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Specialised

adjective
1.
Developed or designed for a special activity or function.  Synonym: specialized.  Antonym: unspecialized.



Specialise

verb
1.
Devote oneself to a special area of work.  Synonym: specialize.  "This baker specializes in French bread"
2.
Be specific about.  Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialize, specify.  Antonym: generalize.
3.
Suit to a special purpose.  Synonym: specialize.  "This kind of beak has become specialized in certain Galapagos finches"
4.
Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study.  Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialize.  Antonym: diversify.
5.
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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"Specialised" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The less specialised administrators, I note, do for the most part take a very lively interest in me whenever they encounter me. They will come out of the way and stare at me and ask questions to which Phi-oo will reply. I see them going hither and thither with a retinue of bearers, attendants, shouters, parachute-carriers, ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

... to the British military mind—still. Even after a month of war. War had become the comprehensive business of the German nation; to the British it was an incidental adventure. In Germany the nation was militarised, in England the army was specialised. The nation for nearly every practical purpose got along without it. Just as political life had also become specialised.... Now suddenly we wanted a government to speak for every one, and an army of the whole people. How were we to ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... to International Trade. 3. Political, Pseudo-economic, and Economic Barriers— Protective Theory and Practice. 4. Nature of International Trade. 5. Size, Structure, Relations of the several Industries. 6. Slight Extent of Local Specialisation. 7. Nature and Conditions of Specialised Industry. 8. Structure of the Market. 9. Combined Agriculture and Manufacture. 10. Relations between Processes in a Manufacture. 11. Structure of the Domestic Business: Early Stages of Transition. 12. Beginnings of Concentrated Industry and ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... with the special varieties of the Egyptians' belief in gods, it is best to try to avoid a misunderstanding of their whole conception of the supernatural. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialised group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name. It is unfortunate that every other word for supernatural intelligences has become debased, so that we cannot well speak of demons, devils, ghosts, or fairies ...
— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie

... recall the embryonic conditions of existing fishes; and that, not only among fishes, but in several groups of the invertebrata which have a long palaeontological history, the latest forms are more modified, more specialised, than the earlier. The fact that the dentition of the older tertiary ungulate and carnivorous mammals is always complete, noticed by Professor ...
— The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology - Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley


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