Low tide

Definition

low 1 / lǝƱ / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ မျမင့္ေသာ။ နိမ့္ေသာ။ a low wall/ceiling ❍ a low range of hills ❍ flying at a low altitude ❍ a dress with a low neckline ❍ The sun was low in the sky. Compare HIGH adj ၂။ (က) မမ်ားေသာ။ နည္းပါးေသာ။ နိမ့္က်ေသာ။ က်ေသာ။ low wages/prices ❍ low pressure (eg of the atmosphere) ❍ the lowest temperature ever recorded ❍ a low standard of work ❍ a meal that is low in calories ❍ The reservoir was very low after the long drought. (ခ) (esp in compounds) အနည္းငယ္သာ ပါဝင္ ေသာ။ နည္းေသာ။ သက္သာေသာ။ a low-fat yoghurt ❍ low-alcohol beer ❍ a low-calorie diet ❍ low-cost housing ❍ low-income families. ၃။ အသံနိမ့္ေသာ။ A man’s voice is usually lower than a woman’s. ၄။ မက်ယ္ေလာင္ ေသာ။ တိုးေသာ။ a low rumble of thunder ❍ Keep your voice low. ၅။ အားေလ်ာ့ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ (စိတ္ဓာတ္) က်ေသာ။ in a low state of health ❍ feel low/in low spirits / low-spirited. ၆။ အဆင့္အတန္းနိမ့္ေသာ။ (ခႏၶာ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံု) လြယ္ေသာ၊ ရွင္းေသာ။ lower classes of society ❍ have a low social status ❍ low forms of life (ie creatures having a relatively simple structure). ၇။ ေအာက္တန္းက်ေသာ။ ေပါ့ျပက္ေသာ။ သာမန္ျဖစ္ ေသာ။ low (ie morally unacceptable) cunning ❍ He mixes with some pretty low types. ၈။ အထင္ေသးေသာ။ have a very low opinion of sb ❍ hold sb in low esteem. ၉။ (အလ်င္ႏႈန္း) ေႏွးေသာ။ (ဂီယာ)ႀကီးေသာ။ change into a lower gear when going up a hill. ၁၀။ မပူလြန္းေသာ။ အပူနည္းေသာ။ cook the vegetables over a low heat ❍ keep the iron on a low setting. ၁၁။ (အလင္းေရာင္) မိွန္ေသာ။ turn the lights down low. adv ( -er , -est ) ၁။ နိမ့္နိမ့္။ ပ်ပ္ပ်ပ္ဝပ္ဝပ္။ aim / shoot low ❍ bow low to the Queen. ၂။ နိမ့္နိမ့္။ I can’t sing as low as that. ၃။ တိုးတိုး။ Speak lower or she’ll hear you! n ၁။ အနိမ့္။ အနည္း။ The pound has fallen to an all-time low against the dollar ( ie is worth less in exchange for dollars than ever before). ၂။ ေလထု ဖိအား နည္းေသာ ေဒသ၊ ရပ္ဝန္း။ ေလခ်ဳိင့္။ another low moving in from the Atlantic. Compare HIGH n ❏ at a low ebb [ IDM ] က်ဆင္းေသာ။ (စိတ္ဓာတ္) က်ေသာ။ Her spirits were at a very low ebb (ie She was very depressed). ❏ be brought low [ IDM ] စည္းစိမ္၊ ရာထူး ဆံုး႐ံႈးသြားသည္။ rich families brought low by the stock market collapse. ❏ be/run low (on sth) [ IDM ] ကုန္ခါနီးျဖစ္သည္။ အနည္းငယ္သာက်န္သည္။ The petrol’s running low. ❍ We’re (running) low on petrol. ❏ lay sb low [ IDM ] အားနည္းေစသည္။ ဖ်ားနာေၾကာင့္ လဲေနသည္။ The whole family was laid low by/with (ie was ill and in bed with) flu. ❏ lowermost adj အနိမ့္ဆံုး။ အနည္းဆံုး။ ❏ lowest common denominator n ( often derog ) ေသာေကာေရာေကာ အႀကိဳက္။ အမ်ားႀကိဳက္။ pandering to the lowest common denominator of public taste. ❏ low-key adj အက်ဥ္း႐ံုးေသာ။ ခပ္မိွန္မိွန္။ ခပ္လွ်ဳိလွ်ဳိ။ The wedding was a very low-key affair. ❍ Officials took a very low-key approach. ❏ low-lying adj ေျမနိမ့္ပိုင္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ fog in low-lying areas. ❏ low-paid adj လုပ္ခနည္းေသာ။ They are among the lowest-paid (workers) in the country. ❏ low-pitched adj အသံနိမ့္ေသာ။ a low-pitched voice. Compare HIGH-PITCHED ❏ low season n (often the low season ) ( Brit ) (also off-season ) [sing] အေပ်ာ္ခရီးအထြက္ပါးေသာ။ Compare HIGH SEASON ❏ low tide (also low water ) [U,C] n (က) ေရစစ္။ ေရက်။ (ခ) ေရစစ္။ ေရက်။ ❍ HIGH TIDE ❏ low-water mark n ေရစစ္မွတ္။ ေရက်မွတ္။ Compare HIGH-WATER MARK low 2 / lǝƱ / n ႏြားေအာ္သံ၊ တြန္သံ။

Examples

1. A low wall/bridge/building
2. The plane was very low.
3. Low clouds
4. The tide is low.
5. People on low incomes
6. The bigger shops are able to keep their prices low.
7. Low unemployment
8. Cook it for five minutes on a low heat.
9. [in the low 20s/30s etc] : Temperatures are usually around the low 30s at this time of year.
10. Yoghurt with a low fat content
11. [low in] : Vegetables are low in fat and calories and high in nutrition.
12. Stocks were so low that many of the shelves in the shop were empty.
13. [run/get low (on something)] : A message appears on the screen when you’re running low on disk space.
14. There was music on and the lights were low.
15. [run/get low] : Most phones tell you when the battery is running low.
16. The standard of housing in some areas is very low.
17. Doing the garden is fairly low on my list of priorities.
18. [low-priority] : Food will not be sent to low-priority areas until next week.
19. [low spirits] : It was unlike her to be in such low spirits.
20. It’s the kind of illness that leaves you feeling low for a few days.
21. Sandra’s problem is she has really low expectations.
22. Morale is really low in the office.
23. He has a very low opinion of his colleagues (=thinks they are not very good).
24. She finds it difficult to reach the low notes.
25. That was a low trick.