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Definition

something /'sʌmθÇŋ / indef pron ၁။ (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ sth ဟု အတိုေကာက္သံုးသည္။ ) တစ္စံုတစ္ခု။ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ။ တစ္ခုခု။ There's something under the table. I want something to eat. ❍ I wish there was something I could do to help. ❍ There's something interesting on the front page. ❍ If you don't like your job, why not do something about it? ❍ There's something about his manner I don't like. ၂။ အေရးႀကီးသည့္အရာ။ အေရးပါသည့္အရာ။ There's something (ie some truth, some fact or opinion worth considering) in what she says. ❍ It's (really/quite) something (ie a thing that one should feel happy about) to have a job at all these days. ❍ He's something in/ He does something in (ie He has a job connected with) television. ❏ or something [ IDM ] ( infml ) …ဆိုလားဘာလား။ She's writing a dictionary or something. ❍ He hit a tree or something. ❏ something between, around, over, under, etc sth [ IDM ] ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ နီးနီး။ ဝန္းက်င္။ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္။ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာ့။ She called at something after ten o'clock. ❏ something else [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထူးထူးျခားျခား။ I've seen some fine players, but she's something else. ❏ something like a sb/ sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ခပ္ဆင္ဆင္။ လိုလို။ We saw an animal something like a deer. ❍ It tastes something like melon. ❍ The tune goes something like this. ၂။ ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ It costs something like $ 35. ❏ something of a sth [ IDM ] ေတာ္ေတာ္ေတာ့။ အေတာ္ေလး ေတာ့။ She found herself something of a celebrity. ❍ I'm something of an expert on antiques. ❏ something or other [ IDM ] ( infml ) … ဆိုလားဘာလား။ He's a professor of something or other at Reading University.

Examples

1. I could smell something burning.
2. Carl said something about an operation.
3. Whenever she sees something that she likes
4. she goes and buys it.
5. Her brother is something in advertising (=he has a job in advertising).
6. [something important/better/wrong/special etc] : Be quiet – I have something important to tell you.
7. Jake looks pale – is there something wrong with him?
8. [something else] : I’d love to quit my job and do something else with my life.
9. [something to eat/drink/wear] : Would you like something to drink?
10. [something to do] : There’s always something to do at the farm.
11. [something or other] : He’s always complaining about something or other.
12. [something like] : They say creating a work of art is something like giving birth.
13. The house looks something like a medieval fortress.
14. [something between] : The look on Max’s face was something between puzzlement and anger.
15. [something like] : The building is going to be something like 12 storeys tall.
16. [something between/around] : He’s earning something between £20
17. 000 and £25
18. 000 a year.
19. An average house in the area costs something around £280
20. 000.
21. I can’t remember his name – Harry something
22. I think.
23. The account number was four-two-three-something-something-five.