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Another word for specify

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Verb

  1. To make known or identify, as by signs

    See also:

    show

  2. To refer to by name

    See also:

    specific

  3. To make specific

    See also:

    specific

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Another word for specify

Verb
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Sentence Examples

  • "The rule doesn't specify," she replied sweetly.

  • Since the intrinsic energy of a substance varies with the conditions under which the substance exists, it is necessary, before proceeding to the practical application of any of the laws mentioned above, accurately to specify the conditions of the initial and final systems, or at least to secure that they shall not vary in the operations considered.

  • The returns from the chartered banks do not specify the deposits in these special accounts.

  • Appeal to parliament resulted in the Dissenters' Chapels Act (1844), which secures that, so far as trusts do not specify doctrines, twenty-five years tenure legitimates existing usage.

  • On the other hand, those who imagined aethers in order to explain phenomena could not specify the nature of the motion of these media, and could not prove that the media, as imagined by them, would produce the effects they were meant to explain.

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