Mostly

Definition

most /mǝƱst / indef det, indef pron (used as the superlative of MANY, MUCH adv ) ၁။ အမ်ားဆံုး။ (က) ( det ): Who do you think will get (the) most votes? ❍ Peter made the most mistakes of all the class. ❍ When we toured Italy we spent most time in Rome. ❍ Most racial discrimination is based on ignorance. (ခ) ( pron ): We all ate a lot of cake—I probably ate (the) most (ie more than the others ate). ❍ Harry got 6 points, Susan got 8 points, but Alison got most (with 12). ❍ The person with the most to lose is the director. ❍ That's the most I can do to help. ❍ MUCH indef det, indef pron ၂။ ထက္ဝက္ေက်ာ္။ အမ်ားစု။ (က) ( det ): Most European countries are democracies. ❍ Most classical music sends me to sleep. ❍ The new tax laws affect most people. ❍ I like most vegetables. (ခ) ( pron ) အမ်ားစု။ အမ်ားအား ျဖင့္။ It rained for most of the summer. ❍ As most of you know, I've decided to resign. ❍ There are hundreds of verbs in English and most are regular. ❍ He spends most of his free time in the garden. adv ၁။ (က) အလြန္႔အလြန္။ သိပ္။ most boring/beautiful/impressive ❍ The person who gave most generously to the appeal was my father. ❍ It was the most exciting trip I've ever had. (ခ) အမ်ားဆံုး။ အထူးတလည္။ What did you most enjoy? ❍ She helped me (the) most when my parents died. ❍ I saw her most (ie most often) when we were at college together. ၂။ (က) အလြန္။ အလြန္အမင္း။ We heard a most interesting talk about Japan. ❍ I received a most unusual present from my aunt. ❍ It was most kind of you to take me to the airport. ❍ We shall most probably never meet again. (ခ) သိပ္။ ‘Can we expect to see you at church?’ ‘Most certainly. ’ ၃။ ( infml esp US ) လုနီးပါး။ လိုလို။ I go to the store most every day. ❏ at (the) most [ IDM ] အစြမ္းကုန္။ အမ်ားဆံုး။ At (the) most I might earn £250 a night. ❍ There were 50 people there, at the very most. ❍ As a news item it merits a short paragraph at most. ❏ mostly adv အဓိကအားျဖင့္။ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္။ The drink was mostly lemonade. ❍ We're mostly out on Sundays. -most suff (ေနရာျပဝိဘတ္ႏွင့္ နာမဝိေသသနတို႔ျဖင့္ နာမဝိေသသန ဖြဲ႕ရာ၌ သံုးသည့္ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ …ဆံုး။ inmost ❍ topmost ❍ uppermost.

Examples

1. Zurich is Switzerland’s most important city.
2. Even the most carefully prepared plans sometimes go wrong.
3. The English Patient was one of the most successful films ever made.
4. Who do you think is most likely to win the next presidential election?
5. [the most] : My time in the navy was by far the most exciting period of my life.
6. Most people think of robots as machines that look like people.
7. Most business meetings are held at the company’s Bristol office.
8. A few of the moths are grey
9. but most are white.
10. [most of] : Most of us enjoy shopping.
11. Johnson spent most of his life in London.
12. [most days/evenings/weekends etc] : We go sailing most weekends.
13. [most of the time] : Most of the time we sit around playing cards.
14. The fairest system is one where those who earn most pay most tax.
15. [the most] : It’s a competition to see who could drink the most beer in the shortest time.
16. [the most] : The most that we can do is to prevent the situation from getting any worse.
17. To get the most benefit from your training programme
18. read all the documentation carefully.
19. We chose the option that would help the most people.
20. [the most] : The university course that has changed the most in the last ten years is teacher education.
21. [most of all] : What I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl.
22. [the most] : It was Auntie Margaret who complained the most.
23. We spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the races.
24. The landscapes are most beautifully painted in oils.
25. The iced tea was very sweet
26. as it is most everywhere in the South.