单词 | particular |
释义 | par·tic·u·lar I. 1. < preferred the general to the particular approach — F.W.D.Deakin > < claims of the United States or any particular state — U.S. Constitution > < how a particular piece of land can be put to … use — Wall Street Journal > 2. obsolete < the three years drought … was but particular and left people alive — Francis Bacon > 3. < a particular account of the day's events > 4. a. archaic < these domestic and particular broils are not the question — Shakespeare > b. obsolete 5. a. < the … selection was the particular gem of the evening — Douglas Watt > < an attack of particular severity — New York Times > < a rather particular problem because of the immense size of the timbers — London Calling > b. obsolete 6. < each particular hair to stand an end, like quills — Shakespeare > < provoked by particular events in his life — T.S.Eliot > 7. a. < all concrete individuals are particular and all universal individuals are abstract — Nelson Goodman > b. < “some men are wise” is a particular affirmative > 8. a. archaic < never suffer this fellow to be particular with you — Henry Fielding > b. < my very particular friend — Charles Dickens > 9. a. < is very particular about her housekeeping > b. c. < these bacilli are not particular in their habitats — Justina Hill > < never lost patience with even the most particular customers > Synonyms: see circumstantial, nice, single, special II. 1. archaic < let us divide the discourse into four particulars — Robert Johnson > 2. a. < their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size — Scott Fitzgerald > < determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular — Dean Acheson > b. < everybody was stirred by the news and wanted to know the particulars — H.E.Scudder > < genealogical particulars and biographical details are given — British Book News > — see bill of particulars 3. a. (1) < a discussion that attempts to generalize from particulars — Harvey Breit > < from moral generalities to business particulars — G.B.Shaw > (2) b. 4. a. archaic < return from the common cause to what concerns our particular — William Warburton > b. obsolete < if the gentleman had kept all the allowance for his own particular — Edward Nicholas > 5. a. < a few letters and particulars in the possession of the present writer — Richard Garnett †1906 > b. obsolete < it is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community — Roger L'Estrange > 6. < a particular of premises > < I send you the descriptive particular — Frederick North > 7. Synonyms: see item • - in particular |
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