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Definition: Unspecified |
UnspecifiedAdjective1. Not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unspecified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Antonym: specified (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Generality | Every, all; unspecified, impersonal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pentagon officials announced U.S. military forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia increased their Threat Condition to the highest level, "Delta," Oct. 30 in response to a creditable threat in the region involving unspecified targets. (Photo illustrat. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These studies also have been limited by small sample size, failure to control for spontaneous recovery, and the unspecified effects of social contact. (references) | |
Other general measures such as sleep hygiene can be used as adjuncts to treatment of the specific causes of insomnia and tried when the cause is not clear or is unspecified. (references) | ||
Some clinical drug trials also have revealed a high placebo response, suggesting that there are nonspecific psychosocial, unsystematic exposure instructions, or other unspecified factors that may have a potential influence on therapeutic outcomes. (references) | ||
Business | The regulations, which came into effect on December 30, provide for fines and other unspecified punishments to deal with violators. (references) | |
In early 1999, another power generating company, Tuas Power, came on stream, and SemCorp Cogen was granted a generation license in 2000. An unspecified number of new licenses are expected to be issued over the next few years. (references) | ||
Children | Sri Lanka | The penalty for pedophilia is not less than 5 years and up to 20 years as well as an unspecified fine. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Sweden | According to NGO's, the decisionmakers use arbitrary, unspecified, and inconsistent criteria. (references) |
Somalia | The Ministry must approve entry visas for religious groups, and certain unspecified doctrines are prohibited. (references) | |
Economic History | Belarus | Implementation of these reforms will take an unspecified amount of time. (references) |
Tanzania | On certain unspecified occasions, procurement could be on direct solicitation. (references) | |
Venezuela | The three countries have proposed a new, unspecified scheme that they say will comply with WTO standards. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Also, the authorities may hold the accused for an unspecified time before making formal charges. (references) |
Mexico | In June three police officers in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, stopped Juan Francisco Alcocer Flores for unspecified reasons. (references) | |
Moldova | The ISS reportedly also conveyed the same message, by unspecified means, to popular gathering places of Muslim students. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | The High Court determined that its ruling in the case would not affect previous land allocations and that differentiating between Jews and non-Jews in land allocation might be acceptable under unspecified "special circumstances." The municipality was instructed to develop and publish criteria for its decisions and a plan for implementation. (references) |
Political Economy | Bhutan | The Government claims that it has prosecuted government personnel for unspecified abuses committed in the early 1990's; however, there is little indication that the Government has investigated adequately or punished any security force officials involved in torture, rape, and other abuses committed against ethnic Nepalese residents. (references) |
Political Rights | Benin | The country's first municipal elections were scheduled to be held during the year; however, they were postponed to an unspecified date in 2002. The percentage of women in government or politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population; however, women participate actively in political parties. (references) |
Trade | Colombia | For example, adjustment factors for freight, insurance and other unspecified costs are not transparent and provide latitude for manipulation of ceiling, floor and reference prices. (references) |
Women | Morocco | The divorce may be finalized even over the woman's objections, although in such cases the court grants her unspecified allowance rights. (references) |
Kuwait | In July the court issued a sentence of 10 years to a man convicted of beating his maid to death in August 1999; his teenage son was placed in detention for an unspecified period as a juvenile accomplice. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belarus | FTUB accounts were frozen again in September 2000 by tax authorities conducting an unspecified investigation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unspecified" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unspecified" is used about 300 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 300 | 16,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unspecified": unspecified bit rate plus ♦ unspecified distance ♦ unspecified sequence. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unspecified | 17 |
error unspecified | 5 |
80004005 error error provider unspecified | 3 |
2003 error unspecified | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unspecified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неустановен (amorphous, equivocal, irresolute, unadjusted, unestablished, yeasty), неуточнен, неупоменат (unquoted, unrecorded), неспоменат (nameless, unnamed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 非特指. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uspecificeret sekvens (unspecified sequence), uspecificeret afstand (unspecified distance), unspecified bit-rate plus (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit-rate plus), unspecified bit rate plus (UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus), UBR+ (UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus), guaranteed frame rate (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit-rate plus), forbedret UBR (UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | unspecified bit rate plus (UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus), guaranteed frame rate (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit-rate plus), aanstelling voor onbepaalde tijd (recruitment for unspecified term), aanneming voor onbeperkte duur (recruitment for unspecified term). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | UBR+ (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus, unspecified bit-rate plus), määrittämätön bittinopeus (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit-rate plus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indéterminé (undefined, undetermined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nicht spezifiziert, unspezifiziert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απροσδιόριστοσ (indefinable, indeterminable, intangible, undefined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pontosabban meg nem nevezett, pontosabban meg nem jelölt, pontosabban meg nem határozott, nem részletezett, közelebbről meg nem nevezett, közelebbről meg nem jelölt, közelebbről meg nem határozott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak ditentukan (irregular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imprecisato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 未定義 (undefined), 不特定 (indefinite, random). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふとくてい (indefinite, random), みていぎ (undefined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 특기하지 않". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecifiedunspay taxa de tramas garantida (guaranteed frame rate, UBR+, unspecified bit-rate plus), taxa de bits não especificada + (UBR+, unspecified bit rate plus), contratação com duração indeterminada (recruitment for unspecified term). (various references) точно не установленный, неопределенный (atemporal, chancy, dusty, hazy, iffy, imponderable, imprecise, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, infinite, infinitive, lax, suspenseful, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unsure, vague). (various references) neoznačen, neodređen (indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, neutral, undeterminable, undetermined). (various references) no especificado. (various references) ospecifierad, inte närmare specificerad. (various references) belirtilmemiş, özellikle belirtilmemiş. (various references) không nói rõ, không chỉ rõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unspecified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unesterified, unpacified. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unspecified" (pronounced unspe"sufī'd) |
| 8 | -s p e" s u f ī' d | specified. |
| 5 | -s u f ī' d | calcified, classified, crucified, Declassified, diversified, falsified, intensified, ossified, pacified, reclassified, unclassified. |
| 4 | -u f ī' d | acidified, amplified, certified, clarified, codified, decertified, dignified, disqualified, electrified, exemplified, fortified, gentrified, glorified, gratified, horrified, identified, indemnified, justified, liquefied, magnified, misidentified, modified, mollified, mortified, mummified, mystified, notified, nullified, overqualified, oversimplified, personified, petrified, purified, qualified, quantified, ratified, rectified, reunified, signified, simplified, solidified, stratified, terrified, testified, typified, undignified, unidentified, unified, unjustified, unqualified, unverified, verified. |
| 3 | -f ī' d | dissatisfied, satisfied, sulfide, unsatisfied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-i-n-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: pudencies, specified. | |
-3 letters: edifices. | |
-4 letters: cuisine, defines, deifies, edifice, edifies, eupneic, incised, incudes, incused, indices, induces, infused, piscine, suicide, unified, unifies. | |
-5 letters: censed, cupids, cusped, cuspid, defies, define, defuse, deices, deific, denies, deuces, dienes, dunces, edenic, educes, endues, ensued, espied, fecund, fenced, fences, fescue, ficins, fiends, fundic, incise, incuse, indies, induce, indues, infuse, inside. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-i-n-p-s-u" | |
+5 letters: pseudoscientific. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 70 65 63 69 66 69 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .--. . -.-. .. ..-. .. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s p e c i f i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0070 0065 0063 0069 0066 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580858271697572757170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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