Synonyms: assign, set apart, specify
Definition: select something or someone for a specific purpose
Usage: The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
Similar words: select, choose, take, pick out
Definition: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
Usage: Take any one of these cards; Choose a good husband for your daughter; She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her
Synonyms: intend, designate, destine, specify
Definition: design or destine
Usage: She was intended to become the director
Synonyms: pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow, narrow down, specify
Definition: define clearly
Usage: I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
Similar words: determine
Definition: fix in scope; fix the boundaries of
Usage: the tree determines the border of the property
Synonyms: limit, set, specify, define, determine, fix
Definition: decide upon or fix definitely
Usage: fix the variables; specify the parameters
Similar words: select, choose, take, pick out
Definition: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
Usage: Take any one of these cards; Choose a good husband for your daughter; She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her
Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate, condition
Definition: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
Usage: The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life; The contract stipulates the dates of the payments
Synonyms: specialise, specialize, specify, particularise, particularize
Definition: be specific about
Usage: Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?
Similar words: lucubrate, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, enlarge, flesh out
Definition: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Usage: She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
Synonyms: specify, define, delimit, delimitate, delineate
Definition: determine the essential quality of
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer