Specified
['spesifaid]
Definition
(adj.) clearly and explicitly stated; 'meals are at specified times' .
Checker: Peggy--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Specify
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Examples
- They persisted in withdrawing for the specified time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The latest improvements in Revolvers were contrived by Mr. Josiah Ells, of Pittsburg, North America, as specified in a patent obtained for him by the author, in his own name, in 1855. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Suppose we wish to measure the strength of the electric light bulbs in our homes, in order to see whether we are getting the specified illumination. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Except in certain specified instances the league of this Covenant could make only unanimous decisions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Several other less distinct breeds might be specified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Specified facts and qualities constitute the elements of the problem to be dealt with, and it is through our sense organs that they are specified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The men composing this corps were assigned to specified commands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Several methods of making squirted filaments of a variety of materials, of which about thirty are specified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Rawdon had ordered her not to part with them for a price less than that which she specified. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Hale was anxiously punctual to the time specified. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Their names were specified; she and her daughters interchanged glances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are specified in the list of patents following this Appendix, and may be examined in detail by any interested student. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Brooke of Tipton has already given me his concurrence, and a pledge to contribute yearly: he has not specified the sum--probably not a great one. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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