Sport

Definition

sport /spↄ:t / n ၁။ (က) [U] ( US usu sports [pl]) အားကစား။ She plays a lot of sport. ❍ He's very fond of sport. (ခ) [C] အားကစားအမ်ဳိးအစား။ team sports ❍ Hockey, volleyball, football and tennis are all sports. ❍ Which sports do you like best? ❍ country sports (eg hunting, fishing and shooting) ❍ sports coverage on TV ❍ a sports field. See also BLOOD SPORTS, FIELD SPORTS, SPECTATOR SPORT, WINTER SPORTS ၂။ [U] ( fml ) အေျပာင္အျပက္။ say sth in sport (ie not seriously meaning it; as a joke) ❍ make sport of (ie joke about) sb/sth. ၃။ [pl] အားကစားပြဲ။ the school sports, inter-university sport. ၄။ [C] ( infml ) (က) မိတ္ေဆြေကာင္း။ Please be a sport and lend me your bike. (ခ) အားကစား စိတ္ဓာတ္ရိွသူ၊ မရိွသူ။ a good/bad sport. ၅။ [C] ( infml esp Austral ) (ခင္မင္မႈကိုေဖာ္ျပေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ မိတ္ေဆြ။ How are you doing, sport! ၆။ [C] ( biology ) မူကြဲျဖစ္ေသာ(အပင္၊ တိရစၧာန္)။ v ၁။ ဆင္ျမန္းသည္။ ေမြးထားသည္။ sport a moustache/a diamond ring/a flower in one's buttonhole. ၂။ ေဆာ့ကစားသည္။ seals sporting (about/around) in the water. ❏ sports car n သြယ္လ်ၿပီး အျမန္ေမာင္းႏိုင္ေသာ အေပ်ာ္စီး ကားငယ္။ (အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ အမိုးကို တင္ႏိုင္ခ်ႏိုင္သည္။ ) ❏ sports day ( Brit ) ( US field day ) n ေက်ာင္းအားကစား ပြဲေန႔။ ❏ sports jacket n ဝတ္စံု၏အစိတ္အပိုင္းမဟုတ္ေသာေယာက်္ားဝတ္ ကုတ္အက်ႌ။ ❍ JACKET

Examples

1. Bob’s sport is tennis.
2. Football is a popular women’s sport in the US.
3. [team sport] : My favourite team sport is rugby.
4. The school is keen to involve more young people in sport.
5. The newspaper’s sports section
6. A sports team
7. Sports fans/writers
8. The school sports day
9. Andy was a real sport and agreed to play for the other team.
10. [a good sport] : Thanks
11. Shelly – you’re always such a good sport.
12. Hey sport
13. how are you?
14. [in sport] : It was done in sport
15. but it hurt some feelings nonetheless.