Purposive

Definition

purpose /'pɜ:pǝs/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္။ အေၾကာင္း။ လိုအပ္ခ်က္။ အသံုးဝင္ပံု။ What is the purpose of the meeting? ❍ Getting rich seems to be her only purpose in life. ❍ The building is no longer used for its original purpose. ❍ a dual-purpose tool (ie with two different functions) ❍ He went to her house with the sole purpose of threatening her. ❍ We have found an office that will serve our purpose. (ခ) purposes [pl] (ကိစၥ၊ အေၾကာင္းအရာတစ္ရပ္) အလို႔ငွာ။ These gifts count as income for tax purposes. ❍ for administrative/ medical/ insurance purposes ❍ For the purposes of our argument, let us assume that sales rise by 5%. ၂။ [U] (က) စိတ္ေက်နပ္မႈ။ အရာေရာက္မႈ။ Her work for charity gives a sense of purpose to her life. (ခ) ( fml ) ရည္မွန္းခ်က္။ သႏၷိ႒ာန္ခ်မႈ။ Her approach to the job lacks purpose. ❏ on purpose [ IDM ] တမင္တကာ။ သက္သက္။ ‘Was it broken accidentally?’ ‘No, he did it on purpose. ’ ❍ She does these things on purpose to annoy me. ❏ purpose-built adj ( esp Brit ) သတ္သတ္မွတ္မွတ္ လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ရပ္အတြက္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ထားေသာ။ a purpose-built factory/ stadium. ❏ purposeful /-fl/ adj (က) စိတ္ပိုင္းျဖတ္ခ်က္ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ ဟုတ္တိပတ္တိ [လုပ္ေသာ]။ They set about dealing with the problem in a purposeful way. (ခ) ( fml ) အက်ဳိးရိွေသာ။ Young people's energies should be directed towards more purposeful activities. purposefully /-fǝli/ adv : He strode purposefully into the meeting. ❏ purposeless adj မေရရာေသာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္ကင္းမဲ့ေသာ။ a purposeless existence. ❏ purposely adv တမင္တကာ။ တမင္သက္သက္။ He was being purposely slow. ❏ purposive /'pɜ:pǝsÇv/ adj ( fml ) ေရရာျပတ္သားေသာ။ acting in a purposive manner. ❏ to little/ no/ some purpose [ IDM ]( fml ) အရာမေရာက္ ဘဲ။ အလဟႆ။ အေဟာသိကံ။ Money has been invested in the scheme to very little/ to no useful purpose.

Examples

1. I use my boat mainly for leisure purposes.
2. [purpose of] : The purpose of this dictionary is to help students of English.
3. [the purpose of doing something] : The President’s trip will have the purpose of negotiating a peace deal.
4. [for the purpose of doing something] : He went there for the purpose of making business contacts.
5. [someone’s purpose in doing something] : Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time.
6. [suit someone’s purpose] : You must decide which method suits your purpose best.
7. [serve a purpose] : Another meeting would serve absolutely no purpose.
8. [defeat the purpose of something] : Exercising for too long defeats the purpose of doing exercise in the first place.
9. Now his life lacks purpose.
10. [a sense of purpose] : The course gave her a new sense of purpose.
11. We need to know how to use our available resources to good purpose.
12. Regular reading is not only to good effect for your mind but also works to good purpose for your success as a journalist of repute.