Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To mention, describe, or treat individually; itemize or specify.
- intransitive verb To make particular as opposed to general or universal.
- intransitive verb To go into or give details or particulars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To specify or mention with details; give the particulars of; enumerate or specify in detail; also, to render particular or detailed.
- To single out for mention; make particular mention of.
- To mention or give particulars or details; be particular as opposed to general; specifically, to mention or be attentive to single things or to small matters.
- Also spelled
particularise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial.
- transitive verb To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a
specific or individual case, class etc.; tosingle out . - verb transitive, intransitive To be
specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), tospecify . - verb intransitive To
differentiate , make distinct from others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be specific about
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am not permitted to particularize, and may only say that the dislike of readers is just as I said it would be, and that dislike expresst without reserve to me, and of course to those who own the other half of the property.
Letter 82 2009
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To particularize or identify one specific moment downplays how significant this texture, this atmosphere, of living in the dead in that one place, how present that is.
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That this is the perfect approach to an event that has become fetishized in our culture should go without saying: Tomine's point is not to play into or even against perceptions about marriage so much as to particularize his account.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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Mr. Echenoz employs a similar finesse to particularize moments that are conspicuously irrelevant or ridiculous.
A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011
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To particularize or identify one specific moment downplays how significant this texture, this atmosphere, of living in the dead in that one place, how present that is.
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That this is the perfect approach to an event that has become fetishized in our culture should go without saying: Tomine's point is not to play into or even against perceptions about marriage so much as to particularize his account.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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Care to particularize that to which countries at which times?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010
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Care to particularize that to which countries at which times?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010
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When the media focus on "the black vote," "the white vote," and then they start to particularize the white vote within that, they invite us to see race as a defining category of analysis.
Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters 2009
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The tendency will be to particularize this gory tragedy as the implosion of one immigrant dream story.
Sandip Roy: The Dark Twin of the American Dream in Santa Clara 2009
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