English Dictionary

specialize

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/

動詞

自動詞 廃用 稀用 他動詞 稀用 軽蔑的 通常

(obsolete, intransitive) To go into specific details. / (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically. / (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.

日本語の意味

具体的な詳細に踏み込む（古風な自動詞の用法） / 具体的に指定する、明示する（稀な他動詞の用法） / 範囲を狭める（あまり用いられない他動詞の用法）

In his reports he would frequently specialize, lingering over minute particulars that no one needed.

彼は報告書でしばしば詳述し、誰も必要としない些細な点にまで長々と触れた。

意味（1）

(obsolete, intransitive) To go into specific details.

Firſt laſh the Great-ones ; but, if thou be wiſe, / In generall, and doe not ſpeciallize : / Yet, if thou doe, ſo wiſely let it be, / None may except but thoſe that faulty be.

意味（2）

(rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.

Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.

意味（3）

(uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.

He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.

意味（4）

(biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.

In the lowest orders of being, we find these functions very much blended together, and several of them apparently performed by one simple apparatus ; but in proportion as we rise in the scale, we perceive that they are specialized, or separated from each other, and that a complicated set of organs is appropriated to each of them.

意味（5）

To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.

Also, to their honour be it said, they will not allow their scholars to specialize, and, with four hours of mathematics a week, even a Newton would not go up to Cambridge knowing much.

意味（6）

To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.

Firms... which have specialised in the manufacture of ‘heavies’...

意味（7）

(usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.

Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.

specializes （ present singular third-person ）

specializing （ participle present ）

specialized （ participle past ）

specialized （ past ）