Dictionary entry
Sparingly
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Definition
spare /speǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ အပို။ အရန္။ အေစာင္။ a spare bed/bedroom/room (ie for guests) ❍ carry a spare wheel in the boot of the car ❍ Take a spare jumper in case you get cold. ❍ There's no spare room (ie space) in here for another desk. ❍ Have you got a spare pen I could borrow? ❍ Is that pen spare? ❍ Sorry, I haven't got any spare cash on me. ❍ There were no seats spare so we had to stand. ၂။ (အခ်ိန္)ပို။ Since starting my new job, I've had very little spare time. ❍ What do you do in your spare time? ၃။ ( esp fml ) က်စ္က်စ္လ်စ္လ်စ္။ သြယ္သြယ္ လ်လ်။ a tall spare figure. ၄။ ႐ိုးေသာ။ စင္းေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ a few spare pieces of furniture ❍ a spare prose style. n အပို (ဘီး၊ ပစၥည္း စသည္)။ I've got a puncture and my spare is flat too! ❍ I'll show you where the spares are kept. v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (from sth) ခ်မ္းသာေပးသည္။ လြတ္သြားသည္။ အခြင့္ေပးသည္။ ခြင့္လႊတ္သည္။ spare sb's life (ie not kill them) ❍ They killed the men but spared the children. ❍ Most of the area was demolished but the church was spared. ❍ He was spared (from) further humiliation when the referee stopped the fight. ၂။ ေရွာင္ရွားသည္။ ညႇာသည္။ Try to spare her as much distress as possible when you tell her. ❍ You can spare yourself an unnecessary journey by phoning in advance. ❍ Please spare me (ie do not tell me) the gruesome details. ေတာ္ပါေတာ့ ဒီလိုအနိ႒ာ႐ံုေတြ မၾကားပါရေစနဲ႔။ ❍ No effort/trouble/expense was spared (ie A lot of effort, etc was made) to ensure our comfort. ၃။ (က) ~ sth (for sb/sth) ပိုသည္။ ေပးႏိုင္သည္။ Can you spare any money/old clothes for the homeless? ❍ I can't spare the time for a holiday at the moment. ❍ Spare a thought for (ie Think about) those less fortunate than you. ❍ Can you spare (me) a cigarette? (ခ) ( infml ) လႊတ္သည္။ ေပးသည္။ I can't spare him today—we need everybody here. ❏ go spare [ IDM ] ( Brit sl ) [ဥ] ေဆြ႕ေဆြ႕ခုန္သည္။ ေဒါကန္ သည္။ Your mum'll go spare if she finds out what you've done! ❏ spare sb's blushes [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (အရွက္ကြဲမည့္ကိန္း မွ) ကယ္တင္လိုက္သည္။ A last-minute goal spared the champions' blushes. ❏ spare part n စက္အပိုပစၥည္း။ It's difficult to get spare parts for old washing machines. ❏ spare-rib n (usu pl ) ဝက္နံ႐ိုး။ barbecued spare-ribs. ❏ spare the rod and spoil the child [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဆန္ရင္းနာနာဖြပ္။ မ႐ိုက္ရက္ကေလးပ်က္။ ❏ spare tyre ( US tire ) n ၁။ (ကား)အပိုတာယာ။ ၂။ ( infml joc ) ဗိုက္ေခါက္အဆီလိပ္။ ❏ sparing /'speǝrÇŋ/ adj ~ (with/of/in sth) ( fml ) ေခြၽတာ ေသာ။ ေလ်ာ့ေသာ။ be sparing with the sugar ❍ sparing of one's energy ❍ He was not sparing in his advice to others. ❍ They make sparing use of his talents. ❏ sparingly adv ေခြၽေခြၽတာတာ။ ေလွ်ာ့ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပါ့။ Add garlic sparingly. ❏ to spare [ IDM ] ပိုသည္။ ေပးႏိုင္သည္။ က်န္သည္။ လို သည္။ Do you have any milk to spare? ❍ We caught the bus with only a few seconds to spare. ❍ There is little time to spare (ie We must act as quickly as possible).
Examples
- A spare key/battery/pair of glasses
- Bring a towel and some spare clothes.
- Every spare patch of land has been converted into a vegetable garden.
- The hospital has no spare operating capacity.
- The spare bedroom
- She was about thirty-seven
- tall
- and spare.
- A spare writing style