The next world

Definition

next /nekst/ adj ~ (to sb/ sth) ၁။ (usu with the ) ေနာက္…။ the next name on the list ❍ Who's next, please (eg at a shop)? ❍ How far is it to the next petrol station? ❍ the next house to ours (Compare: the house next to ours) ❍ The next train to Baltimore is at 10.00. ❍ The next time I saw her she was working in London. ❍ The next six months will be the hardest. ❍ I fainted and the next thing I knew I was in hospital. ၂။ လာမည့္။ ေနာက္။ Next Thursday is 12 April. ❍ I'm going skiing next winter. ❍ TIME adv ၁။ ထို႔ေနာက္။ What did you do next? ❍ Next we visited Tokyo. ❍ What comes next (ie follows)? ၂။ ယင္းမတိုင္မီ (…ဆံုး)။ The next oldest building is the church. ၃။ (အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ ေနာက္ေကာ။ You're learning to be a parachutist? Whatever next! ❏ as good, well, far, much, etc as the next man [ IDM ] လူတကာလို။ သူလိုငါလိုပဲ။ I can enjoy a joke as well as the next man, but this is going too far. ❏ the next n [sing] ေနာက္တစ္ခု။ ေနာက္တစ္ေယာက္။ She finished one novel and immediately started the next. ❏ next-best adj သည့္ေနာက္အေကာင္းဆံုး။ The next-best thing is to abandon the project altogether. ❏ next door adv ေဘး(အခန္း၊ အိမ္ စသည္)က။ ေဘးခ်င္း ကပ္က။ The cat is from the house next door. ❍ The manager's office is just next door. ❍ We live next door to a pub. adj ေဘးခ်င္းကပ္။ our next-door neighbours ❍ the next-door house/ office. ❏ next of kin n [C,U] ( pl unchanged) ( fml ) ေဆြမ်ဳိး ရင္းခ်ာ။ Her next of kin has/ have been informed. ❍ The form must be signed by next of kin. ❏ next to prep ၁။ ေဘး၌။ အနားမွာ။ ကပ္လ်က္။ Peter sat next to me on the sofa. ❍ I've put the bed next to the window. ၂။ ၿပီးလွ်င္။ Next to skiing her favourite sport was skating. ၃။ နီးပါး။ Painting the ceiling proved next to impossible without a ladder. ေလွကားမပါဘဲ မ်က္ႏွာၾကက္ ကို ေဆးသုတ္ဖို႔ဆိုတာကေတာ့ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္သေလာက္ပဲ။ ❍ I got it for next to nothing in a sale. အလကားနီးနီးရခဲ့တယ္။ ❍ My horse came next to last in the race. ငါ့ျမင္းကေတာ့ ဘိတ္ေခ်းမဆိုရ႐ံုတစ္မည္ပဲ။ ❏ the next world [ IDM ] တမလြန္။

Examples

1. He said he was leaving for Rome the next day.
2. Who will be the next president?
3. The next train to arrive at platform three is the 10.40 to Liverpool.
4. I’ll call you the next time I’m in town.
5. Who’s next in the queue?
6. I’ll be busy this week and next.
7. When I next spoke with him
8. he told me he had got married.
9. I knew exactly what was going to happen next.
10. First
11. peel the fruit. Next
12. prepare a chocolate sauce.
13. [the next few weeks/several months/five years etc] : Over the next few weeks I tried to re-organize the office.
14. [next Tuesday/week/year etc] : I’ll see you next Friday.
15. The Scottish Parliament elections take place next May.
16. [Monday/Tuesday etc next] : The ceremony will take place on Monday next.
17. I could hear the sound of laughter in the next room.
18. The next main road you come to will be King Street.
19. Get out at the next station.