specify
/ˈspɛs.əˌfaɪ/ verb B2- To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
- To include in a specification.
- To bring about a specific result.
He/she/it specifies · Past specified · Past participle specified · -ing form specifying
Verb forms
- Base form
- specify
- He/she/it
- specifies
- Past
- specified
- Past participle
- specified
- -ing form
- specifying
From the library
“It is well,” said the abbé; “we have some hours before us—it is now just a quarter past twelve o’clock.” Instinctively Dantès turned round to observe by what watch or clock the abbé had been able so accurately to specify the hour.
And he signed it rapidly, after having first run his eye over that part of the deed in which were specified the situation of the house and the names of the proprietors.
“And has he conformed to all that the letter specified?”
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