Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Chiefly Brit. Same as
particularize .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
particularize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be specific about
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Examples
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"particularise" the programme in accordance with the character and specific needs of a school community.
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I send six copies of my little poem & will certainly endeavour to particularise the why and the wherefore of its publication when I have the pleasure of seeing you, which I hope to accomplish some day next week.
Letter 132 2009
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I was impelled toward the women I shall presently particularise.
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'Tis hard I confess, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularise them according to their species.
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To particularise: an under-sized dog will, ten to one, break off from the chase71 faint and flagging in the performance of his duty owing to mere diminutiveness.
On Hunting 2007
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Repeated pulls at the bell, and arrivals too numerous to particularise: papas and mammas, and aunts and uncles, the owners and guardians of the different pupils; the singing – master, Signor Lobskini, in a black wig; the piano – forte player and the violins; the harp, in a state of intoxication; and some twenty young men, who stood near the door, and talked to one another, occasionally bursting into a giggle.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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I may particularise Dr. Jenkins, for many years chief minister of
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My dear friend, Jack Tufthunt, for example, knows ONE Lord whom he met at a watering-place: old Lord Mumble, who is as toothless as a three-months-old baby, and as mum as an undertaker, and as dull as — well, we will not particularise.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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As soon as her husband went to the City in the morning her operations began; if he remained away at dinner, her labours still continued: nor is it necessary for me to particularise her course of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz – Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and solfeggios is quite unknown to me.
Mens Wives 2006
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There is no need to particularise here the little arrangements made between us; the playmen of the present day want no instruction, I take it, and the public have little interest in the matter.
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