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Specialise

verb

Devote oneself to a special area of work. Synonym: specialize. "This baker specializes in French bread"

Be specific about. Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialize, specify.

Suit to a special purpose. Synonym: specialize. "This kind of beak has become specialized in certain Galapagos finches"

Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study. Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialize.

Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment. Synonyms: differentiate, specialize, speciate.

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"Specialise" Quotes from Famous Books

... cannot; for the elementary instruction which I have referred to embraces all the kinds of real knowledge and mental activity possible to man. The university can add no new departments of knowledge, can offer no new fields of mental activity; but what it can do is to intensify and specialise the instruction in each department. Thus literature and philology, represented in the elementary school by English alone, in the university will extend over the ancient and modern languages. History, ...

— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

... knowledge for another. He held that the elementary instruction to which he had referred embraced all the real kinds of knowledge and mental activity possible to man. The university could add no new fields of mental activity, no new departments of knowledge. What it could do was to intensify and specialise ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell