Slimness

Definition

slim /slÇm/ adj ( -mmer , -mmest ) ၁။ ( approv ) က်စ္လ်စ္ေသာ။ ေသးသြယ္ေသာ။ ပါးလ်ေသာ။ a slim person/figure/waist ❍ Regular exercise is the best way to stay slim. ❍ a slim volume of poetry ❍ ( fig ) create a slimmer, more efficient car industry (eg with fewer workers or factories). ❍ THIN ၂။ (အလားအလာ စသည္)နည္းပါးေသာ။ (သက္ေသ သကၠာယ)မခိုင္မာေသာ။ only a slim hope/chance/prospect of success ❍ condemned on the slimmest of evidence. သက္ေသလံုေလာက္မႈမရိွဘဲနဲ႔ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ခ်မွတ္လိုက္ တယ္။ v ( -mm- ) ၁။ ပိန္ေအာင္ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းလုပ္ၿပီး ေလွ်ာ့စားသည္။ I'm trying to slim. ၂။ ~ sth ( down ) ( to sth ) က်စ္လ်စ္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ ခ်ံဳ႕သည္။ slim (down) the factory's workforce (to/by around 200) ❍ a slimmed-down version of the earlier report. ❏ slimmer n ပိန္ေအာင္ေလွ်ာ့စားေနသူ။ advice to slimmers. ❏ slimming n [U] ကိုယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း။ a slimming diet/magazine. slimness n [U]

Examples

1. She had a slim youthful figure.
2. Most ballet dancers are extremely slim.
3. A slim gold watch
4. A long slim skirt
5. [a slim chance/hope] : The chances of success are very slim.
6. [a slim majority/margin] : They won by a slim majority.