Meaning Antonyms are words which have almost the opposite meaning for the given context. Since some words can have multiple meanings, one must be careful of the meaning associated with an antonym. Examples Love and Hate are antonyms. There are six root causes or Hetu. They fall into […]
In our younger days, we rely on Bartlett’s “Book of familiar quotations”. Misquote If people do not check the source, they may misquote or attribute a quote to the wrong person. For example, many believe that Sherlock Holmes said, “Elementary, my dear Watson”. It is not true. Most […]
Characteristics Both are linguistic devices Both can be used to make comparisons A metaphor makes a comparison directly A simile uses “like” and “as” to make a comparison Examples Richard the Lion Heart (metaphor) as wise as an owl (simile) agile like a monkey (simile)
Date Formats The list is not exhaustive. We will not cover all variants in detail. Most programming languages provide support for storing and manipulating dates. Day, Month, Year This is the format used in Myanmar. For example, August 22, 2018 can be displayed in various flavors. DD-MM-YYYY (The […]
Four Generations (with five persons) all stood First in Burma in the Matriculation Examination. U Hoke Sein : Compiler of the Pali-English-Burmese Dictionary U Saw Hlaing (Son) Dr. Cherry Hlaing (Grand daughter) : Tekkatho Lu Ye Chun Great Grandson and Great Grand daughter Editor’s Note : Saya Dr. […]
We are familiar with Conventional Wisdom. We could and should try something unconventional. Euclid Euclid proposed five Postulates, which form the foundation of Euclidean Geometry. Some mathematicians questioned whether the Fifth Postulate (aka Parallel Postulate) was needed. It gave birth to Non-Euclidean Geometry (used in Navigation). Newton Sir […]
Adeikhtan is loosely rendered as Determination. It is a commitment to do something as planned. It needs resolve. New Year Resolution is a form of Adeikhtan, but many do not seriously follow it. A time-bounded Adeikhtan is easier to fulfill. At some meditation retreats, one pledges to practice […]
On August 24, 2018, U Wynn Htain Oo (M72) wrote : စာၾကည့္တိုက္ဆိုင္ရာM&Eဒီဇိုင္းထြက္လာတယ္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကအင္မတန္စနစ္တက်ျဖစ္ေစလိုတာေၾကာင့္ပါသင့္တာေတြပါေစရမယ္သတ္မွတ္ထားတယ္ ၂၀၀၃ batchကက်န္ေနာ္ကေမာင္ေကာင္းေလးလို႔ခ်စ္စနိုးေခၚတဲ့ကိုေကာင္းျမတ္စိုးကfire alarm လႈမယ္အရင္ေျပာထားၿပီးအခုတန္ဖိုးၾကည့္ေတာ့သိန္းအေတာ္မ်ားလို႔ကိုေကာင္းဆီ ကိုေကာင္းေရအဲလိုႀကီးကုန္မွာကြမင္းလႈမွာလားဆိုေတာ့ ကိုေကာင္းကတခြန္းဘဲေျပာတယ္ အန္ကယ္ဒီဇိုင္းသာပို႔လိုက္က်သေလာက္ကေနာ္တို႔၃ေယာက္လႈမယ္တပ္ေပးမယ္ကုန္ခ်င္သေလာက္ကုန္ပါေစ(သူရယ္ကိုမိုးျမင့္ရယ္ကိုေက်ာ္စိုးေအာင္ရယ္)wwspzpကလဲသူတို႔၃ေယာက္ဘဲevergloryဆိုတဲ့company ကဲ ျပတ္ကေရာ WHOလဲအပူတခုလြယ္လြယ္ေလးေလ်ာ့သြားပါၿပီ ကိုေကာင္းဆိုတာWwspzp တုန္းကအင္မတန္ေကာင္ူမြန္တဲ့အသံစနစ္လႈေလသူတေယာက္ပါ WHO စကားတခြန္းအလႈသိန္း၅၀ ၁၀၀တန္ေတြအလိုလိုရလာတာမဟုတ္ဆိုတာလဲက်ေနာ္သိပါတယ္ အဲလိုစြမ္းသူဘ၀နဲ႔အမိေက်ာင္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ဇူးဆပ္ခြင့္ရတာလဲအရမ္ေက်နပ္ပါတယ္
SWOT analysis It is used for some projects. S : What are the Strengths? W : What are the Weaknesses? O : What are the Opportunities? T : What are the Threats?
Order of Magnitude The mode of operation and the associated tools change with the Order of Magnitude. There is a change in an order of magnitude when a number (or measure) is multiplied by ten. An average person can walk about 4 mph (miles per hour). A car […]
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