Dictionary entry

Keeping up appearances

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) ဟန်ပန်လေလန် လုပ်သည်။

Definition

appearance /ǝ'pÇǝrǝns/ n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ေရာက္လာျခင္း။ ေရာက္ရိွလာျခင္း။ ေပၚလာျခင္း။ The sudden appearance of a policeman caused the thief to run away. ❍ the appearance of organic vegetables in supermarkets ❍ They finally made their appearance (ie appeared, arrived) at 11.30. ၂။ [C usu sing ] (သတင္းစာ၊ မဂၢဇင္း၊ အသံလႊင့္ခ်က္၊ ႐ုပ္သံလႊင့္ခ်က္ စသည္တို႔၌) ပါလာျခင္း၊ ထုတ္ လႊင့္ျခင္း။ The appearance of these claims in the media is totally unjustified. ၃။ [C] (ပရိသတ္၊ တရား႐ံုးေတာ္ ေရွ႕ေမွာက္) ေရာက္ျခင္း။ His first appearance on the stage was at the age of three. ၄။ [C, U] ပံုပန္း။ Fine clothes added to his strikingly handsome appearance. ❍ The building was like a prison in appearance. ❏ gave every appearance …ပံု လံုးလံုးေပါက္သည္။ She gave every appearance of being extremely rich. ❏ judge by appearances အျပင္ပန္းအားျဖင့္ တန္ဖိုး ျဖတ္ သည္။ Don't judge by appearances—appearances can be misleading. ❏ keeping up appearances ဟန္ပန္ေလလန္ လုပ္သည္။ There is no point in keeping up appearances (ie hiding the true situation and making a show) when everyone knows we're nearly bankrupt. ❏ put in an appearance မ်က္ႏွာျပသည္။ I don't want to go to the party but I suppose I'd better put in an appearance (ie go there and stay a short time). ❏ To all appearances ၾကည့္ရတာေတာ့။ To all appearances he was dead.

Examples

  1. The twins are almost identical in appearance.
  2. His thinning hair gave him the appearance of a much older man.
  3. Recent initiatives have done a lot to improve the appearance of the district.
  4. He doesn’t look well off
  5. but you shouldn’t judge by appearances.
  6. [give the appearance of (doing) something] : He had always given the appearance of agreeing with her ideas.
  7. [to/by all appearances] : She was
  8. to all appearances
  9. enjoying the challenges of the new job.
  10. The disease is contagious only before the appearance of its initial symptoms.
  11. Julie’s sudden appearance in the doorway startled me.
  12. A public appearance
  13. [make an appearance] : She has made numerous appearances on TV game shows.
  14. He has had 14 other court appearances.