Open house

Definition

open /'ǝƱpǝn / adj ၁။ ဖြင့္ေသာ။ ပြင့္ေသာ။ leave the door open ❍ sleep in a room with the windows open ❍ with both eyes open ❍ The dog escaped through the open gate. ❍ The door burst open and the children rushed in. ၂။ ဟင္းလင္းပြင့္ေသာ။ ေဖာက္ေသာ။ (ခြံမာသီး) ခြဲေသာ။ open country (ie without forests, buildings,etc) ❍ the open road ❍ open fields (ie without hedges or fences) ❍ crack open a nut ❍ break open a safe ❍ He prefers open fires to stoves or radiators. ၃။ ဖြင့္ [ေသာ]။ The banks aren't open yet. ❍ The shop isn't open on Sundays. ❍ Doors (eg of a theatre) open at 7.00 pm. ❍ Is the new school open yet? ❍ She declared the festival open. ❍ He kept two bank accounts open. ၄။ (က) ပြင့္ေသာ။ ဖြင့္ေသာ။ The flowers are all open now. ❍ The book lay open one the table. (ခ) ပြင့္ေသာ။ ဟေသာ။ a blouse open at the neck ❍ His coat was open. ၅။ ဖံုးမထားေသာ။ လွပ္ထားေသာ။ ဟင္းလင္းပြင့္ေသာ။ an open wound (ie one in which the skin is broken or damaged) ❍ an open drain/ sewer. ၆။ ~ (to sb/ sth) ဖြင့္ထားေသာ။ ကန္႔သတ္ မထားေသာ။ လူျမင္ သူျမင္။ လူပံုလယ္။ an open debate/ competition/ championship/ scholarship ❍ The gardens are open to the public. ❍ She was tried in open court (ie with the public being freely admitted to hear the trial). ၇။ (က) ဖံုးကြယ္ မထားေသာ။ ပြင့္လင္းေသာ။ လူျမင္ကရ။ an open quarrel/ scandal ❍ their open display of affection. (ခ) ပြင့္လင္း ေသာ။ an open character ❍ He was quite open about his reasons for leaving. ၈။ မဆံုးျဖတ္ေသးေသာ။ မျပတ္ေသးေသာ။ Let's leave the matter open. ❍ Is the job/ vacancy/ position still open (ie available, not filled)? ၉။ က်ဲက်ဲ ရက္ထားေသာ။ an open texture/ weave. v ၁။ (က) ပြင့္သည္။ ဖြင့္သည္။ The door opened and in walked Alan. (ခ) ဖြင့္သည္။ ေဖာက္သည္။ open a box/ a parcel/ an envelope/ one's mouth (wide) ❍ open the window a crack/ fraction/ bit/ little (ie open it slightly) ❍ She opened the door for the cat to come in. ၂။ ေဖာက္သည္။ ေဖာ္သည္။ တူးသည္။ open a mine/ well/ tunnel ❍ open a new road through a forest. ၃။ ~ (sth) (out) ျဖန္႔သည္။ ဖြင့္သည္။ ပြင့္သည္။ open a map (out) on the table ❍ open a book/ a newspaper ❍ Open your hand—I know you're hiding something. ❍ The flowers are opening. ၄။ (က) ဖြင့္သည္။ open an account (eg at a bank) ❍ open a meeting/ a debate. (ခ) ဖြင့္သည္။ open a business ❍ The new supermarket opened last week. ❍ Banks don’t open on Sundays. (ဂ) ဖြင့္သည္။ open a garden fete ❍ The Queen opens Parliament. ❏ be an open secret [ IDM ] တစ္ေလာကလံုး မသိခ်င္အဆံုး လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္ျဖစ္သည္။ Their love affair is an open secret. ❏ be / lay oneself (wide) open to sth [ IDM ] စြပ္စြဲ ဆိုလြယ္ေအာင္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးရာ ေရာက္သည္။ You're laying yourself wide open to accusations of dishonesty. ❏ bring sth/ be/ come (out) in (to) the open [ IDM ] ေပါက္ၾကားေစသည္။ ေပါက္ၾကားသြားသည္။ Now the scandal is out in the open, the President has a lot of questions to answer. ❏ for openers [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပြဲဦးထြက္အျဖစ္။ For openers we'll get rid of this old furniture. ❏ have/keep an open mind (about/on sth) [ IDM ] (မပယ္ခ်ဘဲ) လက္ခံစဥ္းစားသည္။ I'm not convinced your idea will work, but I'll keep an open mind for the moment. ❏ in the open air [ IDM ] လဟာျပင္တြင္။ picnics in the open air ❍ sleeping in the open air. ❏ keep one's ears / eyes open [ IDM ] ႏိုးႏိုးၾကားၾကားေနသည္။ နားစြင့္ေနသည္။ ❏ the open n [sing] အျပင္ ။ ကြင္းျပင္။ The children love being out in the open. Compare IN THE OPEN AIR ❏ open- air adj လဟာျပင္။ အမိုးမဲ့။ an open- air swimming- pool/ concert. ❏ open- and- shut adj ရွင္းေနေသာ။ သိသာထင္ရွားေသာ။ ဒိြဟျဖစ္စရာ မလိုေသာ။ He's clearly guilty—it's an open- and- shut case. ❏ an open book [ IDM ] ပြင့္လင္းသူ။ He/ His mind/ His life is an open book. ❏ open day n မည္သူမဆို ဝင္ၾကည့္ႏိုင္ေသာေန႔။ an open day at the local primary school. ❏ open- door adj ပြင့္လင္းေသာ (ေပၚလစီ၊ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈစနစ္ စသည္)။ ❏ open- ended adj အကန္႔အသတ္မဲ့၊ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္၊ မျပတ္မသား၊ မေရမရာ။ an open- ended discussion ❍ ask open- ended questions. ❏ opener /'ǝƱpnǝ(r) / n ၁။ (usu in compounds) ဖြင့္စရာ။ ေဖာက္တံ။ a can-opener ❍ a bottle-opener. See also EYE OPENER ၂။ (ခရစ္ကက္တြင္) စတင္႐ိုက္လွည့္က်သူ။ ❏ open one's / sb's eyes (to sth) [ IDM ] မ်က္စိ ဖြင့္ေပး သည္။ Foreign travel opened his eyes to poverty for the first time. ❏ open the floodgates (of sth) [ IDM ] ပြင့္အန္ထြက္လာသည္။ ❏ open- handed adj ရက္ေရာေသာ။ မတြန္႔တိုေသာ။ လက္ဖြာေသာ။ ❏ open- hearted adj စိတ္ေကာင္းရိွေသာ။ ရက္ေရာေသာ။ ❏ open-heart surgery n [U] ( medical ) စက္ျဖင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္တြင္း ေသြးလည္ပတ္ေပး၍ ႏွလံုး ခြဲစိတ္နည္း။ ❏ open house n [U] သာလာယံဇရပ္။ We keep open house at all times here. ❍ It's open house—anyone can come. ❏ open into/ onto sth [ PHRV ] မ်က္ႏွာမူသည္။ This door opens onto the garden. ❍ The two rooms open into each other. ❏ open letter n အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ။ The students wrote an open letter to the Minister of Education. ❏ openly adv ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသား။ လူပံုအလယ္။ discuss a subject openly ❍ go somewhere openly (ie where one might be expected to go secretly). ❏ open market n [sing] ေဈး။ ေဈးကြက္။ ေဈးခင္း။ available on the open market. ❏ open- minded adj သေဘာထားႀကီးေသာ။ She wished her parents were more open- minded about her friends. open- mindedness n [U] ❏ open one's / sb's mind to sth [ IDM ] မ်က္စိဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ The experience opened his mind to religion. ❏ open- mouthed /-maƱðd / adj ပါးစပ္အေဟာင္းသား။ The child stared open- mouthed at the huge cake. ❏ open- necked adj လည္စည္းမပါ။ လည္ပင္း အဟလိုက္ (ရွပ္အက်ႌ)။ an open- necked shirt. ❏ openness n [U] ႐ိုးသားမႈ။ ပြင့္လင္းမႈ။ We were surprised by her openness when talking about her private life. ❏ open out [ PHRV ] ျပန္႔ကားလာသည္၊ က်ယ္လာသည္။ The street opened out into a small square. ❏ open out (to sb) [ PHRV ] ပိုရင္းႏီွးသြားသည္။ ❏ open- plan adj အခန္းဖြဲ႕နည္းေသာ (အေဆာက္အအံု ပံုစံ)။ an open- plan office. ❏ open prison n ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ကန္႔သတ္မႈ နည္းေသာ ေထာင္။ ❏ open question n အေျဖမထြက္ေသးေသာ ကိစၥ။ How many people will lose their jobs remains an open question. ❏ the open sea n [U] ပင္လယ္ျပင္။ We left port and headed for the open sea. ❏ open sesame n [sing] ~ (to sth) ပိတ္သည့္တံခါး ပြင့္ေစေသာ ဂါထာ။ Having a degree is not an open sesame to immediate employment these days. ❏ open to sb [ IDM ] လမ္းပြင့္ေသာ။ There are only two options open to her. ❏ open to sth [ IDM ] လိုလိုလားလားလက္ခံေသာ။ open to persuasion/ suggestion(s). ❏ open up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( infml ) အာေခ်ာင္လာသည္။ After a few drinks he began to open up a bit. ၂။ စပစ္သည္။ Anti- aircraft guns