Strongest

Definition

strong /strɒŋ; US strↄ:ŋ/ adj ( -er /-ŋgǝ(r)/; -est /-ŋgÇst/) ၁။ (က) သန္စြမ္းေသာ။ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ အားရိွေသာ။ strong muscles/arms/teeth ❍ He's strong enough to lift a piano on his own. ❍ He's as strong as an ox/a horse (ie very strong). (ခ) ျပင္းေသာ။ သန္မာေသာ။ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ a strong push/blow/kick ❍ She feels quite strong again now after her illness. ❍ The old man's heart isn't strong enough to withstand a long journey. ❍ ( fig ) have strong nerves (ie be not easily frightened or worried). (ဂ) အားေကာင္းေသာ။ an actor with a strong voice. ၂။ ခိုင္ခံ့ေသာ။ a strong stick/rope/structure ❍ The chair wasn't strong enough to take his weight. ❍ We need strong defences against the enemy. ၃။ ျပင္းေသာ။ ထန္ေသာ။ အားေကာင္းေသာ။ a strong wind/current ❍ a strong magnet ❍ Keep the plants away from strong sunlight. ၄။ ျပင္းေသာ။ ျပင္းျပေသာ။ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ a strong smell of gas ❍ a strong feeling of nausea ❍ She spoke with a strong Australian accent. ပီသေသာ။ ❍ a strong influence လႊမ္းမိုးေသာ။ ❍ He is under strong pressure to resign. ❍ a strong chance of winning အႏိုင္ရရန္ အလားအလာ အလြန္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ❍ The school has a strong tradition of academic excellence. အစဥ္အလာ ႀကီးမား ေသာ။ Compare SLIGHT 1 ၅။ (က) ျပင္းေသာ။ ျပင္းျပေသာ။ အားေကာင္း ေသာ။ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ a strong will/belief/ commitment/ suspicion/interest ❍ I had a strong impression that someone was following me. ❍ There is strong support for/opposition to the government's policy. ❍ have strong feelings (ie opinions) about sth. (ခ) ခိုင္မာေသာ။ ေတာင့္ေသာ။ ႀကံ႕ႀကံ႕ခံေသာ။ စြဲၿမဲေသာ။ a strong believer/supporter/opponent. ၆။ အားေကာင္းေသာ။ အင္အားေတာင့္ေသာ။ a strong police presence at the demonstration ❍ A strong turnout is expected at the election. ၇။ အင္အား…ရိွေသာ။ a 5000-strong army ❍ The demonstrators were 100000 strong. ၈။ အားေကာင္းေသာ။ ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ a strong country/leader/army/union ❍ have a strong personality ❍ The company is in a strong position to increase its sales. ၉။ ထက္ေသာ။ သန္ေသာ။ ေတာ္ေသာ။ a strong player/team ❍ a strong candidate for the job (ie one who is likely to get it) ❍ a film with a strong cast ❍ a student who is strong in physics but weak in English. ၁၀။ ေျခေျချမစ္ျမစ္ရိွေသာ။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ ခိုင္လံုေသာ။ a strong argument/claim ❍ strong evidence ❍ You have a strong case for reinstatement. ၁၁။ ခိုင္ၿမဲေသာ။ a strong marriage ❍ The party has strong links with the trade union movement. ၁၂။ ( finance ) အားေကာင္းေသာ။ တက္ရိပ္ရိွေသာ။ strong share prices ❍ a strong economy ❍ The pound is getting stronger/weaker against the yen. ၁၃။ (က) (အနံ႔၊ အရသာ) ျပင္းေသာ၊ စူးရွေသာ။ strong mints/radishes/cigarettes ❍ This cheese tastes/smells rather strong. (ခ) ျပင္းေသာ။ က်ေသာ။ strong tea/coffee ❍ a strong antiseptic solution. (ဂ) ျပင္းေသာ(အရက္)။ Whisky is stronger than beer. ၁၄။ ျပင္းေသာ။ ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ a strong medicine/poison. ၁၅။ ေတာက္ေသာ။ ရင့္ေသာ။ Strong colours suit you. ၁၆။ ႐ုန္႔ရင္းၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ။ ရင့္သီးေသာ။ ရင့္ေသာ။ ( infml esp Brit ) strong words/language (eg swearing) ❍ It was a bit strong of him to call me a liar infront of the whole department. ၁၇။ (က) ( grammar ) အတိတ္ ကာလျပရာ၌ သရေျပာင္းေသာ (ႀကိယာ)။ သာဓက- sing, sang. (ခ) ( phonetics ) ျပင္းျပင္း (သို႔) ဖိရြတ္ရေသာ။ ဖိရြတ္ရေသာ and သံကို /ænd/ ျဖင့္ျပသည္။ Compare WEAK ❏ be strong on sth [ IDM ] ၁။ သန္ေသာ။ ကြၽမ္းေသာ။ I'm not very strong on dates (ie I cannot easily remember the dates of important events). ၂။ အားသာေသာ။ အားသန္ ေသာ။ အေလးသာေသာ။ The report is strong on criticism, but short on practical suggestions. ❍ The party is very strong on law and order. ❏ going strong [ IDM ] ( infml ) …ေကာင္းတုန္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ သန္တုန္းျမန္တုန္း။ The Kenyan runner is still going strong on the last lap. ❍ She's 91 years old and still going strong. ❏ strong-arm adj အတင္းအဓမၼ။ နသားပါရား။ use strong-arm methods/tactics against one's political opponents. ❏ strongly adv ခိုင္ခိုင္ခံ့ခံ။ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ။ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္။ စြဲစြဲၿမဲၿမဲ။ a strongly built boat ❍ a light shining strongly ❍ I feel strongly that (ie I firmly believe that) criminals should be punished. ❍ He was strongly opposed to the idea. ❍ a strongly worded protest ❍ The report is strongly critical of the government. ❏ strong-minded adj ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။

Examples

1. Are you strong enough to carry that heavy box?
2. Strong hands/arms/muscles
3. A singer with a strong voice
4. A strong punch/kick/blow
5. A strong fabric/adhesive/rope
6. A strong friendship/marriage/partnership
7. You’ve got to be strong and not let their remarks bother you.
8. She’s a strong swimmer.
9. They have a very strong hockey team this year.
10. What are his strong and weak points (=the things he is best and worst at)?
11. I have particularly strong views on that subject.
12. I have a strong feeling she’s not coming back.
13. The government gave a strong argument in favour of increasing tuition fees.
14. There’s a strong possibility that they’ll marry in the spring.
15. Strong medicine
16. A strong smell/taste
17. I had to use strong language (=words that shock people)
18. but I think it worked.
19. A strong leader/president
20. A strong wind/current
21. A strong fortress/army
22. He speaks French with a strong British accent.
23. She has very strong features (=you are likely to notice and admire her eyes
24. nose
25. and mouth).
26. There was a strong police presence (=a lot of police officers) at the demonstration.
27. The crowd was 10
28. 000 strong.