Public spirit

Definition

public /'pʌblÇk/ adj ၁။ (က) လူထု။ ျပည္သူ။ ျပည္သူလူထု။ အမ်ားျပည္သူ။ အမ်ားတကာ။ a danger to public health ❍ The campaign was designed to increase public awareness of the problem. ❍ Public opinion was opposed to the war. ❍ 26 December is a public holiday in Britain. ❍ It's public knowledge (ie It is generally known that) she's expecting a baby. (ခ) အမ်ားျပည္သူသံုးရန္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရက ဖန္တီးေပးထားေသာ။ အမ်ားသံုး။ ျပည္သူ႕။ public spending ❍ public services/ education/ libraries ❍ a/ the public highway ❍ a public telephone ❍ I came by public transport (ie train, bus, etc). (ဂ) ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္။ He is one of the most admired public figures. ၂။ လူပံုလယ္။ လူျမင္(ကြင္း)။ သူျမင္သူထင္။ လူသိရွင္ၾကား။ a public apology ❍ a public place ❍ Details of the government report have not been made public. Compare PRIVATE n [Gp] (က) the public အမ်ားျပည္သူ။ complaints from members of the public ❍ Is Buckingham Palace open to the public? ❍ The public has/ have a right to know what is in this report. (ခ) လူသိုက္။ ပရိသတ္။ the theatre-going public ❍ She knows how to keep her public (eg the readers of her books) satisfied. ❏ go public [ IDM ] အစုရွယ္ယာမ်ားကို အမ်ားျပည္သူ တို႔အား ခ်ေရာင္းျခင္းျဖင့္ အမ်ားႏွင့္သက္ဆိုင္ေသာ ကုမၸဏီအျဖစ္သို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းသည္။ ❏ in public [ IDM ] လူၾကားထဲ။ လူေတာသူေတာ။ She was appearing in public (ie in front of people in general) for the first time since her illness. Compare IN PRIVATE ❏ in the public eye [ IDM ] အထင္ကရျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ public-address system n ( abbr PA system ) အသံခ်ဲ႕ စက္။ ❏ public bar n ( Brit ) ဘံုဆိုင္။ Compare LOUNGE BAR ❏ public company (also public limited company ) n ( abbr plc, PLC ) ( Brit ) အမ်ားႏွင့္ သက္ဆိုင္ေသာ ကုမၸဏီ။ The pension fund owns shares in several major public companies. ❏ public convenience n ( Brit ) အမ်ားသံုးအိမ္သာ။ ❏ public house n ( Brit fml ) = PUB ❏ publicly /-kli/ adv လူသိရွင္ၾကား။ လူသူမေရြး။ He announced publicly that he was resigning. ❍ This information is not publicly available. ❏ public nuisance n ၁။ ( law ) အမ်ားျပည္သူကို ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈ။ be charged with committing a public nuisance. ၂။ ( infml ) အမ်ား မ်က္စိစပါးေမြးစူးေအာင္ လုပ္သူ(မ်ား)။ People who park on the pavement are a public nuisance. ❏ public property n [U] ျပည္သူပိုင္ (သို႔) လူသိ ရွင္ၾကား။ Her photograph appeared in every national newspaper and her private life became public property. ❏ public prosecutor n အစိုးရေရွ႕ေန။ ❏ the Public Record Office n [sing] ( Brit ) ဖြားေသစာရင္း၊ ထိမ္းျမားလက္ထပ္ျခင္း မွတ္တမ္းမ်ား ထိန္းသိမ္းသည့္႐ံုး။ ❏ public relations n [ sing or pl v ]( abbr PR ) ၁။ ျပည္သူ႕ ဆက္ဆံေရး လုပ္ငန္း။ She works in public relations. ၂။ အမ်ားျပည္သူႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆံေရး။ Our company supports local artistic events; it's good for public relations. ❏ public school n ၁။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အဂၤလန္တြင္) အသက္ ၁၃ ႏွစ္မွ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ၾကား လူငယ္မ်ားအတြက္ ေက်ာင္းလခေပးရေသာ ေက်ာင္း။ (အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ ေက်ာင္းအိပ္ေက်ာင္းစား တက္ၾကရ သည္။ ) Compare PREPARATORY SCHOOL ၂။ (အထူး သျဖင့္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု၊ ဩစေၾတးလ်ႏွင့္ စေကာ့တလန္ တြင္) ေက်ာင္းလခမေပးရေသာ အစိုးရအထက္တန္းေက်ာင္း။ ❏ the public sector n [sing] ျပည္သူပိုင္ စီးပြားေရးက႑။ public sector housing. Compare THE PRIVATE SECTOR ❏ public spirit n [U] ပရဟိတစိတ္ဓာတ္။ public-spirited adj : a public-spirited woman. ❏ public utility n ( fml ) လွ်ပ္စစ္မီး၊ ေရ၊ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ စသည္ ကို အမ်ားသံုးႏိုင္ရန္ ျဖန္႔ခ်ိေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း။ ❏ public works n [pl] (လမ္း၊ တံတား၊ ေဆး႐ံု၊ ေက်ာင္း စေသာ) ျပည္သူ႕ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္း။ a public works programme.

Examples

1. Public transport
2. A public library
3. The city’s attractive public spaces
4. There has been a public outcry about her imprisonment.
5. The scheme has a lot of public support.
6. A public nuisance/hazard
7. A public meeting/inquiry/hearing
8. The damage was restored using public money.
9. Public organizations
10. She keeps her public and private lives very separate.
11. A very public display of unity
12. [make something public] : The decision to make the results public
13. Can we go somewhere a little less public?