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Particular   /pərtˈɪkjələr/  /pˌɑtˈɪkjələr/   Listen
Particular

adjective
1.
Unique or specific to a person or thing or category.  Synonyms: peculiar, special.  "Has a particular preference for Chinese art" , "A peculiar bond of sympathy between them" , "An expression peculiar to Canadians" , "Rights peculiar to the rich" , "The special features of a computer" , "My own special chair"
2.
Separate and distinct from others of the same group or category.  "A man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him"
3.
Surpassing what is common or usual or expected.  Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special.  "Exceptional kindness" , "A matter of particular and unusual importance" , "A special occasion" , "A special reason to confide in her" , "What's so special about the year 2000?"
4.
First and most important.  Synonym: special.  "She gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work"
5.
Exacting especially about details.  Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky.  "Fussy about clothes" , "Very particular about how her food was prepared"
6.
Providing specific details or circumstances.
noun
1.
A fact about some part (as opposed to general).  Synonym: specific.
2.
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: detail, item.
3.
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class.  Synonym: particular proposition.



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"Particular" Quotes from Famous Books



... though, had been well made, for the passage was not above four feet wide at this point, and the roof had sunk till it was in this particular spot ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating systems use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of I/O handling in particular, as in the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred techspeak for these clusters is 'device tables', 'jump tables' or 'capability tables'. 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial satellite link to join two or ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... are necessarily damaged in the course of curing?-Yes; it is a very important thing to be particular about that. They get damaged with rain, and they get damaged with sand and with the sea-breeze, and they require ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... well, Oswald," Adam Armstrong laughed. "'Tis well to argue as to policy; but such arguments go for nought, as soon as a man's heart is fixed on any particular woman." ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty
... for them in the church, before the tabernacle. He should have recalled the irresistible attraction which Donatello's St. George held for Miss Bell. He too admired that famous figure. But he retained a particular friendship for St. Mark, rustic and frank, whom they could see in his niche ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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