Meaning of specific | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Leng=es.
2. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
3. Explicit or definite
4. I specifically told you not to do that; This dictionary is intended specifically for learners of English. spesifiek بصورةٍ خاصَّه специално especificamente výslovně besonder udtrykkeligt; specielt συγκεκριμένα, ειδικά, ρητάespecíficamente eriti nimenomaan expressémentבמפורש विशेषता से, विशिष्टता से specifično, izričito külön is; kimondottan secara khusus sérstaklega chiaramente; appositamente 特に 특히 pabrėžtinai, specialiai speciāli; īpaši khas specifiekuttrykkelig, spesieltwyraźnie, specjalnie...
5. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
6. Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species
7. específico-a; determinado-a; preciso-a.
8. Specification
9. Special, distinctive or unique
10. Explicitly set forth; definite: wrote specific instructions. See Synonyms at explicit.
11. The details; particulars.
    in-plural
12. intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
13. Limited, distinctive, or unique: problems specific to small colleges.
14. The distinguishing part of a toponym.
15. Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it
16. Relating to, characterizing, or distinguishing a species: a specific name.
17. Designating a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition.
18. Immunology Having an affinity limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
    Immunology
19. Designating a customs charge levied on merchandise by unit or weight rather than according to value.
20. Something particularly fitted to a use or purpose.
21. A distinguishing quality or attribute.

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Examples

“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.”

“A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.”

“I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.”

“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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