use¹ [ju:z] (v) 1. to employ (something) for a purpose: အသံုးျပဳသည္။

use¹ [ju:z] (v)
1. to employ (something) for a purpose:   အသံုးျပဳသည္။     What did you use to open the can?   သံဘူးကိုဘာနဲ႕ဖြင့္သလဲ။     Use your common sense!
  စဥ္းစားဥာဏ္ကိုသံုးပါ။ 2. to consume:  သံုးစြဲသည္။
    We're using far too much electricity.
  တို႕ လွၽပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အားသံုးလြန္းတယ္။     'usable (adj)
    that can be used:
  အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္ေသာ။
    Are any of these clothes usable?
  ဒီအ၀တ္အစားေတြသံုးလို႕ရမွာလား။     used (adj)
1. employed or put to a purpose:   
  အသံုးျပဳေသာ။
    This road is not used any more.
  ဒီလမ္းကို ယခုမသံုးေတာ့ဘူး။

2. not new: အေဟာင္း။
    used cars. ကားေဟာင္း။     'user (n)
    a person who uses something:
  အသံုးျပဳသူ။
    roadusers;   လမ္းအသံုးျပဳသူမ်ား။ လမ္းသြားလမ္းလာ။
    electricity users.
  လွၽပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အားသံုးစြဲသူမ်ား။
    'used to (something) accustomed to:
  က်င့္သားရသည္။
    She isn't used to such hard work.
  ဒီလိုပင္ပင္ပန္းပန္းလုပ္ရတဲ့   အလုပ္မ်ိဳး သူလုပ္ေလ့လုပ္ထမရွိဘူး။     'used to -(neg) short forms
    'usedn't to,
    'usedn't to -(I, he etc)
    was in the habit of (doing something);
    (I, he etc) was (usually) in a particular position,
    state etc.
  လုပ္ေလ့လုပ္ထရွိသည္။   ျဖစ္ေလ့ျဖစ္ထရွိသည္။
    I used to swim every day.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္အရင္က ေန႕တိုင္း   ေရကူးေလ့ရွိတယ္။
    She used not to be so forgetful.
  အရင္ကသူမေမ့တတ္ပါဘူး။
    They used to play golf, didn't they?
  အရင္က သူတို႕ ေဂါက္သီး႐ိုက္ေလ့   ရွိပါတယ္။ ဟုတ္တယ္ေနာ္။
    Didn't you use(d) to live near me?
  အရင္ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အိမ္နားမွာ   ခင္ဗ်ား ေနခဲ့ဖူးတယ္ မဟုတ္လား။
    There used to be a butcher's shop there,
    didn't there?
  အဲဒီေနရာမွာ အသားဆိုင္   တစ္ဆိုင္ အရင္ရွိပါတယ္။   မဟုတ္ဘူးလား။
use²[ju:s] (n)
1. the act of using or state of being used:   သံုးစြဲျခင္း။ အသံုးျပဳျခင္း။
    The use of force to persuade workers to
    join a strike cannot be justified.
  အလုပ္သမားမ်ား သပိတ္ေမွာက္   ေစရန္ အၾကမ္းနည္းသံုးျခင္းကို   လက္မခံႏိုင္ပါ။     This telephone number is for use in
    emergencies. ဤဖုန္းနံပါတ္သည္   အေရးေပၚသံုးရန္အတြက္ ျဖစ္သည္။
2. the/ a purpose for which something may be
    used:အသံုး။ သံုးစရာနည္းလမ္း။
    This little knife has plenty of use.
  ဒီဓားငယ္ကို အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးသံုးႏိုင္တယ္။
    I have no further use for these clothes.
  ဒီအ၀တ္အစားေတြ ကၽြန္ေတာ္   မသံုးေတာ့ဘူး။
3. (often in questions or with negatives) value
    or advantage: တန္ဖိုး (သို႕) အက်ိဳး။
    Is this coat (of) any use to you?