opened up. ၃။ တံခါးဖြင့္။ ဖြင့္စမ္း။ Open up or we'll break the door down! ❏ open (sth) up [ PHRV ] ၁။ လမ္းပြင့္လာသည္။ New opportunities/ markets are opening up for us. ❍ open up undeveloped land ❍ His stories opened up new worlds of the imagination. ၂။ ဖြင့္သည္။ There's a new Thai restaurant opening up nearby. ❍ He never opens up shop on a Sunday. ၃။ ( infml ) ကြာဟသည္။ open up a 10- second/ 3- point lead ❍ A clear gap had opened between them. ၄။ (အနာ၊ ခ်ဳပ္႐ိုး) ၿပဲသည္၊ ေျပသည္။ Too much exercise might open up your wound. ❏ open sth up [ PHRV ] ေျဖသည္။ ဖြင့္သည္။ open up a package ❍ open up the boot of a car. ❏ open verdict n ေသဆံုးရသည့္ အေၾကာင္းရင္း မေဖာ္ျပသည့္ ေသမႈေသခင္းဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္။ After the inquest on the drowned man, an open verdict was recorded. ❏ open (sth) with sth [ PHRV ] ဖြင့္သည္။ စသည္။ နိဒါန္းပ်ဳိးသည္။ The story opens with a murder. ❍ The company opens the season with a performance of Carmen. ❏ throw sth open (to sb) [ IDM ] လူသူမေရြး ဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ throw the debate open to the audience ❍ throw one's house open to the public. ❏ with open arms [ IDM ] ဖက္လဲတကင္း။ လိႈက္လိႈက္လွဲလွဲ။ He welcomed us with open arms.

Examples

1. Are the shops open on Sundays?
2. There’s a bar that stays open all night.
3. [open for business] : We are open for business from Monday to Friday.
4. [open to the public] : The house is only open to the general public for three weeks each year.
5. A book lay open on the table.
6. She stuffed the photographs into an open drawer.
7. [something open] : The kids were ripping open their Christmas presents.
8. The bedroom door was slightly open.
9. [something open] : We threw open all the windows to let the air in.
10. [wide open] : Someone has left the gate wide open.
11. He was asleep with his mouth open.
12. [wide open] : She lay still
13. eyes wide open
14. listening intently.
15. Many roads are blocked by snow but Snake Pass is still open.
16. The lines are open now for you to call in with your donations.
17. It’s important to keep the channels of communication open with your ex-wife.
18. They had to escape across open ground.
19. The top deck of the bus is open.
20. [open spaces] : He loved the wide open spaces of the American West.
21. Everyone in the group was very friendly and open.
22. The President promised an open dialogue.
23. [be open about something] : He has always been open about his drinking problem.
24. Their relationship has deteriorated to the point of open hostility.
25. A Chief Executive will be appointed by open competition.
26. [open to] : The meeting is open to the public.
27. Most government files from the period are now open to scrutiny.
28. [be open to something] : I have some ideas about where to go
29. but I’m open to suggestions.
30. [keep an open mind] : Police are keeping an open mind about the cause of her disappearance.
31. His contract keeps open the possibility that he might return to the series.
32. [leave something open] : Shall we leave it open for now
33. and decide at the meeting?
34. [wide open] : The election is still wide open.
35. [open to] : The new tax was open to two serious criticisms.
36. Whether or not he intended this outcome
37. is open to question.
38. [wide open] : The system is wide open to abuse.
39. [open to] : Taking him to court was the only option left open to me.