protective
/prəˈtɛktɪv/
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American sound/prəˈtɛktɪv/
prəˈtɛktɪv
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prə - ˈtɛktɪv -> protective
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protective /prǝ'tektÇv/ adj
၁။ အကာအကွယ်ပေးသော။ a protective layer of varnish ❍ the earth's protective ozone layer ❍ Workers who handle asbestos need to wear protective clothing. ❍ protective legislation/ tariffs.
၂။ ~ (of sth/ towards sb) ကာဆီးပေးလိုသော။ (ရင်အုပ်မကွာ) ကာကွယ်ပေးလိုသော။ feel fiercely protective towards one's children ❍ He put his arm round her in a protective gesture. ❍ She was extremely protective of her public image.
❏ protective custody n [U] ထိန်းသိမ်းထားခြင်း။
❏ protectively adv ရင်အုပ်မကွာ (ထားသည်)။ act protectively towards one's children. protectiveness n [U]
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- protective /prǝ'tektÇv/ adj ၁။ အကာအကွယ်ပေးသော။ a protective layer of varnish
- the earth's protective ozone layer
- Workers who handle asbestos need to wear protective clothing.
- protective legislation/ tariffs. ၂။ ~ (of sth/ towards sb) ကာဆီးပေးလိုသော။ (ရင်အုပ်မကွာ) ကာကွယ်ပေးလိုသော။ feel fiercely protective towards one's children
- He put his arm round her in a protective gesture.
- She was extremely protective of her public image. ❏ protective custody n [U] ထိန်းသိမ်းထားခြင်း။ ❏ protectively adv ရင်အုပ်မကွာ (ထားသည်)။ act protectively towards one's children. protectiveness n [U]
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