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  1. to state or describe something clearly and exactly: He said we should meet but didn't specify a time. My contract specifies that I must give a month's notice if I leave my job. The loan must be repaid by a specified date. The land is zoned for development within a specified period of five years.

  2. The meaning of SPECIFY is to name or state explicitly or in detail. How to use specify in a sentence.

  3. If you specify what should happen or be done, you explain it in an exact and detailed way.

  4. Definition of specify verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

    • Articles. An article is a determiner that precedes a noun or noun phrase and identifies it as either specific or nonspecific. The definite article is the, and the indefinite articles are a and an.
    • Demonstrative determiners. Demonstrative determiners, also known as demonstrative adjectives, communicate the placement of a noun in space or time. The demonstrative determiners are this, that, these, and those.
    • Distributive determiners. Distributive determiners refer to a group or individual parts within a group. Words like each, every, all, and both are distributive determiners.
    • Interrogative determiners. Interrogative determiners narrow down a noun’s attributes by asking a direct or an indirect question. The interrogative determiners are whose, what, and which.
  5. Specify definition: to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail. See examples of SPECIFY used in a sentence.

  6. A determiner is a word that precedes a noun to specify quantity (e.g., two cats, many mice) or to clarify what the noun refers to (e.g., his house, those dogs, the mouse). A determiner cannot have a comparative form, and many determiners reference something else, making them like pronouns.

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