Intimacy

Definition

intimate /'ÇntÇmǝt/ adj ၁။ (က) ရင္းႏီွးေသာ။ ရင္းခ်ာေသာ။ intimate friends. (ခ) ရင္းႏီွးေသာ။ ရင္းခ်ာ ေသာ။ ရင္းေသာ။ Relations with our neighbours were now cordial, even intimate. ❍ We had been on intimate terms (ie very close friends) for some time. ၂။ ~ (with sb) ( euph ) က်ဴးက်ဴးလြန္လြန္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ေမွာက္မွားေသာ။ She was accused of being intimate with several men. ၃။ ရင္းႏီွးမႈကို အားေပးေသာ။ an intimate restaurant/ setting. ၄။ အတြင္းေရးျဖစ္ေသာ။ tell a friend the intimate details of one's life ❍ an intimate coversation. ၅။ ( fml ) ကြၽမ္းေသာ။ an intimate knowledge of African religions. n ရင္းႏီွးေသာ မိတ္ေဆြ။ v ~ sth (to sb) ( fml ) အသိေပးသည္။ အေၾကာင္းၾကားသည္။ He intimated his willingness to take part. ❍ She has intimated (to us) that she no longer wishes to be considered for the post. ❏ intimacy /'ÇntÇmǝsi/ n ၁။ [U] (က) ရင္းႏီွးမႈ။ family intimacy ❍ the warm intimacy of the cafe ❍ His letters had lost much of their former intimacy. (ခ) ( euph ) ေမထုန္မႈ။ ၂။ intimacies [pl] ပြတ္သီးပြတ္သပ္ေနျခင္း။ ❏ intimately adv အတြင္းက်က်။ ရင္းရင္းႏီွးႏီွး။ be intimately involved in sth ❍ know sb intimately. ❏ intimation /ÇntÇ'meÇʃn/ n ( fml ) (က) [C] ~ (of sth/ that…) အရိပ္အႁမြက္။ He has given us no intimation of his intentions/ what he intends to do. (ခ) [U] အခါေပးျခင္း။ အေၾကာင္းၾကားျခင္း။

Examples

1. Only intimate friends were invited to their wedding.
2. The magazine published intimate details of their affair.
3. It’s a small hotel with an intimate atmosphere.
4. Intimate contact
5. Island communities commonly feel an intimate connection with the sea and with seafarers.
6. Do you know her intimately?
7. These two problems are intimately connected.