Long wave

Definition

long 1 / lɒŋ; US lↄ:ŋ / adj ( -er /-ŋgǝ(r) /; -est /-ŋg- Çst/) ၁။ ရွည္ေသာ။ ေဝးေသာ။ လွမ္းေသာ။ How long is the River Nile? ❍ Your hair is longer than mine. ❍ a long dress (ie one reaching to the ankles) ❍ long-legged / -haired / -sleeved ❍ The sleeves are a bit too long. ❍ Is it a long way (ie far) to your house? Compare SHORT adj ၁ ❍ DIMENSION ၂။ ၾကာေသာ။ ရွည္ေသာ။ a long book / film / list (ie taking a lot of time to read/ watch / deal with) ❍ He’s been ill for a long time. ❍ How long are the holidays? ❍ They’re six weeks long. ၃။ ကာလလ်ားေသာ။ ပိုၾကာေသာ။ ten long years. ၄။ (မွတ္ဉာဏ္) ေကာင္းေသာ။ မေမ့ေသာ။ ၅။ ( phonetics ) ဒီဃ(သံ)။ The vowel sound in ‘caught’ is long; in ‘cot’ it is short. n ၁။ [U] အၾကာႀကီး။ ၾကာၾကာ။ This won’t take long. ❍ Will you be away for long? ❍ I hope to write to you before long. ၂။ [C] အသံရွည္။ ဒီဃသရ။ adv ( -er / -ŋgǝ(r) /; -est / -ŋgÇst/) ၁။ အၾကာႀကီး။ ၾကာၾကာ။ Were you in Rome long? ❍ Stay as long as you like. ❍ long into the next century ❍ I won’t be long (ie will come, go, etc soon). ❍ Long live the king! ❍ long-awaited / -delayed / -established / -forgotten ❍ long-dead / -overdue. ၂။ ၾကာၾကာ။ ေရွးေရွးတံုးက။ မတိုင္ခင္။ ေရွးကတည္းက။ အတန္ၾကာမွ။ အတန္ၾကာ ကတည္းက။ long ago / before / after / since ❍ He died not long (ie soon) after (that). ❍ RECENT ၃။ တစ္(…)လံုး။ wait all day long. ❏ as long as your arm [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္လံ ေလာက္ ရွည္ေသာ။ There’s a list of repairs as long as your arm. ❏ as / so long as (used as a conj ) [ IDM ] ၁။ သမွ်။ သေရြ႕။ ကာလပတ္လံုး။ As long as it doesn’t rain we can play. ၂။ ( US ) ကတည္းက။ ❏ at the longest [ IDM ] အၾကာဆံုး။ He’s only away for short periods—a week at the longest. ❏ be not long for this world [ IDM ] ( rhet ) ဒီေတာင္ေတာ့ ေက်ာ္ႏိုင္မယ္ မထင္ပါ။ သက္ဆိုးရွည္မည္ မဟုတ္။ ❏ by a long way [ IDM ] ေအးေအးေလး။ အသာေလး။ He was the best performer by a long way. ❏ cut a long story short [ IDM ] အတိုခ်ဳပ္ ေျပာရရင္။ လိုရင္းကိုေျပာရရင္။ အဓိကကေတာ့။ ❏ go a long way [ IDM ] ၁။ အသံုးခံသည္။ တာသြားသည္။ ခရီးေရာက္သည္။ She makes a little money go a long way (ie buys many things by careful spending). ❍ A little of this paint goes a long way (ie covers a large area). ၂။ ခရီးေရာက္သည္။ တာသြားသည္။ A little of his company goes a long way. ❏ have come a long way [ IDM ] ေပါက္ေရာက္သည္။ ခရီးေရာက္သည္။ We’ve come a long way since those early days of the project. ❏ the long and (the) short of it [ IDM ] လိုရင္း။ အခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ long- distance adj, adv ခရီးေဝး။ တာေဝး။ အေဝး။ a long-distance commuter / phone call/ runner ❍ phone long-distance. ❏ long division n [U] ( mathematics ) အရွည္ စားနည္း။ Can you do long division? ❏ long-drawn -out (also long -drawn ) adj ရွည္လ်ား ေသာ။ မဆံုးႏိုင္ေသာ။ long-drawn-out negotiations / howls. ❏ long drink n စိမ္ေသာက္ရန္ ဖန္ခြက္ရွည္ျဖင့္ အေဖ်ာ္ယမကာ။ Compare SHORT n ၂ ❏ (put on, have, wear, etc) a long face [ IDM ] မ်က္ႏွာေသ။ မ်က္စိသငယ္နားသငယ္။ ❏ long haul [ IDM ] ေရရွည္တအားႀကဲရဦးမည့္ ကိစၥ။ It’s going to be a long haul to the final. See also HAUL n ၂ ❏ long-haul adj ခရီးေဝး၊ တာေဝး(ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရး)။ long-haul flights / routes. Compare SHORT-HAUL ❏ long in the tooth [ IDM ] ( Brit joc ) အရြယ္ေတာ္ တစ္ဆိတ္ဟိုင္းၿပီ။ He’s getting a bit long in the tooth to be playing football. ❏ long johns n [pl] ( infml ) ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီရွည္။ a warm pair of long johns. ❏ the long jump ( Brit ) ( US the broad jump ) n [sing] အလ်ားခုန္။ competing in the long jump. ❏ long- lasting adj တာရွည္ခံေသာ။ ေရရွည္ (အက်ဳိး သက္ေရာက္ေသာ)။ long-lasting materials ❍ effects that are long-lasting. ❏ long-life adj ( Brit ) ၾကာရွည္ခံေသာ။ ❏ long- lived / 'lÇvd / adj အသက္ရွည္ေသာ။ My family tend to be quite long-lived. ❏ long-lost adj ၾကာၿပီျဖစ္ေသာ။ ၾကာျမင့္စြာ ကြဲကြာေနေသာ။ a long-lost friend. ❏ long odds n [pl] မ်ားမ်ား အေက်ာေပးျခင္း။ မ်ားမ်ား အေလးေပးျခင္း။ Compare SHORT ODDS ❏ long-range adj (က) ေရရွည္ (ေဟာကိန္း)။ a long-range weather forecast. (ခ) ခရီးေဝး။ တာေဝး။ a long-range bomber. ❏ long-running adj ၾကာရွည္ ႐ံုတင္ျပသလ်က္ရိွေသာ (ျပဇာတ္၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္စသည္)။ the longest-running show in London. ❏ long-serving adj ရာထူးသက္တမ္းရွည္ေသာ။ a long-serving MP. ❏ a long shot [ IDM ] ကံစြပ္ကံညားစြန္႔ရမည့္ ကိစၥ။ It’s a long shot, but it might just work. ❏ long- sighted (also esp US far- sighted ) adj အနီးမႈန္ေသာ။ She’s long-sighted and needs glasses to read. Compare SHORT-SIGHTED, FAR-SIGHTED ၁ ❏ long -standing adj အခ်ိန္ၾကာျမင့္စြာ တည္ရိွခဲ့ၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ long-standing grievances. ❏ long-stay adj ၾကာရွည္ေန(လူနာယာဥ္ရပ္စခန္း)။ long-stay patients ❍ a long-stay car park. ❏ long- suffering adj ဆိုးမ်ဳိးခံ သက္တမ္းရွည္ၿပီျဖစ္ေသာ။ I pity his long-suffering wife. ❏ long-term adj ေရရွည္။ a long-term aim / commitment. ❏ long time no see [ IDM ] ( infml ) မေတြ႕ရတာ ၾကာလွေပါ့။ ❏ long- time adj ၾကာၿပီျဖစ္ေသာ။ a long-time friendship / admirer / ambition. ❏ long vacation n [C usu sing ] ( Brit ) ရက္ရွည္ ေႏြ အားလပ္ရက္။ ❏ long wave n ( abbr LW ) (ေရဒီယို) လိႈင္းရွည္။ a long-wave broadcast. ❏ long weekend n စေန၊ တနဂၤေႏြနားရက္မ်ားအျပင္ ေသာၾကာ (သို႔) တနလၤာေန႔ပါ ပိတ္ရက္တြင္ အက်ံဳးဝင္ျခင္း။ ရက္ရွည္ သီတင္းဆံုး။ have a long weekend in Amsterdam. ❏ long- winded adj ေလရွည္ေသာ။ စကားေၾကာရွည္ေသာ။ လိုရင္းမေရာက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a long-winded speaker / speech/ style. ❏ no / any / much longer [ IDM ] မ… (ေစာင့္၊ ေအာင့္၊ ေနစသည္)ေတာ့၊ ႏိုင္ေတာ့။ I can’t wait any / much longer. ❍ He no longer lives here. ❏ not by a long chalk / shot [ IDM ] လံုးဝ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ။ ေဝးပါေသးတယ္။ It’s not over yet, (not) by a long chalk. ❏ so long [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ခြဲခါနီး ႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား)။ သြားဦးမယ္။ ❏ take a long (cool/hard) look at sth [ IDM ] ေအးေအးေဆးေဆး၊ ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္ ဆင္ျခင္သံုးသပ္သည္။ ❏ take the long view [ IDM ] ေရရွည္အက်ဳိးကို ေမွ်ာ္ကိုး၍။ long 2 / lɒŋ; US lↄ:ŋ / v ~ for sth / ~ (for sb) to do sth ေတာင့္တသည္။ တမ္းတသည္။ The children are longing for the summer. ❍ She longed for him to ask her out. ❍ I’m longing to see you again. ❏ longing / 'lɒŋÇŋ; US 'lↄ:ŋÇŋ / n [C, U] ~ (for sb / sth ) လိုအင္ဆႏၵ။ ေတာင့္တမႈ။ တမ္းတမႈ။ အာသီသ။ a longing for home ❍ a deep sense of longing. adj ေတာင့္တေသာ။ look at sb with longing eyes. ❏ longingly adv မက္မက္ေမာေမာ။ အာသာငမ္းငမ္း။ The children gazed longingly at the toys in the window. long 3 abbr longitude Compare LAT

Examples

1. It’s a long time since I saw Rachel.
2. There was a long pause before he spoke.
3. Many people face a long wait for surgery.
4. I haven’t spoken to him for a long while.
5. He has a long history of mental illness.
6. It had been a long week.
7. A woman with long blonde hair
8. There was a long queue outside the bank.
9. We walked into a long narrow hall.
10. It’s the longest tunnel in Europe.
11. We went for a long walk.
12. It’s a long way to Tokyo from here.
13. [10 metres/2 centimetres/7 inches etc long] : The room was 3 metres long.
14. [how long...?] : How long do you think the table is?
15. [2 hours/an hour etc long] : The journey was about an hour long.
16. [how long...?] : How long was the film?
17. A shirt with long sleeves
18. She came down to dinner in a long skirt.
19. Auto-sales across the world are a long way from their pre-crisis levels.
20. I didn’t 'get' Tumblr for the longest time. Why were people just reblogging other people’s posts?