specific meaning
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspecificandmeaning
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specific
adjective
uk/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/us/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
relating to one thing and not ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofspecificandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Rather, these terms are shaped and givenspecificmeaningby supranational institutions as well.
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Some indication of thespecificmeaning, for example whether the imposition is high or low, is provided by the nature of the request itself.
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The noun petitorium ending line 6 appears to be exclusively a legal term, and it enjoyed a technicallyspecificmeaning.
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To disambiguate is to assign the action aspecificmeaning(6).
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For example, the phrase machine learning has a morespecificmeaningthan the words machine and learning separately.
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By the end of the book, the federal popular identity has acquired definite contours andspecificmeaning.
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The term mixed initiative has aspecificmeaningin the wider literature, which we adopt without change here.
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This might be due to the fact that gestures in general very rarely cause misunderstandings and transfer a broad rather than a veryspecificmeaning.
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First, one noun adds aspecificmeaningto the other noun, which results in a more concrete concept about an object.
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The word tends to get bandied around as a catch-all, so that it loses touch with anyspecificmeaning.
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Accordingly, rules for handling the symbols cannot be formal because each symbol is always imbued with itsspecificmeaningin each particular context of application.
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That is, the phonological formational elements of a spoken language may also be mapped ontospecificmeaningcomponents to create iconic forms.
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The purpose of this explanation was to focus the participants on the target forms in the input, on their morphological or syntactic structure, and on theirspecificmeaning.
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It is not the use or non-use of rhotacization, lenition, and full tone that givesspecificmeaningto any one of these features.
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This is in my opinion where thespecificmeaningof the archaeological approach lies, an approach which studies not the history of material objects, but their memory.
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Finally, the account proposed should allow us also to characterize thespecificmeaningof be going to without taking recourse in principle to mechanisms of metaphorical extension.
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