Sensitivity

Definition

sensitive /'sensǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ ~ ( about/to sth ) ဆတ္ဆတ္ထိ မခံေသာ။ အေျပာမခံေသာ။ အေရမထူေသာ။ စိတ္ထိခိုက္လြယ္ေသာ။ ၾကက္ေခါင္းဆိတ္မခံေသာ။ a frail and sensitive child ❍ He's very sensitive about his baldness, so don't mention it. ❍ A writer mustn't be too sensitive to criticism. ၂။ ~ (to sth) ( approv ) သိတတ္ေသာ။ အသိတရားရိွေသာ။ စာနာတတ္ေသာ။ an actor's sensitive reading of a poem ❍ be sensitive to the needs of others. ၃။ သတိထားရေသာ။ ဆင္ျခင္ရေသာ။ sensitive military information ❍ a sensitive area such as race relations. ❍ SENSIBLE Compare INSENSITIVE ၄။ (က) ႏူးညံ့ေသာ။ အၾကမ္းမခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ အထိမခံေသာ။ the sensitive skin of a baby ❍ A sensitive nerve in a tooth can cause great pain. (ခ) ~ (to sth) မတည့္ေသာ။ ထိခိုက္လြယ္ေသာ။ တံု႔ျပန္ဓာတ္ျပဳေသာ။ be sensitive to penicillin ❍ Photographic paper is highly sensitive to light. ၅။ ~ (to sth) အႏုစိတ္တိုင္းႏိုင္ေသာ။ ထင္ဟပ္တံု႔ျပန္လြယ္ေသာ။ a sensitive balance/barometer ❍ ( fig ) The Stock Exchange is sensitive to likely political changes. sensitively adv ❏ sensitivity /sensǝ'tÇvǝti/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (to sth) အထိ မခံႏိုင္ျခင္း။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ႏူးညံ့မႈ။ ရသခံစားတတ္မႈ။ တံု႔ျပန္ႏိုင္မႈ။ the sensitivity of a writer ❍ a case handled with great tact and sensitivity ❍ sensitivity to pain/light/heat. ၂။ sensitivities [pl] အေရမထူျခင္း။ ဆတ္ဆတ္ထိမခံျခင္း။ နာတတ္ျခင္း။ စိတ္ထိခိုက္လြယ္ျခင္း။ take political/local sensitivities into account. Compare SENSIBILITY ၂ ❏ sensitize, -ise /'sensǝtaÇz/ v ~ sth/sb (to sth) (esp passive) တံု႔ျပန္ႏိုင္မႈ ႏိုးၾကားထက္ျမက္ ေစသည္။ sensitize students to a poet's use of language ❍ a photocopier using sensitized paper.

Examples

1. A new generation of satellites will carry particularly sensitive instruments.
2. Bats have extremely sensitive ears.
3. Light-sensitive materials
4. [sensitive to] : Coral is very sensitive to changes in water temperature.
5. If I’d known she was so sensitive
6. I wouldn’t have teased her.
7. [sensitive to] : Kyle takes his work seriously and is sensitive to criticism.
8. Conservationists and farmers in environmentally sensitive areas are learning to work together.
9. Wear rubber gloves if you have very sensitive skin.
10. Some items on the agenda involve commercially sensitive information.
11. The issues are controversial and politically sensitive.
12. This is a case that needs sensitive and skilful handling.
13. [sensitive to] : The police should be more sensitive to the needs of local communities.