Relief

Definition

relief 1 /r'li:f/ n ၁။ [U, sing] (က) ~ (from sth) သက္သာရာရျခင္း။ doctors working for the relief of suffering ❍ The drug brings/gives some relief from pain. ❍ The weekend came as a welcome relief. (ခ) စိတ္ေအးရျခင္း။ စိတ္သက္သာ ရာ ရျခင္း။ သက္ျပင္းခ်ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ အသက္႐ႈေပါက္။ a sense of relief ❍ cries/tears of relief ❍ I breathed/heaved a sigh of relief when I heard he was safe. ❍ To my great relief/Much to my relief, I wasn't late. ❍ It's a great relief to find you here. ❍ ‘what a relief! they're safe!’ ၂။ [U] ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး (ရိကၡာ၊ ပစၥည္းစသည္) send relief to/provide relief for those made homeless by the earthquake ❍ committees for famine relief ❍ relief funds/supplies/organizations/workers. ၃။ [U, C] (အစိုးရကေပးေသာ) သက္သာခြင့္ေပးေငြ။ qualify for tax relief ❍ temporary financial relief for those adversely affected by the new law. ၄။ [U] ~ (from sth) (ပ်င္းရိၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္အေျခအေနမွ အရႊန္းေဖာက္မႈ စေသာ) စိတ္သက္သာရာရခြင့္။ The interruptions provided some comic/light relief in an otherwise dull speech. ၅။ [CGP] လူစား(လဲလွယ္ေပးျခင္း)။ ‘B’ Relief come(s) on duty at 9 c'clock. Compare SHIFT n ၂(ခ) ၆။ [sing] ~ (of sth) ရန္သူဝန္းရံထားျခင္းမွ (ၿမိဳ႕ကို) လြတ္ေျမာက္ေစျခင္း။ the relief of Mafeking. adj (က) စုပံုရွင္း (ဘတ္စကား၊ ရထားစသည္)။ A relief coach service was provided to carry the extra passengers. (ခ) အစားထိုး(ဝင္သူ)။ a relief driver/crew. ❏ relief road n (ယာဥ္သြားယာဥ္လာ က်ပ္သိပ္မႈ ေလ်ာ့ပါးေစရန္ ေဖာက္လုပ္ထားေသာ) လႊဲလမ္း။ Compare BYPASS ၁ relief 2 /r'li:f/ n ၁။ ( art ) (က) [U] ျပင္ညီမ်က္ႏွာမွ ႐ုပ္ႂကြထုလုပ္၊ ပံုသြန္းမႈ။ in high/low relief (ie with the design projecting a lot/a little from its background). (ခ) [C] ႐ုပ္ႂကြ။ murals and reliefs of scenes from mythology. ၂။ [U] (အလင္း၊ အေမွာင္၊ အေရာင္ ဆန္႔က်င္မႈ စသည္အရ) ထင္းထင္း ေပၚလြင္ေနျခင္း။ The hills stood out in sharp relief against the dawn sky. ❍ ( fig ) Performance-related pay has been thrown into sharp/stark relief by the current controversy. ၃။ [U] ေျမျပင္အေနအထား အနိမ့္အျမင့္ကြာဟမႈ။ the stunning relief of the Grand Canyon. ❏ relief map n ေျမမ်က္ႏွာျပင္ အေနအထားျပေျမပံု။

Examples

1. It’s a huge relief to know that everyone is safe.
2. [to someone’s relief] : To her relief
3. someone had found the keys and handed them in.
4. It’s a drug commonly prescribed for pain relief.
5. [relief from] : The patients experienced no relief from their symptoms.
6. Flood/disaster/earthquake relief
7. A shipment of relief supplies bound for the Sudan
8. The relief crew
9. The storms continued all night
10. and the next morning brought no relief.
11. [welcome/much-needed relief] : Last night’s unexpected win will bring much-needed relief to the team’s manager.