Speedy

Definition

speed /spi:d/ n ၁။ [U] လ်င္ျမန္ျခင္း။ အျမန္။ အလ်င္အဟုန္။ act with speed and decisiveness ❍ a quick burst of speed ❍ Speed is his greatest asset as a tennis player ❍ The speed of events in Europe is forcing governments to take action. ❍ Her leg healed with remarkable speed. ၂။ [C,U] ေရြ႕လ်ားႏႈန္း။ အျမန္ႏႈန္း။ အရိွန္။ at a speed of 50 kilometres an hour ❍ move at (a) very slow speed ❍ travel at top speed ❍ driving at high/low speeds. ၃။ [C] (က) (ဖလင္) အျမန္ႏႈန္း။ What's the speed of the film you're using? (ခ) (ကင္မရာရွတၱာ) အျမန္ႏႈန္း။ different shutter speeds ❍ a photograph taken at a speed of 1/250 of a second. ၄။ [U] ( sl ) စိတ္ႂကြေဆး။ ၅။ [C] (esp in compounds) …ဂီယာခ်က္။ a ten-speed bicycle. v ( pt, pp sped /sped/; in senses 2and 3 speeded ) ၁။ ေျပးသည္။ cars speeding past the school ❍ He sped downstairs and flung open the door. ၂။ အဟုန္ျမႇင့္သည္။ The drugs will help speed her recovery. ၃။ (usu in the continuous tenses) သတ္မွတ္ႏႈန္းထက္ ေက်ာ္ေမာင္းသည္။ The police caught him speeding. ❏ at speed [ IDM ] အရိွန္ျပင္းျပင္းႏွင့္။ It's dangerous to go round corners at speed. ❏ speed (sth) up [ PHRV ] အရိွန္ျမႇင့္သည္။ The train soon speeded up. ❍ They've speeded up production of the new car. ❏ speeding n [U] သတ္မွတ္ႏႈန္းကို ေက်ာ္လြန္ေမာင္းျခင္း။ be fined £250 for speeding. ❏ speedily adv ျမန္ျမန္။ အလ်င္အျမန္။ The situation must be resolved as speedily as possible. ❏ speed limit n (လမ္းအလိုက္) သတ္မွတ္အျမန္ႏႈန္း။ keep to/within the speed limit ❍ exceed the speed limit ❍ The speed limit on this stretch of road is 40 mph. ❏ speed trap n = RADAR TRAP ❏ speed-up n (usu sing ) ( infml ) အရိွန္အဟုန္ျမႇင့္တင္ျခင္း။ a speed-up in the rate of production. ❏ speedy adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ ျမန္ေသာ။ လ်င္ေသာ။ They've got some very speedy players. ၂။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ အျမန္။ wish sb a speedy recovery from illness.

Examples

1. [speed of] : The device measures the speed and direction of the wind.
2. [top speed] : The new model has a top speed of 125 miles per hour.
3. [pick up/gather speed] : The hurricane has picked up speed and turned towards the coast.
4. A printing speed of 6 pages per minute
5. They were working with incredible speed.
6. The main advantage of this bike is its speed.
7. [at speed] : The car drove off at speed.
8. A car with a 5-speed gearbox
9. Shutter speed