Otherness

Definition

other /'ʌðǝ(r)/ indef det ၁။ အျခား (သူ၊ အရာ)။ Mr Harris and Mrs Bate and three other teachers were there. ❍ Other members may disagree but I feel that the subscription should not be increased. ❍ Are there any other questions? ❍ I can't see you now—some other time, perhaps. ❍ I took the job because there wasn't any other / there was no other work available. ❍ She has no close friends other than me. Compare ANOTHER ၂။ က်န္သည့္။ အျခားေသာ။ အျခားတစ္ဖက္။ Hold the bottle and pull the cork out with the other hand. ❍ My other sister is a doctor. ❍ You may continue on the other side of the paper. ၃။ က်န္သည့္။ အျခားေသာ။ The other books belong to John. ❍ I haven't read ‘Cymbeline’ but I've read all Shakespeare's other plays. pron ၁။ [sing] (က) အျခား။ က်န္သည့္။ He raised one arm and then the other. ❍ Ten members of the team are English and the other is Welsh. (ခ) အျခား။ က်န္သည့္။ Answer one question from Section A, one from Section B, plus one other. ❍ This option is preferable to any other. ၂။ others [pl] (က) က်န္သူ။ က်န္တာ။ I went swimming while the others played tennis. ❍ I can't do questions 4 and 5 but I've done all the others. ❍ These shoes are dirty—I'll have to wear my others. (ခ) က်န္သူ။ အျခား။ Some people came by car, others came on foot. ❍ Two buildings were destroyed by the bomb and many/several/ten others were damaged. ❍ a parliament consisting of 100 Socialists, 90 Conservatives and 10 others (ie from various parties) ❍ We must help others less fortunate than ourselves. ❏ the other day/ morning/ evening/ week [ IDM ] မေန႔ (သို႔) အလ်င္ (ေန႔၊ နံနက္၊ အပတ္ စသည္)။ I saw him in town the other day. ❏ otherness n [U] ( fml ) ကြဲျပားျခားနားမႈ။ ထူးျခားမႈ။ Westerners have always been fascinated by the otherness of Oriental civilization. ❏ other than [ IDM ] ၁။ မွတစ္ပါး။ ကလြဲလို႔။ He never speaks to me other than to ask for something. ၂။ မွတစ္ပါး။ ကလြဲလို႔။ I have never known him to behave other than selfishly. ❍ She seldom appears other than happy. ❏ other woman n (usu sing ) (မိမိ) ေယာက်္ားႏွင့္ မရွင္း မရွင္း ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီး။ ❏ other-worldly /ʌðǝ'wɜ:ldli/ adj စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ (သို႔) ဝိညာဥ္ေလာကဆန္ေသာ။

Examples

1. In addition to Nicola
2. Mrs Stanley has three other children.
3. The report will be of interest to teachers and others in the education field.
4. Apart from the victim’s name and age
5. no other details were given.
6. I suggested a camping holiday
7. but Kerry had other ideas.
8. [some/any other] : Not now. We’ll talk about it some other time.
9. The Greeks spend more money on food than any other nation in Europe.
10. The other half of the money will be provided by the government.
11. She was looking around for her other shoe.
12. I held onto the rope with my other hand.
13. [the other] : He sat in front of the fire rubbing one bare foot against the other.
14. [the other one] : One of the twins was Reggie. What was the other one called?
15. [the/my/your etc other] : We stayed until all the other guests had gone home.
16. Beethoven’s Ninth is much longer than his other symphonies.
17. [the others] : One boy fell off his chair and the others laughed.
18. I don’t care what other people think.
19. We aim to develop in our students a sense of responsibility and a respect for others.
20. A taxi had stopped on the other side of the road.
21. Ashley sat at the other end of the sofa.
22. The voice at the other end of the phone sounded sleepy and confused.
23. The truck swerved to avoid a car coming from the other direction.
24. I tried to attract her attention
25. but she was looking the other way.
26. Most people expected the boys to do better than the girls but in fact it was the other way round.