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specifics

/spi-sif-ik/US // spɪˈsɪf ɪk //UK // (spɪˈsɪfɪk) //

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
    • : specified, precise, or particular: a specific sum of money.
    • : peculiar or proper to somebody or something, as qualities, characteristics, effects, etc.: His specific problems got him into trouble.
    • : of a special or particular kind.
    • : concerned specifically with the item or subject named: The Secretary addressed himself to crop-specific problems.
    • : Biology. of or relating to a species: specific characters.
    • : Medicine/Medical. produced by a special cause or infection. having special effect in the prevention or cure of a certain disease.
    • : Immunology. having a particular effect on only one antibody or antigen or affecting it in only one way.
    • : Commerce. noting customs or duties levied in fixed amounts per unit, as number, weight, or volume.
    • : Physics. designating a physical constant that, for a particular substance, is expressed as the ratio of the quantity in the substance to the quantity in an equal volume of a standard substance, as water or air.designating a physical constant that expresses a property or effect as a quantity per unit length, area, volume, or mass.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something specific, as a statement, quality, detail, etc.
    • : Medicine/Medical. a specific remedy: There is no specific for the common cold.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as initem

Examples

  • Both sides said the meeting went well but offered few specifics.

  • Even when pressed, the department has been less than forthcoming with specifics on police shootings in the city.

  • But the specifics of “sex” were, and in many states still are, loosely defined.

  • He sticks only to specifics—the dates of operations, the number of people killed on both sides, even the number of bullets fired.

  • The whole picture does not include a whole lot of specifics.

  • He had mastered the trick of making universals sound like specifics.

  • Alas, yes; although I tried to keep him up, giving him specifics and carminatives and bleeding him once.

  • Before giving it up as insoluble we should make full proof of these homely specifics.

  • The idea of specifics in medicine has to a large extent disappeared.

  • In Japan the stones are accounted of medicinal value, while in Burma and Assam they are infallible specifics for ophthalmia.