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Definition: Specialise |
SpecialiseVerb1. Suit to a special purpose; "specialize one's research". 2. Become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specialise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
"Specialise" is a common misspelling or typo for: specialist, specialize, specialized, specialties. |
Synonyms: SpecialiseSynonyms: narrow (v), narrow down (v), specialize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: semi-skilled worker (labor), specialised crop (food & agriculture), specialised culture, specialised customs office (finance), specialised farm (food & agriculture), specialised group (european union, economics), specialised healthcare (statistics), specialised information market (computing), specialised institution (law), specialised job (statistics, labor), specialised jurisdiction (law), specialised labour (law, labor), specialised labourer (labor), specialised library (public administration), specialised medical care (statistics), specialised mobile radio (post & telecom), specialised purging system (medicine), specialised services network (post & telecom), specialised surgery (european union, medicine), specialised worker (labor), specialized crop (food & agriculture), specialized cultivation, specialized customs office (finance), specialized farm (food & agriculture), specialized healthcare (statistics), specialized institution (law), specialized job (statistics, labor), specialized jurisdiction (law), specialized labour (law, labor), specialized medical care (statistics), specialized mobile radio (post & telecom), specialized services network, training of specialised staff (labor). |
| Antonym: diversify (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Specialise |
| Specialty definitions using "specialise": partial evaluation ♦ Unisys Corporation. (references) |
| "Specialise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.32% of the time. "Specialise" is used about 243 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) | 54.32% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 41.98% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.7% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 243 | N/A |
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 "specialise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | ä¸"é—¨ç "究 (specialised, specialize, specialized). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ειδικεÏομαι (specialize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | specializzarsi (major, specialize), specializzare (specialize), perfezionare (ameliorate, amend, correct, emend, finish, impove, improve, make perfect, perfect, polish up, refine, specialize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | ì „ë¬¸í•˜ì‹ì‹œìš" (specialize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecialisespay ศึà¸à¸©à¸²à¹€à¸›à¹‡à¸™à¸žà¸´à¹€à¸¨à¸© (specialize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specialise": specialised, specialises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-s-s" | |
-2 letters: calipees, eclipses, eclipsis, episcias, especial, laicises, slipcase, specials. | |
-3 letters: calipee, capless, eclipse, elapses, episcia, escapes, espials, iceless, laicise, lapises, liaises, lipases, palsies, pelisse, plaices, pleases, silesia, silicas, special, species, splices. | |
-4 letters: aisles, apices, apiece, asleep, aspics, ceases, clasps, clepes, easels, easies, ecesis, elapse, epical, escape, espial, espies, lapses, lassie, leases, liaise, lipase, passee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: specialised, specialises, specializes, specialties. | |
+2 letters: specialities. | |
+3 letters: specularities, subspecialize. | |
+4 letters: penicillinases, semiporcelains, subspecialized, subspecializes, subspecialties. | |
+5 letters: exceptionalisms, implicativeness, overspecializes, pictorialnesses, prejudicialness, superspecialist. | |
| 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. | |
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