Idea

Definition

idea / aÇ'dÇǝ; US -'di:ǝ / n ၁။ [C] စိတ္ကူး။ အေတြးအေခၚ။ အႀကံအစည္။ He's full of good / bright ideas. ❍ That's an (ie a good) idea. ၂။ [U, sing] သေဘာ သဘာဝ။ This book gives you some idea / a good idea of life in ancient Greece. ❍ Have you any idea what I mean? ၃။ [C] ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္။ အေတြး အေခၚ။ ခံယူခ်က္။ He has some very strange ideas. ၄။ [sing] ထင္ျမင္ယူဆခ်က္။ What gave you the idea / Where did you get the idea (that) I was rich? ❍ I have an idea it's going to rain. ၅။ the idea [sing] သေဘာေပါက္နားလည္မႈ။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္။ We take turns to play a card—do you get the idea (ie understand)? ❍ The idea of the game is to get all your pieces to the other side of the board. ❍ What's the (big) idea of turning up three hours late? ၆။ (မိုက္မဲစြာ ေျပာဆိုသည္၊ တုန္လႈပ္စရာ ေျပာဆိုသည္ဟု ထင္ျမင္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာ အာေမၮိတ္)။ The idea of it! ❍ What an idea! ❑ give sb ideas [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ေပးသည္။ Don't give her ideas — you know how difficult it is to get into show business. ❑ have no idea [ IDM ] လံုးဝမသိ။ ‘What's the time?’ ‘I’ve no idea. ’ ❍ He has no idea how to manage people. ❑ one's idea of sth [ IDM ] သေဘာထား။ If this is your idea of a joke, I'm not amused. ❑ not have the first idea [ IDM ] အေျခခံသေဘာ ကိုမွ်မသိ၊ နားမလည္။ Many young people today haven't the first idea how to behave! ❑ run away with the idea that… [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထင္မွတ္သည္။ (မရိွ၊ မျဖစ္ဟူေသာ ဝါက်မ်ား၌ သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) Don't run away with the idea that this job is going to be easy.

Examples

1. What a brilliant idea!
2. [have an idea] : Then I had an idea: we could stay with Mark.
3. [idea for] : An idea for a new TV show
4. [get an idea for something] : Where do you get the ideas for your stories?
5. [get the idea to do something] : How did you get the idea to remove the window from the outside?
6. [have/get the idea of doing something] : Then she got the idea of sending the poems to a publisher.
7. [idea about/on something] : I don’t agree with his ideas about education.
8. Her ideas on the subject were not ones I shared.
9. [have an idea] : She has some pretty strange ideas about how to bring up children.
10. [idea of] : We didn’t have a clear idea of what to expect from the training course.
11. Standing in the rain for two hours was not my idea of fun.
12. [be my idea of heaven/paradise/bliss] : Lying by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.
13. [idea of] : I had only a basic idea of how the machine worked.
14. [have no idea] : They had no idea what time they were supposed to arrive.
15. [not have the slightest/faintest/foggiest/remotest idea] : He didn’t have the slightest idea of how she really felt.
16. [idea behind/of] : What’s the idea behind these proposals?
17. [the idea is to do something] : The idea is to make more people rich.
18. [have other ideas] : My parents wanted me to be a doctor
19. but I had other ideas.
20. [with the idea of doing something] : He had arrived at the school with the idea of starting a band.
21. The policy is based on the idea that some industries need to be protected from market forces.
22. [idea of] : I’m a great believer in the idea of democracy.