See spec on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1999, George Buehler, The Troller Yacht Book:",
"text": "I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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71,
78
]
],
"ref": "1995, Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier:",
"text": "Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
68,
76
]
],
"ref": "2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 720 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 53:",
"text": "And if that is my only criticism, then these trains are pretty well 'specced'. These are an out-and-out commuter train - fast, quiet, and well-designed for their role.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To specify, especially in a formal specification document."
],
"links": [
[
"specify",
"specify"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈspɛk/"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-spec.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-au-spec.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
},
{
"homophone": "speck"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to specify",
"word": "speksata"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to specify",
"word": "speca"
}
],
"word": "spec"
}
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"canonical",
"neuter"
]
}
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
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"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "speċ",
"head2": "",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
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"head": "speċ"
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{
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{
"word": "spiċ"
}
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"Old English lemmas",
"Old English neuter nouns",
"Old English nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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],
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[
"spiċ",
"spic#Old_English"
]
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"alternative"
]
}
],
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}
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"2": "specjalista"
},
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"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "ru",
"3": "спе́ц"
},
"expansion": "Russian спе́ц (spéc)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"singular"
]
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "speca",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "speców",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "specowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "specom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "speca",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "speców",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "specem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "specami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "specu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "specach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "specu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "spece",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
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"spec"
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"lang": "Polish",
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{
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"Pages with entries",
"Polish 1-syllable words",
"Polish clippings",
"Polish colloquialisms",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine nouns",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish personal nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from Russian",
"Polish terms derived from Russian",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛt͡s",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛt͡s/1 syllable",
"pl:People"
],
"glosses": [
"specialist, expert"
],
"links": [
[
"specialist",
"specialist"
],
[
"expert",
"expert"
]
],
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"(colloquial) specialist, expert"
],
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{
"word": "specjalista"
},
{
"word": "ekspert"
},
{
"word": "fachowiec"
}
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine",
"person"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈspɛt͡s/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛt͡s"
}
],
"word": "spec"
}
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