Dictionary entry

The unknown

Pronunciation

Pronunciation is not available for this entry.

Myanmar Meaning

Myanmar meaning is not available for this entry.

Definition

unknown /ʌn'nǝƱn / adj ~ (to sb) ၁။ မသိေသာ။ မသိရေသာ။ မသိေသးေသာ။ The side-effects of the drug are as yet unknown (to scientists). ❍ The accident was due to unknown causes. ၂။ မထင္မရွား။ အညတရ။ The parts are all played by unknown actors. n (က) (usu the unknown ) [sing] မသိေသာ၊ စိမ္းေသာ၊ မကြၽမ္းေသာအရာ၊ ေဒသစသည္။ a journey into the unknown ❍ fear of the unknown. (ခ) [C] အညတရ။ The leading role is played by a complete unknown. (ဂ) [C] မသိေသးသည့္အရာ။ (ႏႈတ္ေျပာ) မသိတာ။ There are still many unknowns about the US proposals. (ဃ) [C] ( mathematics ) မသိကိန္း။ x and y are unknowns. ❏ an unknown quantity [ IDM ] မသိေသးေသာ လူ၊ အရာ။ The new sales director is still a bit of an unknown quantity. ❏ unknown to sb [ IDM ] (တစ္ဦးဦး၏) ေနာက္ကြယ္တြင္။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ကို) အသိမေပးဘဲ။ Quite unknown to me, she'd gone ahead and told him.

Examples

  1. Several hundred people were affected by the previously unknown virus.
  2. [be unknown to someone] : Most of her friends are unknown to me.
  3. [for some unknown reason] : For some unknown reason
  4. the plane landed at the wrong airport.
  5. An unknown poet