Over the counter

Definition

counter 1 /'kaƱntǝ(r)/ n ေကာင္တာ။ chocolate displayed on the counter ❍ the ticket reservation counter. ❏ over the counter [ IDM ] ၁။ ေဆးစာမဲ့ဝယ္ႏိုင္ေသာ(ေဆး)။ These tablets are available over the counter. ၂။ အထူး ခြင့္ျပဳမိန္႔မပါဘဲ။ buying guns over the counter. ❏ under the counter [ IDM ] လက္သိပ္ထိုးေရာင္းဝယ္ျခင္း။ တရားမဝင္ေရာင္းဝယ္ျခင္း။ Pornography is no longer sold under the counter in many countries. counter 2 /'kaƱntǝ(r)/ n ၁။ တိုကင္ျပား။ လက္ေတးျပား။ ဇယ္ျပား။ ၂။ (esp in compounds) (အီလက္ထရြန္နစ္နည္း စသည္ျဖင့္ ေရဒီယိုသတၱိႂကြမႈ ပမာဏ၊ စက္လည္ပတ္ႏႈန္း စသည္ကို) ေရတြက္ျပသည့္ကိရိယာ။ an engine's rev counter ❍ You need to reset the counter. See also BARGAINING COUNTER counter 3 /'kaƱntǝ(r)/ adv ~ to sth ဆန္႔က်င္လ်က္။ act counter to one's wishes ❍ Economic trends are running counter to the forecasts. v ~ (with sth); ~ sb/ sth (with sth) ဆန္႔က်င္သည္။ တံု႔ ျပန္သည္။ တန္ျပန္သည္။ Linda countered with a joke of her own. ❍ 'A Scotsman might not agree with that,' she countered. ❍ Such arguments are easily countered. ❍ The senator countered his critics with a strong speech defending his policies. ❍ I pointed out the shortcomings of the scheme, but he countered that the plans were not yet finished. n ~ (to sb/ sth) ( fml ) ဆန္႔က်င္တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္။ The employers' association was seen as a counter to union power. counter- comb form (နာမ္၊ နာမဝိေသသန၊ ႀကိယာ၊ ႀကိယာဝိေသ သန ပုဒ္မ်ားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေရွ႕၌ တြဲဆက္ေပးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ ၁။ (ဆန္႔က်င္သက္ေရာက္မႈသေဘာျပစကား)။ counter-productive ❍ counterbalanced. ၂။ (တန္ျပန္၊ တံု႔ျပန္ျခင္းျပ စကား)။ counter-attack ❍ counter-argument ❍ counter-demonstration. ၃။ (အလားတူျဖစ္ျခင္းျပစကား)။ counter-part.

Examples

1. There was a long queue and no one behind the counter.
2. A cheese counter
3. The casino’s high-speed coin counters
4. A rev counter
5. A counter to unfair criticism