Specialized
['spɛʃə'laɪzd]
Definition
(adj.) developed or designed for a special activity or function; 'a specialized tool' .
Edited by Barbie--From WordNet
Examples
- The nomad was not simply an uncivilized man, he was a man specialized and specializing along his own line. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In addition to the immense amount of money involved, this specialized industry required an enormous amount of experiment, as it called for the development of an entirely new art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The modern lifting magnet is a highly specialized form of this type of electric magnet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The same principle coordinates branches, or phases, of geographical study which tend to become specialized and separate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We may secure technical specialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But in fact the nervous system is only a specialized mechanism for keeping all bodily activities working together. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The former is uniform and mechanical; it is rigidly specialized. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The things which represent the needs of specialized groups and technical pursuits are secondary. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Each has become specialized not merely in its appliances and its demands upon time, but in its aim and animating spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At first, this was probably in part a town-slave class, in part it consisted of peasants who had specialized upon a craft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The two ways of life specialized in opposite directions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hairs, like feathers, are long and elaborately specialized scales. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- An original specialized power of adjustment secures immediate efficiency, but, like a railway ticket, it is good for one route only. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic group, just as the birds arose from a special group of reptiles (Chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its manufacture involves costly and highly specialized machinery, the most intelligent of mechanics and the constant thought and endeavor of the men at the head of the business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Very speedily the learned became a specialized queer class with unpleasant characteristics of its own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Barbie