  ဒီကုတ္အကႌ်က မင္းအတြက္   အသံုးရွိဦးမလား။
    It's no use offering to help when it's tool
    late. ေနာက္က်မွ ကူညီဖို႕   ကမ္းလွမ္းတာ အက်ိဳးမရွိဘူး။ 4. the power of using: သံုးစြဲႏိုင္စြမ္း။     She lost the use of her right arm as a result
    of the accident.   ထိခိုက္မႈျဖစ္ျပီးတဲ့ေနာက္   ညာဘက္လက္ကို   သူသံုးလို႕မရေတာ့ဘူး။ 5. permission, or the right, to use:
  သံုးစြဲခြင့္။     They let us have the use of their car while
    they were away.   သူတို႕ခရီးထြက္ေနခိုက္   သူတို႕ကားကိုသံုးခြင့္ေပးလိုက္တယ္။     Note: Do not confuse use and usage with
              each other. use refers to the act of using:
              The government made a survey of
              the use (not usage) of public
              transport in the city: He put his time
              to good use, usage refers to the manner
              or way or using: The machine soon
              brokedown due to rough and careless
              usage; or a set of conventions or customs
              with regard to a specific language:
              He wrote a book on English usage; Be
              aware of the past traditions and usages
              when you study that language.
              use=  အသံုးျပဳျခင္း။               usage = သံုးပံုသံုးနည္း။            အသံုး။ (စကား) အသံုးအႏႈန္း။     See also wear.
    'useful (adj)
    helpful or serving a purpose well:
  အကူအညီရေသာ။ အသံုး၀င္ေသာ။   အသံုးတည့္ေသာ။
    a useful tool/dictionary.
  အသံုး၀င္ေသာ လက္နက္   ကိရိယာ/အဘိဓာန္။     She made herself useful by doing the
    washing for her mother.
  အ၀တ္ေလွၽာ္ဖြပ္ေပးကာ   မိခင္ကိုကူညီသည္။     'usefulness (n).
    'usefully (adv)
    in a useful way: အက်ိဳးရွိစြာ။     He spent the day usefully in repairing
    the car. ကားျပင္ျခင္းျဖင့္   အက်ိဳးရွိစြာ တစ္ေန႕တာကုန္ဆံုးခဲ့သည္။     'useless (adj)
    having no use or no effect:
  အသံုးမ၀င္ေသာ။ အခ်ည္းႏွီးျဖစ္ေသာ။   အက်ိဳးမဲ့ေသာ။     Why don't you throw away those useless
    things? အဲဒီ အလကားဟာ   ေတြကို ဘာလို႕ လႊင့္မပစ္တာလဲ။
    We  can't do it -it's useless to try.
  တို႕မလုပ္ႏိုင္ဘူး။   လုပ္ၾကည့္လည္း အလကားပဲ။     be in use, out of use to be used or not
    used: သံုးစြဲေနေသာ (သို႕)   မသံုးစြဲေတာ့ေသာ။     How long has the gymnasium been in
    use/out of use?   အားကစား႐ံုကို သံုးေနတာ/   မသံုးတာ ဘယ္ေလာက္   ၾကာျပီလဲ။
    come in useful to become useful:
  အသံုးတည့္လာသည္။     My French came in useful on holiday.
  အားလပ္ရက္မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တတ္ထားတဲ့   ျပင္သစ္စကားက အသံုးတည့္သြားတယ္။
    have no use for to despise:
  စက္ဆုပ္သည္။
    I have no use for such silliness/silly people.
  အဲဒီလိုမိုက္မဲမႈ/မိုက္မဲတဲ့လူေတြကို   ကၽြန္ေတာ္စက္ဆုပ္တယ္။     It's no use it's impossible or useless:
  မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ (သို႕) အခ်ည္းႏွီးျဖစ္သည္။
    He tried in vain to do it, then said
    'It's no use.'
    'သူ ၾကိဳးစားလုပ္ေပမဲ့   မထူးတာနဲ႕ ‘အလကားပဲ’ လို႕   ေျပာလိုက္တယ္။     make (good) use of, put to (good) use:
  ေကာင္းစြာအသံုးခ်သည္။
    He makes use of his training.
  သူ ေလ့က်င့္ခဲ့ရမႈကို   ေကာင္းစြာအသံုးခ်သည္။     He puts his training to good use in that job.   သူေလ့က်င့္ခဲ့သမွၽအေတြ႕အၾကံဳေတြကို   သူ႕လုပ္ငန္းမွာ ေကာင္းစြာအသံုးခ်သည္။