Strictly speaking

Definition

strict /strÇkt/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) စည္းကမ္းႀကီးေသာ။ ၾကပ္မတ္ေသာ။ a strict teacher ❍ a strict upbringing ❍ She's very strict with her children. (ခ) (စည္းကမ္း)ႀကီး ေသာ၊ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ။ strict rules/instructions ❍ give information in the strictest confidence. (ဂ) တိက်ေသာ။ စည္းကမ္းႀကီးေသာ။ a strict Catholic. ၂။ အတိအက်။ ယတိ ျပတ္။ a strict understanding/interpretation ❍ He's not a journalist in the strict sense (of the word). ❏ strictly adv ၁။ ၾကပ္ၾကပ္တည္းတည္း။ တင္းတင္းၾကပ္ၾကပ္။ be strictly brought up. ၂။ တစ္သေဝမတိမ္း။ လံုးဝ။ လံုးလံုး။ follow rules strictly ❍ Smoking is strictly prohibited. ၃။ (က) ~ for sb/sth သက္သက္။ ခ်ည္းသာ။ an area reserved strictly for members ❍ This machine is strictly for the use of staff. (ခ) အတြက္သာ။ an envelope marked ‘strictly personal’. ၄။ …သာ။ a book of strictly limited interest ❍ do only work that is strictly necessary. ❏ strictly speaking [ IDM ] အမွန္အတိုင္းဆိုရလွ်င္။ အတိ အက် ေျပာရလွ်င္။ Strictly speaking, he's not qualified for the job. strictness n [U]

Examples

1. He’s quite a strict trainer
2. but we all like him.
3. Dad’s very strict with us about table manners.
4. They operate within strict time limits.
5. A strict diet
6. Strict vegans
7. He was not depressed in the strict sense of the word.
8. These cases are not covered by a strict definition of poverty.