Dictionary entry

Out of one's depth

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) ထောက်မမသော ရေနက်။ ခက်ခဲနက်နဲလွန်း၍ ဉာဏ်မမီ၊ လိုက်မမီ။

Definition

depth /depθ/ n ၁။ [C, U] (က) အနက္။ ေဇာက္။ the depth of the well/mine/box. ❍ Water was found at a depth of 30 feet underground ❍ What's the depth of the water here? ❍ ( fig ) the depth of the current economic recession. ❍ dimension (ခ) မ်က္ႏွာဝမွ ေနာက္ေက်ာသို႔အနက္။ shelves with a depth of 8 inches. (ဂ) အနက္။ the depth of a wound/crack. ၂။ [C usu pl ] တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ၏ အနက္ဆံုး၊ အစြန္ဆံုး၊ အေလးနက္ဆံုး အတြင္းက်က် အစိတ္အပိုင္း။ explore the ocean depths ❍ be in the depths of despair ❍ live in the depths of the country (ie a long way from the town) ❍ His performance reveals hidden depths. ❍ in the depth of winter. ၃။ [U] အေရာင္စသည္၏အား။ ၄။ [U] (က) ခံစားမႈအထုအထည္။ နက္႐ိႈင္းမႈ။ the depth of her love. (ခ) နက္နက္နဲနဲ၊ ႏိႈက္ႏိႈက္ခြၽတ္ခြၽတ္ သိနားလည္စြမ္း၊ ရွင္းျပႏိုင္စြမ္း။ a writer of great depth and wisdom. (ဂ) နက္နဲေစ့စပ္မႈ။ His ideas lack depth. ❏ in depth [ IDM ] ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္။ နက္နက္နဲနဲ။ study a subject in depth ❍ an in depth study. ❏ out of one's depth [ IDM ] ၁။ ေထာက္မမီေသာ ေရနက္။ If you can't swim, don't go out of your depth. ၂။ ခက္ခဲနက္နဲလြန္း၍ ဉာဏ္မမီ၊ လိုက္မမီ။ When they start talking about economics, I'm totally out of my depth.

Examples

  1. [depth of] : What’s the depth of the water here?
  2. [in depth] : The pool ranges from 1 to 4 metres in depth.
  3. [to/at a depth of] : Pour oil into a pan to a depth of 1 inch.
  4. [depth of] : Measure the width and depth of the shelf.
  5. Any small object would be difficult to find because of the depth of the water.
  6. His earlier albums were very popular but lacked depth.
  7. [hidden depths] : She obviously had hidden depths of talent.
  8. [depth of] : I was impressed by the depth of his understanding.
  9. The newspaper is proud of the depth of its coverage of international affairs.
  10. [depth of] : These latest figures have confirmed the depth of the economic recession.
  11. [depth of] : I found it hard to understand the depth of her love for this man.
  12. [depth of] : The plant produces flowers with a wonderful depth of colour.
  13. His unmistakable voice with its depth and richness