Exercises

Definition

exercise /'eksǝsaÇz/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ကိုယ္လက္လႈပ္ရွားျခင္း။ စိတ္အလုပ္ေပးျခင္း။ ဉာဏ္အေလ့အက်င့္။ The doctor advised him to take more exercise. ❍ Jogging is a healthy form of exercise. ❍ Doing crosswords gives the mind some exercise. (ခ) [C] ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း။ vocal/gymnastic/keep-fit/deep-breathing exercises ❍ exercises for the piano/flute/harp ❍ The teacher gave her class a mathematics exercise for homework. ❍ an exercise book (ie a book for writing school work, notes, etc in). ၂။ [U] ~ of sth အသံုးခ်ျခင္း။ လက္ကိုင္ျပဳျခင္း။ the exercise of one's civil rights ❍ The exercise of patience is essential in diplomatic negotiations. ❍ His stories showed considerable exercise of the imagination. ၃။ [C] ~ (in sth) စြမ္းေဆာင္မႈ။ an exercise in public relations ❍ In the end it proved a pointless exercise. ၄။ [C often pl ] စစ္ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း။ military exercises. ၅။ exercises [pl] ( US ) အခမ္းအနား။ graduation exercises ❍ opening exercises (eg speeches at the start of a conference). v ၁။ ကိုယ္လက္ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ He exercises twice a day. ၂။ (ကိုယ္စိတ္ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေအာင္) ေလ့က်င့္သည္။ Horses get fat and lazy if they are not exercised. ❍ Swimming exercises the whole body. ၃။ က်င့္သံုးသည္။ အသံုးခ်သည္။ exercise patience/tolerance/power/control ❍ exercise one's rights as a citizen ❍ Teachers exercise authority over their pupils. ၄။ ( fml ) ပူပန္ ေၾကာင့္ၾကသည္။ ရတက္မေအးျဖစ္သည္။ စိတ္ပူသည္။ This problem is exercising our minds a good deal at the moment. ❍ I am greatly exercised about my son's education.

Examples

1. Try to do 20 minutes of vigorous exercise every day.
2. [get exercise] : I get plenty of exercise being an aerobics instructor.
3. [take/do exercise] : You should take more exercise.
4. Roll over and repeat the exercise on the other leg.
5. Deep-breathing exercises
6. Exercise equipment
7. A new exercise routine
8. Have you done your piano exercises yet?
9. A drawing exercise
10. Next I’d like you to do the exercises on page 10.
11. The object of the exercise is to get you to think independently.
12. Comparing prices can be a worthwhile exercise.
13. A cost-cutting exercise
14. [exercise in] : Good management is often an exercise in compromise.
15. Public officials in the exercise of their duties