Leave-taking

Definition

leave 1 / li:v / v ( pt, pp left / left / ) ၁။ ထြက္ခြာသည္။ ခြာသည္။ They hate leaving home. ❍ Come on, it’s time we left. ❍ The plane leaves (Heathrow) for Dallas at 12.35. ၂။ (က) ထြက္သည္။ He left America in 1984 and never returned. ❍ Many children leave school at 16. ❍ My secretary has threatened to leave. ❍ ( Brit ) go to sb’s leaving party. ႏႈတ္ဆက္ပြဲသို႔သြားသည္။ (ခ) စြန္႔ခြာသည္။ စြန္႔ပစ္သည္။ She’s leaving him for another man. ၃။ (က) ထားခဲ့သည္။ Leave the dishes–I’ll wash them up later. ❍ The lemonade was too sweet, so he left it (ie did not drink it). ❍ Why do you always leave everything until the last moment? (ခ) ထားသည္။ Leave the door open, please. ❍ The bomb blast left 25 people dead. ဗံုးေပါက္၍ လူ(၂၅)ေယာက္ေသသည္။ ❍ Don’t leave her waiting outside in the rain. ❍ Leave the fish in the mixture for at least an hour. ၄။ က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ခ်န္သည္။ a puppy leaving (behind) a trail of destruction in its wake ❍ Red wine leaves a stain. ❍ She left me with the impression that she was unhappy with her job. ❍ I’m afraid you leave me no choice. ၅။ be left (passive) က်န္သည္။ There are six days left before we go. ❍ Is there any coffee left? ❍ How many tickets do you have left? ❍ ( fig ) They are fighting for what is left of American trade unionism. ❍ The only course of action left to me was to notify her employer. ၆။ ( mathematics ) ႂကြင္းသည္။ Seven from ten / Ten minus seven leaves three (ie 10–7=3). ၇။ ~ sth/sb (behind) က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ခ်န္ထားသည္။ I’ve left my purse on the bus. ❍ ‘Let’s drive off and leave her (behind),’ he suggested callously. ၈။ က်န္ရစ္ေစသည္။ ခ်န္ခဲ့သည္။ He leaves a widow and two children. ၉။ တာဝန္ေပးသည္။ ခ်န္ထား သည္။ You can leave the cooking to me. ❍ Leave an assistant in charge of the shop. ❍ Leave it with me—I’m sure I can sort it out. ❍ ‘Where shall we eat?’ ‘I’ll leave it entirely (up) to you (ie You can decide). ’ ❍ They left me with all the washing-up. ❍ I was left to cope on my own. ၁၀။ ~ sth (for sb ) ထားခဲ့သည္။ How many bottles did the milkman leave today? ❍ Someone left you this note / left this note for you. ၁၁။ ~ sth to sb ထားခဲ့သည္။ ေပးခဲ့သည္။ How much did he leave? ❍ leave all one’s money to charity ❍ She left you £ 500. ❏ be left over (from sth) [ PHRV ] ပိုေနသည္။ က်န္သည္။ There were lots of sandwiches left over. ❍ We have a few coins left over from our holiday in Greece. See also LEFTOVERS ❏ leave sth aside [ PHRV ] အသာထားပါဦး။ ထားပါဦး။ Leaving the expense aside, do we actually need a second car? ❏ leave sb/sth behind [ PHRV ] ၁။ (esp passive) ခ်န္ထားခဲ့သည္။ ေနာက္က်က်န္ရစ္သည္။ Britain is fast being left behind in the race for new markets. ❍ She has left the rest of her class far behind. ၂။ က်န္ရစ္ခဲ့သည္။ leave one’s childhood behind ❍ The train sped through the countryside leaving Edinburgh far behind. ❏ leave it at that [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒီလိုပဲ ထားလိုက္ၾကစို႔။ We’ll never agree, so let’s just leave it at that, shall we? ❏ leave off (doing sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ရပ္နားသည္။ Start reading from where you left off last time. ❍ He left off playing the piano to answer the door. ❏ leave sb/sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] က်န္ေနရစ္သည္။ ခ်န္ ထားခဲ့သည္။ You’ve left off a zero. ❍ We left him off the list. ❏ leave sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ မပါပါရေစႏွင့္။ မပါပါေစႏွင့္။ Leave me out of this quarrel, please—I don’t want to get involved. ❍ ၂။ ဝိုင္းပယ္ခံရသည္။ He hadn’t been asked to the party and was feeling very left out. ၃။ က်သည္။ She left out an ‘m’ in ‘accommodation’. ❏ leaver n (esp in compounds)… ထြက္သြားသူ။ school leavers. leave 2 /li:v / n [U] ၁။ (က) (esp in compounds) ခြင့္။ She’s on maternity leave. See also COMPASSIONATE LEAVE, SICK-LEAVE (ခ) ခြင့္ရက္။ ခြင့္။ take a month’s leave ❍ How much annual leave do you get? ❍ She’s home on leave from her regiment. ❍ HOLIDAY ၂။ ~ to do sth (fml) ခြင့္။ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္။ be given leave to appeal against the sentence ❍ I beg leave to address the Council. ❏ by / with your leave [ IDM ] ( fml ) ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္အရ။ ❏ leave of absence n [U] ( fml ) တာဝန္ ပ်က္ကြက္ခြင့္။ ask for leave of absence to attend a wedding. ❏ leave-taking n [U, sing] ( fml ) (ခြဲခြာခ်ိန္တြင္) ႏႈတ္ဆက္ ျခင္း။ a tearful leave-taking. ❏ take (one’s) leave (of sb) [ IDM ] ( fml ) ႏႈတ္ဆက္သည္။ I took my leave of the little group. ❏ take leave of one’s senses [ IDM ] ( dated or joc ) ႐ူးေနသည္။ ႐ူးသြားသည္။ Have you all taken leave of your senses? ❏ without as/so much as a by your leave [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႐ိုင္းစိုင္းစြာ။ ခြင့္မေတာင္း ဘာမေတာင္း။

