all went off in one direction. ❍ The workers were all of one mind (ie all had the same opinion). ၈။ ( infml esp US ) ( a,an အစား) တစ္။ It was one hell of a match (ie a very good and exciting match). ❍That's one handsome guy! indef pron ၁။ တစ္… ။ I forgot to bring a pen. Can you lend me one? (Compare: I can't find my pen. Have you seen it?) ❍ There have been a lot of burglaries in this area. I read about one this morning. See also PROP- WORD ၂။ ~ of (… အနက္) တစ္။ She's knitting a sweater for one of her grandchildren. ❍ We think of you as one (ie a member) of the family. n ၁။ ဟာ။ အရာ။ I prefer that one. ❍ Which ones have you read? ❍ Your plan is a good one. ❍ Her new car goes faster than the old one. ၂။ the one(s) ဟာ။ အရာ။ Our hotel is the one nearest the beach. ❍ Students who do well in examinations are often the ones who ask questions in class. ၃။ ( pl အျဖစ္ အသံုးမ်ားသည္။ ) …သူ၊ …တို႔/ေတြ စသည္။ It's time the little ones were in bed. ကေလးေတြ အိပ္ဖို႔ အခ်ိန္တန္ၿပီ။ ❍ pray to the Holy One for forgiveness. သူေတာ္စင္ (ဘုရားသခင္)ထံ ခြင့္လႊတ္ဖို႔ ဆုေတာင္းပါ။ pron ( fml ) …သူ။ She was never one to gossip (ie the sort of person who does). ❍ He's not one who is easily frightened. pers pron ( fml ) တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္အေနျဖင့္။ တစ္စံု တစ္ေယာက္ အေနျဖင့္။ In these circumstances one prefers to be alone. ❍ One must be sure of one's facts before making a public accusation. ❏ be at one (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] တစ္စိတ္တည္း ျဖစ္သည္။ တူညီသည္။ I'm at one with you. ❍ We are at one on this subject. ❏ get sth in one [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခ်က္ခ်င္း နားလည္သည္။ ‘We have to attract younger customers. ’ ‘Exactly, you've got it in one!’ ❏ get one over sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေက်ာသည္။ They got one over us in the end by deciding to speak in German. ❏ I, you, etc/ sb for one [ IDM ] (အျခားသူအပထား၍) …တစ္ဦးအေနျဖင့္။ I for one have no doubt that he's lying. ❍ Lots of people would like to come— your mother for one. ❏ (all) in one [ IDM ] တစ္ေပါင္းတည္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ He's the club President, Treasurer and Secretary (all) in one. ❍ an all-in-one shampoo and conditioner. ❏ a one [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) တကယ့္ (ေကာင္၊ လူ၊ ပုဂၢိဳလ္) ပဲ။ He is a one, your son. Never out of trouble! ❏ one- (in compounds) တစ္…။ a one- act play ❍ a one- piece swimsuit. ❏ the one about sb/ sth [ IDM ] …အေၾကာင္း ျပက္လံုး။ Do you know/ Have you heard the one about the bald policeman? ❏ one after another/ the other [ IDM ] တစ္ေယာက္ၿပီး တစ္ေယာက္။ တစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခု။ The bills keep coming, one after another. ❏ one and all [ IDM ] ( dated infml ) အားလံုး(ကို)။ A Happy New Year to one and all! ❏ one and only [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးတည္းေသာ။ တစ္ခုတည္းေသာ။ Here he is—the one and only Michael Jackson! ❏ one and the same [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးတည္းပင္။ တစ္ခုတည္းပင္။ I've only just discovered that my two favourite authors are one and the same (person). ❏ one another pron တစ္ဦးႏွင့္တစ္ဦး။ တစ္ဦးကိုတစ္ဦး။ အခ်င္းခ်င္း။ listening to one another's records ❍ We help one another when we can. ❏ one- armed bandit n ( Brit ) = FRUIT MACHINE ❏ one by one [ IDM ] (အစဥ္အတိုင္း) တစ္ေယာက္ၿပီး တစ္ေယာက္၊ တစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခု။ go through the items on a list one by one. ❏ (be) one for (doing) sth [ IDM ] ကြၽမ္းက်င္သူ။ ဝါသနာ ပါသူ။ She's a great one for (solving) puzzles. ❏ one- horse race n [sing] တစ္ဦးတည္း၊ တစ္သင္းတည္း က အျပတ္အသတ္ အႏိုင္ႀကဲမည့္ပြဲ။ ❏ one-liner n ( infml ) တိုတိုတုတ္တုတ္ျပက္လံုး။ deliver some good one- liners. ❏ one- man adj (အကူမလို) တစ္ဦးတည္းကိုင္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ the introduction of one- man buses ❍ union resistance to one- man operation of machines. ❏ one- man band n တူရိယာမ်ဳိးစံုျဖင့္ တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖတီးမႈတ္သူ။ ( fig ) I run the business as a one-man band. ဒီလုပ္ငန္းကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္တစ္ဦးတည္းပင္ စီမံအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ ပါတယ္။ ❏ one-man show n တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္ ျပသေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲ။ ❏ oneness n [U] တစ္သားတည္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ a sense of oneness with nature. ❏ one- night stand n ( infml ) (ခရီးသြားဟန္လႊဲ) တစ္ညတာ တဏွာခ်စ္။ I was hoping for a lasting affair, not just a one- night stand. ❏ one- off adj တစ္ႀကိမ္တည္းျဖင့္ လံုေလာက္ေသာ။ a one- off payment. n [sing] တစ္ႀကိမ္တည္းႏွင့္ ဇာတ္သိမ္းသြားေသာအရာ။ Her novel was just a one- off. ❏ one or two [ IDM ] တစ္ေယာက္စ ႏွစ္ေယာက္စ။ တစ္ခုစ ႏွစ္ခုစ။ One or two people didn't come. ❏ one- parent family ( also single-parent family, lone parent family) n အမိ (သို႔) အဘသာ ရိွေသာ မိသားစု။ ❏ one- sided adj ၁။ တစ္ဖက္သတ္။ တစ္ဖက္ေစာင္းနင္း။ a one- sided argument ❍ The press was accused of being very one-sided. ၂။ တစ္ဖက္သတ္။ တစ္ဘီးလိမ့္။ တစ္ဖက္ ေစာင္းနင္း။ It was a very one- sided game—we won easily. ❍ Their relationship is very one- sided. ❏ one- time adj ယခင္က။ … ေဟာင္း။ his one- time business partner. ❏ one-to-one adj (အစုအဖြဲ႕ႏွစ္ခုမွ) တစ္ေယာက္ တစ္ေယာက္ ခ်င္း။ a one-to-one relationship ❍ teaching on a one- to- one basis (ie with one teacher for each student). ❏ one- track mind n ဒါဆိုဒါပဲ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲစိတ္။ He's got a one-track mind—all he ever thinks about is sex! ❏ one up (on/ over sb) [ IDM ] တစ္ပန္းသာသည္။ Your teaching experience puts you one up on the other candidates. ❏ one- upmanship n [U]( infml ) ဘိန္းစားခ်င္း အတူတူ ေျပာင္းတစ္လံုး ပို႐ႉျခင္း။ ေက်ာလိုက္ျခင္း။ ❏ one- way adj ၁။ တစ္လမ္းေမာင္း။ တစ္လမ္းသြား။ one- way traffic ❍ a one-way street/ system. ၂။ အသြားခရီး အတြက္သာ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a one-way ticket. Compare SINGLE n ၁ ၃။ တစ္ဖက္ၾကည့္ (မွန္)။ တစ္ဖက္ျမင္ (မွန္)။

Examples

1. I’ve only got one hour free.
2. They have one daughter and five sons.
3. Over one hundred people were killed in the disaster.
4. It was a one-storey building with big windows.
5. I bought three T-shirts – do you want one?
6. One passenger said she had been waiting for 13 hours.
7. I heard of one case where a 12-year-old boy had been sent to prison.
8. [one of] : Ours was one of the top four boats in the competition.
9. One of the buildings was badly damaged in the fire.
10. I met one of her brothers when he was here on business.
11. [just the one] : ‘How many books did she borrow?’ ‘Just the one.’
12. It was a problem
13. but not a major one.
14. I’m only using this radio until I can buy a better one.
15. Your experiences are ones that are shared by countless other parents.
16. [the one/ones] : I’m going to keep those boxes. The ones I want to get rid of are in the garage.
17. [this one/that one/these ones/those ones] : I’d never seen a game like that one.
18. You want me to say how much freedom students should have? That’s a tricky one.
19. [the one about] : Did you hear the one about the American who goes into a bar in Paris?
20. [the one/ones] : David and I are the only ones left who are not married.
21. They were all dealing drugs
22. but Bob was the one who got caught.
23. Who is the one with the beard?
24. [the young/clever/lucky etc ones] : The clever ones always come out on top.
25. I speak as one who has seen much suffering.
26. Why
27. one may ask
28. would someone want to burn down their own house?
29. One cannot always be right
30. can one?
31. One must bring one’s own talents to every single task.
32. One cannot be sure what lies ahead.
33. [the one] : She found herself in the one spot that gave her no shelter from the rain.
34. We’re going to have to play the one team we did not want to play.
35. [the one] : The one disappointment we had was that we didn’t get to shake hands with the President.
36. [someone’s one hope/fear/concern etc] : My one hope is that more people with disabilities will enter into professions like social work.
37. There’s one thing you can be sure of – you won’t get any help from the government.
38. One person who won’t be invited is that awful man who lives downstairs.
39. He’s one proud man
40. I’ll tell you.
41. [one... the other] : She lay on the sofa with a glass in one hand and an empty bottle in the other.
42. If you love both children
43. I don’t understand why you give so much to one and not the other.
44. [one... another] : He could not tell the difference between one flower and another.
45. I borrowed the money from one Edward Ashley.
46. Have you got time for a quick one before you go?