The above

Definition

above / ǝ'bʌv / adv ၁။ (က) အထက္တြင္။ အေပၚတြင္။ အေပၚမွာ။ My bedroom is immediately above. (ခ) အေပၚမွ။ အေပၚက။ Seen from above, the fields looked like a geometrical pattern. ❍ A voice called down to us from above. ၂။ အထက္။ wage increases of 5% and above ❍ anyone aged 18 and above. ၃။ အထက္တြင္။ ေရွ႕တြင္။ as stated above ❍ the points mentioned above. ၄။ ( rhet or joc ) အထက္(က)။ မိုးေပၚ(က)။ act on instructions from above. Compare BELOW, UNDER, UNDERNEATH prep ၁။ အထက္သို႔။ အထက္တြင္။ The sun rose above the horizon. ❍ The water came above our knees. ❍ We were flying above the clouds. ၂။ ထက္။ A captain in the Navy ranks above a captain in the Army. ❍ They finished the season three places above their local rivals ❍ Should a soldier value honour above life? ၃။ (ေကာင္းလြန္းေတာ္လြန္း၍) ေအာက္တန္းမက်၊ မတူမတန္၊ မာန မထားတတ္။ She wouldn't lie – she's above that . ❍ He thinks he's above ( ie too important for) such a post. ❍ Although she's the manager, she's not above, asking (ie she's not too proud to ask) for advice. ၄။ ကင္းရွင္း လ်က္။ He is above suspicion (ie is not suspected because he is completely trusted). ၅။ ( infml ) လက္လွမ္း မမီ။ All this maths is above me. ၆။ (ဆူညံသံမ်ားကို) ေက်ာ္၍။ I could hardly hear his voice above the noise in the background. ၇။ (ျမစ္) အညာဘက္တြင္။ the waterfall above the bridge. adj အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ။ အထက္ပါ။ See the above paragraph ❍ at the above address. ❏ the above n အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါအခ်က္။ If the above is not correct, please inform us immediately. ❏ above all [ IDM ] အျဖစ္ခ်င္ဆံုး၊ အလိုခ်င္ဆံုး၊ အေတာင့္တ ဆံုး (စသည္)။ he longs above all (else) to see his family again. ❏ above oneself [ IDM ] ဘဝင္ျမင့္သည္။ ေသြး နားထင္ ေရာက္သည္။ ေအာက္ေျခလြတ္သည္။ Compare BELOW, UNDER, UNDERNEATH ❏ above-mentioned adj ( fml ) အထက္တြင္ေဖာ္ျပပါ။

Examples

1. We lived in the room above the shop.
2. Curran’s leg was broken above the right knee.
3. The snow-covered hills above the village
4. Many of the documents mentioned above are now available on the Internet.
5. David and Brenda Mitchell
6. pictured above
7. celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last weekend.
8. Interviews will be held at the above address on 2 December.
9. The company’s profits were 23% above the previous year’s.
10. Temperatures climbed to 31 degrees Celsius – 10 degrees above normal.
11. In most subjects the students scored well above average.
12. In their society
13. honesty was prized above all other virtues.
14. We value our independence above anything that you can offer us.
15. As a major
16. Stuart was a rank above me
17. but we remained good friends.
18. Carl shouted
19. but it was impossible to make himself heard above all the noise.
20. Jack was cheating? I thought he was above that sort of thing.