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Specific   /spəsˈɪfɪk/  /spɪsˈɪfɪk/   Listen
Specific

adjective
1.
(sometimes followed by 'to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique.  "Demands specific to the job" , "A specific and detailed account of the accident"
2.
Stated explicitly or in detail.
3.
Relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species.
4.
Being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides.  "A specific remedy" , "A specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements"
noun
1.
A fact about some part (as opposed to general).  Synonym: particular.
2.
A medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease.



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... substituting a loose velvet wrapper; and then stood over her, a kindly martinet, until the light dinner she had brought was eaten. Afterwards she packed pillows, made up the fire, and administered a particularly nauseous specific emanating from a homeopathic medicine chest that was her greatest pride, and then took herself away, still ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... buying peace of the Algerians, against a needlessly large appropriation for repairing the house of the president, and against the removal of the restriction confining the expenditure of public money to the specific objects for which said ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... essence of his power. Over and over, he made clear that he regarded himself in God's hands, doing God's work, but on what specific evidence he based this profound conclusion no human being knows beyond Bismarck's own assertion. However, that power urged him on. Naturally, in turn, the fire kindled by faith in himself at last stimulated faith in a people, numbering some twenty-five ...
— Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck • John Hubert Greusel
... I find it to be reported and believed that the accused are able to act independently in many ways, but that this independence does not extend to their legs, authority over their legs being vested exclusively in the one brother during a specific term of days, and then passing to the other brother for a like term, and so on, by regular alternation. I could call witnesses who would prove that the accused had revealed to them the existence of this extraordinary fact, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... powers to do everything necessary "to keep the negotiation alive, and save the capital." But the Duke of Vicenza durst not act immediately on a document so loosely worded, and sent back once more to beg for a specific detail of the Emperor's purposes. Napoleon had his headquarters at Nogent, on the Seine, some leagues below Troyes, when the despatch reached him, on the evening of the 8th of February; and his counsellors unanimously urged him to ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart


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