specify
specify is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified. Pope.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- by-name
- byword
- call
- cant
- caption
- characterize
- christen
- clepe
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- compellation
- convertible
- define
- denominate
- denomination
- description
- designate
- designation
- distinguish
- dub
- empty
- entitle
- epithet
- eponym
- expression
- fairly
- fitly
- handle
- heading
- hight
- known
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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