Customize
verb
To alter or modify to suit personal taste or specific needs.
I customized my laptop by adding more memory and changing the color.
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- customize a car
- customize a laptop
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Technical
verb
To design or alter according to individual specifications.
You can customize the software settings to match your work style.
Often appears as...
- customize settings
- customize user interface
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Technical
verb
To modify a product to meet a particular specification, use, or customer requirement.
The company customizes its offerings to the specific needs of each client.
Often appears as...
- customize offerings
- customize services
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Academic
verb
To alter or modify to suit personal taste or specific needs.
I customized my laptop by adding more memory and changing the color.
Often appears as...
- customize a car
- customize a laptop
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To design or alter according to individual specifications.
You can customize the software settings to match your work style.
Often appears as...
- customize settings
- customize user interface
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To modify a product to meet a particular specification, use, or customer requirement.
The company customizes its offerings to the specific needs of each client.
Often appears as...
- customize offerings
- customize services
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Personal Touch
Use 'customize' when adding individual preferences to general items.
She customized her dress with hand-stitched designs.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Aesthetics
'Customize' encompasses both visual changes and functional enhancements.
He customized his bike for better performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Uniqueness Emphasized
'Customize' often implies a unique or one-of-a-kind result.
Customized jewelry often carries a personal story.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Touch
Use 'customize' when adding individual preferences to general items.
She customized her dress with hand-stitched designs.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Aesthetics
'Customize' encompasses both visual changes and functional enhancements.
He customized his bike for better performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Uniqueness Emphasized
'Customize' often implies a unique or one-of-a-kind result.
Customized jewelry often carries a personal story.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Touch
Use 'customize' when adding individual preferences to general items.
She customized her dress with hand-stitched designs.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Aesthetics
'Customize' encompasses both visual changes and functional enhancements.
He customized his bike for better performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Uniqueness Emphasized
'Customize' often implies a unique or one-of-a-kind result.
Customized jewelry often carries a personal story.
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Richard Baraniuk on...
And to them, this idea of being able to remix and customize to the local context is extraordinarily important, because just providing free content to people has actually been likened by people in the developing world to a kind of cultural imperialism -- that if you don't empower people
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How Do Cartels Get Their...
from an affiliated cartel fighting to regain territory in Sonora. He's picking up a fresh order, including a pair of customized handguns for rich narcos who don't just want a weapon, they want to make a statement. Sales like this are common for these smugglers.
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What really happens to...
and some nonhormonal medications that can be very helpful. There are so many permutations and combinations of options that safe therapy can be customized for almost every woman. One more idea, have a mantra ready. When I get a hot flush, sometimes I tell myself
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How we teach computers...
Our society is more technologically advanced than ever. We send people to the moon, we make phones that talk to us or customize radio stations that can play only music we like. Yet, our most advanced machines and computers still struggle at this task.
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What a world without...
and pop-up villages. But I'm telling you, I have a list a mile long. This is customized housing for youth transitioning out of foster care. These are reentry centers for women to reunite with their children. These are spaces for survivors of violence.
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Why the universe seems...
from a walking, climbing or swimming animal. A monkey's brain must have software capable of simulating a three-dimensional world of branches and trunks. A mole's software for constructing models of its world will be customized for underground use.
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Computing a theory of...
this has become surprisingly popular among composers finding musical forms by searching the computational universe. In a sense, we can use the computational universe to get mass customized creativity. I'm hoping we can, for example,
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
to customize Darius's wheelchair on national television footage from the trip became a successful nonprofit documentary and ultimately Darius would travel over 300 thousand miles by Road across his lifetime sharing his story
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East vs west -- the...
And every culture comes up with its own understanding of life, its own customized version of mythology. Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation
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Dear Subscribers...
if you take the time to create a particularly stunning lesson, please also take the time to nominate it. We will systematically feature the best community-made lessons within the ever-growing TED-Ed library, free for the world to learn from, to customize and to share. The possibilities of this tool
Video examples
Richard Baraniuk on...
And to them, this idea of being able to remix and customize to the local context is extraordinarily important, because just providing free content to people has actually been likened by people in the developing world to a kind of cultural imperialism -- that if you don't empower people
Video examples
How Do Cartels Get Their...
from an affiliated cartel fighting to regain territory in Sonora. He's picking up a fresh order, including a pair of customized handguns for rich narcos who don't just want a weapon, they want to make a statement. Sales like this are common for these smugglers.
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What really happens to...
and some nonhormonal medications that can be very helpful. There are so many permutations and combinations of options that safe therapy can be customized for almost every woman. One more idea, have a mantra ready. When I get a hot flush, sometimes I tell myself
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How we teach computers...
Our society is more technologically advanced than ever. We send people to the moon, we make phones that talk to us or customize radio stations that can play only music we like. Yet, our most advanced machines and computers still struggle at this task.
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What a world without...
and pop-up villages. But I'm telling you, I have a list a mile long. This is customized housing for youth transitioning out of foster care. These are reentry centers for women to reunite with their children. These are spaces for survivors of violence.
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Why the universe seems...
from a walking, climbing or swimming animal. A monkey's brain must have software capable of simulating a three-dimensional world of branches and trunks. A mole's software for constructing models of its world will be customized for underground use.
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Computing a theory of...
this has become surprisingly popular among composers finding musical forms by searching the computational universe. In a sense, we can use the computational universe to get mass customized creativity. I'm hoping we can, for example,
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
to customize Darius's wheelchair on national television footage from the trip became a successful nonprofit documentary and ultimately Darius would travel over 300 thousand miles by Road across his lifetime sharing his story
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East vs west -- the...
And every culture comes up with its own understanding of life, its own customized version of mythology. Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation
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Chip Conley
American Businessman
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Understand 'Minecraft,' and you'll begin to understand the power of games. Like any good story, this one begins with a man and a dream. Markus 'Notch' Persson first started on the project to create a three-dimensional world vast in scope, with elements that allowed you to customize your character into the way you want them.
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Aslaug Magnusdottir
Icelander Businesswoman
I so often heard from women that they saw this beautiful fashion, but it didn't always work for them - whether it was cultural reasons, lifestyle reasons, body type reasons. So it seemed like in my mind there was a gap there, that women really wanted to be able to customize items to fit their needs and their tastes.
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Yuji Horii
Japanese Designer
For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.
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Kathryn Minshew
American Businesswoman
I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.
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Simon Mainwaring
Businessman
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
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David Gilmour
British Musician
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
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Eve Torres
American Actress
I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the ways in which abusive language can be hurtful.
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Alex Stamos
American Businessman
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.
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Ren Ng
Malaysian Businessman
With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
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Chip Conley
American Businessman
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Understand 'Minecraft,' and you'll begin to understand the power of games. Like any good story, this one begins with a man and a dream. Markus 'Notch' Persson first started on the project to create a three-dimensional world vast in scope, with elements that allowed you to customize your character into the way you want them.
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Aslaug Magnusdottir
Icelander Businesswoman
I so often heard from women that they saw this beautiful fashion, but it didn't always work for them - whether it was cultural reasons, lifestyle reasons, body type reasons. So it seemed like in my mind there was a gap there, that women really wanted to be able to customize items to fit their needs and their tastes.
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Yuji Horii
Japanese Designer
For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.
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Kathryn Minshew
American Businesswoman
I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.
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Simon Mainwaring
Businessman
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
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David Gilmour
British Musician
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
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Eve Torres
American Actress
I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the ways in which abusive language can be hurtful.
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Alex Stamos
American Businessman
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.
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Ren Ng
Malaysian Businessman
With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
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