Secret service

Definition

secret /'si:krǝt/ adj ၁။ ~ ( from sb ) လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ေသာ။ a secret marriage/document/meeting ❍ keep sth secret from one's family ❍ Secret talks were held between the government and the rebel leaders. ၂။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္။ တိတ္တိတ္ ပုန္း။ a secret drinker ခြက္ပုန္းသမား။ ❍ I'm a secret fan of soap operas on TV. ၃။ ( fml ) လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ေသာ။ သိုသိပ္ေသာ။ သိုဝွက္ေသာ။ ၄။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္။ my secret hideaway in the country. n ၁။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္။ keep a secret (ie not tell it to anyone else) ❍ The wedding date's a big secret. ❍ Shall we let him in on (ie tell him) the secret? ❍ He made no secret of his dislike for me (ie made it very clear). ၂။ ေသာ့ခ်က္။ ကြန္ခ်က္။ What's the secret of your success? ❍ The secret of good design is simplicity. ၃။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္။ the secrets of creation/nature. ❏ in secret [ IDM ] လွ်ဳိ႕လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ဝွက္။ တိတ္တဆိတ္။ တိတ္တိတ္ကေလး။ meet in secret ❍ leave the country in secret. ❏ secret agent (also agent ) n သူလွ်ဳိ။ ❏ secret ballot n လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္မဲ။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္မဲေပးျခင္း။ elected by secret ballot. ❏ secretly adv : He posted the letter secretly. ❏ secret police n [pl v ] လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ရဲ။ ❏ secret service n (usu sing ) ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးႏွင့္ တန္ျပန္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးဌာန။

Examples

1. He was accused of selling business secrets to competitors.
2. I can’t tell you what she said – it’s a secret.
3. Your secret is safe with me (=I will not tell anyone).
4. The secret is out (=everyone knows about it).
5. It cannot remain a secret much longer.
6. [keep a secret] : Can you promise to keep a secret?
7. [keep something a secret (from someone)] : Mandela kept his work a secret from the prison authorities.
8. [let someone in on a secret] : Listen
9. I’ll let you in on a little secret.
10. What secrets of the universe will the new telescope reveal?
11. She always looks so slim – I wish I knew her secret.
12. The secret is always to warm the pot before putting in the tea.
13. [secret of] : The secret of our success is having highly skilled staff.