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Definition

sure /ʃƱǝ(r); Brit also ʃↄ:(r)/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ~ (of/about sth) ; ~ that… ; ~ what , etc… ေသခ်ာ[ေသာ]။ သံသယ ကင္း[ေသာ]။ I think he's coming, but I'm not quite sure. ❍ I'm not sure when I saw her last. ❍ Are you sure of your facts? ❍ If you're not sure how to do it, ask me. ❍ Can we be sure that she's telling the truth? ❍ I think the answer's right but I'm not absolutely sure about it. ❍ She felt sure that she had done the right thing. Compare UNSURE ၂ ၂။ ~ of sth/doing sth ေသခ်ာ[ေသာ]။ ပိုင္[ေသာ]။ You're always sure of a warm welcome there. ❍ England must win this game to be sure of qualifying for the World Cup. ၃။ ~ to do sth ေသခ်ာေသာ။ က်ိန္းေသေသာ။ It's sure to rain. ❍ You're sure to fail if you do it that way. ၄။ ေသခ်ာေသာ။ က်ိန္းေသေသာ။ in the sure and certain knowledge that one is right ❍ One thing is sure: I'm never lending money to Bob again. ❍ CERTAIN ၅။ ေသခ်ာေသာ။ a sure sign of economic recovery ❍ There's only one sure way to do it. ❍ She said goodbye to her son in the sure knowledge that he would be well looked after. ၆။ ေသခ်ာေသာ။ ပိုင္ေသာ။ her sure touch at the keyboard. adv ( infml esp US ) အေသအခ်ာ(ေပါ့)။ ‘Do you want a game of tennis?’ ‘Sure!’ ❍ It sure was cold! ❏ be sure to do sth [ IDM ] မပ်က္မကြက္။ ဆက္ဆက္။ Be sure to write and tell me all your news. ❏ for sure [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေသခ်ာေပါက္။ က်ိန္းေသ။ I think he lives there but I couldn't say for sure. ❍ It won't be easy, that's for sure. ❍ ( esp US ) ‘Will you be there?’ ‘For sure. ’ ❏ make sure (of sth/that…) [ IDM ] ၁။ ေသခ်ာေအာင္ ၾကည့္႐ႈစစ္ေဆးသည္။ I think the door's locked, but I'd better go and make sure (it is). ၂။ ေသခ်ာေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ Our staff will do their best to make sure (that) you enjoy your visit. ❏ (as) sure as eggs is eggs ; (as) sure as fate ; (as) sure as I'm standing here [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေျမႀကီးလက္ခတ္မလြဲ။ He's dead, as sure as eggs is eggs. ❏ (as) sure as hell [ IDM ] ( US infml ) တကယ့္ကို။ I sure as hell wish I'd known that before. ❏ sure enough [ IDM ] အဲဒီအတိုင္းပဲ။ I said it would rain, and sure enough it did. ❏ sure-fire adj ေသခ်ာေပါက္။ a sure-fire recipe for success ❍ This is a sure-fire way to get publicity. ❏ sure-footed adj ေျခၿမဲေသာ။ sure-footedness n [U] ❏ sureness n [U] ပိုင္ႏိုင္မႈ။ ေစ့စပ္ေသခ်ာမႈ။ ယံုၾကည္မႈ။ a picture that shows the artist's sureness of touch ❍ her sureness that she had done the right thing. ❏ sure of oneself [ IDM ] ( sometimes derog ) မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ ယံုၾကည္မႈ အျပည့္အဝရိွသည္။ He seems very sure of himself. ❏ sure thing [ IDM ] ( infml esp US ) ဟုတ္ပါ့။ မွန္ပါ့။ ဒါေပါ့။ ‘Will you have one too?’ ‘Sure thing!’ ❏ to be sure [ IDM ] ( fml ) ဒါမျငင္းႏိုင္ဘူး။ မွန္တာေပါ့။ He is clever, to be sure, but not very hard-working.

Examples

1. I think she’s called Monica
2. but I’m not sure.
3. [sure (that)] : Are you sure these figures are right?
4. [sure (that)] : I was sure that I had left my keys on the counter.
5. [sure about] : If you’re really sure about the facts
6. we’ll publish them.
7. [sure how/why/if etc] : No one is really sure why he resigned.
8. [pretty sure] : I’m pretty sure the pool is open until 6.00.
9. ‘I’ll take the blue one.’ ‘Are you sure?’
10. [not sure how/why/where etc] : They’re not really sure where they want to live.
11. [quite/absolutely sure] : I’ll certainly support you
12. if you’re quite sure that this is what you want.
13. [sure of] : If you’re not sure of the answers
14. say so.
15. [sure of yourself] : He sounded so sure of himself that I began to believe him.
16. [feel sure (that)] : I felt sure I could do it if only they’d give me a chance.
17. [sure to do something] : If you get drunk tonight
18. you’re sure to feel rotten in the morning.
19. [a sure thing/bet] : Everyone thought it was a sure thing
20. and we were amazed when they pulled out.
21. [for sure] : One thing is for sure
22. I’m never going skydiving again!
23. He took sure aim and squeezed the trigger.
24. A sure path to success
25. In the sure grip of a powerful emotion
26. His handshake was sure and confident.
27. A sure command of the facts
28. A sure memory for names
29. [a sure sign/indication] : The increase in new home sales is a sure sign the recession is over.