Step on the gas

Definition

step /step / v (-pp-) (ေျခလွမ္း)လွမ္းသည္။ step on sb's foot ❍ step in a puddle ❍ step across a stream ❍ step into the house ❍ step onto/off a train ❍ step forwards/backs ❍ step aside to let sb pass. n ၁။ [C] (က) ေျခလွမ္း။ He took a step towards the door. ❍ Her boots sank further into the mud with each step she took. (ခ) ေျခလွမ္း။ retrace one's steps (ie go back) ❍ move a step closer to the fire ❍ It's only a few steps farther. ❍ He walked with us every step of the way. (ဂ) (also footstep ) ေျခသံ။ We heard steps outside. (ဃ) ( fml )ေျခလွမ္း။ She felt pleased and her step was light. ၂။ [C] ေျခလွမ္း။ the first step on the road to recovery. ❍ This won't solve all our problems, but it's a step in the right direction ❍ This has been a great step forward (ie A lot of progress has been made). ❍ What's the next step? (ie What must we do next?) ❍ The government is taking steps to ensure that the matter is properly investigated. ❍ Our marketing methods put us a step/several steps ahead of our main rivals. ၃။ [C] ေလွကားထစ္။ a flight of steps. ❍ Mind the step when you go down into the cellar. ❍ The child was sitting on the top/ bottom step. See also DOORSTEP ❍ LADDER ❍ STAIR ၄။ [C] (ရာထူး)အဆင့္။ When do you get your next step up (ie When will you be promoted)? ၅။ steps [pl] ( Brit ) ေလွကား။ a pair of steps ❍ We need the steps to get into the loft. ၆။ [C often pl ] ကႀကိဳးအလိုက္ ေျခလွမ္း ဟန္။ ကကြက္။ I don't know the steps for this dance. ❏ break step [ IDM ] ေျခလွမ္းညီညီခ်ီတက္ရာမွ ေျခလွမ္းဖ်က္ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ ❏ fall into step (with sb) [ IDM ] အမ်ားႏွင့္ ေျခလွမ္းညိႇ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ ❏ in /out of step (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ေျခလွမ္းညီညီ ေလွ်ာက္သည္၊ မေလွ်ာက္။ ၂။ လိုက္ေလ်ာညီေထြရိွသည္ (သို႔) တစ္မူထူးျခား ေနသည္။ He's out of step with modern ideas. ❏ mind/watch one's step [ IDM ] ၁။ သတိႏွင့္ေလွ်ာက္။ သတိထားသြား။ ၂။ သတိထား။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္။ နေမာ္နမဲ့မလုပ္ ႏွင့္။ You'll be in trouble if you don't watch your step. ❏ step aside/ down [ PHRV ] (ရာထူးႀကီးမွ)ဖယ္ေပးသည္၊ ဆင္းေပးသည္။ It's time for me to step aside/ down as chief executive and let a younger person take over. ❏ step by step [ IDM ] တစ္ဆင့္ၿပီးတစ္ဆင့္။ I'll explain it to you step by step. ❍ a step-by-step instruction manual. ❏ step forward [ PHRV ] (ေစတနာ့ဝန္ထမ္းအျဖစ္) ထြက္လာ သည္။ The organizing committee is appealing for volunteers to step forward. ❏ step in [ PHRV ] ၾကားဝင္သည္။ ဖ်န္ေျဖသည္။ If the police had not stepped in when they did there would have been a serious incident. ❏ step into the breach [ IDM ] အစားထိုးဝင္ေပးသည္။ Julie fell ill just before the show so I was asked to step into the breach. ❏ step into sb's shoes [ IDM ] တာဝန္ဝတၱရားမ်ားကို ဆက္ခံသည္။ She stepped into her father's shoes when he retired. ❏ step on it ; ( US ) step on the gas [ IDM ]( infml ) ျမန္ျမန္ေမာင္းသည္။ You'll be late if you don't step on it. ❏ step out ( esp US ) [ PHRV ] ထြက္သြားသည္။ ❏ step out of line [ IDM ] စည္းကမ္းေဖာက္သည္။ The teacher warned them that she would punish anyone who stepped out of line. ❏ stepping-stone n (က) ေရတိမ္ျဖတ္ကူးရန္ စီတန္းခ်ထား ေသာေက်ာက္တံုး။ (ခ) (ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ တက္ လွမ္းရာ) ေလွကားထစ္။ a first stepping-stone on the path to success. ❏ step up [ PHRV ] ထြက္(လာ)သည္။ She stepped up to collect her prize. ❏ step sth up [ PHRV ] အရိွန္အဟုန္ျမႇင့္သည္။ step up production ❍ The terrorists have stepped up their campaign of violence. step- / step- / pref (မိရင္းဖရင္း၏ေနာက္လင္၊ ေနာက္မယား (သို႔) ဖေအတူမေအကြဲ၊ မေအတူဖေအကြဲ (သို႔) လင္ပါ၊ မယားပါ စသည္အဓိပၸာယ္ရိွေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ ❏ stepbrother /'stepbrʌðǝ (r)/ n ဖေအတူမေအကြဲ (သို႔) မေအတူဖေအကြဲ ညီ၊ ေမာင္၊ အစ္ကို။ ❏ stepchild /'steptʃaÇld/ n ( pl - children/ -tʃÇldrǝn/) လင္ပါ(သို႔)မယားပါသား၊ သမီး။ ❏ stepdaughter /'stepdↄ:tǝ(r)/ n လင္ပါ၊ မယားပါသမီး။ ❏ stepfather /'stepfɑ:ðǝ (r) / n ပေထြး။ ❏ stepmother /'stepmʌðǝ(r)/ n မိေထြး။ ❏ step-parent /'step peǝrǝnt/ n ပေထြး(သို႔) မိေထြး။ ❏ stepsister /'stepsÇstǝ (r)/ n ဖေအတူမေအကြဲ (သို႔) မေအတူဖေအကြဲ ညီမ၊ ႏွမ၊ အစ္မ။ ❏ stepson /'stepsʌn/ n လင္ပါ ၊ မယားပါ သား။

Examples

1. [take/move a step] : I am too tired to take another step.
2. He moved a step nearer the two men.
3. [retrace your steps] : We were lost and decided to retrace our steps.
4. I could hear the steps coming closer.
5. The postbox is just a few steps from my front door.
6. [dance step] : Juan was practising his new dance steps for the competition.
7. [a spring in your step] : John felt fantastic and there was a new spring in his step.
8. [step in] : This new law is the first step in making our city safer.
9. [step towards] : This agreement is an important step towards our goal.
10. [a step along the way/road] : For Jack
11. this job was a mere step along the road to power.
12. I met him on the front steps of the bank.
13. The woman took them down some steps leading to the beach.
14. [a flight of steps] : I climbed a flight of steep narrow steps.
15. [the foot of the steps] : Waiting at the foot of the cellar steps
16. Steps in your learning process
17. [a step up] : Her new job is a big step up for her.
18. A step up on the pay scale
19. [be a/one step ahead of someone] : She was congratulating herself on her cleverness
20. but he was one step ahead of her.
21. [repeat a step] : When you finish the exercise
22. repeat steps five to ten.
23. She teaches a step class.