specific
adjective/spəˈsɪfɪk/
Слово англійською: specific
Переклад specific українською: специфі́чний, конкре́тний (ви́значений)
Детальний опис
- [usually before noun] connected with one particular thing only synonym particular
- specific needs/requirements
- patients who suffer from a specific type of cancer
- The money was collected for a specific purpose.
- specific problems/issues
- a specific location/task/case
- children with specific learning difficulties (= in one area only)
- detailed and exact synonym precise
- specific information/details/examples/questions
- ‘I'd like your help tomorrow.’ ‘Can you be more specific (= tell me exactly what you want)?’
- The regulations make specific reference to the transmission of personal data over a network.
- I gave you specific instructions.
- specific about something He was not specific about his plans.
- specific (to something) (formal) existing only in one place or limited to one thing synonym peculiar
- a belief that is specific to this part of Africa
- These heart issues are specific to women.
- These values are culturally specific, not naturally given.
Word Originmid 17th cent. (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.