Spot

Definition

spot /spɒt / n ၁။ (က) အေျပာက္။ a white skirt with red spots ❍ Which has spots, the leopard or the tiger? (ခ) စြန္း ထင္းေနေသာအကြက္။ အစြန္း။ spots of mud on her skirt. ၂။ (အသားအေရေပၚတြင္ အနာေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ ေပၚေသာ) အနီဖု။ ဝက္ၿခံ။ a teenage boy worried about his spots ❍ She had chicken-pox and was covered in spots. ၃။ (က) ေနရာ။ အကြက္အကြင္း။ a nice picnic spot/spot for a picnic ❍ stand rooted to the spot (ie unable to move) ❍ This is the (very) spot where he was murdered. See also BEAUTY SPOT, BLACK SPOT, HOT SPOT, TROUBLE SPOT (ခ) ( infml ) ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခင္း။ a popular night spot. ၄။ အပိုင္း။ အကန္႔။ က႑။ အခန္းက႑။ အခန္း။ There are several weak spots in your argument. ❍ That evening was the only bright spot (ie pleasant event) in an otherwise awful week. ၅။ အစက္။ Did you feel a few spots of rain? ၆။ (usu sing ) ~ of sth ( Brit infml ) နည္းနည္းေလာက္။ Are you ready for a spot of lunch? ❍ I'm having a spot of bother (ie a bit of trouble) with my car. ၇။ (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား၊ ဇာတ္သဘင္တြင္) အခန္း။ a ten-minute guest spot on a radio programme ❍ She has a regular cabaret spot at a local nightclub. ၈။ အဆင့္။ the number one spot in the pop charts. ၉။ ( infml ) = SPOTLIGHT v ( -tt- ) ၁။ ~ sb/sth (as sth) ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ ရိပ္စားမိသည္။ He finally spotted just the shirt he wanted. ❍ She spotted her friend in the crowd. ❍ I can't spot the difference between them. ❍ Can you spot the flaw in their argument? ❍ I soon spotted what the problem was. ❍ He was spotted by police boarding a plane for Paris. ❍ She has been spotted as a likely tennis star of the future. ၂။ ( Brit infml ) (it ႏွင့္တြဲသံုးသည္) မိုးဖြဲဖြဲက်သည္။ It's beginning to spot. ❍ It's spotting with rain. ၃။ ~ sth (with sth) (usu passive) အစက္အေျပာက္စြန္းသည္၊ ပါရိွသည္။ She wore an apron spotted with household stains. ❏ in a (tight) spot [ IDM ] ( infml ) မလူးသာမလြန္႔သာ အေျခအေန။ အက်ပ္အတည္း။ I'm in a bit of a tight spot financially. ❏ on the spot [ IDM ] ၁။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ ပြဲခ်င္းၿပီး။ လက္ငင္း။ He was hit by a falling tree and killed on the spot. ❍ She was caught stealing and dismissed on the spot. ❍ an on the spot parking fine. ၂။ ျဖစ္ပြားရာေနရာ။ Let's go over to our reporter on the spot. ❍ on-the-spot reporting ❍ The police were on the spot within a few minutes of my telephone call. ၃။ က်ဥ္းထဲက်ပ္ထဲ။ The interviewer's questions about her private life really put her on the spot. ❏ spot check n အလစ္ဝင္စစ္ေဆးျခင္း။ The campaign against drinking and driving will include spot checks on motorists. ❏ spotless adj ၁။ သပ္ရပ္သန္႔ရွင္း[ေသာ]။ He keeps his room spotless. ၂။ ( fml ) ျပစ္ျခည္မစြန္းေသာ။ a spotless reputation. ❏ spotlessly adv : a spotlessly clean kitchen. ❏ spot on adj ( Brit infml ) ကြက္တိ[ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ His assessment of the situation was spot on. ❍ Your budget figures were spot on this year. ❏ spotted adj အေျပာက္အေျပာက္။ အစက္အေျပာက္ အဆင္။ a spotted dog ❍ a red spotted handkerchief. ❏ spotter n ၁။ (လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုအတြက္ အလားအလာ၊ အရည္ အေသြးရိွသူတို႔ကို)ရွာေဖြေပးသူ (သို႔) (အေပ်ာ္တမ္း) ရွာေဖြ မွတ္သားသူ။ a talent-spotter (ie an agent who visits clubs, theatres, etc looking for new performers). See also TRAIN-SPOTTER ၂။ အကဲၾကည့္(ေလယာဥ္)။ ကင္းေထာက္ (ေလယာဥ္)။ a police spotter plane. ❏ spotty adj ( Brit infml ) ၁။ ( esp derog ) အဖုအပိမ့္ တင္းက်မ္း။ spotty youths ❍ a spotty complexion/back. ၂။ ေျပာက္တိေျပာက္က်ား။ a spotty pattern/dress. ၃။ မေကာင္းတစ္ခ်က္ ေကာင္းတစ္ခ်က္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a spotty performance.

Examples

1. We found him sitting in a sunny spot in the garden.
2. [mark the spot] : Flowers mark the spot where the accident happened.
3. [the very/exact spot] : The king himself had stood on this very spot.
4. [a sore/tender spot] : There is a sore spot on my head where I bumped it.
5. One of the region’s best-known tourist spots
6. A spot that is popular with clubbers
7. A pattern of spots and stripes
8. [spot of] : Spots of yellow
9. [with spots] : The flower is yellow with red spots.
10. A spot of paint on the step
11. The team has no chance of a spot in the top five.
12. The book occupied the number-one bestseller spot for four months.
13. She was given a five-minute spot on a local radio show.
14. [spot of] : There was still time for a spot of shopping and sightseeing.
15. I’d invited her round for a spot of lunch.
16. [a spot of bother/trouble] : We’d had a spot of trouble with the police.
17. [put someone in a spot] : The bad weather had put us in a bit of a spot.
18. [spot of] : I felt a few spots of rain on my face.