Decidedly

Definition

decide /dÇ'saÇd/ v ၁။ (က) ~ (between sth/sb) ; ~ (on/ against sth/sb) ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ With so much choice, it's hard to decide (what to buy). ❍ It's difficult to decide between the two. ❍ After seeing all the candidates we've decided on (ie chosen) this one. ❍ decide against changing one's job ❍ It has been decided that the book should be revised. ❍ She decided not to go alone. (ခ) ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်သည္။ စီရင္ခ်က္ခ်သည္။ The judge will decide (the case) tomorrow. ❍ Her argument decided the issue in his favour. ❍ The judge decided for/against the plaintiff. ၂။ (ျဖစ္ရပ္၊ လုပ္ရပ္ စသည္ကို) အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးသည္။ I wanted to be a painter, but circumstances decided otherwise (ie forced me to be something else). ❍ A chance meeting decided my career. ❍ This last game will decide who is to be champion. ❍ The higher salary was the deciding factor. ၃။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ေစသည္။ အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးသည္။ What finally decided you against it? ❍ That decided me to leave my job. ❏ decided adj ၁။ တိက်ျပတ္သားေသာ။ ထင္ရွားေသာ။ a person of decided views ❍ He walks with a decided limp. ၂။ ~ (about sth) သႏၷိ႒ာန္ ခ်ထားေသာ။ စိတ္ပိုင္းျဖတ္ ထားေသာ။ He won't go: he's really decided about it. ❏ decidedly adv ျပတ္သားစြာ။ ေသခ်ာစြာ။ တကယ္။ I feel decidedly unwell this morning. ❏ decider n သေရပြဲကို အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးမည့္ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။

Examples

1. [decide to do something] : He decided to stay and see what would happen.
2. The committee decided unanimously to accept the offer.
3. [decide (that)] : I decided that it would be best to tell George everything.
4. [decide what/whether/how/when/where etc] : I can’t decide what to do.
5. She needs to decide whether or not she wants to keep the house.
6. [decide between] : Julia has to decide between being an architect or a novelist.
7. [decide for yourself] : ‘We think people should have the opportunity to decide for themselves what they want.’
8. What finally decided me was the location.
9. [decide someone to do something] : That decided me to finally leave my job.
10. Today’s match will decide the championship.
11. It could take months before this case is decided.
12. The matter will be decided by a government tribunal.
13. [decide against/in favour of someone] : The court decided against Mrs McLaughlin.
14. If the committee decides in his favour
15. he will be a very rich man.