The First World War

Definition

first / fɜ:st / det (က) အဦး။ အစ။ ပထမ။ the first public performance of the play ❍ his first wife ❍ their first baby ❍ her first job ❍ students in their first year at college ❍ at the first (ie earliest) opportunity ❍ the first signs that winter is approaching ❍ one's first impression / reaction ❍ King Edward I (said as ‘King, Edward the First’) ❍ go back to first (ie basic) principles ❍ an issue of the first importance ❍ She won first prize in the competition. ❍ Your first duty is to your family. ❍ English isn't her first (ie her native) language. (ခ) အဦး။ အစ။ ပထမ။ ကနဦး။ his first real taste of success ❍ It was the first time they had ever met. Compare LAST 1 adj ၁ adv ၁။ (က) ပထမ။ ဦးဆံုး။ ဦးစြာ။ Susan came into the room first. ❍ Who came first in the race? (ie Who won?) ❍ He climbed out of the window feet first. ❍ Ladies first (said by a man, allowing a woman to enter a room, etc before he does). (ခ) ပထမ။ ဦးဆံုး။ First I had to decide what to wear. ❍ Think first, then act. ❍ ‘Do you want a drink?’ ‘I'll finish my work first. ’ Compare LAST 1 adv ၂။ ပထမဦးစြာ။ When did you first meet him? ❍ The play was first performed in Paris. ❍ When he first arrived in this country, he couldn't speak any English. ၃။ ပထမအေနျဖင့္။ This method has two advantages: first it is cheaper and second(ly) it is quicker. ၄။ ပထမ။ အရင္။ He said he'd resign first (ie rather than do what had been suggested). n, pron ၁။ the first [C] ( pl unchanged) ပထမဆံုးျဖစ္သူ (သို႔) အႀကိမ္။ I'm the first in my family to go to university. ❍ Sheila and Jim were the first to arrive. ❍ I'd be the first to admit (ie I will most willingly admit) I might be wrong. ❍ The first I heard about the firm closing down (ie The first time I became aware of it) was when George asked me what I planned to do. Compare LAST 1 n ၁ ၂။ [C] ( infml ) ပထမအႀကိမ္။ a real first for the German team. ၃။ [C] ~ ( in sth ) ( Brit ) ဂုဏ္ထူးတန္းတြင္ ပထမတန္းျဖင့္ ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္း။ She got a first in maths at Exeter. ၄။ [U] အနိမ့္ဆံုးဂီယာ။ go up the hill in first. ❏ at first [ IDM ] အစအဦးက။ အစပထမက။ ကနဦးတြင္။ အစဦးတြင္။ At first I thought he was shy, but then I discovered he was just not interested in other people. ❍ (saying) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. ❏ come first [ IDM ] ဦးစားေပးသည္။ In any decision he makes, his family always comes first. ❏ first aid n [U] ေရွးဦးသူနာျပဳနည္း။ ❏ first and foremost [ IDM ] ပထမဦးဆံုး။ He does a bit of writing, but first and foremost he's a teacher. ❏ first balcony n ( US ) = DRESS CIRCLE ❏ first base n ေဘ့စ္ေဘာကစားနည္းတြင္ေဘာလံုးကိုတုတ္ျဖင့္႐ိုက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ ကြင္းပတ္ေျပးရာတြင္ ပထမဆံုး ဝင္ရသည့္ ေနရာ။ ❏ first-born n, adj ( dated ) သားဦး။ their first-born son. ❏ first class n [U] ၁။ ရထား၊ သေဘၤာ စသည္တြင္ ပထမတန္း။ Smoking is not allowed in first class. ❍ first-class carriages/compartments / seats. ၂။ (စာပို႔ ရာတြင္) အျမန္ဆံုးေခ်ာပို႔။ First class costs more. ❍ A first-class letter should arrive the following day. ❍ Ten first-class stamps, please. adj ပထမတန္းစား။ ထိပ္တန္း။ အေကာင္းဆံုး။ The entertainment provided was first class. ❍ They can afford to eat at first-class