Broad bean

Definition

broad 1 /brↄ:d/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ က်ယ္ေသာ။ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ။ a broad street/avenue/river/canal ❍ broad shoulders ❍ He is tall broad and muscular. Compare NARROW ၁, THIN ၁ ❍ WIDE ၂။ ျဗက္၊ အနံ၊ အက်ယ္ ရိွေသာ။ a river twenty metres broad. ၃။ (က) ေထြျပားေသာ။ မ်ားျပားေသာ။ a broad range of people/opinions/backgrounds ❍ a broad spectrum of interests ❍ There is broad support for the government's policies. (ခ) (ေရျပင္၊ ေျမျပင္) အျပန္႔က်ယ္ေသာ။ a broad expanse of water ❍ the broad plains of the American, West. ၄။ ေယဘုယ်က်ေသာ။ အေသးစိတ္ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ the broad outline of a plan/proposal ❍ The negotiators reached broad agreement on the main issues. ❍ She's a feminist, in the broadest sense of the word. ေနရာတကာမွာ မိန္းမပီသတဲ့ မိန္းမပဲ။ ၅။ သိသာေသာ။ ေပၚလြင္ေသာ။ a broad grin/smile ❍ The minister gave a broad hint that she intends to raise taxes. ၆။ (အေတြး၊ အျမင္) မက်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ၊ အယူမသီးေသာ။ a man of broad views. ၇။ (စကားေျပာရာတြင္) ေဒသိယ ေလသံပါေသာ။ ဝဲေသာ။ a broad Yorkshire accent. ၈။ ႐ိုင္းေသာ။ broad humour. ❏ broad-based (also broadly-based ) adj ေအာက္ေျခ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ။ a broad-based government/education. ❏ broad bean n (က) ပဲလက္မ။ (ခ) (ယင္းမွရေသာ အေစ့ႀကီး၍ျပားသည့္) ပဲလက္မသီး။ ❏ (in) broad daylight [ IDM ] ေန႔ခင္းေၾကာင္ေတာင္။ The robbery occurred in broad daylight, in a crowded street. ❏ broaden /'brↄ:dn/ v ~ (out) က်ယ္ျပန္႔လာသည္၊ လာေစ သည္။ ခ်ဲ႕ထြင္သည္။ ကားျပန္႔လာသည္။ က်ယ္ဝန္းလာသည္။ The road broadens (out) after this bend. ❍ You should broaden your experience/mind by travelling more. ❏ broad in the beam [ IDM ] ( infml ) တင္ႀကီးႀကီး။ တင္ကားကား။ ❏ broad jump n [sing] ( US ) = LONG JUMP ❏ broad-leaved adj = BROADLEAF ❏ broadly adv ၁။ ေပၚေပၚလြင္လြင္။ သိသိသာသာ။ ထင္ထင္ရွားရွား။ smile/grin broadly. ၂။ ေယဘုယ် အားျဖင့္။ Broadly speaking, I agree with you. ❍ The book takes a broadly historical approach. broadness n [U] = BREADTH ❏ broad-minded adj သေဘာထားႀကီးေသာ။ တစ္ယူသန္အစြဲ မထားေသာ။ broad-mindedness n [U] ❏ it's as broad as it's long [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပိန္မသာ လိမ္မသာပဲ။ broad 2 /brↄ:d/ n ( US sl derog ) ေကာင္မ။

Examples

1. He was of medium height
2. but had very broad shoulders.
3. A broad shady path
4. With a broad sweep of his arm
5. he indicated the town below us.
6. [a broad expanse] : The road passed through a broad expanse of flooded fields.
7. [a broad range/spectrum] : I meet a broad range of people in my job.
8. Our radio station plays a broad spectrum of popular music.
9. [a broad base] : The party is now struggling to maintain a broad political base.
10. [broad appeal] : The new TV show has broad appeal.
11. [broad categories] : Tropical diseases fall into two broad categories.
12. We need to define a broad strategy for future development.
13. [broad aims] : We support the broad aims which underlie this Bill.
14. [a broad outline] : This chapter can only give a broad outline of the subject.
15. [in the broadest sense] : It’s conservative
16. in the broadest sense of the word.
17. [a broad generalization] : You make too many broad generalizations about people.
18. There is now a broad consensus that the government was right about this.
19. A broad northern accent