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Definition: Customize |
CustomizeVerb1. Make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me". 2. Make according to requirements; "customize a car". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CustomizeSynonyms: customise (v), custom-make (v), tailor-make (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Customize |
| Specialty definitions using "customize": CUSTOM VAN CONVERTER ♦ REGISTERED USER FUNCTIONS. (references) |
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Books |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Local developers buy packaged software and customize to customer needs. (references) | |
Most of these institutions have trained staff to design or customize the systems required. (references) | ||
Applications from Israel or Pakistan are considered good and inexpensive for Mexican firms to customize. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Customize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Customize" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "customize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 定做 (customise, customised, customized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معتادکردن (Habit, Inure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adapter aux besoins du client. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umbauen (adapt, alter, build, convert, make over, modify, rebuild, renovate, reorganize, to reconstruct), speziell anfertigen, den Forderungen des Kunden anpassen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φτιάχνω κατά παραγγελία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adattare alla preferenza del cliente (customise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カシミア糸 (cascade, cashew nuts, cashmere, cashmere yarn, casino, casket, castanets, caster, casual, casual look, casual water, casual wear, custard pudding, custom, custom IC, customized car, customized communication, customizer, custom-made, customs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カスタマイズ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 주문을 받아서 만"십시" (customise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustomizecay потр) модифицировать по заказу пользователя, подгонять (dovetail, goad, hurry, match, pepped, pinch, urge, wing), переделывать (adapt, alter, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remake, remodel, revamp, rework, turn, unmake). (various references) napraviti po narudžbini. (various references) personalizar (personalize). (various references) finjustera (readjust, tune up). (various references) müşteri isteğine göre değiştirmek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "customize": customized, customizer, customizers, customizes. (additional references) | |
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"Customize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: customiser, custommize, custpmize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "customize" (pronounced ku"stumī'z) |
| 5 | -t u m ī' z | epitomize, itemize, legitimize, optimize. |
| 4 | -u m ī' z | compromise, economize, maximize, minimize, randomize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-o-s-t-u-z" | |
-2 letters: costume, coziest, mestizo, outsize, timeous, zoecium. | |
-3 letters: cesium, cestoi, coitus, comets, comtes, cozies, custom, cuties, miscue, miscut, mucose, ostium, sitcom, somite. | |
-4 letters: cesti, cites, comes, comet, comte, coset, cosie, cotes, cozes, cozie, cutes, cutie, cutis, emits, escot, etuis, ictus, items, meous, mesic, metis, mites, moist, moste, motes, moues, mouse, music, mutes, omits, osmic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-o-s-t-u-z" | |
+1 letter: customized, customizer, customizes. | |
+2 letters: customizers. | |
+3 letters: computerizes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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