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Specific
- adjective - (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general"
- a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria"
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements"
- Definite
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; "specific characters"
- stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount"
Specimen
- noun - a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"
- an example regarded as typical of its class
Specious
- adjective - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
Specking
- verb - produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"
Speckled
- verb - having a pattern of dots
- mark with small spots; "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
- produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Speckles
- noun - a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
- mark with small spots; "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
- produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Spectate
- verb - be a spectator in a sports event
Specters
- noun - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
- a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
Spectral
- adjective - of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis"
- resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"