Presence of mind

Definition

presence /'prezns/ n ၁။ [U] ရိွေနျခင္း။ တက္ေရာက္ျခင္း။ dogs trained to detect the presence of explosives ❍ Your presence is requested at a meeting of shareholders. ❍ Her presence during the crisis had a calming effect. Compare ABSENCE ၂။ [C] (တပ္၊ ရဲစသည္) တာဝန္ခ်ထား ျခင္း။ a massive police presence at the football match ❍ The United Nations maintains a military presence in the area. ၃။ [C usu sing ] ကိုယ္ထင္ျပသူ။ ရိွေနသူ။ ရိွေနေသာအရာ။ a ghostly presence ❍ The President's adviser has been a constant presence at those meetings. ၄။ [U, sing] (ဥပဓိ႐ုပ္၊ ကိုယ္ ႏႈတ္ အမူအရာတို႔ျဖင့္) အာ႐ံုကို ဆြဲေဆာင္ထားႏိုင္မႈ။ a man of great presence ❍ The power of Olivier's stage presence can never be forgotten. ❏ be admitted to, shown into, etc sb's presence [ IDM ] ( fml ) ထံေတာ္ေမွာက္သို႔၊ ေရွ႕ေတာ္ေမွာက္သို႔ သြင္းသည္။ The ambassador was ushered into the King's presence. ❏ in the presence of sb/in sb's presence [ IDM ] ( fml ) ေရွ႕ေမွာက္တြင္။ မ်က္စိေအာက္တြင္။ He made the accusation in the presence of witnesses. ❍ She asked them not to discuss the matter in her presence. ❏ make one's presence felt [ IDM ] အစြမ္းအစျပသည္။ The new chairman is certainly making his presence felt! ❏ presence of mind n [U] သတိသမၸဇဥ္။ The boy had the presence of mind to turn off the electricity supply.

Examples

1. Mr Reese didn’t even acknowledge my presence.
2. [the presence of] : A device for detecting the presence of submarines
3. We intend to maintain a presence in the country until there is peace.
4. [military/police presence] : There is still a large British military presence in the region.
5. The Japanese have established a strong presence in the industry.
6. Acquiring this company will strengthen our presence in Europe.
7. He had a commanding presence.
8. An evil presence