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News agency

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) သတင်းဌာန။ (သတင်းစု၍ ထိုသတင်းများကို သတင်းစာ၊ ရေဒီယို၊ တီဗီဌာနများသို့ ရောင်းသည့်ဌာနဖြစ်သည်။)

Definition

news /nju:z; US nu:z/ n ၁။ (က) သတင္း။ What's the latest news? ❍ Have you heard the news? Mary's engaged! ❍ I want to hear all your news. ❍ It's news to me (ie I haven't heard about it before). ❍ Have you any news of Pete? (ie Have you heard anything about/ from him?) ❍ the home/ foreign news pages in a newspaper ❍ a news item/ report/ broadcast/ bulletin ❍ She is always in the news (ie Her activities are regularly reported in the press, on television, etc). (ခ) the news [sing v ] (ေရဒီယို၊ တီဗီ) သတင္း။ listen to the news ❍ What time's the news on BBC2? ❍ We heard it on the news. ၂။ [U] သတင္းအျဖစ္ေရးစရာ။ Pop stars are always news. ❏ break the news (to sb) [ IDM ] စိတ္မခ်မ္းသာဖြယ္ သတင္းကို ဦးဆံုးအသိေပးေျပာၾကားသည္။ ❏ news agency n သတင္းဌာန။ (သတင္းစု၍ ထိုသတင္းမ်ားကို သတင္းစာ၊ ေရဒီယို၊ တီဗီဌာနမ်ားသို႔ ေရာင္းသည့္ဌာနျဖစ္သည္။ ) ❏ news room n သတင္းခန္း။ ❏ news-sheet n (မ်က္ႏွာနည္းနည္း၊ အရြယ္ေသးေသး) သတင္းစာငယ္။ ❏ news-stand n = BOOKSTALL ❏ newsy adj ( infml ) စိတ္ဝင္စားဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ သတင္းပလင္း စံုလင္ေသာ။ a newsy letter. ❏ no news is good news [ IDM ]( saying ) ဘာသတင္းမွ မၾကားရတာဟာ သတင္းေကာင္းပဲ။

Examples

  1. I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news.
  2. I wrote to John telling him all the latest news.
  3. [news of/about] : Friends expressed shock at the news of his death.
  4. [news for] : Good news for home owners!
  5. [news on the health/trade etc front] : There’s brighter news on the romantic front for my sisters.
  6. [news on] : The leaflet is full of up-to-date news on the environment.
  7. [hear the news] : Have you heard the good news? Michael’s got the job!
  8. [break the news] : I’m not looking forward to breaking the news to Dad.
  9. [piece/bit of news] : She was delighted by this piece of news.
  10. [news comes/arrives/reaches someone] : That day the news came of the invasion of Normandy.
  11. Foreign/sports/financial news
  12. [item of news] : The first item of news was the fire at the palace.
  13. [news breaks] : Johnson has been in hiding since news of his affair broke yesterday.
  14. News item/broadcast
  15. [news coverage] : The BBC’s excellent 24-hour news coverage
  16. I always listen to the nine o’clock news.
  17. [on the news] : Did you see the Prime Minister on the news last night?