Dictionary entry

Quick-tempered

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(adj) စိတ်မြန်သော။ စိတ်တိုလွယ်သော။

Definition

quick / kwk / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) ျမန္ေသာ။ လ်င္ေသာ။ သြက္ေသာ။ a quick worker/ reader ❍ She was quick to point out all the mistakes I'd made. ❍ quick to respond/ react/ learn ❍ It's quicker by train. (ခ) အျမန္။ have a quick bath/ drink ❍ I'll just have a quick look in that shop. ❍ make a quick recovery (ie from an illness) ❍ "Have you finished already? That was quick!" ❍ Are you sure this is the quickest way? ❍ He fired three shots in quick succession. See also DOUBLE-QUICK ၂။ (က) ဖ်တ္လတ္ေသာ။ ဇဝနဉာဏ္ရိွေသာ။ quick wits ❍ Her quick reactions/ thinking saved the boy's life. (ခ) စိတ္ ဆတ္ေသာ။ စိတ္ဆိုးလြယ္ေသာ။ He's got a quick temper (ie He becomes angry very readily). ❍ She's always very quick to take offence (ie is easily offended). (ဂ) ~(at sth) ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ေသာ။ က်င္လည္ေသာ။ He's not as quick as his sister. ❍ His spelling's poor but he's very quick at figures. adv ( -er , -est ) အျမန္။ ျမန္ျမန္။ Come as quick as you can. ❍ He's just trying to get rich quick. ❍ Let's see who responds/ reacts quickest. n [sing] လက္သည္းေျခသည္းေအာက္ရိွ အသားႏု။ လက္ထိပ္။ ေျခထိပ္။ She has bitten her nails (down) to the quick. ❏ cut sb to the quick [ IDM ] ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေအာင္ ေျပာ သည္၊ လုပ္သည္။ Their insults cut her to the quick. ❏ (as) quick as a flash ; (as) quick as lightning [ IDM ] ႐ုတ္ျခည္း။ လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္။ He got the answer as quick as a flash. ❏ quick-fire adj တက္သုတ္ႏွင္ေသာ။ တက္သုတ္႐ိုက္ ေသာ။ a series of quick-fire deals. ❏ quickly adv အျမန္။ ျမန္ျမန္။ speak/ write/ run/ learn very quickly ❍ do/ finish sth as quickly as possible. ❏ quickness n [U] ၁။ ျမန္ျခင္း။ ( saying ) The quickness of the hand deceives the eye. လက္၏ျမန္ ျခင္းက မ်က္စိကိုလွည့္စား သြားသည္။ ၂။ ထက္ျမက္ျခင္း။ She amazes me with her quickness and eagerness to learn. ❏ quick one n ( infml ) (အရက္စသည္) တစ္ေမာ့။ Have you got time for a quick one before you go? ❏ quick-tempered adj စိတ္ျမန္ေသာ။ စိတ္တိုလြယ္ေသာ။ a quick-tempered woman. ❏ quick-witted adj ဇဝနဉာဏ္ရိွေသာ။ ဉာဏ္ထက္ေသာ။ a quick-witted student/ response.

Examples

  1. He’s surprisingly quick for such a big man.
  2. A quick worker
  3. A quick learner
  4. He took a quick glance over his shoulder.
  5. A series of quick nervous movements
  6. [in quick succession] : Three explosions were heard in quick succession.