Delicate

Definition

delicate /'delÇkǝt/ adj ၁။ (က) ႏူးညံ့ေသာ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ အႏုစိတ္ေသာ။ a delicate mechanism/structure ❍ the delicate beauty of a snowflake. (ခ) ႏူးညံ့ပါးလႊာေသာ။ ေခ်ာေမြ႕ေသာ။ ႏုနယ္ေသာ။ as delicate as silk ❍ a baby's delicate skin. ၂။ (က) ႏုေသာ။ ကြဲလြယ္ေသာ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ delicate china ❍ delicate pink flowers ❍ upset the delicate ecological balance of the rain forest. (ခ) ခ်ဴခ်ာ ေသာ။ ခ်ည့္နဲ႔ေသာ။ a delicate child/constitution. ၃။ (က) အႏုစိတ္ေသာ။ ႏုႏုရြရြရိွေသာ။ လက္ဝင္ေသာ။ the delicate craftsmanship of a fine watch ❍ a delicate surgical operation. (ခ) လိမၼာပါးနပ္ေသာ။ ပရိယာယ္ႂကြယ္ေသာ။ ပညာသားပါေသာ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ I admired your delicate handling of the situation. ❍ We're conducting some very delicate negotiations. ၄။ (အာ႐ံုငါးပါး (သို႔) စက္ ကိရိယာ) အလြန္အေသးစိတ္ အႏုစိတ္သိေသာ၊ ေဖာ္ျပႏိုင္ေသာ။ a delicate sense of smell/touch ❍ Only a very delicate thermometer can measure such tiny changes in temperature. ၅။ (က) (အေရာင္) ႏုေသာ။ ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ။ a delicate shade of pink. (ခ) (အစားအစာ၊ အရသာ)ႏွစ္သက္ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေသာ၊ ခ်ဳိၿမိန္ေသာ။ မျပင္းေသာ။ a delicate flavour of salmon. (ဂ) (အနံ႔) သင္းပ်ံ႕ေသာ။ သင္းေသာ။ a delicate aroma. delicately adv : a delicately phrased compliment.

Examples

1. Delicate skin must be protected from the sun.
2. The plant has delicate pink flowers.
3. Her delicate hands
4. A delicate floral design
5. There is a rather delicate matter that I need to discuss with you.
6. The negotiations are at a very delicate stage.
7. A very delicate operation
8. A delicate balance between freedom and restraint
9. He plays the piano with a delicate touch.