Dictionary entry
Selectively
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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 /sǝlek'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
- Selective breeding has given us much leaner turkeys.
- [a selective memory] : Opponents accused her of having a selective memory.