Positive discrimination

Definition

positive /'pɒzǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ (က) အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ေသာ။ make positive proposals/suggestions ❍ have a positive approach ❍ Try to be more positive in dealing with the problem. (ခ) အေကာင္းဘက္ျမင္ေသာ။ ယံုၾကည္မႈ ျပည့္ဝေသာ။ a positive attitude/feeling/response ❍ project a positive image ❍ We welcome this move, and feel very positive about it. ❍ positive thinking (ie a determined mental attitude that helps one achieve success). (ဂ) တိုးတက္မႈရိွေသာ။ အေပါင္း လကၡဏာျပေသာ။ positive aspects/factors/elements ❍ a positive growth rate ❍ There have been (some) positive developments in the crisis. ၂။ တိက်ျပတ္သားေသာ။ positive instructions/orders ❍ make a positive commitment to sth ❍ We have no positive evidence of her involvement. ၃။ ~ (about sth/that…) ေသခ်ာေသာ။ Are you absolutely positive that it was after midnight? ❍ She was quite positive about the amount of money involved. ၄။ (ရိွမရိွ ဓာတ္ခြဲ စမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္ရာတြင္) ဟုတ္ေသာ၊ ရိွေသာ။ get a positive reaction ❍ be HIV-positive ❍ The tests proved positive. ❍ The athlete tested positive for steroids. ၅။ ( infml ) တကယ့္ကို။ Her behaviour was a positive outrage. ❍ It was a positive miracle that we arrived on time. ၆။ တကယ့္ကို။ အမွန္ပင္။ On stage, short sight is a positive advantage. ၇။ ( mathematics ) သုညထက္ႀကီးေသာ (ကိန္း)။ ၈။ ( techn ) (လွ်ပ္စစ္) အဖိုဓာတ္။ a positive charge ❍ the positive terminal of a battery. ၉။ ( grammar ) သာမန္အဆင့္ (နာမဝိေသသန၊ ႀကိယာဝိေသသန)။ See also PROTON Compare NEGATIVE n ၁။ အျပဳသေဘာျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ေသခ်ာေရရာျခင္း။ မွန္ျခင္း။ ရိွျခင္း။ ၂။ သုညထက္ႀကီးေသာကိန္း။ ၃။ မူလပံုရိပ္အတိုင္း အလင္းအေမွာင္ထင္ေသာ ဓာတ္ပံု။ နက္ဂတစ္မွ ကူးယူထားေသာ ဓာတ္ပံု။ ❏ positive discrimination n [U] ( Brit ) လူမ်ဳိးအရ အႏိွမ္ခံ ရသူမ်ားကို တမင္တကာ ခြဲျခားအေရးေပးမႈ။ ❏ positively adv ၁။ ခိုင္မာစြာ။ အေသအခ်ာ။ think positively ❍ Her attacker has now been positively identified by the police. ❍ ‘I won't hear of it’, she said positively. ❍ He has said that this will be positively his last appearance. ၂။ အမွန္ပင္။ တကယ္ပင္။ တကယ့္ကို။ She was positively glowing with excitement. ❍ Some diets may be positively dangerous. ❏ positive vetting n [U] ( Brit ) ႏိုင္ငံ၏လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္မ်ား ကို ကိုင္တြယ္ရေသာတာဝန္မေပးမီ တာဝန္ေပးျခင္း ခံရမည့္သူ၏ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဓေလ့စ႐ိုက္တို႔ကို ခေရေစ့တြင္းက်စိစစ္ျခင္း။

Examples

1. [positive (that)] : Are you positive that there’s been no mistake?
2. [positive about/of] : We’d met before – I was positive about that.
3. We’ll make money from this deal – I’m positive of that.
4. A positive attitude
5. Try to think positive thoughts.
6. [positive about] : You have every reason to be positive about the future.
7. The experiment is working well and feedback is very positive.
8. We couldn’t be sure if her reaction would be positive.
9. School was a totally positive experience for me.
10. The positive aspects of parenthood are rarely written about.
11. [a positive result/outcome] : An initiative to help homeless people is showing positive results.
12. A positive role model
13. Students learn better in this positive environment.
14. The whole thing was a positive embarrassment.
15. You must be prepared to make a positive contribution to the business.
16. The indications are positive that this year’s festival will be a success.
17. A positive diagnosis
18. [test positive (for something)] : The runner was suspended for two years after he tested positive for drugs.