specific set
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspecificandset
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specific
adjective
uk/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/us/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
relating to one thing and not ...
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set
noun
uk/set/us/set/
a group of similar things that belong together in ...
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(Definition ofspecificandsetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The book begins with a useful series of definitions including the familiar concept of ' leisure ' as free-time rather than aspecificsetof activities.
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However, the dormant seeds are at a less-ready state, and may only germinate under a veryspecificsetof conditions.
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Aspecificsetof intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive verbs expressing a state was selected.
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This contemporary top-down configuration of state multiculturalism has focused on aspecificsetof perceived ' benign' cultural markers of indigenous difference, most prominently traditional dress.
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The questions should be carefully calibrated to achieve aspecificsetof research objectives.
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Second, individual level characteristics do not sufficiently explain why a president's actions are invested toward aspecificsetof goals.
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The appropriate probability distributions withspecificsetof arguments were substituted for the single values in the cells with uncertainty (input cells).
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These angles are changed when the fabrication is rotated to the orientation of aspecificset-up position.
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The situation could be defined by the mission, a set of orders, and aspecificsetof environmental conditions at that moment.
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In addition, thespecificsetof words denoting body-parts does not lend itself to developing into adpositions in sign languages.
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First, she sees the eruption of persecution in 1390 as a response to aspecificsetof local and regional pressures.
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But what other than aspecificsetof neural events renders a mastery into a current mastery?
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Are the frailty index and its age trajectory dependent on thisspecificsetof variables from this specific sample?
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We will focus on aspecificsetof emotive variables relevant to altruism.
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We propose a morespecificsetof constraints, targeting noun phrases consisting only of nouns, adjectives, and (optionally) prepositions (or specifically of).
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What does not emerge from the volume is a sense that caves subsume aspecificsetof meanings.
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Not just aspecificset, but all words need to be recognized.
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In the second analysis, the telicity of the predicates was controlled, and thespecificsetof verbs for each child was allowed to vary.
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