Quietness

Definition

quiet / 'kwaÇǝt / adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ တိတ္ေသာ။ ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ her quiet voice/ footsteps ❍ Be quiet! ❍ I'll be (as) quiet as a mouse. ❍ Please can you keep the children quiet while I'm on the phone? ❍ The room suddenly went very quiet. ၂။ (က) တိတ္ေသာ။ ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ေအးေသာ။ The roads are usually quieter in the afternoon. ❍ lead a quiet life ❍ Business is quiet at this time of the year. ❍ Their wedding was very quiet. (ခ) ေအးေဆးေသာ။ have a quiet smoke ❍ have a quiet evening at home. ၃။ ေအးေဆးေသာ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ She was a quiet person but friendly. ၄။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ဣေႁႏၵရိွေသာ။ have a quiet confidence ❍ She takes a quiet satisfaction in her work. n [U] ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္မႈ။ ေအးခ်မ္းမႈ။ the quiet of the countryside ❍ Can we have a bit of peace and quiet in here, please! v ~ (sb/ sth) (down) ( esp US ) ၿငိမ္သက္သည္။ တိတ္သည္။ ၿငိမ္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ quiet a frightened horse ျမင္းလန္႔သည္ကို ၿငိမ္ေအာင္ေခ်ာ့သည္။ ❍ After a while her sobs quieted. ❍ Quiet down, kids! ❏ keep quiet about sth ; keep sth quiet [ IDM ] ေရငံုႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေနသည္။ တုဏိွဘာေဝဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနသည္။ I've decided to resign but I'd rather you kept quiet about it for now. ❏ on the quiet [ IDM ] ပုန္းလွ်ဳိးကြယ္လွ်ဳိး။ တိတ္တဆိတ္။ have a drink on the quiet. ❏ quieten / 'kwaÇǝtn / v ~ (sb/ sth) (down) ( esp Brit ) ၿငိမ္သက္သည္။ ၿငိမ္က်သည္။ တိတ္သည္။ ေခြၽးသိပ္သည္။ ေခ်ာ့သည္။ By 2 am the party had quietened. ❍ Quieten down and get on with your work. ❍ quieten a frightened child ❍ quieten sb's anxiety/ suspicions. ❏ quietly adv သိုသိုသိပ္သိပ္။ တည္တည္ၿငိမ္ၿငိမ္။ ညင္ညင္ သာသာ။ speak/ move/ sob quietly ❍ This engine runs very quietly. ❍ She slipped quietly out of the room. ❍ He is quietly confident of victory. ❍ He was a quietly-spoken man. ❏ quietness n [U] ၿငိမ္သက္ျခင္း။ ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္ျခင္း။ တိတ္ဆိတ္ ျခင္း။ the quietness of the countryside ❍ His quietness worried her.

Examples

1. Electric cars are quiet and pollution-free.
2. Some quiet soothing music
3. A quiet sensitive boy
4. [go quiet] : Everyone went quiet when he walked in.
5. [grow quiet] : On the way home
6. she grew quiet and thoughtful.
7. The house was quiet again.
8. We live in a quiet residential area.
9. A quiet little seaside town
10. Nightclubs are often fairly quiet on weeknights.
11. A quiet country road
12. A quiet relaxing holiday
13. Business has been unusually quiet this holiday season.
14. [a quiet drink] : I just went out for a quiet drink with my girlfriend.
15. [a quiet life] : Miles wanted nothing but a quiet life.
16. There was a mood of quiet desperation in the place.
17. Her quiet confidence