Dictionary entry

High spot

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) အမှတ်တရ။အမှတ်ထင်ထင်ဖြစ်ရပ်။

Definition

high /haÇ/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) ျမင့္ေသာ။ ေမာက္ေသာ။ a high fence/ forehead/ mountain ❍ high heels ❍ How high is Mt Everest? (ခ) အျမင့္ရိွေသာ။ အရပ္အေမာင္းရိွေသာ။ ျမင့္ေသာ။ ေရာက္ေသာ။ knee-high boots. ဒူးအထိေရာက္ေသာ ဘြတ္ဖိနပ္။ ❍The wall is six feet high. (ဂ) ျမင့္ေသာ။ a high ceiling/shelf ❍ fly at a high altitude. (ဃ) ျမင့္ေသာ။ ရွည္ေသာ။ a jersey with a high neck. (င) ျမင့္ေသာ။ ေျမာက္ေသာ။ a high dive/kick. Compare LOW 1 . ၂။ အထက္။ အဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္ေသာ။ a high official ❍ a man of high standing ❍ refer a case to a higher court ❍ high society (ie the upper classes). ❍ She has friends in high places (ie among people of power and influence). ❍ I have this information on the highest authority. ၃။ (က) ပံုမွန္ထက္ သာလြန္ေသာ (ႀကီးေသာ၊ ျမင့္ေသာ၊ ေျမာက္ ေသာ၊ ျမန္ေသာ၊ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ စသည္)။ a high price/ temperature/ fever/ speed/ wind/ living standard ❍ high voltage/ blood pressure/ praise ❍ The cost in terms of human life was high. ❍ I have high hopes of passing the exam. ❍ A high degree of accuracy is needed. ❍ be in high spirits (ie be very cheerful). (ခ) (တန္ဖိုး၊ ေၾကး စသည္) ႀကီးေသာ။ play for high stakes ❍ My highest card is a ten. (ဂ) ျမင့္ျမတ္ ေသာ။ မြန္ျမတ္ေသာ။ have high ideals ❍ a woman of high principle. (ဃ) (အထင္) ႀကီးေသာ။ အေလးထားေသာ။ have a high opinion of / high regard for sb. ၄။ စူးေသာ၊ ျမင့္ေသာ (အသံ)။ the high voice of a child ❍ The note was too high for him. ၅။ အထြတ္အထိပ္၊ အျမင့္ဆံုး (အခ်ိန္)။ high noon ❍ high summer (ie the middle of the summer). ၆။ အျမင့္ဆံုး၊ အျမန္ဆံုး (ဂီယာ)။ You can change into a higher gear now you' re going faster. ၇။ သိုးအူ [ေသာ]၊ ပုပ္အဲ့ [ေသာ] (အသား)။ Some game-birds are kept until they are high before cooking. ၈။ ~ ( on sth ) ( infml ) (အရက္၊ မူးယစ္ေဆး) မူး[ေသာ]။ ေရခ်ိန္ကိုက္ [ေသာ]။ be/ get high on cannabis. n ၁။ အျမင့္။ Profits reached a new/ an all-time high last year. ယမန္ႏွစ္ကအျမတ္ေငြ အျမင့္ဆံုးစံခ်ိန္တင္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ ၂။ ေလဖိအားႀကီးရပ္ဝန္း။ အျပင္တိုက္ေလဝဲ။ A high over southern Europe is bringing fine sunny weather to all parts. ၃။ ( infml ) ယစ္မူးရိွန္အထြတ္။ The drug gives you a tremendous high. ❍ With all her recent success, she's on a real high. adv ၁။ ျမင့္မားစြာ။ ျမင့္ျမင့္။ shelves piled high with tinned food ❍ An eagle circled high overhead. ❍ I can't jump any higher. ❍ He never got very high in the company. ❍ aim high (ie be ambitious). ၂။ (အသံ) ျမင့္ျမင့္။ I can't sing that high. ❏ be for the high jump [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ျပင္းျပင္း ထန္ထန္ အျပစ္ေပးခံရဖြယ္ရိွသည္။ If you're caught stealing you'll be for the high jump. ❏ be/ get on one's high horse [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႀကီးက်ယ္ သည္။ ေထာင္လႊားသည္။ ❏ have/ give sb a high old time [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ ခ်မ္းေျမ႕သည္။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ခ်မ္းေျမ႕ေစသည္။ ❏ high and dry [ IDM ] မိေက်ာင္းၾကည္းတင္။ He left her high and dry in a strange country without a passport. ❏ high and low [ IDM ] ေနရာအႏွံ႔။ ေနရာတိုင္း။ I've searched/ hunted high and low for my pen. ❏ high and mighty [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ ေအာက္ေျခလြတ္ေသာ။ There's no need to be/ get so high and mighty with me! ❏ high-born adj အမ်ဳိးျမတ္ေသာ။ ျမတ္ေသာအမ်ဳိးအႏြယ္မွ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ❏ high chair n (ထမင္းစားပြဲဝိုင္းသံုး) ကေလးအတြက္ ေျခတံရွည္ ကုလားထိုင္။ ❏ High Church adj အဂၤလန္ႏိုင္ငံခရစ္ယာန္ အသင္းေတာ္တြင္ ဘာသာေရးဓေလ့ထံုးတမ္းႏွင့္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ားကို အထူးအေလး ထားသည့္ အုပ္စု။ ❏ high-class adj ၁။ ပထမတန္းစား။ အေကာင္းစား။ a high-class restaurant. ၂။ ေဆြဂုဏ္မ်ဳိးဂုဏ္ျမင့္ေသာ။ အထက္တန္းလႊာ။ ❏ High Commission n ဓနသဟာယႏိုင္ငံ အခ်င္းခ်င္းတြင္ ထားရိွေသာသံ႐ံုး။ Compare CONSULATE ၁ ❏ High Commissioner n ယင္းႏိုင္ငံသံအမတ္ႀကီး။ the Australian High Commissioner in Ottawa. Compare CONSUL ၁ ❏ High Court ( also High Court of justice ) n ဗဟိုတရား ႐ံုး။ တရား႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ high days and holidays [ IDM ] အခါႀကီးရက္ႀကီး။ ❏ higher animals, higher plants n [pl] အသိဉာဏ္ ျမင့္ေသာသတၱဝါ။ တည္ေဆာက္ပံုအဆင့္ျမင့္ေသာ အပင္။ ❏ higher education n [U] အဆင့္ျမင့္ပညာေရး။ ❏ high explosive n အင္အားျပင္းယမ္း။ ❏ high fidelity (also hi-fi ) n [U] ၾကည္လင္ပီသေသာ အသံအရည္အေသြး။ ❏ high-flown adj ( usu derog ) (အေရးအသား စသည္) ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ high-flown rhetoric. ❏ high-flyer ( also high-flier ) n ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ ျမင့္မားလြန္း သူ။ high-flying adj ❏ high-grade adj အဆင့္ျမင့္ေသာ။ အေကာင္းစား။ အထက္တန္း။ high-grade petrol. ❏ high-handed adj တင္စီးေသာ။ a high-handed person/ action/ manner. ❏ high jinks n [pl] ျမဴးျခင္း။ ျမဴးေပ်ာ္ျခင္း။ We got up to all kinds of high jinks. ❏ high-level adj ထိပ္သီး (ညိႇႏိႈင္းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ စသည္)။ high-level talks/meetings. ❏ high-minded /haÇ 'maÇndÇd/ adj သေဘာထားျမင့္ျမတ္ ေသာ။ ❏ high-pitched adj ၁။ အသံျမင့္ေသာ။ အသံစူးရွေသာ။ a high-pitched whine. Compare LOW-PITCHED ၂။ (အျမစ္ ေျမဝင္) နက္ေစာက္ေသာ။ ❏ high point n (usu sing ) ~ ( of sth ) အထြတ္အထိပ္။ It was the high point of the evening/ his career. ❏ high-powered adj ၁။ အလြန္အားေကာင္းေသာ (စက္၊ ကိရိယာ)။ a high-powered car/ rifle/ engine. ၂။ အလြန္ ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ high-powered business executives. ❏ high pressure n [U] ၁။ ေလဖိအားႀကီး။ a ridge of high pressure. ၂။ တြန္းတြန္းထိုးထိုး [လုပ္ေသာ]။ work at high pressure ❍ high-pressure (ie aggressive) salesmanship. ❏ high-priced adj ေဈးႀကီးေသာ။ တန္ဖိုးႀကီးေသာ။ ❏ high priest n ( fem high priestess ) ယဇ္နတ္ဆရာႀကီး (သို႔) ဆရာႀကီး။ ဂု႐ု။ ( fig ) the high priest of modern technology. ❏ high-principled adj စိတ္သေဘာထားျမင့္ျမတ္ေသာ။ a high-principled person/ deed. ❏ high-ranking adj အဆင့္ျမင့္ေသာ။ ရာထူးႀကီးေသာ။ a high-ranking army officer. ❏ high-rise adj အထပ္မ်ားစြာပါေသာ (အေဆာက္အအံု)။ high-rise apartments. n အထပ္မ်ားစြာပါေသာတိုက္။ live in a new high-rise. ❏ high road n (usu sing ) လမ္းမႀကီး။ ပင္မလမ္း။ ( fig ) take the high road (ie the most direct way) to happiness. စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာရန္အတြက္ ျဖဴးေျဖာင့္ေသခ်ာလမ္းသာယာ အတိုင္း ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းပါ။ ❏ high school n [C, U] ( esp US ) အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္း။ ❏ high season n [U, sing] ခရီးသည္ႀကိဳက္ရာသီ။ Hotels usually raise their prices in (the) high season. Compare LOW SEASON ❏ high-sounding adj ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ (စကား အသံုးအႏႈန္း)။ ❏ high-speed adj အလြန္ျမန္ေသာ။ a high-speed rail link ❍ high-speed trains. ❏ high-spirited adj ျမဴးႂကြေသာ။ a high-spirited child. ❏ high spot n ~ ( of sth ) ( infml ) အမွတ္တရ။ အမွတ္ထင္ထင္ ျဖစ္ရပ္။ The excursion was the high spot of the year. ❏ high street n ( Brit ) (စည္ကားေသာ) လမ္းမႀကီး။ Oxford High Street ❍ high street banks/ shops. ❏ high-strung adj = HIGHLY STRUNG ❏ high table n [C, U] နံပါတ္တစ္စားပြဲ။ ထိပ္စားပြဲ။ dining at/ on high table. ❏ high tea n ( Brit ) လက္ဖက္ရည္ႏွင့္ အစားအေသာက္မ်ဳိးစံုပါ ေသာ ေစာေစာစားရသည့္ညေနစာ။ ❏ high-tech adj ( infml ) ၁။ အဆင့္ျမင့္နည္းပညာ။ ၂။ အဆင့္ျမင့္နည္းပညာျဖင့္ထုတ္လုပ္ေသာ (ပစၥည္း)။ ❏ high technology n [U] အဆင့္ျမင့္နည္းပညာ။ ❏ high tide n (က) [C] ေရျပည့္။ (ခ) (also high water ) [U] ေရျပည့္(ခ်ိန္)။ Compare LOW TIDE ❏ high treason n [U] ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သစၥာေဖာက္မႈ။ ❏ high-up n ( infml ) အထက္လူႀကီး။ ❏ high water n [U] = HIGH TIDE ❏ high-water mark n ၁။ ေရျပည့္မွတ္။ Compare LOW-WATER MARK ၂။ အေအာင္ျမင္ဆံုး၊ အျဖစ္ထြန္းဆံုး အခ်ိန္။ အထြတ္အထိပ္။ ❏ high wire n (usu sing ) ေကာင္းကင္ႀကိဳးတန္းေလွ်ာက္ရန္ ႀကိဳး။ a high wire trapeze artist. ❏ in high dudgeon [ IDM ] ေဒါသတႀကီး။ မေက်မနပ္ ျဖစ္လ်က္။ He stalked out of the room in high dudgeon. ❏ on high [ IDM ] ၁။ ျမင့္ရာ။ အျမင့္။ The climbers gazed down from on high. ❍ ( fig ) pronouncements about the company's future handed down from on high (ie from those in the most senior positions). ၂။ ေကာင္းကင္ဘံု။ The disaster was seen as a judgement from on high. ❏ run high [ IDM ] စိတ္ထသည္။ Passions ran high as the election approached. ❏ smell, stink, etc to high heaven [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ပုပ္ေဟာင္သည္။ ၂။ မသကၤာဖြယ္ရာရိွသည္။ The whole scheme stinks to high heaven—don't get involved in it. ❏ the high jump n အျမင့္ခုန္။ တန္းျမင့္ခုန္။ enter for the high jump. ❏ the high life n [ sing ] (also high living) [U] ( sometimes derog ) အထက္တန္းစားဘဝ။ ❏ the high seas n [pl] ❏ ကမ္းေဝးပင္လယ္ျပင္။

