Day return

Definition

day / deÇ / n ၁။ (က) [U] တစ္ေန႔။ ေနထြက္မွ ေနဝင္ထိ အခ်ိန္။ He has been working all day. ❍ When I woke up, it was already day. (ခ) [C] ၂၄ နာရီ။ တစ္ရက္။ There are seven days in a week. ❍ I saw Tom three days ago. ❍ I'll be seeing Mary in a few day's time (ie a few days from now). ❍ ‘What day of the week is it?’ ‘It's Monday’. ❍ Christmas day/market day. (ဂ) [C] တစ္ေန႔တာ အလုပ္လုပ္ ခ်ိန္။ I've done a good day's work. ❍ Have you had a hard day at the office? ❍ Her working day is seven hours. ❍ The employees are demanding a six-hour day and a five-day week. See also OPEN DAY ၂။ [C usu pl ] တစ္ခ်ိန္။ ေခတ္။ လက္ထက္။ ဟိုတုန္းက။ in his younger days ❍ I was much happier in those days (ie at that time). ❍ in the days of Queen Victoria/in Queen Victoria's day ❍ in days of old/in the old days (ie in former times) ❍ present-day thought/opinion. ❏ all in a day's work [ IDM ] လုပ္႐ိုးလုပ္စဥ္ အလုပ္။ Injecting animals is all in a day's work for a vet. ❏ any day now [ IDM ] မၾကာမီ။ တစ္ရက္ႏွစ္ရက္ အတြင္း။ The letter should arrive any day now. ❏ by day/night [ IDM ] ေန႔မွာ။ ညမွာ။ The fugitives travelled by night and rested by day. ❏ carry/win the day [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေအာင္ပြဲခံသည္။ ေအာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ Despite strong opposition, the ruling party carried the day. ❏ day after day [ IDM ] ေန႔စဥ္ရက္ဆက္။ Day after day she waited in vain for him to telephone her. ❏ the day after tomorrow [ IDM ] သန္ဘက္ခါ။ If today is Wednesday, the day after tomorrow will be Friday. ❏ the day before yesterday [ IDM ] တျမန္ေန႔။ If today is Wednesday, the day before yesterday was Monday. ❏ day-boy, day-girl ns (Brit) ေန႔ေက်ာင္းသား။ ေန႔ ေက်ာင္းသူ။ ❏ day by day [ IDM ] တျဖည္းျဖည္း။ တစ္ေန႔တျခား။ Day by day she learnt more about her job. ❏ day care n [U] ေန႔ကေလးထိန္း (ကိစၥ၊ ဌာန)။ Day care is provided by the company she works for. ❍ a day-care centre. ❏ day centre n ( Brit ) အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ သက္ႀကီး ရြယ္အိုမ်ားကို ေန႔အခ်ိန္တာဝန္ယူသည့္ရိပ္သာ။ ❏ day-dream n စိတ္ကူးယဥ္အိပ္မက္။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ျခင္း။ She stared out of the window, lost in a day-dream. v ~ (about sb/sth) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္သည္။ He sat there day-dreaming ( about his girlfriend). ❏ day in, day out [ IDM ] တစ္ေနဝင္ တစ္ေနထြက္။ ေန႔စဥ္ ေန႔တိုင္း။ Day in, day out, no matter what the weather is like, she walks ten miles. ❏ day nursery ( Brit ) ( US day care center ) n ေန႔ ကေလးထိန္းဌာန။ ေန႔ကေလးထိန္းေက်ာင္း။ ❏ a day of reckoning [ IDM ] ( fml ) ျပစ္ဒဏ္ စီရင္ခံရမည့္ အခ်ိန္။ Critics of the government's housing policy think the day of reckoning cannot be far away. ❏ day off n အလုပ္အားရက္၊ နားရက္။ I work from Tuesday to Saturday, and Sunday and Monday are my days off. ❏ day out n တစ္ေန႔တာ လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ The schoolchildren had a day out at the seaside. ❏ day release n ( Birt ) [U] အလုပ္သမားမ်ားအား ပညာေရး အတြက္ အားရက္ေပးသည့္စနစ္။ ❏ day return n ( Brit ) ေန႔ခ်င္းျပန္လက္မွတ္။ ❏ day-room n (ေဆး႐ံုစသည္တြင္) ဧည့္ခန္း။ ❏ sb's/sth's days are numbered [ IDM ] ယြန္းမွာကေတာ့ ေန႔လားညလားပဲ။ His disease is incurable—I'm afraid his days are numbered. ❍ This factory is no longer profitable, so its days are numbered (ie it will soon close). ❏ day-school n ေန႔ေက်ာင္း။ Compare Boarding-School ❏ day-to-day adj (က) တစ္ေန႔ခ်င္း။ I have organized the cleaning on a day-to-day basis, until the usual cleaner returns. (ခ) ေန႔စဥ္ (လုပ္ငန္း)။ She has been looking after the day-to-day administration. ❏ day- trip n ( esp Brit ) ေန႔ခ်င္းျပန္ခရီး။ a day- trip to France. day-tripper n ❏ from day to day; from one day to the next [ IDM ] ေန႔ႏွင့္အမွ်။ တစ္ေန႔ေရႊ တစ္ေန႔ေငြ။ Things change from day to day. ❍ You don't know what his mood will be from one day to the next. ❏ have had one's day [ IDM ] ေခတ္ကုန္ၿပီ။ ေခတ္မရိွေတာ့။ He was a great singer once but now he's had his day. ❍ Colonialism has had its day (ie is over). ❏ if he's, she's, etc a day [ IDM ] ေအာက္ထစ္။ အနည္း ဆံုး။ He's eighty if he's a day! ❏ in one's day [ IDM ] သူ႕ေခတ္ သူ႕အခ်ိန္တုန္းက။ In his day, he was a very influential politician. ❍ She was a great beauty in her day (ie when she was young). ❏ in this day and age [ IDM ] ခုအခ်ိန္။ ခုကာလ။ ခုေခတ္။ ❏ it's not sb's day [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျပႆဒါးေန႔။ My car broke down, and then I locked myself out—it's just not my day! ❏ make sb' day [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၾကည္ႏူးေစသည္။ If she wins, it'll make her day. ❏ make a day of it [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ေနကုန္ တစ္ေနခန္း (ေပ်ာ္ၾကသည္)။ We took a picnic lunch and made a day of it. ❏ a nine days' wonder [ IDM ] (Brit) ေခြး႐ူးေကာင္းစား တစ္မြန္းတည့္မွ်သာ။ ခဏပန္း။ As a pop star she was a nine days' wonder—she only made one successful record. ❏ one day [ IDM ] တစ္ေန႔ေန႔။ တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္။ One day I'll get my revenge. ❏ one of these days [ IDM ] မၾကာမီအတြင္း။ ဒီရက္အတြင္း။ One of these days he'll realize what a fool he's been. ❏ one of those days [ IDM ] ကံဆိုး မိုးေမွာင္က်တဲ့ေန႔။ I've had one of those days: my train was late, and I lost my wallet. ❏ some day [ IDM ] တစ္ေန႔ေန႔ တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္ (မွာ)။ Some day I'll be famous. ❏ that'll be the day [ IDM ] ( ironic ) က်ားသားမိုးႀကိဳး။ ဟုတ္မွလုပ္ပါ။ ဟုတ္ပါ့မလား။ He says he'll do the ironing. ‘That'll be the day! ’ ❏ these days [ IDM ] ခုအခ်ိန္။ ခုအခါ။ ခုကာလ။ ❏ those were the days [ IDM ] ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၾကည္ႏူးခဲ့ရတဲ့ တစ္ခ်ိန္။ Do you remember when we were first married? Those were the days! ❏ to the day [ IDM ] တိတိ။ It's three years to the day since we met. ❏ to this day [ IDM ] ခုခ်ိန္ထိ။ ဒီေန႔ထိ။ To this day, I still don't know why she did it.

Examples

1. We’re going away for five days.
2. The animals are kept inside for 14 hours a day.
3. [24 hours a day] : The shop is open 24 hours a day.
4. [every day] : You should try to go for a walk every day.
5. [all day (long)] : What do you do at home all day?
6. [a bad/hard/long day] : She came home exhausted after a hard day at the office.
7. [a day off] : I’ve got a day off next week.
8. [a day out] : All children enjoy a day out at the fair.
9. There was not enough of the day left to finish the game.
10. [during the day] : The restaurant is only open during the day.
11. [by day] : By day he is a banker
12. but by night he sings in a club.
13. We look forward to the day when nuclear weapons will no longer exist.
14. [the day will/may/might come (when)] : The day may come when our air becomes too polluted to breathe.
15. I think my days as a footballer are coming to an end.
16. That was back in the days of the horse and cart.
17. [the early days of something] : She became famous in the early days of television.