Dictionary entry
Separatist
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp(ə)rətɪst/
Pronunciation
/ˈsɛp(ə)rətɪst/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) ခွဲထွက်သူ။
Definition
separate /'seprǝt/ adj ၁။ ~ (from sth/ sb) သီးျခား။ သီးသန္႔။ The children sleep in separate beds. ❍ Violent prisoners are kept separate from the others. ❍ They lead separate lives (ie do not live or do things together). ❍ When the partnership ended, we went our separate ways. ၂။ သီးျခား။ It happened on three separate occasions. ❍ That is a separate issue and irrelevant to our discussion. v ၁။ (က) ~ (sb/ sth) (from sb/ sth) ကြဲ သည္။ ဖ်ဥ္သည္။ ကြာသည္။ ခြဲသည္။ separate two dogs fighting ေခြးႏွစ္ေကာင္ ကိုက္ေနသည္ကို ဖ်ဥ္သည္။ ❍ families separated by the war စစ္ေၾကာင့္ကြဲကြာေနေသာ မိသားစုမ်ား။ ❍ separate the egg yolk from the white ❍ This prisoner should be separated from the others. ❍ separating fact from fantasy ❍ Separate (out) the cotton fabrics from the rest of the wash. ေလွ်ာ္မည့္အဝတ္မ်ားထဲမွ ခ်ည္ထည္မ်ားကို ေရြး ထုတ္ပါ။ ❍ the engine separated (from its mounting) in flight. (ခ) ~ (out) ကြဲ ထြက္သည္။ The yoghurt will separate when it is heated. ❍ Oil and water always separate out. ၂။ ~ (from sb) လမ္းခြဲသည္။ ခြဲသည္။ We talked for an hour before separating. ၃။ ~ (from sb) လင္မယားခြဲေနသည္။ ကြဲေနသည္။ After ten years of living together they decided to separate. ❍ She has separated from her husband. ၄။ ~ sth (from sth) ျခားသည္။ ကန္႔သည္။ ကြာသည္။ A deep gorge separates the two halves of the city. ❍ ( fig ) Only 0.2 of a second separates the leaders. ဦးေဆာင္ေနသူႏွစ္ေယာက္မွာ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ၀.၂ စကၠန္႔သာကြာသည္။ ❍ ( fig ) Only 100 metres separated them from the border guards. သူတို႔နဲ႔ နယ္စပ္အေစာင့္ေတြ မီတာ ၁၀၀ သာ ကြာလွမ္းသည္။ ၅။ ျခားသည္။ ကြဲ သည္။ ခြဲ သည္။ ကြာသည္။ Her religious vocation separates her from the rest of us. ❍ Politics is the only thing that separates us (ie on which we disagree). ❍ The judges found it impossible to separate the two contestants (ie They gave them equal scores). ❏ separated adj ~ (from sb) တရားဝင္မကြာရွင္းဘဲ လင္မယားကြဲေနေသာ။ I'm separated from my wife. ❍ We're separated. ❏ separately adv ~ (from sb/ sth) သီးသန္႔။ တကြဲ စီ။ တျခားစီ။ They are now living separately. ❍ It is better to cook the stuffing separately from the turkey. ❏ separates n [pl] အထက္ေအာက္ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးတြဲဖက္ဝတ္ႏိုင္ ေသာ ဝတ္စံု။ ❏ separate the sheep from the goats [ IDM ] လူေကာင္း ႏွင့္လူဆိုး ခြဲျခားပါ။ ❏ separate the wheat from the chaff [ IDM ] အေကာင္း အဆိုးခြဲသည္။ sift through application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff. ❏ separatism /'sepǝrǝtÇzǝm/ n [U] ဂိုဏ္းခြဲဝါဒ။ သီးျခား ေနေရးဝါဒ။ ❏ separatist /'sepǝrǝtÇst/ n ခြဲ ထြက္ေရးဝါဒီ။ right-wing separatists ❍ a separatist organization/ movement.
Examples
- My brother and I always had separate rooms.
- My parents have separate bank accounts.
- They’re not divorced but they lead completely separate lives (=do not do things together).
- [separate from] : Clients’ funds should be kept separate from the firm’s own money.
- Each apartment has its own separate entrance.
- Answer each question on a separate sheet of paper.
- Police have killed seven guerrillas in three separate incidents this week.
- That’s an entirely separate matter.
- They arrived at the party separately.