While

Definition

while /waÇl/ (also esp Brit whilst /waÇlst/) conj ၁။ (က) စဥ္တြင္။ စဥ္အတြင္း။ He fell asleep while (he was) watching television. ❍ While I was in Madrid there was a carnival. ❍ She wrote her first novel while still at school. (ခ) ေနစဥ္။ ခိုက္။ While Mary was writing the letter, the children were playing outside. ❍ I like listening to the radio while driving to work. ❍ The first team lost 6-0, while the juniors were also beaten. ၂။ (ဆန္႔က်င္အႏိႈင္းစကား)။ ေပမဲ့။ မူကား။ I drink black coffee while David prefers it with cream. ❍ English is understood all over the world while Turkish is spoken by only a few people outside Turkey itself. ၃။ ( fml ) ေသာ္လည္း။ လင့္ကစား။ While I admit that there are problems, I don't agree that they cannot be solved. n [sing] ကာလ (အတိုင္းအတာ)။ She worked in a bank for a while before studying law. ❍ For a long while we had no news of him. ❍ I'll be back in a little while. ❍ It took quite a while (ie a long time) to find a hotel. ❍ We waited for three hours, all the while hoping that someone would come and fetch us. ❏ while sth away [ PHRV ] ေအးေအးေဆးေဆး အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္း သည္၊ အခ်ိန္ကုန္ေစသည္။ We whiled away the time at the airport reading magazines. ❍ It's easy to while a few hours away in a museum.

Examples

1. Someone called while you were out.
2. While in Australia
3. she met and married Bert.
4. She had sprained her ankle while playing tennis.
5. While in prison he shared a cell with Ron Spicer.
6. Could you look after the children while I cook lunch?
7. While most children learn to read easily
8. some need extra help.
9. The south of the country grows richer
10. while the north grows poorer.
11. While I agree with you
12. I do not believe that your way is best.
13. I can stay while 6.