Coined words

 Group3 29.7.21

Coined Words (👈PDF download here!)

❙ Coined Words

When something new is invented, it needs a name.

A made-up name is called a coined word.

coin 

VERB

If you coin a word or a phrase, you are the first person to say it.

Jaron Lanier coined the term 'virtual reality' and pioneered its early development. [VERB noun] 

astronaut

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An astronaut is the pilot of a spacecraft.

Noun အာကာသယာဉ်မှူး ~ astronauts plural

Thesaurus

1. spaceman
2. cosmonaut
3. traveler
4. traveller

suburb

A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.

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A community outside a large city is a suburb.

Noun

ဆင်ခြေဖုံး

a quiet residential suburb.

~ suburbs plural

Thesaurus

1. suburbia
2. suburban area
3. residential district
4. residential area
5. community

hatchback

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A car with a hatch in the back is a hatchback.

Noun

နောက်ဖုံးဖွင့်ကား

~ hatchbacks plural

jazz  

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Jazz is music with strong rhythm and an accented beat that falls in unusual places.

Noun

အမေရိကလူမည်းတို့ စတင် တီထွင်သော လွတ်လပ်စွာ တီထွင်တီးမှုတ်နိုင်၍ စည်း ချက် ဝါး ချက် ပြင်းသည့်တေးမျိုး။ ဂျတ္ဇ်ဂီတ။

traditional/modern jazz.

~ jazzes plural

laptop

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A laptop is a small portable computer. 

Noun

ဘက်ထရီသုံး လက်ဆွဲကွန်ပျူတာ။

~ laptops plural

Thesaurus

laptop computer

portable computer

skyscraper

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A skyscraper is a very tall building.

Noun

မိုးမျှော်တိုက်။ မိုးထိတိုက်။

~ skyscrapers plural

Thesaurus

building  

edifice 

Noun ဗိမာန်။ They have bought some dreadful turreted edifice near Derby.

~ edifices plural

Verb

~ Edify တည်ဆောက်သည်။ စာရိတ္တဖွံ့ဖြိုးအောင် ဆုံးမသည်။)

nylon

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Nylon is a material made from chemicals.

Noun

နိုင်လွန်

This material is 45% nylon.

dated အမျိုးသမီး အသားကပ်နိုင်လွန် ခြေအိတ်ရှည်။

~ nylons plural

Thesaurus

1. man-made fiber,
2. synthetic fiber,
3. polyamide,
4. polymeric amide,
5. fabric,
6. cloth,
7. material,
8. textile,

takeout

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Prepared food that you take home to eat is called takeout.

COUNTABLE NOUN

A takeout is a store or restaurant which sells hot cooked food that you eat somewhere else.

[US]

REGIONAL NOTE:  

in BRIT, use takeaway

monorail  

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A monorail is a train that runs on a single track.

Noun

တစ်လမ်းပြေးရထား။ မြေပြင်မှ မြှင့်ထားလေ့ ရှိသည်။

~ monorails plural

Thesaurus

railway 

railroad 

railroad line 

railway line 

railway system

infomercial

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An infomercial is a TV program that gives information and also sells a product.

infomercial

(ɪnfoʊmɜːʳʃəl)

Word forms: plural infomercials

COUNTABLE NOUN

An infomercial is a television programme in which a famous person gives information about a company's products or services, or a politician gives his or her opinions. The word is formed from 'information' and ' commercial'.

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Oxford discover book1, Unit 8

 

Oxford discover book1, Unit 8 (👈PDF download here!)

Group2, 27.7.21

Today's new vocabularies

buds 

Noun

အစို့

Buds appear on the trees in spring.

အဖူး။ ပုရစ်။

~ buds plural

blossoms

blossom

(blɒsəm)

Noun

သီးပင်၊ ချုံပင်မှပွင့်သောပန်း။

ချုံ၊ သစ်ပင်ပေါ်၌ ဝေနေအောင်ပွင့်သည့်ပန်း။

apple/cherry blossom.

~ blossoms plural

Verb

သစ်ပင်၊ ချုံ အပွင့်ပွင့်သည်။

The cherry trees blossomed early this year.

Noun

ဝတ်ရည်

fig After their long walk the beer tasted like nectar.

~ nectars plural

juggle

လေထဲသို့ပစ်မြောက် ကစားပြသည်

bare

ပြောင်ရှင်းနေသော။ ဗလာ ဖြစ်နေသော။

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Grade1 Maths Numbers

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Numbers အကြောင်း လေ့လာကြပါမယ်။ ခေါင်းစဥ်ခွဲငါးခုနဲ့ ပြောပြပေးသွားမယ်။

1. making numbers count
2. number 1st to 31st
3. relating facts
4. share the treasure
5. addictive addition

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Present continuous and present simple

Present continuous and present simple (👈download ဒီမှာချပါ)

Present continuous ~ am,is,are+Ving

For example I'm walking

Present simple ~V1&V1s

For example I don't have a car.

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Greek word parts, geo, photo, auto

Greek word parts, geo, photo, auto  (👈download ဒီမှာချပါ)

Geo means “Earth.” 

Photo means “light.” 

Auto means “self.” 

The study of the Earth’s surface is called geography. ပထဝီဝင်

Geography is the study of the countries of the world and of such things as the land, seas, climate, towns, and population.  

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The science of how Earth was formed is called geology. ဘူမိဗေဒ

Geology

 Geology is the study of the Earth's structure, surface, and origins.

He was visiting professor of geology at the University of Jordan. 

geologist

Word forms: plural geologists

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Geometry is the study of angles, lines, and figures. ဂျီသြမေထြီသင်္ချာ

Geometry is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relationships of lines, angles, curves, and shapes.

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A photograph is a picture taken by a camera. ဓာတ်ပုံ

photograph

A photograph is a picture made using a camera. He wants to take some photographs of the house. [+ of] Her photograph appeared in The New York Times. Synonyms: picture, photo [informal], shot, image

Someone who is photogenic looks good in photographs.ဓာတ်ပုံစားသော

Someone who is photogenic looks nice in photographs.

A photocopier is a machine that makes copies.  မိတ္တူကူးစက်။

photocopier

A photocopier is a machine that quickly copies documents onto paper by photographing them.

A telephoto lens can take pictures at great distances. telephotograph အဝေးရှိ အရာဝတ္ထုများကို ရိုက်ကူးထားသည့်ပုံ။

Telephoto

1. a brand of apparatus for the electrical transmission of photographs

2. a photograph transmitted by this apparatus

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If you write the story of your life, it’s an autobiography. ကိုယ်တိုင်ရေး အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ။

Autobiography

Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.

He published his autobiography last autumn. 

Synonyms: life story, record, history, résumé  

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Something that is automatic is self-propelled. ကိုယ်တိုင်မောင်းနှင် သည်။

automatic

1. ADJECTIVE

An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.

Modern trains have automatic doors. 

Synonyms: mechanical, robot, automated, mechanized 

2. COUNTABLE NOUN

An automatic is a gun that keeps firing shots until you stop pulling the trigger.

He drew his automatic and began running in the direction of the sounds. 

The gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons. 

3. COUNTABLE NOUN

An automatic is a car in which the gears change automatically as the car's speed increases or decreases.

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When you sign your name, you write your autograph. အထူးသဖြင့် ကျော်ကြားသူ တစ်ဦး၏ အမှတ်တရလက်မှတ်၊ လက်ရေး။

autograph  

An autograph is the signature of someone famous, which is specially written for a fan to keep.

He went backstage and asked for her autograph. 

Young autograph hunters clustered around the players' entrance. 

Synonyms: signature, moniker [informal] 

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