Dictionary entry

Distances

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪst(ə)ns/

Pronunciation

/ˈdɪst(ə)ns/

Myanmar Meaning

(n[pl]) အကွာအဝေးများ

Definition

distance /'dÇstǝns/ n ၁။ [C, U] အကြာအေဝး။ ခရီး။ a short/ long/ great distance ❍ a distance of 20 miles ❍ What's the distance between Oxford and Cambridge/ from Oxford to Cambridge? ❍ In the USA distance is measured in miles, not kilometres ❍ The beach is within walking distance of my house (ie near enough to be reached easily on foot). ❍ Some birds are able to fly very long distances. ❍ ( fig ) at a distance of fifty years. ၂။ [C, U] အလွမ္းကြာေဝးေသာ ေနရာ။ He won't hit the target from/at that distance. ၃။ [U] ကာလေဒသကြာျခား ျခင္း။ Distance is no problem with modern telecommunications. ၄။ [U] ခပ္ခြာခြာ၊ ခပ္တန္းတန္း၊ ခပ္စိမ္းစိမ္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ There was a growing distance between them. သူတို႔ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ပိုပိုၿပီး ခြာၿပဲလာတယ္။ Compare THE MIDDLE DISTANCE v ~ oneself/ sb (from sb/ sth) ကင္းေအာင္ေနသည္။ ကင္းကြာေစသည္။ She needs to distance herself from some of her more extreme supporters. ❍ Her wealth and success have distanced her from her old friends. ❏ go the (full) distance [ IDM ] (esp in sports) အဆံုးထိ၊ အၿပီးထိ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ Nobody thought he'd last 15 rounds, but he went the full distance. ❏ in/ into the distance [ IDM ] အေဝးႀကီးမွာ/ သို႔။ I could just see them in the distance. ❍ She stood looking into the distance. ❏ keep sb at a distance [ IDM ] ခပ္တန္းတန္း ဆက္ဆံသည္။ ခပ္စိမ္းစိမ္းေနသည္။ ❏ keep one's distance (for sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ခပ္ခြာခြာ ေနသည္။ အနီးသို႔မကပ္။ ခပ္ေဝးေဝးက ေနသည္။ The police kept their distance during the students' demonstration. ၂။ မေရာမိေအာင္ေနသည္။ မပတ္သက္မိေအာင္ ေရွာင္သည္။ The president has been advised to keep his distance from the organization.

Examples

  1. [distance from] : It is important to consider distance from public transport when buying a house.
  2. [distance to] : They started to walk the short distance to the camp.
  3. [distance of] : A distance of five miles
  4. [some/a good/a considerable distance] : His parents live some distance away.
  5. [long distances] : He’s used to driving long distances.
  6. [at a distance of] : Altair
  7. at a distance of 17 light-years
  8. is one of the closest of the bright stars.
  9. A definitive cure is still some distance away.
  10. The distance has never been a problem for our relationship.
  11. It was his distance towards me that was so upsetting.
  12. The social distance between farmers and farm workers
  13. There’s still some distance to go.