Around

Definition

around /ǝ'raƱnd/ adv ၁။ ( infml ) ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ around 100 people ❍ He arrived (at) around five o'clock. ❍ The work will be finished (by) around Christmas. ❍ They were fashionable (at) around the turn of the century. ဒါေတြဟာ ရာစုႏွစ္ကုန္တစ္ဝိုက္ေလာက္မွာ ေခတ္စားခဲ့တယ္။ ၂။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္။ အရပ္ရွစ္မ်က္ႏွာ(မွ)။ hear laughter all around. ၃။ လံုးပတ္အားျဖင့္။ အဝန္းအားျဖင့္။ an old tree that was six feet around. Compare ABOUT adv adv part ၁။ (က) ဟိုဟိုသည္သည္။ run/ drive/ walk/ look around ❍ travel around in Europe for six weeks. (ခ) (ေနရာ) အႏွံ႔။ books left around on the floor ❍ children palying around on the sand. (ဂ) အားအား ယားယား။ Several young girls were sitting around looking bored. ၂။ ရႏိုင္(လ်က္)။ There was more money around in those days. ❍ New potatoes will be around in the supermarkets soon. ❍ Cable television has been around for some time now. ႀကိဳးသြယ္ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားေတြ ေပၚေနတာ အေတာ္ၾကာၿပီ။ ၃။ (က) အနီးတစ္ဝိုက္။ I can't see anyone around. ❍ See you soon, I expect —I'll be around. ေနာက္ေတာ့ ဆံုၾကေသးတာေပါ့။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ ရိွေနမွာ ပါ။ (ခ) (ေနရာတစ္ခု၏) တစ္ခြင္၊ တစ္ဝိုက္။ I'll send someone to show you around. ❍ You have 15 minutes to look around. ၄။ ေနာက္သို႔ျပန္လွည့္လ်က္။ Turn around. ျပန္လွည့္။ Compare ABOUT adv part ❍ ROUND prep ( esp US ) ၁။ (က) ေနရာအႏွံ႔။ running around the playground ❍ travel around the world. (ခ) ဟိုဟို သည္သည္။ အႏွံအျပား။ Chairs were left scattered around the room. ❍ Blobs of paint were dotted around the canvas. ၂။ ေနရာအတြင္း။ ေနရာအနီး။ It's around here somewhere. ဒီနားတစ္ေနရာရာမွာရိွတယ္။ ❍ I saw him around the office this morning. ၃။ (က) ပတ္ကာ။ ဖက္ ကာ။ There was a red belt around his waist. ❍ He put his arms around her. (ခ) ဝိုင္းလ်က္။ ပတ္လ်က္။ run around the block ❍ The earth moves around the sun. (ဂ) ေကြ႕လ်က္။ ဝိုက္လ်က္။ going around the corner at 80 mph. Compare ABOUT prep ❏ be around [ IDM ] နာမည္ႀကီးသည္။ ထင္ရွားသည္။ a new tennis champion who could be around for a long time ❍ She's been around as a film director since the 1970s. ❏ have been around [ IDM ] အေတြ႕အႀကံဳ ရိွခဲ့သည္။ (အထူးသျဖင့္) ကာမက်မ္းေက်သည္။ He pretends he's been around but he's really very immature. ေနာေက်ေနတဲ့ ပံုဖမ္းေနေပမဲ့ ဝါကေတာ့ႏုပါေသးတယ္။ ❍ I've been around a bit—I've learned a thing or two. တစ္ခုစႏွစ္ခုစ ဆိုသလို ပညာေတာ့တိုးသား။

Examples

1. The Earth goes around the Sun.
2. The wind makes the windmill’s sails spin around.
3. We drove around looking for a hotel.
4. I wish you’d stop following me around.
5. There’s a rumour going around that she’s leaving her job.
6. Martha heard a noise and spun around to see what it was.
7. When we got to the border
8. the guards made us turn around and go back.
9. At that moment a truck came rushing around the corner.
10. Go around to the back of the house and see if anyone’s in the garden.
11. Arrange the chairs around the table.
12. Sam had his arm around Mandy’s waist.
13. Everyone crowded around the little dog.
14. A cottage with woods all around
15. They have about 15 offices scattered around the country.
16. Why are all those clothes lying around on the floor?
17. The Games were watched by millions of people around the world.
18. The quiet country roads around Chester
19. Is your wife around? I’d like to talk to her.
20. [in and around] : People living in and around the Chernobyl area were the worst affected.
21. [somewhere around] : The factory is in Sacramento
22. or somewhere around there.
23. [for miles around] : It’s one of the most popular restaurants for miles around.
24. She said her husband hadn’t been around when she really needed him.
25. The place gets so messy when the children are around.
26. Brian had been around London for years
27. and knew all the right people.
28. She walked in
29. glanced around the hall
30. and went out.
31. It seemed like someone had been snooping around in my office.
32. I’ll ask around and see if anyone has his address.
33. It’s a good idea to shop around to get the best deal on your insurance.
34. There must have been around 500 people there.
35. Damage was estimated at around £20 million.
36. It was around that time that people started worrying about the ozone layer.
37. We got back around 11.
38. We got tired of waiting around.
39. A group of old men were sitting around playing cards.
40. They spent the day lounging around the pool.
41. A bunch of kids was messing around outside the school.
42. I was fooling around and I broke my arm.
43. There are some really good new video games around.
44. There is a lot of anxiety around the whole process of globalization.