One way and another

Definition

way /weÇ/ n ၁။ [C] (often in compounds) (က) လမ္း။ လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ လမ္းပန္း။ ခရီးလမ္း။ a way across the fields ❍ a covered way between two buildings. See also highway, railway, slipway, waterway (ခ) Way … လမ္း။ No 26, Churchill Way. ၂။ [C usu sing ] (က) ~ (from… to (…မွ …သို႔) လမ္း။ သြားရန္လမ္း။ the way into/out of a building ❍ the best/quickest/right/shortest way from A to B ❍ tell sb the way ❍ Which way do you usually go to town? ❍ He asked me the way to London. ❍ I didn't go on the main road — I went the pretty way. ❍ ( fig ) find a way out of one's difficulty ❍ ( fig ) argue, bluff, talk, trick, etc one's way into/out of sth (ie enter, escape, etc by arguing, etc) ❍ ( fig ) fight, force, shoulder, etc one's way across, into etc sth (ie cross, enter, etc sth by fighting, etc). (ခ) လမ္းေပါက္။ လမ္းေၾကာ။ ထြင္သြားရေသာ လမ္း။ find a way through the undergrowth ❍ We had to pick our way along the muddy track. ❍ There was a lorry blocking the way. ❍ Get out of my way! ၃။ [C usu sing ] (in phrases after which, this, that, etc) (ဦးတည္ရာ) ဘက္။ ‘Which way did he go?’ ‘He went that way. ’ ❍ Look this way, please. ❍ If the tree falls that way, it will damage the house. ❍ Look both ways (ie to right and left) before crossing the road. ❍ They weren't looking our way (ie towards us). ❍ Make sure that the sign's the right way up. ❍ The arrow is pointing the wrong way. ❍ ( fig ) Which way (ie For which party) will you vote? ၄။ [C] (က) လုပ္နည္းကိုင္နည္း။ နည္းလမ္း။ ပံု။ What is the best way to clean this? ❍ She showed them the (right) way to do it. ❍ I like the way you've done your hair. ❍ There are several ways of doing it. (ခ) (after my, his, her, etc) (စိတ္ႀကိဳက္၊ ကိုယ္ပိုင္) နည္းလမ္း။ My way doesn't work — let's try it your way. ❍ We all have our favourite ways of doing certain things. ❍ Try to find your own way to express the idea. (ဂ) ျပဳမူပံု။ အက်င့္စ႐ိုက္။ speak in a kindly way ❍ He has some rather odd ways. ❍ She doesn't mean to be rude — it's just her way. ❍ It is not her way to be selfish (ie She is not selfish by nature). ❍ I don't like the way he looks at me. ❍ It's disgraceful the way they spoil their children. ၅။ [sing] (esp after long, little, etc) ခရီး၊ အခ်ိန္ အတိုင္းအတာ။ It's only a little way to the station. ❍ We are a long way from the coast. ❍ There is quite a way still to go. ❍ The roots go a long way down. ❍ Your birthday is still a long way off/away. ၆။ [sing] ( infml ) တစ္ဝိုက္။ တစ္ေၾကာ။ တစ္ခြင္။ It's been quite sunny down our way. ❍ Please visit us next time you're over this way. ေနာက္တစ္ခါ ဒီဘက္ေရာက္ ရင္ ဝင္ခဲ့ပါဦး။ ၇။ [C] အေနအထား။ Can I help you in any way? ❍ She is in no way (ie not at all) to blame. ❍ She helped us in every possible way. adv ( infml ) (used with a prep or an adv and usu not in negative sentences) အကြာႀကီး။ အမ်ားႀကီး။ She finished the race way ahead of the other runners. ❍ The shot was way off target. ❍ The price is way above what we can afford. ❍ The initial estimate was way out (ie completely wrong). ❍ ( esp US ) This skirt is way (ie much) too long. ❏ across/over the way [ IDM ] လမ္းတစ္ဖက္၌။ My sister lives over the way. ❏ all the way [ IDM ] ၁။ (also the whole way ) တစ္လမ္း