So near and yet so far

Definition

near /nÇǝ(r)/ adj ( -er /'nÇǝrǝ(r)/, -est /'nÇǝrÇst/) ၁။ (ေနရာ၊ အခ်ိန္) နီး[ေသာ]။ His house is very near. ❍ Where's the nearest bank? ❍The nearest house to ours is 2 miles away. ❍ Some of the nearer branches caught fire. ❍ We hope to move to Bath in the near future (ie very soon). ❍ NEXT ၂။ အ(နီး)…[ေသာ]။ a 12-point lead over her nearest rival. သူႏွင့္အနီးဆံုး ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကို ၁၂ မွတ္ ျဖတ္ထားၿပီး ဦးေဆာင္ေနသည္။ ၃။ (esp superlative) (အ)နီးစပ္(ဆံုး)[ေသာ]။ This is the nearest colour we have in stock. ❍ the nearest equivalent to the model you want. ❍ He was the nearest thing to(ie the person most like) a father she had ever had. ❍ Five hundred would be a nearer estimate. See also ONO ၄။ (အမ်ဳိး) အရင္းအခ်ာျဖစ္ေသာ။ the near relations of the deceased. ၅။ လုနီးပါး။ a near riot/tragedy ❍ reach near starvation ❍ a near impossibility/ certainty. adv ၁။ နီးနီး။ နီးကပ္လ်က္။ Lee found some shops quite near. ❍ Don't come any nearer or I'll shoot. ❍ Our final exams are drawing near. ❍ The threat of a rail strike moved a step nearer today. ၂။ (esp in compounds) လုနီးပါး။ a near-perfect performance ❍ a near-impregnable position ❍ near-certain success. prep (also near to ) ၁။ (က) အနီးတြင္။ အနားမွာ။ The supermarket is very near (to) the library. ❍ near the ltalian border ❍ She was sitting near ( to) the window. ❍ Bradford is near Leeds. (ခ) အခ်ိန္နီးကပ္ေသာ။ My birthday is very near Christmas. ❍ a nuclear power station near (to) the end of its working life. ၂။ (ကိန္း ဂဏန္း) နီးပါး။ report profits near to £10m ❍ Share prices are near their record high of last year. ၃။ လု နီးပါး။ ေလာက္နီးနီး။ a state near to death ❍ No one else comes near her in intellect. ၄။ ရင္းႏီွးသည္။ နီးနီးကပ္ကပ္။ It's very difficult to get near him. ၅။ ~ sth/ doing sth ခါနီး။ လုနီး။ ေတာ့မလို။ children near starvation ❍ She was near to tears (ie almost crying). ❍ We were near to being killed. v …ခါနီးၿပီ။ We were at last nearing the end of our journey. ❍ The project is nearing completion. ❍ She's nearing 40. ❏ as near as [ IDM ] အနီးစပ္ဆံုး။ There were about 3000 people there, as near as I could judge.  as near as damn it / dammit; as near as makes no difference [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) ကြာလွရင္ မျဖစ္စေလာက္ပါ။ It will cost £350, or as near as dammit. ❏ the Near East n [sing] ေျမထဲပင္လယ္ အေရွ႕ကမ္းေျခရိွ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား။ ❏ nearer (to) prep ထက္ပိုနီးသည္။ နီးေတာ့မွ။ နီးနီး။ He's nearer 70 than 60. ❍ Go and sit nearer the fire. ❍ I'll think about it nearer the time. ❍ The company has cut its profit forecasts from around $ 11m to nearer $ 8m. ❏ nearest (to) prep မကြာ။ This colour is nearest to the original. ❍ John is nearest me in age. ❏ one's nearest and dearest [ IDM ] ( joc ) ခ်စ္လွစြာေသာ မိသားစု။ spend Christmas with one's nearest and dearest. ❏ near miss n ၁။ ပြတ္ကာသီကာလြဲျခင္း။ ကပ္လြဲျခင္း။ a near miss by two aircraft over southern England. ၂။ ပစ္မွတ္ႏွင့္ သီသီလြဲသည့္ ဗံုး (သို႔) က်ည္။ ❏ nearness n [U]: the moon's nearness to the earth ❍ the nearness of death. ❏ near-sighted adj ( esp US ) = SHORT-SIGHTED  not anywhere near/ nowhere near [ IDM ] ရိွကိုမရိွ။ I've nowhere near enough money for the fare. ❍ There wasn't anywhere near enough food for all of us.  so near and yet so far [ IDM ] နီးရက္နဲ႔ေဝး။ ❏ to the nearest … [ IDM ] (ေရတြက္၊ တိုင္းတာရာ၌) အမ်ားဆံုးကြာလွလွ်င္။ budgeting to the nearest £ 100 for the cost of repairs ❍ The time is measured to the nearest 100th of a second.

Examples

1. A group of students were standing near the entrance.
2. The tornado destroyed two houses near Tulsa.
3. The shops are quite near.
4. I slept in the bed nearest the door.
5. They live in a small cottage 15 miles from the nearest village.
6. [near to] : Rosa moved a little nearer to the fire.
7. I got into the near side of the bed.
8. [near to] : Julian was near to panic as he suddenly realized that he was trapped.
9. People near to retirement need to know their pension funds are sufficient.
10. [near to doing something] : They are near to solving the puzzle.
11. There were rumours that the 66-year-old leader was near death.
12. It was nearer three than two o’clock when he finally arrived.
13. I had no intention of making any decision until much nearer the time.
14. The incident occurred near the end of the war.
15. [draw near] : The date of the election was drawing near.
16. What he’s saying now is near the truth
17. but it’s still not accurate.
18. [near to] : My feelings were nearer to despair than disappointment.
19. The temperature that day was near 30 degrees.
20. The loss was near 15 per cent for the year.
21. There was a lot of mist around because of the garden’s nearness to the river.