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Definitions: Personalized |
PersonalizedAdjective1. Made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual; "personalized luggage"; "personalized advice". 2. Pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively; "unnecessarily personalized remarks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "personalized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
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Post & Telecom | Word that describes how a direct mail item may include text that will be more relevant to the addressee. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PersonalizedSynonyms: individualised (adj), individualized (adj), personalised (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Personalized |
| Specialty definitions using "personalized": Cancer Information Service, CUSTOMER-SERVICE CLERK, customer-service specialist, post exchange ♦ Lucent Personalized Web Assistant ♦ Personalized Array Translator, personalized public transit ♦ SINGING MESSENGER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "personalized": Personalize. (references) |
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Screenplays | Did you hear the one about the guy who was too poor to get personalized plates so he changed his name to J3L2404? (Fargo; writing credit: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plate so he went and changed his name to J3L2404? (Fargo; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | This personalized approach leads to great difficulty in the scientific evaluation of effectiveness, because there is significant heterogeneity among both persons with TBI and their comprehensive treatment programs. (references) | |
Business | New services will enable businesses to create personalized on-line relationships with their customers, and then provide goods and services based on an individual's personal preferences. (references) | |
Good potential is also forecast for services whose marketing can be personalized, travel and transportation and construction information and, provided security issues are being solved, financial services. (references) | ||
Economic History | Switzerland | Personal hygiene products ranging from soap to night creams are ideal for direct sale as home shoppers can try out the various products and profit from the personalized consultation. (references) |
Malaysia | The projects are Lifetime Health Plan (LHP), Mass Customized and Personalized Health Information and Education (MCPHIE), Continued Medical Education (CME), and Teleconsultation. (references) | |
Italy | Personalized service is frequently demanded by customers, creates goodwill, and often stimulates repeat sales. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Personalized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.00% of the time. "Personalized" is used about 50 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) | 84% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 6% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "personalized": Lucent Personalized Web Assistant ♦ personalized Array Translator ♦ personalized public transit. 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 "personalized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | personal (esoteric, individual, interior, nominal, nominative, one-man, personal, private, several), për dikë, vetiak (one-man, personal, private, proper), i personalizuar, i individualizuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 个性化 (personalise, personalised, Personalize, Personalizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | personaliseret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gepersonaliseerd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksilöity hallinto (customised portfolio management, customized portfolio management, personalised portfolio management, personalized portfolio management). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | personnalisé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | persönliche Aufmachung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσωποποιημένο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | személyre szóló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | personalizzato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개인화하는 (personalised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersonalizedpay personalizado (custom). (various references) персонализированный. (various references) prisvojen, oličen. (various references) personalizado. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "personalized": depersonalized, impersonalized. (additional references) | |
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"Personalized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: personafize, personalis, personalise, personlised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "personalized" (pronounced per"sunulī'zd) |
| 7 | -u n u l ī' z d | criminalized, denationalized, fictionalized, marginalized, nationalized, professionalized, rationalized, regionalized. |
| 6 | -n u l ī' z d | analyzed, finalized, internalized, penalized. |
| 5 | -u l ī' z d | annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, centralized, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, crystallized, decentralized, demobilized, demoralized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, idealized, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, legalized, liberalized, localized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, paralyzed, radicalized, recapitalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, sterilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, vandalized, visualized. |
| 4 | -l ī' z d | creolized, realized, stylized. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-z" | |
-1 letter: depolarizes, personalize. | |
-2 letters: depolarize. | |
-3 letters: despoiler, leporidae, oleanders, palinodes, pearlized, pedaliers, pedlaries, penalised, penalized, penalizes, polarised, polarized, polarizes, solarized, zedoaries. | |
-4 letters: ailerons, airspeed, alieners, alienors, aneroids, anodizes, arsenide, darioles, delaines, deplanes, deplores, diaspore, diazoles, eloiners, espalier, indorsee, islander, isoprene, ladrones, leopards, leporids, leporine, lesioned, naperies, nearside, oedipean, oleander, opalines, operands, ordinals, padrones, palinode, pandores. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-z" | |
+1 letter: depersonalize. | |
+2 letters: depersonalized, depersonalizes, impersonalized. | |
+3 letters: depersonalizing. | |
+4 letters: professionalized. | |
+5 letters: depersonalization, depolymerizations. | |
| 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)50 65 72 73 6F 6E 61 6C 69 7A 65 64 |
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