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dedicate
English
Etymology
From Latin d?dic?tus, past participle of d?dic? (“I dedicate, proclaim”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?d?ke?t/
Verb
dedicate (third-person singular simple present dedicates, present participle dedicating, simple past and past participle dedicated)
- (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
- (transitive) To set apart for a special use
- (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action
- (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection.
- (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
- (transitive) To show to the public for the first time
Synonyms
- (set apart for religious purposes): behallow, hallow; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
- (set apart for a special use): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (commit to a particular course): devote
Translations
Adjective
dedicate (comparative more dedicate, superlative most dedicate)
- (obsolete) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
Italian
Verb
dedicate
- second-person plural present indicative of dedicare
- second-person plural imperative of dedicare
Participle
dedicate f pl
- feminine plural of the past participle of dedicare
Latin
Verb
d?dic?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?dic?
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specific
English
Alternative forms
- specifick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speci?s (“kind”) + faci? (“make”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, UK) IPA(key): /sp??s?f.?k/, /sp??s?f.?k/
- Rhymes: -?f?k
- Hyphenation: spe?cif?ic
Adjective
specific (comparative more specific, superlative most specific)
- explicit or definite
- (sciences) pertaining to a species
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
- special, distinctive or unique
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
- being a remedy for a particular disease
- Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
- (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
- (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
Synonyms
- (explicit, definite): express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
- (special, distinctive or unique): singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
- (intended for a particular thing): peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific
Antonyms
- unspecific, nonspecific
- (intended for a particular thing): broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- generic
Noun
specific (plural specifics)
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- Specification
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
Further reading
- specific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- specific in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- specific at OneLook Dictionary Search
Romanian
Etymology
From French spécifique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spe?t??i.fik/
Adjective
specific m or n (feminine singular specific?, masculine plural specifici, feminine and neuter plural specifice)
- specific
- Antonym: nespecific
Declension
Related terms
- specificitate
specific From the web:
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- what specifically separates during meiosis i
- what specific information on the performance evaluation
- what are military tactics
- best military tactics ever used
- best military tactics
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