Examples

  1. Very high mountains
  2. The highest (=tallest) building
  3. The fence is too high to climb over.
  4. Beautiful sunny weather with just a few high clouds
  5. The boiling point of water is lower at high altitudes.
  6. The highest shelf
  7. The river is so high that only small boats can pass under the bridge.
  8. Some of the waves are fifteen feet high.
  9. How high is that ceiling?
  10. High prices/temperatures/wages
  11. This is an area of high unemployment.
  12. Interest rates are very high.
  13. Casualties were highest near the centre of the earthquake.
  14. Music was being played at high volume.
  15. [high risk of something] : The risk of the disease spreading is high.
  16. [the high twenties/nineties etc] : Temperatures in the high twenties (=between 27 and 30 degrees)
  17. [a high level/incidence of something] : The pipes contain a high level of lead.
  18. [high number/volume/proportion of something] : A high proportion of the population are immigrants.
  19. A high yen makes Japanese exports more expensive.
  20. The Euro edged higher against the dollar.
  21. [high in] : Ice cream is very high in calories.
  22. [high standard] : They expect high standards of care.
  23. [high quality] : They’re known for the high quality of their products.
  24. [high opinion/regard/esteem] : She has a very high opinion of herself.
  25. I have the highest regard for him.
  26. They have high hopes for this week’s game.
  27. I think their expectations were too high.
  28. What is the highest rank in the army?
  29. [high position/status/rank] : Teachers no longer enjoy the high social status they once had.
  30. [high priority] : Both parties are giving high priority to education in their campaigns.
  31. [high on] : He was high on cocaine.
  32. [high on] : The players were high on the emotion of it all.
  33. [in high spirits] : The children have been in high spirits all day.
  34. A high note/key
  35. Women’s voices are usually higher than men’s.
  36. [high summer] : Major football tournaments should not really be played in high summer.
  37. [high fashion] : In the 1980s this was high fashion.
  38. [high drama] : It was a day of high drama.
  39. [high politics/finance] : This is high politics played for high stakes.
  40. A new TV drama series set in the world of high finance
  41. These socks are a bit high.
  42. You think you're so high and mighty
  43. but you will come tumbling down some day.