Where it's at

Definition

at /ǝt; strong form æt/ prep ၁။ (က) (ေနရာျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ at the end of the runway ❍ at the corner of the street ❍ go in at the side door ❍ change at Crewe ❍ arrive at the airport ❍ At the roundabout take the third exit. ❍ I'll be at home all morning. (ခ) (ဌာနျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ She's at the theatre/ cinema (ie watching a play/ film). ❍ She works at the hospital. ❍ He's at (ie staying at) the Grand Hotel. (ဂ) (အခမ္းအနား၊ ပြဲလမ္း စသည္ ေနရာျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ at a concert/ conference/ match. (ဃ) (အလုပ္ဌာန၊ ပညာ ဆည္းပူးရာ ဌာနျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ တြင္။ He's been at the bank longer than anyone else. ❍ I'm at the head office. ❍ She's at Oxford (ie oxford University). (Compare… spending three days in oxford as a tourist. ). (င) (တစ္ဦးဦး၏ ေနအိမ္၊ ဆိုင္ ေနရာျပပုဒ္)။ မွာ။ ၌။ They're at Keith's. ❍ I was at my father's. ❍ They didn't have any bread at the baker's. ၂။ (က) (အခ်ိန္၊ နာရီျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ start/ meet/ leave at 2 o'clock ❍ at 3.15/ at a quarter past 3 ❍ at the end of the week ❍ We woke at dawn. ❍ I didn't know he was dead at the time of speaking to you (ie when I spoke to you). ❍ At the moment you called I was in the bath. (ခ) (ကာလျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ At night you can see the stars. ❍ What are you doing at/ (US) on the weekend? ❍ take a few days off at Christmas/ Easter. (ဂ) (အသက္အရြယ္ အပိုင္းအျခားျပပုဒ္)။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ She got married at 55. ❍ You can retire at 60. ❍ He left school at (the age of) 16. ❍ TIME ၃။ (က) (ဦးတည္ရာ၊ ေရွး႐ႈရာျပပုဒ္)။ သို႔။ ကို။ aim the ball at the hole ❍ throw stones at the can in the water (ie trying to hit it) ❍ direct one's advertising at a winder audience ❍ The dog rushed at me, wagging its tail. ❍ smile/ stare/ wave at sb ❍ she shouted at me but I couldn't hear. (ခ) ကို။ He clutched wildly at the rope as he fell. ❍ I could only guess at the meaning of the sign. ❍ She nibbled at a sandwich (ie ate only tiny bits of it). ၄။ (ကြာလွမ္းမႈကို ျပသည့္ပုဒ္)။ ကေန။ မွာ။ hold sth at arm's length ❍ Can you read a car number-plate at fifty metres? ၅။ (အေျခအေန၊ အေနအထား၊ ျဖစ္ဆဲ အမႈျပပုဒ္)။ put sb at risk ❍ Our country is now at war. ❍ The soldiers were standing at ease (ie in a relaxed position). ❍ She's at work in the garden. ❍ I think Mr Harris is at lunch. ၆။ (က) (ႏႈန္းထားျပပုဒ္)။ မွာ။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ လွ်င္။ House prices rose at a higher rate than inflation. ❍ driving at 70 mph ❍ I bought this coat at half-price/ at 50% discount. ❍ They went into his office six at a time. ❍ the TV was on at full volume. (ခ) (အစဥ္ျပ၊ အႀကိမ္ျပပုဒ္)။ မွာ။ တြင္။ at the first attempt ❍ at two-minute intervals (ie once every two minutes). ၇။ အရ။ attend the dinner at the chairman's invitation ❍ at the king's command. ၈။ (her, his, our စသည္ႏွင့္တြဲ၍ အသာ လြန္ဆံုးအေနအထားျပပုဒ္)။ ၏။ ရဲ႕။ This was Madonna at her best. ❍ an example of local craftsmanship at its finest ❍ The garden's at its most beautiful in June. ၉။ (နာမ္၊ နာမဝိေသသနမ်ား ေနာက္တြင္ သံုးေသာပုဒ္)။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ကို။ good/ clever/ skilled at restoring furniture ❍ hopeless at (playing) chess ❍ She's a genius at doing crossword puzzles. ❍ impatient at the delay ❍ amused at the cartoons ❍ delighted at the result ❍ puzzled at her silence ❍ his anger at being beaten. ႐ံႈးနိမ့္ျခင္းအတြက္ ထြက္ရေသာေဒါသ။ ❏ at that [ IDM ] ထို႔ျပင္လည္း။ He managed to buy a car after all—and rather a nice one, at that. ❏ where it's at [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခတ္စားေနေသာ ေနရာ (သို႔) ပြဲလမ္း။ Judging by the crowds waiting to get in this seems to be where it's at.

Examples

1. There’s a telephone box at the crossroads.
2. I’ll meet you at the main entrance.
3. She’s staying at the Clarence Hotel.
4. We live at 23 Brookfield Avenue.
5. [at someone’s] : I’m babysitting at Sally’s tomorrow night.
6. [at home] : He wants to spend more time at home with his family.
7. [at work] : Dad should be at work by now.
8. [at the doctor’s/dentist’s/hairdresser’s etc] : Trevor’s at the doctor’s – he’ll be back soon.
9. Does this train stop at Newport?
10. The ship called in at Bombay and Singapore.
11. Lambert was seated at the piano.
12. She was standing at the window
13. staring out across the garden.
14. At some point in the process things started to go wrong.
15. [at a party/concert/meeting etc] : We were at a party last night when you called.
16. [at school/college etc] : Has Karen graduated
17. or is she still at college?
18. [at rest/war/peace etc] : The country was at war and life was difficult for everyone.
19. The match starts at 3 o’clock.
20. There’s a train at 11.42.
21. [at present/at the moment] : Everyone’s busy with exams at present.
22. I can’t give you any more information at the moment.
23. [at the time] : Monica was born in 1972. We were living in Edinburgh at the time.
24. [at the beginning/start/end of something] : It’s a style that was popular at the beginning of the 20th century.
25. What are you doing at the weekend?
26. My wife’s parents came to stay with us at Christmas.
27. [at night] : At night temperatures sometimes fall to 30 degrees below zero.
28. Mozart was already composing music at the age of five.
29. Audiences still laugh at his jokes.
30. She was annoyed at being disturbed in the middle of the night.
31. Tickets are now on sale at £12 each.
32. His Ferrari crashed at 120 miles an hour.
33. The plastic pipes will melt at high temperatures.
34. Armed gangs were shooting at police cars.
35. Why are you staring at me like that?
36. He grabbed at my sleeve
37. but I pulled away.
38. She struggled
39. hitting out at her attackers.
40. I muttered to myself
41. sipping at my coffee.
42. Stop picking at the scab
43. or it won’t heal.
44. Brownstein is an expert at cooking.
45. [good/bad at something] : I’ve never been very good at sports.
46. You can reach us at 555–3964.