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Myanmar Meaning

အသိပေးအကြောင်းကြားသည်။

Definition

selective /sÇ'lektÇv/ adj ၁။ သီးသန္႔၊ လက္ေရြး၊ ေရြးၿပီး (လုပ္ေသာ၊ ထိေရာက္မႈရိွေသာ)။ the selective training of recruits ❍ a selective pesticide (ie one that kills certain insects only). ၂။ ~ (about sb/sth) စိစိစစ္စစ္ရိွေသာ။ ဇီဇာ က်ယ္ေသာ။ ေၾကးမ်ားေသာ။ I'm very selective about the books I read. ❍ This school is academically selective. selectively adv: The document had been selectively leaked to the press. ဒီမွတ္တမ္းထဲကေရြးႏုတ္ၿပီး သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို လက္သိပ္ထိုး သတင္းေပးထားတယ္။ ❏ selectivity /sǝlek'tÇvǝti/ n [U] ေရြးႏုတ္မႈ။ A feature of such reports is their selectivity in what they mention and what they omit. ဒီ သတင္းမ်ဳိးကေတာ့ သူတို႔စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ ခ်န္ခ်င္တာခ်န္ၿပီး ထည့္ခ်င္တာ ထည့္ထားတာပါပဲ။

Examples

  1. Selective breeding has given us much leaner turkeys.
  2. [a selective memory] : Opponents accused her of having a selective memory.