Describe vs Particularize - What's the difference?
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(label) To represent in words.
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(label) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
* 1826 , (James Fenimore Cooper), (The Last of the Mohicans)
To give rise to a geometrical structure.
To reveal a new species by scientifically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
(label) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
* Bible, (w) xviii. 9
To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
(intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
*, I.iii.2.1:
*:I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
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*1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 110:
*:Now it is his daily work to particularize , item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.
To differentiate, make distinct from others.
Describe is a related term of particularize.
As verbs the difference between describe and particularize
is that describe is (label) to represent in words while particularize is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc; to single out.describe
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Verb
(describ)Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flourishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans.
- Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.
Synonyms
* (to represent in words) portray, betell, depict, report * (to represent in writing) bewriteExternal links
* * ----particularize
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Alternative forms
* particulariseVerb
(particulariz)- He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
