[
UK
/spˈɛsɪfˌaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈspɛsəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɛsəˌfaɪ/ ]
VERB
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select something or someone for a specific purpose
The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise - determine the essential quality of
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define clearly
I cannot narrow down the rules for this game -
design or destine
She was intended to become the director -
decide upon or fix definitely
fix the variables
specify the parameters -
specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life
The contract stipulates the dates of the payments -
be specific about
Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?
How To Use specify In A Sentence
- Entrants must specify their choice of prize when entering. Times, Sunday Times
- The hope was that the morphogen in the mixture would slowly leak out and specify new digits.
- Many of the chapters in this volume specify educational programs that are intended to increase procedural knowledge. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
- The document, which critics of the plan describe as convoluted and skillfully worded, does not specify any dates for construction or even mention demolition. NYT > Home Page
- To specify hard disks, use -hda, -hdb, -hdc, and -hdd to refer to Parallel ATA (PATA) hard disks, and -cdrom to identify a CD or DVD image file or device.
- Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which. Wild Swans
- If you select the Timed Backup option, WordPerfect will save your document at whatever interval you specify.
- So at last you can specify profiled and plain tiles together.
- One of them also failed in the accident, but the report did not specify the cause of the "overstress" on those welds. SFGate: Top News Stories
- Catalog database dbase2 (without specifying authentication, or specifying authentication as kerberos).
