Stressed

Definition

stress /stres/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ဖိစီးမႈ။ ေၾကာင့္ၾကစိတ္။ ေသာက။ be under/suffer from stress ❍ In times of stress, she finds music a great relaxation. ❍ Stress is believed to be a factor in several illnesses. (ခ) [C usu pl ] ဖိစီးမႈ။ ေသာက။ emotional stresses ❍ He finds the stresses of his job difficult to cope with. ၂။ [U] ~ (on sth) အေလး ထားျခင္း။ အေရးစိုက္ျခင္း။ She lays/puts great stress on punctuality. ❍ I think the company places too much stress on cost and not enough on quality. ၃။ [C, U] (က) ဖိရြတ္ျခင္း။ ဂ႐ုသံ။ primary/secondary stress ❍ In ‘strategic’ the stress is/falls on the second syllable. Compare INTONATION ၁ (ခ) ဖိ၍သီဆိုတီးမႈတ္ျခင္း။ Put a stress on the first note in each bar. ၄။ [C, U] ~ (on sth) ဒဏ္ျဖစ္ေစေသာ၊ ပံုပန္းပ်က္ေစေသာဖိအား၊ ညႇစ္အား၊ ညႇပ္အား။ High winds put great stress on the structure. ❍ a stress fracture of a bone (ie one caused by such pressure). v ၁။ အေရးစိုက္သည္။ အေလးထားသည္။ အေလးေပး သည္။ He stressed the importance of treating customers politely. ❍ I must stress that what I say is confidential. ၂။ (ဝဏၰကို)ဖိရြတ္သည္။ You stress the first syllable in ‘happiness’. ❏ stressed adj ~ (out) ဖိစီးေန[ေသာ]။ ေသာကေရာက္ [ေသာ]။ feel stressed ❍ She has a heavy workload at the moment and is very stressed (out). ❏ stressful /-fl/ adj ဗ်ာမ်ားရေသာ။ She finds her new job very stressful. ❏ stress mark n ဖိသံသေကၤတ။ In the word ‘sympathetic’/sÇ- mpǝ'θetÇk/ the primary stress (') is on the third syllable, and the secondary stress ( ' ) is on the first syllable.

Examples

1. Overworked managers suffering from stress and anxiety
2. [under stress] : Carol’s been under a lot of stress lately.
3. [stress-related] : Stress-related illnesses
4. [stress management] : The class teaches some basic techniques of stress management.
5. The beautiful gardens offer a refuge from the stresses of daily life.
6. [lay/put/place stress on something] : The course lays great stress on the importance of oral communication.
7. [stress on] : Judo puts a lot of stress on your knee joints.
8. [the stress falls on something] : In ‘fatigue’ the stress falls on the second syllable.