Against

Definition

against /ǝ'genst, ǝ'geÇnst / prep ၁။ (က) ဆန္႔က်င္လ်က္။ ဆန္လ်က္။ ရင္ဆိုင္လ်က္။ ခံ၍။ အျခားဘက္မွ။ … fights against enemy forces ❍ We're playing against the league champions next Saturday. ❍ We were rowing against the current. ❍ That's against the law. ❍ She was married against her will. ❍ Some people were for the proposal, but many more were against it. (ခ) မလိုလား (သည့္ဘက္မွ)။ She is against seeing (ie does not want to see) him. ❍ I'd advise you against doing (ie not to do) that. (ဂ) မေထာက္ခံဘဲ။ (အလားအလာ) ကင္းေဝးလ်က္။ ဟန္႔တားလ်က္။ The evidence is against him. ❍ The odds are strongly against it. ❍ His age is against him. Compare FOR ၂။ မီွကပ္လ်က္။ တိုးေဝွ႔႐ိုက္ခတ္လ်က္။ Put the piano there, with its back against the wall. ❍ He was leaning against a tree. ❍ The rain beat against the windows. ၃။ ေဘး၊ အႏၲရာယ္၊ ေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြားျခင္းမွ။ …ရန္မွ။ take precautions against fire ❍ protect plants against frost ❍ an injection against rabies ❍ be insured against theft. ၄။ ကြဲျပားျခားနားလ်က္။ တသီးတျခား။ ထင္းထင္းႀကီး။ သိသာထင္ရွားစြာ။ … silhouetted against the sky ❍ The skier's red clothes stood out clearly against the snow. ❍ House prices here are low against those elsewhere. See also AS AGAINST STH (AS) ၅။ … ႏွင့္စာလွ်င္။ … ႏွင့္ တိုက္ဆိုင္၍။ balance/weigh the advantages against the cost ❍ Check your receipts against the statement. ၆။ မူတည္၍။ What's the rate of exchange against the dollar? ❍ Tickets are issued only against payment of the full fee. ၇။ …ႏွင့္ယွဥ္၍။ allowances to be set against income.

Examples

1. Amnesty International has campaigned publicly against the death penalty.
2. I’m against all forms of censorship.
3. England’s World Cup game against Argentina
4. The king’s son died in battle
5. fighting against the Persians.
6. The fight against drugs in our city’s schools
7. The dictator is charged with crimes against humanity.
8. Police are investigating death threats made against a prosecution witness.
9. Illegal discrimination against homosexuals
10. [count against] : He’s over 40
11. so his age may count against him.
12. There was growing resentment among the people against their foreign rulers.
13. [turn against] : Louis turned against his former ally
14. and withdrew his support.
15. [accusation/charge/allegation against someone] : Accusations of bribery had been made against the vice-president.
16. Police are expected to bring criminal charges against Warren.
17. He leaned over and his lips brushed against her hair.
18. I fell heavily against the bookshelves.
19. We left Ron’s bicycle propped against a tree.
20. The state has a law against cruelty to animals.
21. The plants must be protected against frost until late spring.
22. All the children have been vaccinated against diseases such as polio.
23. We were sailing against a strong easterly wind.
24. The dark ruins of the castle stood out against the evening sky.
25. This year’s profits amounted to only £35 million
26. against £52 million last year.
27. [as against] : Why is there a preference for the American system as against the British?