specialise

verb

Etymology

From special + -ise.

  1. derived from speciālis
  2. derived from especial
  3. inherited from *special
  4. formed as specialise — “special + -ise

Definitions

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of specialize.

    • Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.
    • Firms... which have specialised in the manufacture of ‘heavies’...
    • Some centres specialise in timber, and those conveniently situated to the coalfields deal with large quantities of pit props.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at specialise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at specialise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at specialise

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA