At home

Definition

home 1 /ǝƱm/ n ၁။ (က) [C, U] ေနအိမ္။ အိမ္။ The nurse visits patients in their homes. ❍ He left home (ie left his parents and began an independent life) at sixteen. ❍ I'll give you my home address. ❍ home- baked bread ❍ a quiet home-loving man ❍ the new fashion for home-based computer-linked workers. See also BROKEN HOME. (ခ) [C] ေနအိမ္။ အိမ္။ တိုက္ခန္း။ a luxury home ❍ a five-bedroom home ❍ a rise in the number of private homes being repossessed ❍ a home improvement grant ❍ They have a second/ a holiday home in Wales. ❍ We spoke to Madonna at her Hollywood home. ❍ good news for home-buyers ❍ the growth of home-ownership. See also MOBILE HOME, STATELY HOME (ဂ) [C] ( infml ) ထားစရာေနရာ။ I must find a home for all these bottles. ၂။ [C,U] ဇာတိခ်က္ေႂကြ ေမြးရပ္ေျမ။ (ၿမိဳ႕၊ တိုင္း၊ ႏိုင္ငံ စသည္။ ) my home town ❍ She was born in London, but she now regards Paris as her home. ❍ We were a long way from home. ၃။ [C] (ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့မ်ားအတြက္) ေဂဟာ၊ ရိပ္သာ။ a children's home ❍ a home for the blind ❍ an old people's home. See also NURSING HOME, REST-HOME ၄။ [C] (က) ရွင္သန္ရာ။ The tiger's home is (in) the jungle. (ခ) ဇာတိရွင္သန္ရာ။ Greece is the home of democracy. adj ၁။ (က) အိမ္။ အိမ္ေထာင္။ အိမ္သံုး။ have a happy home life ❍ home comforts ❍ a home computer ❍ We offer customers a free home delivery service. (ခ) အိမ္လုပ္။ လက္ျဖစ္။ home cooking ❍ home movies. ၂။ ျပည္တြင္း။ the home market ❍ home news/ affairs. ၃။ ( sport ) ကိုယ့္ရပ္ကိုယ့္ေျမ။ a home match/ win ❍ the home team ❍ playing in front of their home crowd. adv ၁။ အိမ္မွာ၊ အိမ္သို႔။ Is he home yet? ❍ I got home at 7.30. ❍ She's on her way home. ❍ Go straight home, Billy. ❍ We returned home. ❍ Will the Spanish authorities send him home for trial? ❍ ( US ) stay home (ie stay at home). ၂။ အဆံုး။ drive a nail home. ❏ at home [ IDM ] ၁။ အိမ္မွာ။ အခန္းထဲမွာ။ Is there anybody at home? ၂။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ။ the President's political standing at home and abroad. ၃။ မိမိအိမ္မွာကဲ့သို႔။ ကိုယ့္အိမ္လို။ Help yourself to whatever you need—just make yourself at home! ❍ They always make us feel very much at home. ၄။ ကိုယ့္ရပ္ကိုယ့္ေျမ။ Is our next match at home or away? ❍ a home game. ၅။ ( fml ) ဧည့္ လက္ခံသည္။ Mrs Hill is not at home to anyone except close relatives. ❏ bring home the bacon [ IDM ] ( infml ) (မိမိမိသားစု၊ မိမိအသင္း စသည္အတြက္) ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ လုပ္ေပးႏိုင္သည္။ ❏ bring sth home to sb [ IDM ] ေကာင္းေကာင္းႀကီး သေဘာ ေပါက္ေစသည္။ The television pictures brought home to us all the full horror of the famine. ❏ close/ near to home [ IDM ] ခ်က္ေကာင္း။ ကိုယ့္ရပ္ကိုယ့္ ေျမ။ Her remarks about me were embarrassingly close to home. ❍ The threat of war is coming steadily nearer to home. ❏ come home (to sb) [ IDM ] ေကာင္းေကာင္းႀကီး နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္လာသည္။ The reality of the situation suddenly came home to him. ❏ come home to roost [ IDM ] သူမ်ားမေကာင္းႀကံ ကိုယ့္မွာ ေဘးဒဏ္ထိ။ ကိုယ့္႐ႉးကိုယ္ပတ္။ ❏ hit/ strike home [ IDM ] အ႐ိႈက္ထိသည္။ I could see from her expression that his comments had hit home. ❏ (be) home and dry [ IDM ] ေအာင္ထူသည္။ ❏ home-coming n ၁။ [C, U] အိမ္အျပန္။ a home-coming party. ၂။ [C] ( US ) ေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္း မိတ္ဆံုပြဲ။ ❏ the Home Counties n [pl] လန္ဒန္အနီးဝန္းက်င္ ေဒသႏၲရ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕လက္ေအာက္ရိွ စီရင္စုမ်ား။ ❏ home economics n [U] အိမ္တြင္းမႈသိပၸံ။ ❏ a home from home; ( US ) a home away from home [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္အိမ္ကိုယ့္ရာလိုေနရာ။ You will find our hoteme from home! ❏ home-grown adj ၿခံထြက္ (သို႔) ေဒသတြင္းျဖစ္ (သို႔) ျပည္တြင္းျဖစ္။ Are these lettuces home-grown or did you buy them in the market? ❍ ( fig ) The team includes several foreign players because of the shortage of home-grown talent. ❏ home help n ( Brit ) အိမ္ေဖာ္။ ❏ homeless adj အိုးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့။ a hostel for homeless families. ❏ the homeless n [pl v ] အိုးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့။ provide emergency accommodation for the homeless. ❏ homelessness n [U] အိုးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ to tackle the problem of homelessness. ❏ home loan n ( infml ) = MORTGAGE ❏ home-made adj အိမ္လုပ္။ လက္ျဖစ္။ home-made jam ❍ a home-made bomb. ❏ the Home Office n [sing or pl v ] ျပည္ထဲေရး႐ံုး။ ျပည္ထဲေရးဝန္ႀကီး႐ံုး။ Compare THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE ❏ home rule n [U] ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး။ ဟုမ္းမ႐ူး။ ❏ home run n ေဘ့စ္ေဘာကစားရာတြင္ ေဘာလံုး ႐ိုက္သူက သတ္မွတ္ကြင္းကို တစ္ပတ္ေျပးျခင္း။ ❏ Home Secretary n (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) ျပည္ထဲေရးဝန္ႀကီး။ ❏ the home straight (also esp US the home stretch) n [sing] (က) ပန္းဝင္ပိုင္း။ (ခ) ၿပီးခါနီးအပိုင္း။ ပန္းဝင္ခါနီးအပိုင္း။ ❏ home truth n အမွန္အတိုင္းအားမနာတမ္းေျပာသည့္ စကား။ It's time you listened to a few home truths about yourself. ❏ homeward /'hǝƱmwǝd/ adj, adv အိမ္အျပန္။ the homeward journey ❍ We were homeward bound at last. ❏ homewards /-wǝdz/ adv အိမ္သို႔။ အိမ္အျပန္။ travel homewards. ❍ FORWARD 2 ❏ when he's, it's etc at home [ IDM ] ( Brit joc ) အေမး စကားကို ေလးနက္ေစရန္သံုးသည္။ Who's Gloria Button when she's at home? home 2 /hǝƱm/ v (အိမ္၊ ပစ္မွတ္ စသည္ကို) ဦးတည္သည္။ ❏ home in (on sth) [ PHRV ] တန္းသြားသည္၊ လာသည္။ The torpedo homed in on its target ❍ Pop fans are homing in on the concert site from miles around.

Examples

1. We go to a school close to our home.
2. A child in need of a loving home
3. [at home] : Peter isn’t at home today.
4. [away from home] : I hate being away from home too long.
5. [at home] : He is 43 and still living at home.
6. [leave home] : I left home when I was 18.
7. [make something your home] : We decided to make Jamaica our home.
8. [at home] : A great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad
9. [back home] : Back home
10. the weather is much better.
11. [be home to] : California is home to many vineyards.
12. A home computer
13. [home address/telephone number] : Write your home address at the top of your letter.
14. [home life] : My home life is very important to me.
15. Home cooking/shopping/banking
16. Home comforts
17. These cameras sell well in the home market.
18. The minister for home affairs
19. One thousand new homes are being built in the area.
20. There is a shortage of homes for rent.
21. They didn’t want to put their mother in a home.
22. [home for] : A home for orphans
23. The city dogs’ home
24. [at home] : United are playing at home tonight.
25. [home of] : Scotland is the home of golf.
26. [home of] : These wetlands are the home of a great variety of wildlife.