Dictionary entry
Rome was not built in a day
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
[IDM ] (saying ) ခုရေတွင်းတူး ခုရေကြည်သောက်လို၍ မရနိုင်။
Definition
build /bÇld/ v ( pt, pp built /bÇlt/) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (of/from/out of sth); ~ sth (for sb) ေဆာက္သည္။ တည္သည္။ (လမ္း)ေဖာက္သည္။ build a house/road/railway ❍ a house built of stone/bricks ❍ Birds built their nests out of twigs. ❍ They built a new room for the baby. ❍ His father built him a model aeroplane. (ခ) ေဆာက္လုပ္သည္။ The city council intends to build on this site. ❍ They're building over (ie on the site of) the old market. ၂။ ပ်ဳိးေထာင္သည္။ တည္ေဆာက္သည္။ build a business from nothing ❍ build confidence/trust ❍ build a better future/a new career. n [U, C] ကိုယ္လံုးကိုယ္ထည္။ ကိုယ္လံုးကိုယ္ေပါက္။ a man of athletic/powerful/slender/average build ❍ We are (of) the same build. ❍ Our build is/ builds are similar. ❏ builder n ၁။ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္။ ၂။ ႐ုပ္လံုးေဖာ္သူ။ တည္ေဆာက္သူ။ an empire-builder ❍ a confidence-builder. ❏ build sth in / build sth into sth [ PHRV ] (esp passive) ၁။ ထည့္သြင္းတပ္ဆင္သည္။ build a cupboard/bookcase into a wall ❍ We're having new wardrobes built in. ၂။ ( fig ) ျဖည့္သည္။ ဆက္ထည့္သည္။ build an extra clause into the contract. ❏ build sth into sth [ PHRV ] (အပိုင္းအစ၊ အစိတ္ အပိုင္းမ်ားျဖင့္ တစ္ခုခုျဖစ္ေအာင္) ဖန္တီးျပဳလုပ္သည္။ ျပဳျပင္ဖန္တီးသည္၊ တည္ေဆာက္သည္။ build scraps of metal into a work of art ❍ Let us build this country into a great nation. ❏ build sth on / build sth onto sth [ PHRV ] မူလ အေဆာက္အအံုတြင္ အသစ္တိုးခ်ဲ႕ေဆာက္လုပ္သည္။ The new wing was built on (to the hospital) last year. ❏ build on sth [ PHRV ] အေျခခံ၍ ဆက္လက္ အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္သည္။ build on earlier achievements/success/results. ❏ build sth on sth [ PHRV ] အေျချပဳသည္။ အေျခခံသည္။ build one's hopes on the economic strength of the country ❍ an argument built on sound logic. ❏ build up [ PHRV ] မ်ားသည္ထက္မ်ားလာသည္။ တစ္ေန႔ တျခား ႀကီးထြားလာသည္။ အရိွန္ျမင့္သည္ထက္ ျမင့္လာသည္။ The music builds up to a rousing climax. ❍ Traffic is building up on roads into the city. ❍ Tension built up as the crisis approached. ❏ build-up n ( pl build-ups ) ၁။ (က) တျဖည္းျဖည္း မ်ားလာျခင္း၊ ႀကီးထြားလာျခင္း၊ အရိွန္ျမင့္လာျခင္း။ a steady build-up of traffic ❍ A build-up of enemy forces is reported. (ခ) ~ (to sth) (အေရးႀကီးေသာကိစၥ) တစ္စထက္ တစ္စ နီးကပ္လာျခင္း။ (ယင္းကိစၥမ်ဳိးအတြက္) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း။ the build-up to the President's visit. ၂။ ပြဲလမ္း (သို႔) ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖသူကို ႀကိဳတင္၍ အမႊမ္းတင္ ေရးသား ျခင္း။ ပို႔ေပးျခင္း။ The press has given the show a tremendous build-up. ❏ build oneself/sb up [ PHRV ] ပိုမိုက်န္းမာႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေအာင္ ျပဳသည္။ You need more protein to build you up. ❏ build sb/sth up [ PHRV ] အထူးခ်ီးက်ဴးသည္။ လြန္ကဲစြာ အမႊမ္းတင္သည္။ The film was built up to be a masterpiece, but I found it very disappointing. ❏ build sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ တစ္ဆင့္ၿပီးတစ္ဆင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ သည္။ build up a big library/a fine reputation/a thriving business ❍ build up one's strength after an illness. ၂။ (esp passive) ေနရာတစ္ခုတြင္ အေဆာက္အအံုမ်ား ထူထပ္လာသည္။ The village has been built up since I lived here. ❏ built (after advs and in compound adjs ) … တည္ေဆာက္ထားေသာ။ a well-built man (ie one who is broad, with big muscles) ❍ a solidly built wall. ❏ built-in ( also inbuilt) adj တစ္ပါတည္း ထည့္သြင္း ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ။ မူလကပါလာေသာ။ a bedroom with built-in wardrobes ❍ ( fig ) built-in guarantees/weaknesses/prejudice. ❏ built-up adj အေဆာက္အအံုထူထပ္ေသာ။ a built-up area. ❏ Rome was not built in a day [ IDM ] ( saying ) ခုေရတြင္းတူး ခုေရၾကည္ေသာက္လို၍ မရႏိုင္။
Examples
- Do you know when this house was built?
- They’re building a new bridge over the river.
- You need planning permission to build on this land.
- He’s building his own computer.
- The boat was built to withstand every weather condition.
- He set out to build a business empire and succeeded.
- Many popular writers built up their reputations during the war.
- The food industry needs to build consumer confidence again.
- Multinational companies use a range of marketing techniques to build sales.