Phase

Definition

phase /feÇz/ n ၁။ ေျပာင္းလဲတိုးတက္ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ အဆင့္၊ က႑။ a phase of history ❍ the second phase of a project ❍ buildings constructed during Phase1 ❍ the most exciting phase of one's career ❍ My son is going through a difficult phase. ❍ In young children being fussy about food is usually only a passing phase. ၂။ လကြယ္မွ လျပည့္အထိ အဆင့္ဆင့္ ေျပာင္းလဲ လာေသာ လ၏ပံုသဏၭာန္။ လသဏၭာန္ အဆင့္ဆင့္။ v (esp passive) အဆင့္လိုက္ျပဳလုပ္သည္၊ စီမံထားသည္။ a phased withdrawal of troops ❍ Cutbacks were phased over a 5-year period. ❏ in/out of phase [ IDM ] (အသြင္)ခ်ိန္ကိုက္ျဖစ္မႈ၊ မျဖစ္မႈ။ The two sets of traffic lights were out of phase (ie Their changes did not correspond with each other) and several accidents occurred. ❏ phase sth in [ PHRV ] အဆင့္ဆင့္ (သို႔) တစ္စတစ္စ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္သည္။ The new regulations will be phased in from August. ❏ phase sth out [ PHRV ] အဆင့္ဆင့္ (သို႔) တစ္စတစ္စ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္၊ ရပ္ဆိုင္းသည္။ The old filling system will have been phased out by 1998.

Examples

1. The war was about to enter its final phase.
2. [phase of] : The first phase of the project will be completed by 2002.
3. [phase in] : It was a depressing phase in the country’s history.
4. Their son went through a phase of being aggressive at school.
5. Don’t worry about Tina – I’m sure it’s just a phase.