Steadily

Definition

steady /'stedi / adj (-ier, -iest) ၁။ ၿမဲၿမံေသာ။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ခိုင္ေသာ။ hold the camera steady ❍ a steady gaze ❍ He's not very steady on his legs after his illness. ❍ Such fine work requires a good eye and a steady hand. ❍ She was trembling with excitement but she kept her voice steady. Compare UNSTEADY ၂။ ပံုမွန္။ မွန္မွန္။ steady progress/improvement ❍ a steady increase in the number of people unemployed ❍ I've been getting a steady stream of letters on this subject. ၃။ ပံုမွန္။ မွန္မွန္။ မွန္တမ္း။ အတည္[ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ move at a steady pace ❍ steady breathing ❍ a steady job/income ❍ If you drive at a steady 50 miles an hour you will use less petrol. ❍ ( dated ) a steady boyfriend/girlfriend (ie with whom one has a serious relationship or one that has lasted for some time). ၄။ တည္ၾကည္ေသာ။ စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ a steady young man ❍ a steady worker. v ( pt, pp steadied ) တည္ၿငိမ္သည္။ ဟန္လိုက္သည္။ ထိန္းထိန္း သိမ္းသိမ္း ရိွသည္။ Prices are steadying. ❍ He thought he was going to fall and put a hand out to steady himself. ❍ She had a drink to steady her nerves. ❍ Her elder sister is a steadying influence on her. ❏ go steady (with sb) [ IDM ] ( dated infml ) ပံုမွန္တြဲသည္။ Are Tony and Jane going steady? ❏ steadily /'stedÇli / adv မွန္မွန္။ မရပ္မနား။ တျဖည္းျဖည္းပို၍။ work steadily ❍ Prices are rising steadily. ❍ The situation got steadily worse. steadiness n [U] ❏ steady (on)! [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) သတိထားပါဦး။ ျဖည္းျဖည္းေပါ့။ Steady on! You can't say things like that about someone you've never met.

Examples

1. Hold the torch steady so I can see better.
2. [steady hand] : You have to have a steady hand to be a surgeon.
3. [steady gaze/look] : She brought her eyes up to meet his steady gaze.
4. Slow but steady progress has been made towards concluding the deal.
5. [steady growth/increase/rise] : The company hopes to see a steady increase in car sales this year.
6. [steady stream/flow] : A steady stream of people came to our grand opening.
7. [steady rhythm/rate/pace] : She listened to the steady rhythm of his breathing as he slept.
8. Casey was always a steady worker.
9. [steady work/job/income] : It wasn’t easy to find steady work in the city.
10. Rachel was silent
11. watching him steadily.
12. The pain steadily increased in intensity.