Solitary confinement

Definition

solitary /'sɒlǝtri; US -teri/ adj ၁။ (က) တစ္ဦးတည္း။ တစ္ခုတည္း။ အထီးက်န္။ a solitary walk ❍ lead a solitary life ❍ one solitary tree on the horizon. (ခ) တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္။ တစ္ကိုယ္ေရ တစ္ကာယ။ a solitary kind of person ❍ Tigers are solitary animals. ၂။ ထီးတည္းျဖစ္၍ေခ်ာင္က်ေသာ။ a solitary island/valley. ❍ ALONE ၃။ (esp in negative sentences and questions) တစ္ခုတေလ။ တစ္ေယာက္တေလ။ I can't think of a solitary occasion (ie not even one) when this happened. n ၁။ [U]( infml )= SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ၂။ [C] ( fml ) ထီးတည္းေနသူ။ ဧကစာက်င့္သူ။ ရေသ့။ religious solitaries. ❏ solitariness n [U] ထီးတည္း။ အေဖာ္မဲ့ျခင္း။ the solitariness of the landscape ❍ the enforced solitariness of some old people. ❏ solitary confinement ( also infml solitary ) n [U] တိုက္ပိတ္(ျပစ္ဒဏ္)။ be put/kept/held in solitary confinement.

Examples

1. A largely solitary bird
2. The solitary inhabitant of the island
3. A solitary policeman stood at the gate.
4. Mathematical research is a largely solitary pursuit.
5. He didn’t say a single solitary word to me all evening.