Dictionary entry

The calm before the storm

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] ဒေါသူပုန်မထမီ၊ ဆိုးဝါးသောအခြေအနေမဖြစ်ပွားမီ စသည်၌ တအုံနွေးနွေး အခိုက် အတန့်။

Definition

calm /kɑ:m; US also kɑ:lm/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ၿငိမ္သက္ေသာ။ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားျခင္းမရိွေသာ။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ It is important to keep/stay calm in an emergency. ❍ The city is calm again after yesterday's riots. ❍ his calm, authoritative voice. ၂။ (က) ၿငိမ္သက္ေသာ၊ လိႈင္းတံပိုးမရိွေသာ (ပင္လယ္)။ (ခ) ေလမတိုက္ေသာ။ ေလၿငိမ္ေသာ။ a calm, cloudless day. ❍ QUIET n [C, U] ၿငိမ္သက္ေသာ အေျခအေန။ ၿငိမ္သက္မႈ။ the calm of a summer evening ❍ an atmosphere of nervous/uneasy calm after the riots. v ~ (sb) (down) ၿငိမ္သက္ေစသည္။ စိတ္ၿငိမ္ေစသည္၊ ေအး ေစသည္။ Just calm down a bit! ❍ The news calmed fears in the business community. ❍ Have a brandy—it'll help to calm you (down)/to calm your nerves. ❍ a calming influence. ❏ the calm before the storm [ IDM ] ေဒါသူပုန္မထမီ၊ ဆိုးဝါးေသာအေျခအေနမျဖစ္ပြားမီ စသည္၌ တအံုေႏြးေႏြး အခိုက္ အတန္႔။ ❏ calmly adv ေအးေအးေဆးေဆး။ မတုန္မလႈပ္။ She reacted calmly to the news. ❍ He walked into the shop and calmly (ie showing calm confidence) stole a pair of gloves. calmness n [U]

Examples

  1. An hour after the accident
  2. I was starting to feel calmer.
  3. [stay/keep/remain calm] : We were told to stay calm as help was on the way.
  4. A calm quiet voice
  5. The sea looks much calmer today.
  6. We could see our reflections in the calm surface of the lake.
  7. A calm day
  8. We’re going to see a period of calmer weather starting this weekend.
  9. The city appears calm after last night’s missile attack.
  10. A calmer day on the stock market after yesterday’s big falls