Word Meanings - SPECIALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions. (more info) 1. To mention specialy; to particularize. 2. To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPECIALIZE)

• Mark Stamp
• label
• sign
• indicate
• decorate
• brand
• stigmatize
• signalize
• note
• observe
• regard
• heed
• specify
• specialize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPECIALIZE)

• Distinguish
• honor
• decorate
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to SPECIALIZE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• LABELER
  One who labels.
• STAMP
  1. To strike; to beat; to crush. These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind. Chaucer. 2. To strike the foot forcibly downward. But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies. dennis.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• BRANDLE
  To shake; to totter.
• LABELLUM
  The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• BRANDYWINE
  Brandy. Wiseman.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• LABEL
  A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living. 6. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with
• PEPPERBRAND
  See BUNT
• INDISTINGUISHING
  Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.