Particularizer vs Particularizes - What's the difference?
particularizer | particularizes |
(grammar) A word or phrase that focuses attention on part of something, such as mainly'', ''especially'', or ''primarily .
(particularize)
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.
* Atterbury
*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.
As a noun particularizer
is a word or phrase that focuses attention on part of something, such as mainly, especially, or primarily.As a verb particularizes is
third-person singular of particularize.particularizer
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Noun
(en noun)particularizes
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Verb
(head)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.