In words of one syllable

Definition

word /wɜ:d/ n ၁။ (က) [C] စကားလံုး။ စကား။ What's the Spanish word for table? စားပြဲကို စပိန္စကားႏွင့္ ဘယ္လိုေခၚ သလဲ။ ❍ Tell me what happened in your own words. ❍ He couldn't put his feelings into words . မေျပာျပတတ္ ေအာင္ ခံစားရတယ္။ ❍ I have no words/ can't find words to express (ie I have no adequate way of indicating) my gratitude. (ခ) [C] စာလံုး။ စကားလံုး။ ေဝါဟာရ။ That word is not spelled correctly. ❍ The words in the dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order. See also FOUR-LETTER WORD, HOUSEHOLD WORD ၂။ (က) [C] စကား။ a word/ a few words of advice/ sympathy/ warning ❍ a man/ woman of few words (ie one who does not talk very much) ❍ Can I have a quick word with you? ❍ I don't believe a word of his story. ❍ She left without a word. (ခ) words [pl] အေျပာ။ ေလ။ We want fewer words and more deeds. See also WAR OF WORDS ၃။ [sing] ကတိစကား။ I never doubted/ questioned her word. ❍ I give you my word that this won't happen again. ❍ We only have his word for it that the cheque is in the post. ❍ As I expected, they kept/ broke their word. ❍ I trust her not to go back on her word. ၄။ [sing] ( dated or fml ) (က) (a, the မပါဘဲသံုးသည္။ ) သတင္းစကား။ အက်ဳိး အေၾကာင္း။ အေၾကာင္းၾကားခ်က္။ Please send (me)/ leave word of your safe arrival/ that you have arrived safely. (ခ) the word ေကာလာဟလ။ The word is that he's left the country. ၅။ (usu the word ) [sing] အမိန္႔။ ႏႈတ္မိန္႔။ Stay hidden until I give the word. ❍ He likes to think that his word is law (ie his commands will be obeyed). ၆။ the Word (also the word of God ) [sing] သမၼာက်မ္းစာ။ preach the Word. v (esp passive) စကားလံုးေရြးခ်ယ္သံုးႏႈန္းသည္။ a carefully worded reminder ❍ Be careful how you word your reply. ❏ be as good as one's word [ IDM ] အေျပာႏွင့္ အလုပ္ ညီသည္။ You'll find that she's as good as her word. ❏ be not the word for sth/ sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆီေလ်ာ္ေသာ စကားလံုးမဟုတ္။ Lazy isn't the word for it! He never does any work at all. ❏ by word of mouth [ IDM ] ႏႈတ္ျဖင့္။ ပါးစပ္နဲ႔။ The news spread by word of mouth. ❏ (right) from the word go [ IDM ] ( infml ) အစခ်ီ ကတည္းက။ She knew (right) from the word go that it was going to be difficult. ❏ (not) get a word in edgeways [ IDM ] ၾကားျဖတ္ေျပာဖို႔ (မ)ရ။ ေရပက္(မ)ဝင္။ ❏ have a word in sb's ear [ IDM ] တိုးတိုး တိတ္တိတ္ ေျပာသည္။ က်ိတ္ေျပာသည္။ ❏ have words (with sb) (about sth) [ IDM ] စကားမ်ား သည္။ ျငင္းၾကခံုၾကသည္။ I could hear them having words in the next room. ❏ in other words [ IDM ] တစ္နည္းေျပာရရင္ေတာ့။ It was a perfectly ordinary day; in other words, I went to work and came home again. ❏ (not) in so many words [ IDM ] အဲဒီအတိုင္း အတိအက် ရယ္လို႔ေတာ့ မဟုတ္။ ‘ Did she say she hated you?’ ‘Not in so many words but it was obvious that she did’. ❏ in a word [ IDM ] လိုရင္းတစ္လံုးတည္းေျပာရရင္။ In a word, I think he's a fool. ❏ in words of one syllable [ IDM ] စကား ႐ိုး႐ိုး ကေလးျဖင့္။ ❏ a man/ woman of his/ her word [ IDM ] စကားတည္သူ။ ❏ not have a good word to say for sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ခြန္းမွ်အေကာင္းမေျပာ။ He doesn't have/ seldom has a good word to say for his brothers. ❏ not a word (to sb) (about sth) [ IDM ] တစ္ခြန္းေတာင္ မဟလိုက္ပါနဲ႔။ Not a word (to Mary) (about what I've told you)! ❏ put in/ say a (good) word for sb [ IDM ] အေကာင္း ေျပာဆိုေပးသည္။ ❏ put words into sb's mouth [ IDM ] သူ႕စကားကို ကိုယ့္ စကားလုပ္သည္။ She accused the journalist of putting words into her mouth. ❏ say/ be one's last/ final word (on sth) [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုး အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးသည္။ ေနာက္ဆံုး အဆံုးအျဖတ္ ျဖစ္သည္။ That's unlikely to be her last word on the subject. ❏ take sb at their word [ IDM ] သူ႕စကားကို အတည္ယူ သည္။ ❏ take sb's word for it (that…) [ IDM ] ေျပာသည့္အတိုင္း ယံုသည္။ I can't prove I'm not lying — you'll just have to take my word for it. ❏ take the words (right) out of sb's mouth [ IDM ] သူမ်ားေျပာမည့္စကားကို ဦးေအာင္ ေျပာသည္။ စကားဦးသည္။ ❏ too funny, outrageous, sad, shocking, etc for words [ IDM ] စကားႏွင့္ ေျပာမျပ ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္။ The whole situation was too stupid for words. ❏ (upon) my word! [ IDM ] ( dated or fml ) (တအံ့တဩႏွင့္ ေျပာေသာ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ ေဟာဗ်ား။ ေဟာေတာ့။ ဟယ္။ My word, you're back early! ❏ word for word [ IDM ] တစ္သေဝမတိမ္း။ လံုးေစ့ ပတ္ေစ့။ His story matches yours almost word for word. ❍ a word-for-word account/ translation. ❏ wording n [U,C usu sing ] စကားအသံုးအႏႈန္း၊ သံုးႏႈန္းပံု။ a complicated form of wording. ❏ sb's word is as good as their bond [ IDM ] သူ႕ စကားကတကယ္စိတ္ခ်ရတယ္။ ❏ wordless adj ( fml ) ထုတ္ေဖာ္မေျပာေသာ။ wordless grief/ sympathy. wordlessly adv ❏ one's word of honour [ IDM ] တကယ္ေျပာတာပါ။ I give you my word of honour I didn't do it. ❏ word-perfect ( US letter-perfect ) adj ႏႈတ္တက္ရ ေသာ။ အလြတ္ရေသာ။ အာဂံု ေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ❏ word processor n စာစီစာ႐ိုက္ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ပ႐ိုဂရမ္။ Compare TYPEWRITER ❏ word processing n [U] ယင္းျဖင့္ စာစီစာ႐ိုက္ ျခင္း။ word processing skills. ❏ wordy adj ( derog ) စကားလံုးေဖာင္းပြေသာ။ an eloquent, if rather wordy, speech. wordily /-Çli/ adv, wordiness n [U]

Examples

1. The first word that many babies speak is ‘Mama’.
2. Can you read the words on this page?
3. The Latin word for a table is ‘mensa’.
4. I was remembering the words of my old friend.
5. [in your own words] : Tell us in your own words how the accident happened.
6. I can hum the tune
7. but I don’t know the words.
8. [want a word (with someone)] : David wants a quiet word with you.
9. [have a word (with someone)] : Can I have a quick word with you?
10. [word about/on] : Let me say a word on the subject of security.
11. [say a few words] : I would just like to say a few words about our guest.
12. We’ve had no word from Brian yet.
13. [send word] : He sent word that they had arrived safely.
14. [word spreads] : Word of the incident spread quickly.
15. A word of advice – don’t take anything Gina says too seriously.