Examples

1. We left London at three in the afternoon.
2. Your plane leaves in ten minutes.
3. If they leave after lunch
4. they should arrive by dark.
5. We have to leave within the hour in order to be on time.
6. The ship left before dawn.
7. They left by the back door.
8. [leave for] : She leaves for work at 7.30 every morning.
9. [leave someone to something] : I’ll leave you to your crossword puzzle.
10. [leave someone to do something] : I’ll leave you to get on with your book.
11. She left her home town for the bright lights of New York.
12. [leave home] : He didn’t leave home until he was 24.
13. The kids were devastated when Ben left.
14. His wife has threatened to leave him.
15. He decided to leave the company after 15 years.
16. At 16 he left school in order to work and support his family.
17. I’m leaving at the end of the month.
18. Leave your things by the door.
19. I’ll only be a minute so I’ll leave my coat on.
20. Massage the conditioner into your hair and leave it in for a few minutes.
21. I left my homework on the bus.
22. Chris left a message on your answerphone.
23. I’ll leave a note for Leigh.
24. Wherever ants go
25. they leave a chemical trail for other ants to follow.
26. I don’t want to leave my mother at home on her own.
27. [leave someone with someone] : She left the children with a friend for the afternoon.
28. The previous government left the economy in ruins.
29. The storm left 50
30. 000 homes without power.
31. His betrayal left her heartbroken.
32. [leave someone with something] : I was left with the impression that she wasn’t being quite honest.
33. [leave someone fuming/wondering etc] : Kate’s sudden departure left us all wondering what was going to happen.
34. Leave the dishes and do them in the morning.
35. [leave something to someone] : Don’t worry – just leave everything to me.
36. [leave someone to it] : ‘I think I can manage OK now.’ ‘Fine. I’ll leave you to it then.’
37. Leave questions of guilt or innocence for the jury to decide.
38. I hope you’ve left enough hot water for me to have a shower.
39. How much time is there left?
40. [have something left] : We don’t have much money left.
41. You’ve left half your dinner – didn’t you like it?
42. [leave someone something/something for someone] : Leave some cake for the rest of us!
43. [leave a space/gap] : Leave plenty of space between you and the car in front.
44. Leave your pager number with me
45. and I’ll call you if there’s a change.
46. [leave something to someone] : She left her jewels to her favourite niece.
47. [leave someone something] : He left her all his money.
48. He leaves a wife
49. a daughter
50. and three sons.
51. 8 minus 5 leaves 3