specific

UK /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/ US /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
adj 5noun 5

Definitions

adj

1

Explicit or definite.

While some participants, like Gabi and Jasmine, had access to a gym but still felt uncertain about using specific types of equipment, others who trained at home faced even greater challenges due to the absence of both a coach and proper equipment.

2

Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.

Holonyms: generic, familial

Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific

3

Special, distinctive or unique.

A psychologist told WJLA TV that, for the most part, this isn’t a Cocomelon-specific issue. The main issue is too much screen time and children's shows with fast-paced sequences.

4

intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.

5

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

noun

1

A distinguishing attribute or quality.

2

A remedy for a specific disease or condition.

Change of scene, and a new lover, are infallible specifics, always supposing there is no character for constancy to be supported: if I witness the violent sorrow of to-day, I impose upon to-morrow the necessity of being sorry also.

If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.

3

Specification

4

The details; particulars.

5

The distinguishing part of a toponym.

With the exception of names of pan-Canadian significance and some alternate forms approved by provincial authorities, the specific is not translated.

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