Define vs Specific - What's the difference?
define | specific |
To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
* Sir (Isaac Newton)
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, title= (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.3:
To express the essential nature of something.
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, title= To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.
To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
(computing, programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
* 1996 , James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
* 1999 , Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
explicit or definite
(sciences) Pertaining to a species.
*2008 , (Richard Dawkins), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Oxford 2009, p. 3:
*:Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
(taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
special, distinctive or unique
intended for, or applying to a particular thing
being a remedy for a particular disease
* Coleridge
(immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
(physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
(physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
(physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
Specification
(in the plural) The details; particulars.
As nouns the difference between define and specific
is that define is (computing|programming) a kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs while specific is a distinguishing attribute or quality.As a verb define
is to determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.As an adjective specific is
explicit or definite.define
English
(Definition)Verb
(defin)- Ringsvery distinct and well defined .
Lee S. Langston
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define .
Crinkly Curves, passage=Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Derived terms
* definable * definerNoun
(en noun)- From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines , preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
- Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
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Alternative forms
* specifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
- In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science.