Licence plate

Definition

number /'nʌmbǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] ကိန္း။ ဂဏန္း။ နံပါတ္။ Think of a number. Multiply it by 2. ❍ Can you read the numbers on the doors/ tickets? ❍ My telephone number is 622998. ❍ What's the registration number of your car? See also CARDINAL NUMBER, ORDINAL NUMBER, SERIAL NUMBER ၂။ [C] (abbrs No, no, US symb#) အမွတ္ (စဥ္)။ နံပါတ္။ the passenger in seat number 32 ❍ Her record reached number 6 in the charts. ❍ No 10 Downing Street is the official residence of the British Prime Minister. ၃။ (sing or pl in form; always taking a plural verb when preceded by a/an) အေရအတြက္ (အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား)။ A large number of people have applied. ❍ The number of people applying has increased this year. ❍ Considerable numbers of (ie Very many) animals have died. ❍ People are emigrating in increasing numbers. ❍ The university will have to expand owing to pressure of numbers (ie of students). ❍ A number of (ie some) problems have arisen. ❍ Count the number of books on the shelf. ❍ We were fifteen in number (ie there were fifteen of us). ၄။ [sing] (fml) လူစု။ လူသိုက္။ one of our number (ie one of us) ❍ among their number (ie among them) ❍ Their philosophy is the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ၅။ [C] သတင္းစာ၊ မဂၢဇင္း စသည္ ထုတ္ေဝမႈ အႀကိမ္တစ္ႀကိမ္။ the current number of ‘Vogue’. See also BACK NUMBER ၆။ [C] သီခ်င္း (တစ္) ပုဒ္။ အက (တစ္) ကြက္။ sing a slow, romantic number. ၇။ [sing] (preceded by an adj or adjs)(sl)ဟာ။ ဥစၥာ။ She was wearing a black leather number. ❍ That new Fiat is a fast little number. ၈။ [U] (grammar) (ဗဟုဝုစ္၊ ဧကဝုစ္) ကိန္း။ ‘Men’ is plural in number. ❍ The subject of a sentence and its verb must agree in number. See also ONE'S OPPOSITE NUMBER v ၁။ နံပါတ္တပ္သည္။ The seats aren't numbered. ❍ The doors were numbered 2, 4, 6 and 8. ❍ We'll number them from one to ten. ❍ I couldn't work out the numbering system for the hotel rooms. ၂။ အေရအတြက္ ရိွသည္။ We numbered 20 (ie There were 20 of us) in all. ❏ any number of sth/ sb [IDM] အမ်ားအျပား။ There are any number of good restaurants to choose from. ❏ by numbers [IDM] နံပါတ္အလိုက္။ နံပါတ္စဥ္အတိုင္း။ painting by numbers. ❏ have (got) sb's number [IDM] (infml) အထာသိၿပီး သား။ အထာေပါက္ၿပီးသား။ He thinks he can fool me but I've got his number. ❏ number (sb/ sth) among sth [PHRV] ထည့္တြက္သည္။ I number her among my closest friends. ❍ The string quartets number among his finest works. ❏ number crunching n [U] (computing infml) (ကြန္ပ်ဴတာျဖင့္) ကိန္းဂဏန္းႀကီးမ်ားကို အလ်င္အျမန္ တြက္ခ်က္ ျခင္း။ ❏ one's number is up [IDM] (infml) … သြားၿပီ၊ ႂကြၿပီ၊ ေလွ်ာၿပီ။ When the wheel came off the car I thought my number was up! ❏ numberless adj မေရတြက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ❍ INVALUABLE ❏ number one [IDM] (infml) ၁။ [ဥ] နံပါတ္တစ္။ အေကာင္းဆံုး။ This company is number one in the oil business. ❍ the number one problem/ priority ❍ the world's number one tennis player. ၂။ မိမိကိုယ္ကိုမိမိ။ Looking after number one is all he thinks about. ❏ number-plate (esp Brit) (also esp US licence plate, license plate ) n ကားနံပါတ္ျပား။

Examples

1. Can you read the numbers on the chart?
2. Large numbers like 250
3. 000
4. As a tennis player
5. she was rated number one (=the best) in the country.
6. The local trains will be arriving at platform number 4.
7. Her flat number is 16C.
8. Call this number to get a taxi.
9. [wrong number] : I must have dialled the wrong number.
10. Your account number is printed on every cheque.
11. In order to get a job
12. you have to have a Social Security number.
13. [number of] : A small number of shops
14. Increasing numbers of drivers
15. This brings the total number of children to 12.
16. Show-stopping numbers from Broadway musicals
17. She was wearing a little black number (=dress or outfit).
18. A recent number of a football magazine
19. Back numbers (=old copies) of the Guardian
20. If the subject is plural
21. the verb has to be in the plural number.
22. A good loan officer can run the numbers for you so you can make the right decision.