The (very) devil

Definition

than /ðǝn; rare strong form ðæn/ conj (ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ရာတြင္သံုးေသာ စကား)။ ထက္၊ ေအာက္။ He's never more annoying than when he's trying to help. ❍ She's a better player than (she was) last year. ❍ He loves me more than you do. ❍ You should know better than to behave like that. prep ၁။ (နာမ္၊ နာမ္စား ေရွ႕တြင္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ျခင္း ကိုျပသည္။ ) ထက္၊ ေအာက္။ He learns more quickly than the others. ❍ I'm older than her. ❍ Nobody understands the situation better than you. ❍ There was more whisky in it than soda. ၂။ (အေရအတြက္၊ အကြာအေဝး စသည္ကို ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ရာ၌ more/less ေနာက္တြင္ ထား၍သံုးသည္။ ) ထက္၊ ေအာက္။ It cost me more than $100. ❍ It never takes more than an hour. ❍ He can't be more than fifteen. ❍ It's less than a mile to the beach. ၃။ (no sooner, hardly, barely, scarcely တို႔ႏွင့္ အစခ်ီေသာဝါက်က႑၏ ေနာက္တြင္ထား၍ ျဖစ္ရပ္ တစ္ခုႏွင့္တစ္ခု ဆက္တိုက္ကဲ့သို႔ျဖစ္ျခင္းကိုျပသည္။ ) … ၍မွ်မၾကာမီ။ … ႐ံုရိွေသး။ No sooner had I sat down than there was a loud knock at the door. ❍ Hardly/Barely/Scarcely had we arrived than the problems started. See also OTHER THAN, RATHER THAN

Examples

1. Nylon is considerably stronger than cotton.
2. Diesel fuel was less expensive than petrol.
3. Is the world a safer place than it was a year ago?
4. We don’t want to do more than is necessary.
5. [more/less than] : No one should have to wait more than 24 hours to see a doctor.
6. A small town of less than 5
7. 000 people
8. It was more a friendly warning than a threat.
9. Most criminals would rather go to prison than meet their victims.