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Definition: Specialize |
SpecializeVerb1. Become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers". 2. Be specific about. 3. Suit to a special purpose; "specialize one's research". 4. Devote oneself to a special area of work; "She specializes in honey bees"; "This plumber specialized in jacuzzis". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specialize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: SpecializeSynonyms: narrow (v), narrow down (v), particularize (v), specialise (v), specify (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: diversify (v), generalize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Speciality | Verb: specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Specialize |
| English words defined with "specialize": dermatoglyphics ♦ Klein ♦ Melanie Klein ♦ narrow, narrow down ♦ specialise. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some of these cells specialize to become brain cells. (references) | |
Gynecologists and obstetricians specialize in the woman's reproductive tract and childbirth. (references) | ||
These brain cells specialize into different types and migrate to their appropriate site in the brain. (references) | ||
Business | Companies providing rental equipment tend to specialize. (references) | |
This is especially true for those who specialize in upscale design. (references) | ||
Carriers specialize in setting up networks and maintaining connections. (references) | ||
Children | Algeria | NGO's that specialize in care of children cite an increase in domestic violence aimed at children, which they attribute to the "culture of violence" developed during the years since 1992 and the social dislocations caused by the movement of rural families to the cities to escape terrorist violence. (references) |
Economic History | Cyprus | Several Internet providers specialize in designing web pages. (references) |
Spain | They must specialize, associate with other retailers or close. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Certain private bank institutions also specialize in these particular fields of finance. (references) |
Kuwait | The International Investor (TII) and the International Investment Group (IIG) are private Islamic investment groups that specialize in the design and delivery of a range of international and local investment products and services, including project and export finance. (references) | |
Travel | Panama | Several specialize in seafood. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | Occupational diseases rarely are diagnosed or compensated, and few doctors or clinics specialize in occupational diseases. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | Because nobody takes advantage of adversity better than the lawyers who specialize in looking at a disaster and figuring out how to make a buck off of it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Specialize" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.76% of the time. "Specialize" is used about 158 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 (base form) | 60.76% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 39.24% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Total | 100.00% | 158 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "specialize": specialize in. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "specialize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | specializoj, përshtat (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, assort, enable, fit, fit in, match, readjust, regulate, retool, trim), kufizoj (circumscribe, confine, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, terminate, tie, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تخصص في. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | специфицирам (specify), специализирам се, ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, pinch, qualify, reduce, repress, restrict, straiten, tie down, trammel), приспособявам се (adjust oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 專門化 , "门 "究 (specialise, specialised, specialized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | specializovat se. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متخصص شدن , ویژه گری یاویژه کاری کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erikoistua, erikoistaa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spécialiser, se spécialiser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | spezialisiert sein, sich spezialisieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ειδικεύω (specify), ειδικεύομαι (specialise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תמקצע (professionalize), ל"תמחות (become an expert, major, master, practice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szakosít (to specialize), részletez (detail, itemize, particularize, specify, to detail, to itemize, to paraphrase, to specify), felsorol (enumerate, specify, to enumerate, to list, to recite, to rehearse, to set out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengkhususkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | specializzare (specialise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 문하십시" (specialise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecializespay restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, qualify, restrain, restrict, retrench, scant, skimp), limitar (abridge, bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, confine, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaol, hedge, jail, limit, narrow, number, put a lid on, qualify, restrict, retrench, scant, shorten, terminate, tie, verge), especificar (assign, detail, itemize, list, particularize, specify, stipulate), especializar-se, especializar (specify), diferenciar-se. (various references) specifica (list, specificate, specify, state, stipulate), specializa, se specializa, se individualiza, se diferenţia (differentiate), profila (profile), preciza (ascertain, determine, fix, specificate, specify), intra în detalii (enter into particulars), fi specialist în, diferenţia (difference), deosebi (differ, discern, discriminate, distinguish, pick out, remark, separate), adapta unei anumite funcţii. (various references) специализироваться. (various references) specijalizovati se. (various references) especializarse. (various references) specialisera. (various references) ศึกษาเป็นพิเศษ (specialise). (various references) uzmanlaşmak, ihtisas yapmak, değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), özelleştirmek (appropriate, denationalize, make private), özel olarak yapmak, özel amaçla yapmak. (various references) яцritelesюdirmek (specialize in). (various references) уточняти (precise), спеціалізуватися (major), спеціалізувати, звужувати (contract, narrow, straiten, taper). (various references) arbenigo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specialize": specialized, specializes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "specialize": overspecialize, subspecialize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "specialize": overspecialized, overspecializes, subspecialized, subspecializes, superspecialized, unspecialized. (additional references) | |
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"Specialize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: specialis, specialise, specijalci. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "specialize" (pronounced spe"shulī'z) |
| 5 | -sh u l ī' z | commercialize, socialize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-s-z" | |
-2 letters: calipees, especial, laicizes. | |
-3 letters: calipee, capsize, eclipse, episcia, laicise, laicize, plaices, special. | |
-4 letters: apices, apiece, asleep, clepes, elapse, epical, escape, espial, lazies, liaise, lipase, peaces, pieces, places, plaice, please, plicae, sialic, silica, sleaze, specie, spicae, splice. | |
-5 letters: aisle, alecs, aspic, capes, cease, ceils, cepes, cilia, claps, clasp, clepe, clips, easel, epics, ileac, iliac, laces. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-s-z" | |
+1 letter: specialized, specializes. | |
+3 letters: capercailzies, porcelainizes, recapitalizes, subspecialize, unspecialized. | |
+4 letters: overspecialize, republicanizes, subspecialized, subspecializes. | |
+5 letters: overcapitalizes, overspecialized, overspecializes, pinealectomizes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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