Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Without specialty or specialization.
- adjective Having no special function.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function.
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- adjective Having no
speciality , or particularpurpose - adjective biology, of a cell or tissue Having no special
function
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function
Etymologies
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Examples
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One day, I imagine that I will show the original, unspecialized trilogy to my children.
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It is also a consequence of a relatively unspecialized society - and it also serves to keep the society unspecialized.
Exit and Voice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They were still unspecialized; they had not yet become trapped in any evolutionary cul-de-sac.
Tin 2010
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Number two, they are unspecialized cells, but under appropriate conditions, they can form all the specialized cells in our body - nerve cells, heart cells, muscle cells, kidney cells - that could then be used to replace damaged cells in our bodies.
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Should laws be designed to serve large, complex organizations or ordinary, unspecialized citizens?
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I used "factory owners" only because I have no better image of the kind of people who benefits from a general lowering of salaries, and "workers" - how do you call the people, very numerous, who live by selling their unspecialized or barely specialized labor.
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Mesenchyme -- "Connective tissue arising from multiple germ layers consisting of unspecialized cells" - does your name have a message for us as you seem to have achieved the above objective by connecting with SIn and the ludicrous messages of hatred he brings here on a regular basis, perhaps seen as lobbying by you? phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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You dont have to be an economist to understand that if you have only your unspecialized work to sell, increasing the number of people selling their work will depress the price if work, and to increase the profits of those buying your work.
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They are basically unspecialized & have the ability to divide endlessly & to develop into all of the 220 human cell types.
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Stem cells are undifferentiated – unspecialized – cells that can be developed into any type of human cell.
brooke ellison, barack obama, stem cells and the future of medical science 2009
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