Dictionary entry

Encounter

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkaʊntə/

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) (အသစ်၊ အဆန်းတကြယ်၊ အခက်အခဲ စသည်နှင့်) တွေ့ထိသည်၊ ပက်ပင်းကြုံသည်၊ နဖူးတွေ့ ဒူးတွေ့ တွေ့သည်။ မမျှော်လင့် ဘဲ ဆုံတွေ့သည်၊ ကြုံကြိုက်သည်။ (n) တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း။ ဆုံစည်းခြင်း။ ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက်ပွဲ။

Definition

encounter /Çn'kaƱntǝ(r)/ v ( fml ) ၁။ (အသစ္၊ အဆန္းတၾကယ္၊ အခက္အခဲ စသည္ႏွင့္) ေတြ႕ထိသည္၊ ပက္ပင္းႀကံဳသည္၊ နဖူးေတြ႕ ဒူးေတြ႕ ေတြ႕သည္။ I encountered many problems when I first started this job. ❍ We encountered very little traffic. ❍ I've never encountered his novels before. ❍ When did you first encounter Buddhism? ၂။ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ဘဲ ဆံုေတြ႕သည္၊ ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ He was fascinated by the woman he had encountered in the airport lounge. n ~ (between A and B); ~ (with sb/sth) ေတြ႕ဆံုျခင္း။ ဆံုစည္းျခင္း။ ရင္ဆိုင္တိုက္ပြဲ။ the famous encounter between Stanley and Livingstone ❍ Three officers were killed in the encounter. ❍ a brief encounter with an angry client ❍ a sexual encounter.

Examples

  1. I had not seen her since our brief encounter two years before.
  2. [a close encounter] : We had a frighteningly close encounter with a black bear.
  3. Risk of exposure to HIV increases with each casual encounter.
  4. The march ended in a violent encounter with the police.
  5. Their last encounter ended in a draw.
  6. [encounter with] : My earliest encounter with the theatre