Belongings

Definition

belong /bÇ'lɒŋ; US -lↄ:ŋ/ v (not in the continuous tenses) (လက္ခံသတ္မွတ္ပိုင္းျခားထားေသာ) ေနရာရိွသည္။ Where does this belong (ie Where is it kept)? ❍ I've never felt that art and self-improvement belong together. ❍ I don't feel I belong here/I have no sense of belonging here. ❍ The hammer belongs (in the shed) with the rest of the tools. ❍ A child belongs with (ie should live with and be care for by) its mother. ❍ These articles don't belong under this heading (ie are wrongly classified). ❏ belongings n [pl] (ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းႏိုင္ေသာ) ပိုင္ဆိုင္ပစၥည္း။ After his death his sister sorted through his (personal) belongings. ❍ The tourists lost all their belongings in the hotel fire. ❏ belong to sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပိုင္ဆိုင္သည္။ Who does this pen belong to? ❍ A helicopter belonging to the oil company has crashed. ❍ The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. ၂။ တရားသျဖင့္ရထိုက္သည္။ ထိုက္တန္သည္။ All the credit for this belongs to our sales staff. ၃။ အေအာင္ျမင္ဆံုးကာလျဖစ္သည္။ Yesterday belonged almost entirely to the Australians (ie their team dominated the game). ❏ belong to sth [ PHRV ] အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ျဖစ္သည္။ He has never belonged to a trade union. ❍ Shallots belong to the onion family.

Examples

1. When you’ve finished
2. put the cassettes back where they belong.
3. That lamp belongs on the desk.
4. These workers belong in a different category.
5. I don’t feel that I belong here.
6. [sense/feeling of belonging] : After three years here
7. I feel a strong sense of belonging.