Dictionary entry

Protective custody

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Myanmar Meaning

ကာကွယ်ပေးရန်အတွက် လူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ကို ထိန်းသိမ်းထားခြင်း။

Definition

protective /prǝ'tektÇv/ adj ၁။ အကာအကြယ္ေပးေသာ။ 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) ကာဆီးေပးလိုေသာ။ (ရင္အုပ္မကြာ) ကာကြယ္ေပးလိုေသာ။ 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] ထိန္းသိမ္းထားျခင္း။ ❏ protectively adv ရင္အုပ္မကြာ (ထားသည္)။ act protectively towards one's children. protectiveness n [U]

Examples

  1. protective /prǝ'tektÇv/ adj ၁။ အကာအကြယ္ေပးေသာ။ a protective layer of varnish
  2. the earth's protective ozone layer
  3. Workers who handle asbestos need to wear protective clothing.
  4. protective legislation/ tariffs. ၂။ ~ (of sth/ towards sb) ကာဆီးေပးလိုေသာ။ (ရင္အုပ္မကြာ) ကာကြယ္ေပးလိုေသာ။ feel fiercely protective towards one's children
  5. He put his arm round her in a protective gesture.
  6. She was extremely protective of her public image. ❏ protective custody n [U] ထိန္းသိမ္းထားျခင္း။ ❏ protectively adv ရင္အုပ္မကြာ (ထားသည္)။ act protectively towards one's children. protectiveness n [U]