Specify
verb
To clearly and exactly state or describe something.
The contract specifies all the terms of the agreement
Often appears as...
- specify the conditions
- specify the time
verb
To choose or select an individual or something specific.
You can specify your choice at the time of order
Often appears as...
- specify a choice
- specify an option
verb
To include a condition as part of an agreement or contract.
The lease specifies that all repairs are the responsibility of the tenant
Often appears as...
- specify in a contract
- specify in agreement
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To clearly and exactly state or describe something.
The contract specifies all the terms of the agreement
Often appears as...
- specify the conditions
- specify the time
verb
To choose or select an individual or something specific.
You can specify your choice at the time of order
Often appears as...
- specify a choice
- specify an option
verb
To include a condition as part of an agreement or contract.
The lease specifies that all repairs are the responsibility of the tenant
Often appears as...
- specify in a contract
- specify in agreement
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Exactness Required
Use 'specify' when precision is essential and assumptions aren't enough.
Please specify which model you need.
Pro Tip 2/3Remove Ambiguity
Specifying helps avoid misunderstandings by providing clarity.
Specify the quantity to prevent order mistakes.
Pro Tip 3/3Instructions Important
'Specify' is often used when giving or asking for precise instructions.
The manual specifies how to assemble the desk.
Pro Tip 1/3Exactness Required
Use 'specify' when precision is essential and assumptions aren't enough.
Please specify which model you need.
Pro Tip 2/3Remove Ambiguity
Specifying helps avoid misunderstandings by providing clarity.
Specify the quantity to prevent order mistakes.
Pro Tip 3/3Instructions Important
'Specify' is often used when giving or asking for precise instructions.
The manual specifies how to assemble the desk.
Pro Tip 1/3Exactness Required
Use 'specify' when precision is essential and assumptions aren't enough.
Please specify which model you need.
Pro Tip 2/3Remove Ambiguity
Specifying helps avoid misunderstandings by providing clarity.
Specify the quantity to prevent order mistakes.
Pro Tip 3/3Instructions Important
'Specify' is often used when giving or asking for precise instructions.
The manual specifies how to assemble the desk.
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Nirmalya Kumar: India's...
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them. Without that, you could not have any of the other
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How the blockchain is...
And the music protects her intellectual property rights. You want to listen to the song? It's free, or maybe a few micro-cents that flow into a digital account. You want to put the song in your movie, that's different, and the IP rights are all specified. You want to make a ringtone? That's different.
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How AI can bring on a...
and now we can't live without them. So they're going to produce even more jobs than they take away, but it's important that a lot of the tasks that we're going to give them are tasks that can be defined in terms of efficiency or productivity. If you can specify a task, either manual or conceptual,
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How many verb tenses are...
with auxiliary words, like would or did, or by specifying the time they mean. Are the variations from language to language just differents ways of describing the same fundamental reality? Or do their diverse structures reflect different ways of thinking about the world and even time itself?
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
the captain readily agreed. The adventure would be his last. Overconfident and severely outnumbered, Magellan's force was overwhelmed, and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed,
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The big impact of small...
people more power so that we specify what these extra powers should be which means that the case for independence it can stand us the option which offers the powers that most people want ingest enough if you ask people specifics like
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The rise of modern...
seek common ground across those divisions. Finally, liberal democracies rely on the rule of law and the protection of minority rights, as specified in constitutions and legal statutes. Taken together, these ideals propose
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Shimon Schocken: The...
And this is the great team that helped us make it happen. The trick was to decompose the computer's construction into numerous stand-alone modules, each of which could be individually specified,
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Coral Reef Ocean...
huge you specify to the ocean and i mean from a scientist's point of view they're just so unique and fascinating and from the corals point of view they support so much they
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Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How...
all during the school day. All during the school day. We created a deployment plan that specified where every single support person and police officer would be
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Nirmalya Kumar: India's...
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them. Without that, you could not have any of the other
Video examples
How the blockchain is...
And the music protects her intellectual property rights. You want to listen to the song? It's free, or maybe a few micro-cents that flow into a digital account. You want to put the song in your movie, that's different, and the IP rights are all specified. You want to make a ringtone? That's different.
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How AI can bring on a...
and now we can't live without them. So they're going to produce even more jobs than they take away, but it's important that a lot of the tasks that we're going to give them are tasks that can be defined in terms of efficiency or productivity. If you can specify a task, either manual or conceptual,
Video examples
How many verb tenses are...
with auxiliary words, like would or did, or by specifying the time they mean. Are the variations from language to language just differents ways of describing the same fundamental reality? Or do their diverse structures reflect different ways of thinking about the world and even time itself?
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
the captain readily agreed. The adventure would be his last. Overconfident and severely outnumbered, Magellan's force was overwhelmed, and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed,
Video examples
The big impact of small...
people more power so that we specify what these extra powers should be which means that the case for independence it can stand us the option which offers the powers that most people want ingest enough if you ask people specifics like
Video examples
The rise of modern...
seek common ground across those divisions. Finally, liberal democracies rely on the rule of law and the protection of minority rights, as specified in constitutions and legal statutes. Taken together, these ideals propose
Video examples
Shimon Schocken: The...
And this is the great team that helped us make it happen. The trick was to decompose the computer's construction into numerous stand-alone modules, each of which could be individually specified,
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Coral Reef Ocean...
huge you specify to the ocean and i mean from a scientist's point of view they're just so unique and fascinating and from the corals point of view they support so much they
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Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How...
all during the school day. All during the school day. We created a deployment plan that specified where every single support person and police officer would be
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
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Iain McGilchrist
British Writer
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
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Nirmalya Kumar
Educator
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
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Urjit Patel
Indian Economist
Remonetisation has happened at a fast pace, and that was part of the plan that, subsequent to the withdrawal of the specified bank notes, our production plans and supply processes would ensure that the remonetisation happened as quickly as possible.
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Tia Carrere
American Actress
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
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Erica Mena
I can't specify this enough: when cameras go on, everybody wanna be big and tough. You're not like that in real life.
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Mark Lanegan
American Musician
When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.
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Jessica Henwick
English Actress
I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
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Iain McGilchrist
British Writer
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
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Nirmalya Kumar
Educator
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.
Quote examples
Jeff Bridges
American Actor
When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
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Urjit Patel
Indian Economist
Remonetisation has happened at a fast pace, and that was part of the plan that, subsequent to the withdrawal of the specified bank notes, our production plans and supply processes would ensure that the remonetisation happened as quickly as possible.
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Tia Carrere
American Actress
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
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Erica Mena
I can't specify this enough: when cameras go on, everybody wanna be big and tough. You're not like that in real life.
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Mark Lanegan
American Musician
When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.
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Jessica Henwick
English Actress
I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.
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