Firming

Definition

firm 1 / fɜ:m / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) ၿမဲေသာ။ ခိုင္ေသာ။ တင္းေသာ။ firm soil ❍ a firm cushion/ mattress / sofa ❍ firm flesh / muscles. (ခ) ၿမဲေသာ။ ခိုင္ေသာ။ လံုၿခံဳေသာ။ စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ အစိုင္အခဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ firm foundations ❍ get a firm foothold. ၂။ ခိုင္ေသာ။ ၿမဲေသာ။ a firm handshake/ grip / hold. ၃။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ မယိမ္းယိုင္ေသာ။ a firm belief/ believer in socialism ❍ a firm decision / date /offer ❍ firm opinions / convictions / principles ❍ We have no firm evidence. ❍ She is now the firm favourite to win the championship. ၄။ ~ (with sb ) တည္ၾကည္ေသာ။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ျပတ္သားေသာ။ exercise firm leadership/control/ discipline ❍ Parents must be firm with their children. ❍ ‘I don't want to be unkind,’ he said in a firm voice. ၅။ ~ (against sth) ခိုင္မာ [ေသာ] ။ The pound remained firm against the dollar, but fell against the yen. v ခိုင္မာသည္။ သိပ္သည္းသည္။ Interest rates firmed slightly. ❍ Fill the pots with firmed damp soil. adv ခိုင္မာစြာ။ ၿမဲၿမံစြာ။ ❏ be on firm ground [ IDM ] ပိုင္သည္။ ❏ a firm hand [ IDM ] စည္းကမ္းတက် အုပ္ထိန္းမႈ။ That boy needs a firm hand to help him grow up. ❏ firmly adv ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ။ ၿမဲၿမဲၿမံၿမံ။ အတည္တက်။ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား။ The fence posts were fixed firmly in the ground. ❍ It is now firmly established as one of the leading brands in the country. ❍ The suggestion was politely but firmly rejected. ❏ firmness n [U] ၿမဲျခင္း။ ခိုင္ျခင္း။ မယိမ္းယိုင္ျခင္း။ တင္းမာျခင္း။ ❏ firm sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ အတည္ျပဳသည္။ firm up a contract / a deal / an agreement. ၂။ က်စ္လ်စ္ေစသည္။ Exercise will help to firm up your muscles. ❏ hold firm to sth [ IDM ] ၿမဲၿမဲၿမံၿမံ ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားသည္။ hold firm to one's beliefs / ideals. firm 2 / fɜ:m / n စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္း။ ကုမၸဏီ။ a firm of accountants ❍ a law firm. Compare COMPANY

Examples

1. A building/engineering/law firm
2. [a large firm] : She works for a large firm.
3. [firm of] : A firm of accountants/architects/solicitors