လံုး။ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုး။ She smoked non-stop all the way to London. ၂။ အျပည့္အဝ။ လံုးဝ။ We'll support you all the way. ❏ be/be born/be made that/this way [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမြးကတည္းက သည္အတိုင္းပဲ။ I can't change — I was born this way. ❏ be set in one's ways [ IDM ] အ႐ိုးစြဲေနၿပီ။ အက်င့္ပါေနၿပီ။ ❏ by the way [ IDM ] စကားမစပ္။ Oh, by the way, there is a telephone message for you. ❍ What did you say your name was, by the way? ❏ by way of sth [ IDM ] (ခရီးလမ္း)… မွတစ္ဆင့္၊ … မွ လွည့္၍။ They are travelling to the south of France by way of Paris. ❏ by way of/in the way of sth [ IDM ] အေနႏွင့္။ အျဖစ္ျဖင့္။ အတြက္။ What are you thinking of doing by way of a holiday this year? ❍ By way of an introduction, I shall explain some of the historical background. ❍ The town doesn't offer much in the way of entertainment. ❏ come one's way [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည္။ An opportunity like that doesn't often come my way. ❏ cut both/two ways [ IDM ] ႏွစ္ဖက္သြား အျပန္အလွန္ အက်ဳိးေပးသည္။ ❏ divide, split, etc sth two, three, etc ways [ IDM ] (ႏွစ္ပံု၊ သံုးပံု စသည္) ပံုေပးသည္၊ ခြဲေဝေပးသည္။ ❏ either way; one way or the other [ IDM ] ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ ဘယ္ဟာျဖစ္ျဖစ္ (ရတယ္)။ We could meet today or tomorrow — I don't mind either way. ❏ get into/out of the way of (doing) sth [ IDM ] အေလ့အက်င့္ ျဖစ္လာသည္၊ ေပ်ာက္သည္။ ❏ get/have one's own way [ IDM ] (ဘယ္သူ ဘာေျပာေျပာ) သူ လုပ္ခ်င္ရာ လုပ္သည္။ She always gets her own way in the end. ❏ give way [ IDM ] ၿပိဳလဲက်သည္။ လဲက်သည္။ The floorboards were rotten and finally gave way. ❍ Her legs seemed to give way under her and she fainted. ❏ give way (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ အေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ We must not give way to their demands. ၂။ လမ္းေပးသည္။ Give way to traffic coming from the right. ၃။ စိတ္တင္း မထားႏိုင္။ She gave way to despair. ❏ give way to sth [ IDM ] အလွည့္ေပးသည္။ The storm gave way to bright sunshine. ❏ go out of one's way (to do sth) [ IDM ] တကူးတက လုပ္ေပးသည္။ When we first moved in, our neighbours went out of their way to help us. ❏ go one's own way [ IDM ] သေဘာအတိုင္း လုပ္သည္။ ထင္ရာလုပ္သည္။ Whatever you suggest, she will always go her own way. ❏ go sb's way [ IDM ] ၁။ လမ္းႀကံဳသည္။ လမ္းသင့္သည္။ I'm going your way, so I can give you a lift. ၂။ ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မသည္။ Things certainly seem to be going our way. ❏ go the way of all flesh [ IDM ] ( saying ) သတၱဝါမွန္သမွ် သခၤါရ။ ❏ have it/things/everything one's own way [ IDM ] သေဘာအတိုင္းလုပ္သည္။ All right, have it your own way — I'm tired of arguing. ❏ have a way with sb/sth [ IDM ] ႏိုင္နင္းသည္။ အထာ ကြၽမ္းသည္။ have a way with difficult children/motor bikes. ❏ have one's way with sb [ IDM ] ( fml or joc ) (တစ္ဖက္ သား စိတ္မပါဘဲ) မိမိလိုဘ မရအရျဖည့္သည္။ ❏ in a bad way [ IDM ] အေျခအေနမေကာင္း။ ❏ in a big/small way [ IDM ] တစ္ပံုတစ္ပင္၊ အနည္းအက်ဥ္း။ He's got himself into trouble in a big way. ❍ She collects antiques in a small way. ❏ in her, his, its, etc (own) way [ IDM ] သူ႕ အျမင္မွာေတာ့။ In its (own) way the house is quite attractive. ❏ in more ways than one [ IDM ] (အဓိပၸာယ္ က်ယ္ဝန္း ေထြျပားေၾကာင္း သိသာေအာင္ ထည့္ေျပာေသာစကား)။ It's a very difficult situation, in more ways than one. ❏ in a way; in one way; in some ways [ IDM ] အတန္ အသင့္။ သင့္သေလာက္။ In some ways, I can understand why she wants to move. ❏ in the/one's way [ IDM ] ပိတ္ဆို႔ေနသည္။ အဟန္႔ အတားျဖစ္ေနသည္။ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ I'm afraid your car is in the way. ❍ I left them alone, as I felt I was in the way. ❍ Can you move, please, you're in my way. ❏ look the other way [ IDM ] မသိက်ဳိးကြၽန္ျပဳသည္။ မ်က္ႏွာလႊဲေနသည္။ When the children started squabbling on the train, she just pretended to look the other way. ❏ make one's way (to/towards sth) [ IDM ] သြားသည္။ ေရွ႕တိုးသည္။ Passengers are requested to make their way to the exit doors. ❍ She's finding it hard to make her way in a business dominated by men. ❏ make way (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] လမ္းဖယ္ေပးသည္။ ❏ (there are) no two ways about it [ IDM ] ( saying ) နည္းကတစ္နည္းပဲရိွသည္။ It was the wrong decision — there are no two ways about it. ❏ no way [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘယ္လိုမွ် မျဖစ္ႏိုင္။ Climb up that cliff? No way! ❍ There's no way we can afford a car at the moment. ❏ one way and another [ IDM ] ၿခံဳငံုၾကည့္ေသာ္။ She's been very successful, one way and another. ❏ one way or another [ IDM ] တစ္နည္းနည္းျဖင့္။ We must finish the job this week one way or another. ❏ one way or the other [ IDM ] ❍ EITHER WAY ❏ on one's/the way [ IDM ] လမ္းမွာ။ ခရီးမတ္တတ္။ I'd better be on my way (ie I must leave) soon. ❍ I'll buy some bread on the/my way home. ❏ on the way [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ကေလး) မၾကာခင္ ေမြးေတာ့ မယ္။ She has two children and another one on the way. ❏ on the way out [ IDM ] ၁။ အထြက္တြင္။ I bumped into him on the way out. ၂။ ေခတ္ကုန္ၿပီ။ ေခတ္မစားေတာ့။ I thought hairstyles like that were on the way out. ❏ the other way round [ IDM ] ၁။ အျခားတစ္ဖက္သို႔ လွည့္လ်က္။ Shouldn't that picture be the other way round? ၂။ ေျပာင္းျပန္။ Usually I'm early and you're late, but this time it's the other way round. ❏ out of the way [ IDM ] ၁။ ခရီးလမ္းပန္း မသင့္ေသာ။ အေရာက္အေပါက္နည္းေသာ။ ေခါင္ေသာ။ a tiny out-of-the-way village in Cornwall. ၂။ (ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက်၌သံုးသည္) ထူးထူးခြၽန္ခြၽန္။ ထူးထူး ျခားျခား။ He has done nothing out of the way yet. ၃။ ၿပီးၿပီ။ ၿပီးစီးၿပီ။ I've done all the ironing, so that's out of the way. ❏ see one's way (clear) to doing sth [ IDM ] လမ္းစျမင္ သည္။ လမ္းစေပၚသည္။ I can't see my way clear to finishing the work this month. ❍ Could you see your way to lending me £50 for a couple of days? ❏ see which way the wind is blowing [ IDM ] (မလုပ္ခင္က) ႀကိဳျမင္သည္။ I'd like to see which way the wind is blowing before applying for another job. ❏ (not) stand in sb's way [ IDM ] (မ) ကန္႔ကြက္။ (မ) တားဆီး။ ကန္႔လန္႔(မ)တိုက္။ If you want to study music, we won't stand in your way. ❏ that's the way the cookie crumbles [ IDM ] ( infml esp US ) (ျဖစ္ၿမဲဓမၼတာမို႔) ဘာတတ္ႏိုင္မွာလဲ။ ❏ to my way of thinking [ IDM ] ငါ့အထင္ေတာ့။ ❏ under way [ IDM ] ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနဆဲ။ The project is now well under way. ❏ way back [ IDM ] ဟိုးအရင္…က။ I first met him way back in the fifties. ❏ a/sb's way of life [ IDM ] ေနမႈထိုင္မႈ။ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ ဘဝ။ She adapted easily to the French way of life. ❏ the way of the world [ IDM ] လူတို႔ဓမၼတာ။ ေလာက ဓမၼတာ။ Life is unfair, but that's the way of the world. ❏ way-out adj ( dated infml ) ဆန္းဆန္းျပားျပား။ way-out clothes/fashions/ideas. ❏ ways and means [ IDM ] အခြင့္အလမ္း။ ရေပါက္ရလမ္း။ ❏ work one's way through college, round the world, etc [ IDM ] အလုပ္တစ္ဖက္ႏွင့္ ေကာလိပ္တက္သည္၊ ကမ႓ာပတ္သည္ စသည္။ She had to work her way through law school. ❏ work one's way through sth [ IDM ] အစမွအဆံုးတိုင္ ဖတ္သည္၊ လုပ္သည္။ We are still working our way through all the application forms. ❏ work one's way up [ IDM ] (ကုမၸဏီတြင္) လုပ္ရင္း လုပ္ရင္းႏွင့္ ရာထူးတိုးသြားသည္။ He worked his way up from junior clerk to sales director.

Examples

1. [way (that)] : There are so many delicious ways you can prepare chicken.
2. [way of doing something] : Is there any way of contacting you while you’re in Africa?
3. [way to do something] : The students are learning new ways to communicate in writing.
4. [way (that)] : I love to watch the way she plays with the children.
5. [no way to do something] : That’s no way to talk to your mother.
6. [someone’s way of doing something] : Have you noticed her irritating way of interrupting when you talk?
7. [change your ways] : Greg has really changed his ways since he went to prison.
8. [in someone’s own way] : In his own way he really is trying to help.
9. [get/have your way] : The government are unlikely to get their way on this issue.
10. [go your own way] : His parents must realize that he will soon go his own way.
11. It’s not right
12. whichever way you think about it.
13. [in more ways than one] : The evening was a great success
14. in more ways than one.
15. [in a way] : In a way
16. I agree with you.
17. Let’s split the money three ways.
18. I don’t think this is the right way.
19. [way to] : Is this the way to the Eiffel Tower?
20. [show/tell someone the way] : Could you please show me the way to the temple?
21. [know the way] : Does Tim know the way to your house from here?
22. [lose your way] : The tourists lost their way and had to ask for directions.
23. [across the way] : There’s a petrol station just across the way.
24. The bathroom is this way.
25. Rachel just looked the other way.
26. Look both ways before crossing the road.
27. The car was going the wrong way.
28. There was still a little way to go.
29. [all the/this/that way] : You came all this way just to see me?
30. The children were arguing all the way home.
31. A decision would still be a long way in the future.
32. On the corner of Garden Street and Admiral Way
33. Tell them to leave by the back way.
34. [force your way into] : The crowd forced their way into the building.
35. [not stand/get in someone’s way] : I won’t stand in your way if you’re really determined.
36. They live out Cambridge way.
37. [be/get in the way] : You’ll get in the way if you stay in the kitchen.
38. [be/get in someone’s way] : Can I move the books? They’re in my way.
39. Green jobs and green transport are the best way forward.
40. If you want fancy service pay through your nose and go business class
41. if you fly economy then don't complain. You can't have it both ways.