Noes

Definition

No abbr ၁။ (also no ) (pl Nos, nos ) (US symb #) NUMBER: room no 145 (eg in a hotel) ❍ No 10 (Downing Street) (ie the official residence of the British Prime Minister). ၂။ (US) NORTH; NORTHERN no /nǝƱ/ neg det ၁။ မည္သည့္…မွ်။ No words can express my grief. ❍ No student is to leave the room. ❍ There was no bread left in the supermarket. ❍ No two people think exactly alike. ၂။ …ခြင့္မျပဳ။ No smoking. ❍ No dogs in the restaurant. ၃။ (ပဋိေသဓပုဒ္) မ။ It was no easy matter (ie It was very difficult). ❍ She's no fool (ie She is intelligent). interj (ျငင္းပယ္စကားလံုး)။ မ။ ‘Would you like a drink?’ ‘No, thank you. ’ ❍ ‘Is it raining?’ ‘No, it isn't. ’ ❍ ‘Haven't you finished?’ ‘No, not yet. ’ neg adv (used before comparative adjs and advs ) (မဟုတ္၊ မရိွ၊ မျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကားလံုး)။ This book is no more exciting than his others. ❍ If you're no better by tomorrow I'll call the doctor. ❏ no-ball n (ခရစ္ကက္) စနစ္မမွန္၍ တစ္ဖက္က အမွတ္ရသည့္ ေဘာလံုးပစ္ေပးပံု။ ❏ no-claims bonus n ( Brit ) ယမန္ႏွစ္က အာမခံ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး ေတာင္းခဲ့ျခင္းမရိွ၍ ယခုႏွစ္၌ အာမခံေၾကးေလွ်ာ့ျခင္း။ lose one's no-claims bonus. ❏ noes /nǝƱz/ n [pl] ကန္႔ကြက္သူမ်ား။ လက္မခံသူမ်ား။ The noes have it (ie Those voting 'no' are in the majority). ❏ no-fault adj ( US ) ကားတိုက္မႈျဖစ္ေသာအခါ မည္သူ႕အမွား ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဆံုးအျဖတ္ မေစာင့္ဘဲ အာမခံေၾကး ထုတ္ေပးေသာ (ကားအာမခံစနစ္)။ ❏ no-go area n ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးျပႀကီးမ်ားတြင္ ရဲႏွင့္စစ္တပ္ မဝင္ရ ကန္႔သတ္နယ္ေျမ။ ❏ no-hoper n ( infml derog ) အလကားေကာင္။ a bunch of no-hopers running the country. ❏ no man's land n [U] (တိုင္းျပည္ႏွစ္ခုၾကား၊ စစ္ႏွစ္ဖက္ ၾကားရိွ) စပ္ၾကားနယ္ေျမ။ ပိုင္သူမဲ့နယ္ေျမ။ ❏ no-nonsense adj ရွင္းရွင္းျပတ္ျပတ္။ a no-nonsense approach/ attitude/ manner. ❏ no one neg pron = NOBODY ❏ no-show n ( infml ) ေပၚမလာသူ။

Examples

1. ‘Are you still working at the clinic?’ ‘No
2. I work at the hospital now.’
3. ‘Haven’t we met before?’ ‘No
4. I don’t think so.’
5. ‘Do you want another cup of coffee?’ ‘No
6. thanks. I’ve had enough.’
7. [say no] : I’m sorry
8. but I’ll have to say no this time.
9. [the answer is no] : For the last time
10. the answer is no!
11. ‘You’re always blaming me whenever something goes wrong.’ ‘No
12. I’m not.’
13. ‘Kate is Dave’s sister.’ ‘No
14. she’s not – they’re cousins.’
15. ‘Don’t forget to make the reservation’. ‘No
16. I won’t’.
17. ‘We’re not as young as we used to be’. ‘No
18. we’re certainly not’.
19. ‘He drank five pints of beer in an hour.’ ‘No! Really?’
20. There’s absolutely no reason to get up early tomorrow morning.
21. I have no living cousins that I know about.
22. He had been given almost no opportunity to practise.
23. There was no hospital in the town.
24. There’s no time to stop and talk.
25. I can’t pay – I’ve no money.
26. No smoking.
27. She had completely ignored the ‘No Entry’ sign.
28. No! Don’t touch that
29. it’s hot.
30. It is no surprise that the company failed.
31. I’m no expert on Japan
32. but I feel sure the economy will improve dramatically.
33. He’s no fool – he can see what you’re trying to do.
34. Getting the two men to sit down together and talk was no small achievement.
35. After the argument he stopped speaking to me
36. but actually it was no great loss.
37. I enjoy tennis
38. but I’m no good at it.
39. I asked Jane if she knew
40. but she was no help.
41. We played no better or worse than usual.
42. I gave him four pounds – no
43. five.
44. It was last Wednesday – no
45. Thursday.
46. He didn’t explain anything. No
47. we just had to figure it out for ourselves.