单词 | specializing |
释义 | specializingn.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed specialty1384 circumstance1393 punctuality1620 punctualness1620 specializing1633 particularity1638 detailedness1842 specificality1858 detailism1865 1633 E. Kellett Misc. Divinitie iii. iii. 228 The specializing of two sorts, quick and dead, evinceth, that some shall not die, and some have died. 2. The action or process of becoming or making special in some respect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > becoming or making special specializing1845 1845 Biblical Repository Jan. 84 The physique of the total individuality contains the form, the specializing of the individual body, and the chemical process. 1889 A. Sidgwick in Jrnl. Educ. Feb. 116 Prevented by need of early specialising. 1904 H. Black Pract. Self Culture v. 138 Division of labour, or specialising of functon [sic] have become essential in modern industry. 2005 P. N. Jones Respect for Ancestors i. 11 This splitting and specializing of the sub-disciplines has..greatly hindered the field of anthropology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). specializingadj. That specializes, in various senses. In quots. such as 1701 and 1861 not clearly separable from attributive uses of the noun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > differentiating or distinctive discretive?1490 differencing1603 differential1615 specificative1641 discriminating1642 discriminative1646 specializing1701 differentiating1794 diacritical1857 society > education > learning > study > [adjective] > specializing specializing1701 particularistic1840 special1846 specialistic1856 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adjective] > becoming or making specialized specializing1701 the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [adjective] > specialization specialized1854 specializing1861 gerontomorphic1939 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. vi. 326 The great specializing character that distinguishes necessary and eternal truths from those of the opposite order. 1855 C. J. Ellicott Crit. Comm. Epist. Eph. (ii. 14) 38/2 ‘Strangers from the covenants’; second and more specializing part of the first explanatory clause. 1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 203 In the fungi, however, there is little or nothing of this specializing or differentiating process. 1890 Times 24 Dec. 7/3 To enable ‘specializing’ students to follow their courses. 1894 Nature's Method in Evol. Life vi. 70 Specialising organs made their appearance. 1924 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 8 350 The specializing oralist would also use an outside [i.e. outside the classroom] book. 1999 J. Crace Being Dead (2000) xi. 93 When every human being in the world has perished..there will still be insects. Take my word. Flourishing, evolving, specializing insects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633adj.1701 |
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