different between specific vs cheeked

English

Alternative forms

• specifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speci?s (“kind”) + faci? (“make”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /sp??s?f.?k/, /sp??s?f.?k/
• Rhymes: -?f?k
• Hyphenation: spe?cif?ic

Adjective

specific (comparative more specific, superlative most specific)

1. explicit or definite
2. (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.

3. (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
4. special, distinctive or unique
5. intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
6. Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.

   a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms

7. being a remedy for a particular disease

   Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
8. (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
9. (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
10. (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)
11. (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)

Synonyms

• (explicit, definite): express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
• (special, distinctive or unique): singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
• (intended for a particular thing): peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific

Antonyms

• unspecific, nonspecific
• (intended for a particular thing): broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• generic

Noun

specific (plural specifics)

1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.

3. Specification
4. (in the plural) The details; particulars.

Further reading

• specific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• specific in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• specific at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French spécifique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spe?t??i.fik/

Adjective

specific m or n (feminine singular specific?, masculine plural specifici, feminine and neuter plural specifice)

1. specific

   Antonym: nespecific

Declension

Related terms

• specificitate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?kt/

Adjective

cheeked (not comparable)

1. (usually in combination) Having some specific type of cheek.
   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, edited by Oliphant Smeaton, London: J.M. Dent, 1904, Act IV, Scene I, p. 89, [1]

     Oh here be rare apples, red-cheeked apples that cry come kiss me: apples, hold your peace, I'll teach you to cry. [Eats one.

   • 1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87, [2]

     […] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word.

   • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, 1907, p. 146, [3]

     I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1916, Chapter II, [4]

     Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly....

   • 1973, William Buck (translator), Mahabharata, New York: Meridian, 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76,

     Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]

Translations

Verb

cheeked

1. simple past tense and past participle of cheek