Wide

Definition

wide /waÇd/ adj (-r, -st) ၁။ (က) က်ယ္ေသာ။ က်ယ္ဝန္းေသာ။ a wide river ❍ The gap in the fence was just wide enough for the sheep to get through. ❍ ( fig ) He won by a wide margin. အျပတ္အသတ္ ႏိုင္သည္။ ❍ There are wide differences between the two parties. Compare BROAD ၁ (ခ) (အနံ၊ ျဗက္) က်ယ္ေသာ။ a two-inch-wide ribbon ❍ The room is twelve feet long and ten feet wide. ၂။ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ။ ႏွံ႔စပ္ေသာ။ the whole wide world ❍ a wide selection/ vocabulary/ audience ❍ wide influence/ support ❍ a manager with wide experience of industry. ❍ The affair raises wider issues of national interest. ❍ Health in its widest sense refers to both physical and mental well-being. ၃။ က်ယ္က်ယ္ဖြင့္ထား ေသာ။ She stared at him with eyes wide. ❍ Someone had left the door wide open. ၄။ ~ (of sth) (မွန္းခ်က္ႏွင့္) လြဲ[ေသာ]။ Her shot was wide (of the target). adv က်ယ္က်ယ္။ with legs wide apart ❍ Open your mouth wide. n ခရစ္ကက္ ကစားရာတြင္ ႐ိုက္လွည့္က်သူ မ႐ိုက္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ကြာကြာပစ္ေပးေသာ ေဘာလံုး။ ❏ be /fall wide of the mark [ IDM ] မွန္းခ်က္ႏွင့္ လြဲသည္။ His guesses were all very wide of the mark. ❏ give sb/ sth a wide berth [ IDM ] ခပ္လွမ္းလွမ္းက ေနသည္။ ခပ္ခြာခြာေနသည္။ These small creatures can be very fierce so it is advisable to give them a wide berth. ❏ - wide (forming adjs and advs ) တစ္ခြင္တစ္ျပင္လံုး။ …လံုး။ a nationwide search ❍ travelled world wide. ❏ wide-angle lens n ျမင္ကြင္းက်ယ္ မွန္ဘီလူး။ ❏ wide awake adj (က) ေကာင္းေကာင္း ႏိုးေနေသာ။ (ခ) ~ (to sth) ႏိုးၾကားေနေသာ။ သတိရိွေနေသာ။ He felt wide awake to his surroundings. ❏ wide boy n ( dated Brit infml derog ) အႀကံအဖန္ စီးပြားေရးသမား။ ❏ wide-eyed adj မ်က္စိအျပဴးသားႏွင့္။ The children watched in wide-eyed amazement. ❏ widely adv ၁။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ မ်ားစြာ။ We differ widely in our political views. ၂။ က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔။ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔လ်က္။ widely scattered ❍ It is widely known that… ❍ His books are widely read in Europe. ❏ wide open [ IDM ] က်ိန္းေသေပါက္ ႏိုင္မည့္သူ မေျပာႏိုင္ေသာ (ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ)။ ❏ wide open (to sth) [ IDM ] အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ေသာ။ ကာကြယ္မထားႏိုင္ေသာ။ be wide open to criticism. ❏ wide-ranging adj က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ။ be given wide- ranging powers ❍ a wide ranging speech.

Examples

1. Beijing’s wide avenues and boulevards
2. An earthquake shook a wide area of southern Italy on Saturday.
3. The stream is about 4 feet wide here.
4. The roads are barely wide enough for cars.
5. Her proposal has gained wide support in the last few months.
6. His wide experience of the business world proved invaluable to us.
7. [a wide range/variety] : Workers must carry out a wide range of tasks.
8. [a wide selection/choice] : We carry the area’s widest selection of wines.
9. She won the election by a wide margin.
10. The report looks at women’s employment in its wider social context.
11. Senior managers are expected to take a wider view of problems.
12. A wide smile/grin
13. The boy looked at the intruder
14. his eyes wide with fear.
15. A few inches wide of the target