Degree

Definition

degree /dÇ'gri:/ n ၁။ [C] ေထာင့္တိုင္းရာတြင္ သံုးေသာ ယူနစ္၊ ဒီဂရီ။ an angle of ninety degrees (90¹) ❍ one degree of latitude (ie about 69 miles). ၂။ [C] ( abbr deg ) အပူခ်ိန္ ယူနစ္၊ ဒီဂရီ။ Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (32¹F) or zero/nought degrees Celsius (0¹C). ၃။ [C, U] အတိုင္းအတာ။ ပမာဏ။ She shows a high degree of skill in her work. ❍ He was not in the slightest degree interested (ie was completely uninterested). ❍ I agree with you to a/to some/to a certain degree. ❍ To what degree (ie To what extent/How much) was he involved in the affair? ❍ She has also been affected, but to a lesser degree. ၄။ [C] တကၠသိုလ္ပညာရည္အဆင့္။ ဘြဲ႕။ ဒီဂရီ။ get (ie be awarded) a degree in law/a law degree ❍ the degree of Master of Arts (MA). ၅။ [C](ပထမ၊ ဒုတိယစသည္ႏွင့္တြဲ၍ျပင္းထန္ေလးနက္မႈ အဆင့္ကိုျပေသာ စကား)။ murder in the first degree (ie in US, of the most serious kind) ❍ first degree murder ❍ third degree (ie very serious) burns. ❏ by degrees [ IDM ] တစ္ဆင့္ၿပီးတစ္ဆင့္။ တစ္စတစ္စ။ By degrees their friendship grew into love.

Examples

1. It will probably be a few degrees colder by the weekend.
2. 25° Celsius
3. The two lines meet at a 90° angle.
4. The job requires a high degree of skill.
5. The schools have had varying degrees of success in improving their results.
6. [some degree of something] : The project has had some degree of success.
7. [to a/some degree] : What you say is true to some degree.
8. [to a large degree] : To a large degree it is parents who should take the blame.
9. A biology degree
10. [degree in] : A master’s degree in English literature
11. [do/take a degree] : She’s doing a degree at Exeter University.