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Specify   /spˈɛsəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Specify

verb
(past & past part. specified; pres. part. specifying)
1.
Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.  Synonyms: condition, qualify, stipulate.  "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
2.
Decide upon or fix definitely.  Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, set.  "Specify the parameters"
3.
Determine the essential quality of.  Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, delineate.
4.
Be specific about.  Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize.  Antonym: generalize.
5.
Define clearly.  Synonyms: nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down.
6.
Design or destine.  Synonyms: designate, destine, intend.
7.
Select something or someone for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: assign, set apart.






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"Specify" Quotes from Famous Books



... then," continued Nicholas. "A portion of his ould hunting-dress—I'll not specify what, you know—but a portion, which he'd been wearing since the last election, were too shabby to show: well, he couldn't catch a hedge tailor far or near, only poor lame Andy Oulahan, who was burying his wife, rest her sowl, the very moment Jerry got a howld of him. ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... grievance; but if he lays an action for damages, he must prove the damage, and I leave you to judge, whether a gentleman's character may not be brought into contempt, and all his views in life blasted by calumny, without his being able to specify the particulars of the ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... Bunwell, too, that William Sigge was by way of becoming a terror to his neighbours. It was laid to his charge, generally, that he had from time to time during the pestilence carried off and appropriated various articles of property (diversa catalla) too numerous to specify. They must have been a very miscellaneous lot, for they included several hurdles and the lead stripped off a dead man's roof, not to mention such trifles as garments and pots and pans. Sigge was a very successful plunderer, and, ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp

... Lastly, to specify no further—Laxity of discipline is observable in this church. She has always admitted to her fellowship, and to a participation in her special privileges (the seals of the covenants), persons who openly deny the divine warrant for a fast in connection ...
— Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive • The Reformed Presbytery

... state the list of the crimes charged on Richard; I will specify the authorities on which he was accused; I will give a faithful account of the historians by whom he was accused; and will then examine the circumstances of each crime and each evidence; and lastly, show that some ...
— Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third • Horace Walpole


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