Commanding

Definition

command /kǝ'mɑ:nd; US -'mænd/ v ၁။ အမိန္႔ေပးသည္။ Do as I command (you). ❍ ( rhet ) I am yours to command (ie Tell me what you want me to do)! ❍ ( fml ) The tribunal has commanded that all copies of the book (must) be destroyed. ❍ The officer commanded his men to fire. ❍ order 2 ၂။ ဩဇာအာဏာရိွသည္။ ကြပ္ကဲ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ Does seniority give one the right to command? ❍ The ship's captain commands all the officers and men. ၃။ (no passive) ခံယူထိုက္သည္။ Great men command our respect. ❍ The plight of the famine victims commands everyone's sympathy. ၄။ (no passive) (ေနရာ၊ ခံတပ္ စသည္) အထက္စီး၌တည္ေနသည္။ The castle commanded the entrance to the valley. ❍ ( fig ) The house commands a fine view. ၅။ ( fml ) (no passive) ရသည္။ ပိုင္သည္။ command funds/skill/resources ❍ She commands a six-figure salary. n ၁။ [C] (က) အမိန္႔။ Her commands were quickly obeyed. ❍ Give your commands in a loud, confident voice. (ခ) ( computing ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာကို ၫႊန္ၾကားျခင္း။ ၂။ [U] ( esp military ) ကြပ္ကဲမႈ။ to have/take command of a regiment. ❍ He should not be given command of troops. ❍ Who is in command (ie in charge) here? ❍ The army is under the command of General Smith. ❍ He has twenty men under his command. See also SECOND IN COMMAND ၃။ Command [C] စစ္တိုင္း။ ေရ တပ္၊ ေလတပ္စခန္း ဌာနခ်ဳပ္။ Western Command ❍ Bomber Command. ၄။ [U, sing] ~ (of sth) …စြမ္းရိွသည္။ He has (a) good command of the French language (ie can speak it well). ❍ She has enormous funds at her command. ❍ He has no command over himself (ie cannot control his feelings, temper, etc). ❏ at/by sb's command [ IDM ] ( fml ) အမိန္႔အရ။ I am here at the King's command. ❏ be at sb's command [ IDM ] အမိန္႔နာခံရန္ အသင့္။ ❏ commanding adj ၁။ အမိန္႔ေပးႏိုင္ေသာ။ one's commanding officer. ၂။ အထက္စီး၌တည္ေနေသာ။ အသာစီးရ ေနေသာ။ The fort occupies a commanding position. ❍ One team has already built up a commanding lead. ၃။ ဩဇာရိွေသာ။ ခံ့ညားေသာ။ a commanding voice/tone/look. ❏ command performance n ႏိုင္ငံအႀကီးအကဲ၏ ဆႏၵအရ တင္ဆက္ကျပေသာ ပြဲသဘင္။ (အႀကီးအကဲကိုယ္တိုင္ ႂကြေရာက္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ )

Examples

1. Who gave the command to open fire?
2. The log-on command
3. [in command] : Franco was in overall command of the military.
4. [be under someone’s command] : The ship is under the command of Captain Blake.
5. [take command (of something)] : United soon took command of the game.
6. [in command of yourself/your emotions etc] : He tries to project the image of a man in command of himself.