Dictionary entry

Only

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊnli/

Pronunciation

/ˈəʊnli/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) တစ်ဦးတည်း။ တစ်ခုတည်းသာ ဖြစ်သော။ (adv) သာလျှင်

Definition

only /'ǝƱnli / adj ၁။ (တစ္ဦး၊ တစ္ခု) တည္းေသာ။ …သာ။ …မွ်သာ။ She was the only person who could do it. ❍ His only answer was a grunt. ❍ This is the only painting in this style that we have. ❍ She's their only daughter. ❍ We were the only people there. ၂။ သာလွ်င္။ ပဲ။ She's the only woman for the job. ❍ It's the only place to eat. adv ၁။ သာ။ မွ်သာ။ သာလွ်င္။ I only saw Mary (ie I saw Mary and no one else). ❍ I only saw Mary; I didn't speak to her. ❍ Only members may use the bar. ❍ Only five people were hurt in the accident; the rest escaped uninjured. ❍ He only lives a mile away. ❍ We only waited a few minutes but It seemed like hours. ❍ Children may enter but only if accompanied by an adult (eg on a sign). ❍ If you do that, it will only make matters worse. ❍ We can only guess (ie We cannot be certain about) what happened. ၂။ ပင္။ ပဲ။ I saw him only yesterday. ၃။ မွသာ။ က်မွ။ They arrive only on Thursday. conj ( infml ) ဒါေပမဲ့။ သို႔ေပမဲ့။ I'd love to come, only I have to work. ❍ This book's well written, only it's rather depressing. ❍ He's always making promises, only he never keeps them. ❍ He would probably do well in the examination only he gets very nervous. ❏ not only …but (also) [ IDM ] ႐ံုမက … လည္းပဲ။ သာမက … လည္း/ပါ။ He not only read the book, but (also) remembered what he had read. ❏ only child n ( pl children ) တစ္ဦးတည္းေသာ သား (သို႔) သမီး။ My mother was an only child. ❍ Only children are sometimes lonely. ❏ only just [ IDM ] ၁။ မၾကာေသးမီက။ အခုေလးတင္။ We've only just arrived. ❍ I've only just moved to Boston. ၂။ ႐ံုမွ်သာ။ He only just caught the train. ❍ I've got enough money to buy her a present, but only just. ❏ only to do sth [ IDM ] ထိုအခါမွပင္။ အဲဒီေတာ့မွပဲ။ I arrived at the shop only to find I'd left all my money at home. ❏ only too [ IDM ] အလြန္။ သိပ္။ I shall be only too pleased to help if I can. ❍ Children can be difficult, as we know only too well. ❏ you're only young once [ IDM ] ( saying ) ငယ္တုန္း ရြယ္တုန္းမွာ ေပ်ာ္သလိုေနေပါ့။ ေနာင္ ျပန္ငယ္ခ်င္လို႔ရတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ Enjoy the disco—you're only young once.

Examples

  1. She wouldn’t say where she was going – she only said she’d be back as soon as she could.
  2. The flowers grow wild only on the island of Maui.
  3. Everyone promised they would come
  4. but in the end only Ted and Jack showed up.
  5. I only design the dresses
  6. I don’t actually make them.
  7. Only in this house do I feel safe and secure.
  8. Nowadays she performs only on very special occasions.
  9. They were being nice to Charlie only because they didn’t want to hurt his feelings.
  10. [the/someone’s only] : David’s the only one of us who has a computer.
  11. This is the only letter my father ever wrote to me.
  12. My only reason for coming here was to see you.
  13. Johnson was born in Aberdeen in 1942
  14. the only son in a family of six children.
  15. The only people who understand the problem are the scientists.
  16. The only thing we can do is wait and see.
  17. The police station was only 150 metres away.
  18. The company was established in Lanarkshire only eight months ago.
  19. She was only 18
  20. but she was as smart as someone twice her age.
  21. The mobile phone market makes up only a small part of Scottish Telecom’s business.
  22. The two men spoke with each other only briefly.
  23. You pay the agent only if you sell the house.
  24. A further statement will be issued only when the investigation has been concluded.
  25. Don’t get upset – I was only joking.
  26. We are only trying to help.
  27. ‘What was that noise?’ ‘Don’t worry – it’s only the wind.’
  28. I met him for the first time only last week.
  29. [only now/then] : It is only now that the technology exists to transmit high quality images.
  30. I picked some roses and only then did I notice that my mother’s favourite vase was missing.
  31. [only when] : Only when the government stops interfering will we see any improvement in our schools.
  32. Fiction is like real life
  33. only better.
  34. Her car is like mine
  35. only it has four doors.
  36. I would offer to baby-sit
  37. only I’m going out myself.
  38. [the only thing is...] : I’d really like to come to the party. The only thing is
  39. my sister is coming to town that day.
  40. His failure to respond to the criticism only made matters worse.
  41. I never complain – it only causes more trouble.
  42. You should get a motorbike. Believe me
  43. it’s the only way to travel.
  44. In my opinion
  45. Bond is the only man for the job.