restaurants. ❍ She's got a first-class degree from Hull University. ❍ They're first-class people — you'll like them. adv (ခရီးသြားရာတြင္) ပထမတန္းျဖင့္။ (စာပို႔ရာတြင္) အျမန္ဆံုး ေခ်ာပို႔စနစ္ျဖင့္။ travel first class ❍ I sent the letter first class on Monday. ❏ first come, first served [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဦးရာလူ။ ❏ first cousin n = COUSIN ❏ first-day cover n ( Brit ) အထိမ္းအမွတ္တစ္ခုခုကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳ၊ မွတ္တမ္းတင္သည့္အေနျဖင့္ ကနဦး ထုတ္ေဝေသာ တံဆိပ္ေခါင္း ေပၚတြင္ ယင္းေန႔စြဲပါ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အထူးတံဆိပ္တံုး ႐ိုက္ႏိွပ္ ထားၿပီး ယင္းတစ္ေန႔တည္းသာေရာင္းသည့္ စာအိတ္ (သို႔) ကတ္ျပား စသည့္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ပထမေန႔စာအိတ္။ ❏ first degree n [U] လူသတ္မႈတြင္ အျပစ္အေပါ့ဆံုး အဆင့္ (သို႔) မီးေလာင္ျခင္း၊ ေရႏြးပူေလာင္ျခင္းတို႔တြင္ အသက္သာဆံုးအဆင့္။ He was charged with murder in the first degree / first-degree murder. ❍ Hot coffee can give first-degree burns. ❏ first-ever adj ပထမဆံုး။ ဦးဆံုး။ the first-ever woman vice-president. ❏ first finger n = INDEX FINGER ❏ first floor (usu the first floor) n [sing] ၁။ ( Brit ) ပထမထပ္။ a first-floor flat. ၂။ ( US ) ေျမညီထပ္။ ❍ FLOOR 1 ❏ first-fruit n (usu pl ) ၁။ ေပၚဦးေပၚဖ်ား သီးႏွံ။ ၂။ ပထမဆံုး ရသည့္လုပ္စာ (သို႔) ရလဒ္။ ❏ first gear n ေမာ္ေတာ္ကား (သို႔) ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆိုင္ကယ္တြင္ အနိမ့္ဆံုး ဂီယာ။ ❏ first lady n ၁။ the First Lady [sing] ( US ) ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ၏ ဇနီး (သို႔) ယင္းျပည္ တစ္ခုမွ ဘုရင္ခံ၏ ဇနီး။ ၂။ [C usu sing ] (အတတ္ပညာ တစ္ရပ္စသည္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍) ပထမဆံုး လမ္းစတီထြင္လုပ္သူ အမ်ဳိးသမီး။ recognized as the first lady of romantic fiction. ❏ (the) first / last / next but one, two, etc [ IDM ] တစ္ခု ႏွစ္ခု ေက်ာ္ၿပီး (သို႔) မတိုင္မီ ဦးဆံုး (သို႔) ေနာက္ဆံုး။ Take the first turning but one on your left. ဘယ္ဘက္ တစ္လမ္းေက်ာ္ လမ္းခ်ဳိးအတိုင္းဝင္ပါ။ ❍ I live in the last house but two in this street. ဒီလမ္းမွာ က်ဳပ္အိမ္ၿပီး ႏွစ္အိမ္ပဲ က်န္ေတာ့တယ္။ ❏ first light n [U] အ႐ုဏ္ဦး။ We left before / at first light. ❏ firstly adv (in giving a list) ပထမအေနျဖင့္။ There are two reasons for this decision: firstly,… ❏ first name n အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံတို႔တြင္ သားသမီးေမြးသည့္အခါ မ်ဳိး႐ိုးအမည္၏ ေရွ႕မွ တပ္ေခၚရန္ေပးသည့္ အမည္။ ပထမအမည္။ ခရစ္ယာန္ အမည္။ Mrs Williams's first names are Margaret Elizabeth. ❍ be on first-name terms with sb. ပထမအမည္ျဖင့္ ေခၚေခၚေျပာေျပာ လုပ္ႏိုင္ ေလာက္ေအာင္ ရင္းႏီွးသည္။ ❍ NAME n Compare FORENAME, GIVEN NAME, CHRISTIAN NAME ❏ first night n (ဇာတ္ကား၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ကား စသည္) ပြဲဦးထြက္ည။ tickets for the first night of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ ❍ suffer from first-night nerves (ie as a performer). Compare PREMIÈRE ❏ first of all [ IDM ] ၁။ ပထမဦးဆံုး။ First of all she just smiled, then she started to laugh. ၂။ ပထမဦးဆံုး။ Well, first of all we can't possibly spare the time. ❏ first off [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပထမဆံုး။ အရင္ဆံုး။ First off, let's see how much it'll cost. ❏ first offender n ပထမအႀကိမ္ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူ။ ❏ the first person n [sing] ၁။ ( grammar ) ေျပာသူနာမ္စား။ ဥတၱမပုရိသ။ အမွေယာဂ။ ‘I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb ' to be’. ❍ ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘us’ are first-person pronouns. ၂။ ေျပာသူနာမ္စား။ Hemingway often writes in the first person. ❏ first-rate adj ထူးကဲေသာ။ ထူးခြၽန္ေသာ။ ေျပာင္ေျမာက္ ေသာ။ အလြန္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ထိပ္တန္းက်ေသာ။ a first-rate meal ❍ The food here is first-rate. adv က်န္းမာလွစြာ။ က်န္းမာပကတိ ခ်မ္းသာစြာ။ ❏ first refusal n [U] ( Brit ) ပထမဆံုး ျငင္းပိုင္ခြင့္။ If you ever decide to sell your car, I hope you'll give me (the) first refusal. ❏ first school n (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) ၅ ႏွစ္အရြယ္မွ ၈ ႏွစ္ (သို႔) ၉ ႏွစ္အတြင္းရိွ ကေလးမ်ားေက်ာင္း။ ❏ first-time adj ပထမအႀကိမ္။ first-time house buyers. ❏ the First World War (also World War I ) n [sing] ပထမကမ႓ာစစ္။ ❏ from the (very) first [ IDM ] အစပထမ ကတည္းက။ အစကတည္းက။ They were attracted to each other from the first. ❏ from first to last [ IDM ] အစက အဆံုးအထိ၊ ေတာက္ ေလွ်ာက္။ It was a splendid show from first to last. ❏ not get to first base (with sth/sb) [ IDM ] ( infml esp US ) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးကို ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ရာတြင္ အနားသို႔ပင္ သီခြင့္မရ။ ပြဲဦးထြက္ကပင္ လန္သြားသည္။ ❏ put sb/sth first [ IDM ] ဦးစားေပးသည္။ put one's career / reputation / children first.

Examples

1. He has two daughters from his first marriage and a son from his second.
2. Julia got there first
3. but Susan arrived just a few minutes later.
4. I was first in the queue so I think I should be served first.
5. [the first] : The lecture is the first in a series that will be presented at the university.
6. First
7. let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves.
8. Can’t I just finish reading this article first?
9. There is a strict procedure you must follow: first make sure the safety catch is on.
10. Take the first turning on the right.
11. It’s the first house that you come to.
12. This will be Kenny’s first trip overseas.
13. I first met him in 1980.
14. [the first] : The strike is the first in the industry since 1987.
15. [the first time] : I remember the first time I went to church.
16. Who was the first man on the moon?
17. ‘Has anyone else visited you?’ ‘No
18. you’re the first.’
19. [the first to do something] : Hillary and Norgay were the first to climb Everest.
20. He cooked me a meal
21. which was a first for him.
22. They borrowed $65 million to cover the first six months of 1993.
23. When I first started running
24. I could do a mile in nine minutes.
25. The first few days of our holiday were wonderful.
26. His first love was music.
27. Our first consideration must be the safety of the passengers.
28. There are four reasons. First
29. the company has to make money.
30. Karen has always been first in her class.
31. [come first] : Phil Gray came first in the under-12 competition.
32. [first prize/place] : Crowe’s book of poems won first prize in last year’s competition.
33. [get a first in something] : He got a first in maths from Imperial College.
34. Move down to first gear.
35. Now put the car in first.