Personal - English meaning

adjective

Typical of a particular person, place, or thing.

Usage examples:

He began with a characteristic attack on extremism

noun

A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them.

Usage examples:

Certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study

adjective

Intended to be kept secret.

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Confidential information

adjective

Private, and intended to be kept secret

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Confidential data/documents/information, etc. prosecutors were not able to obtain confidential data…

adjective

Extending or moving from one place to another without changing direction or stopping.

Usage examples:

There was no direct flight that day

adverb

With no one or nothing in between.

Usage examples:

They seem reluctant to deal with me direct

verb

Control the operations of; manage or govern.

Usage examples:

An economic elite directed the nation's affairs

adjective

Characteristic of one person or thing, and so serving to distinguish it from others.

Usage examples:

Juniper berries give gin its distinctive flavour

adjective

Marking something as clearly different from others

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A distinctive flavor/writing style

adjective

Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Usage examples:

They provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument

adjective

Based on what is experienced or seen rather than on theory

Usage examples:

We have no empirical evidence that the industry is in trouble.

adjective

Based on what is experienced or seen rather than on theory

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Empirical analysis/research/study the diagnosis of a business problem should be based both on empir…

adjective

Better or greater than usual; special.

Usage examples:

These traditions are of especial interest to feminists

adjective

Special

adjective

Excluding or not admitting other things.

Usage examples:

An exclusive focus on success and making money

noun

An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.

Usage examples:

The three media outlets that have broadcast or published exclusives about torture at abu ghraib - c…

adjective

Limited to only one person or group of people

Usage examples:

The pool is for the exclusive use of residents of springfield., an exclusive club

adjective

Obtained personally, or directly from someone who is personally involved in something

Usage examples:

He has firsthand experience of what war is like.

adjective

Relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual.

Usage examples:

She emerged as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the nineties

adjective

Having strange or unusual habits, ways of behaving, or features

Usage examples:

The film, three hours long, is directed in his usual idiosyncratic style., he follows a very idiosy…

adjective

Occurring or done at once; instant.

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The authorities took no immediate action

adjective

Happening or done without delay or very soon after something else

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She made an immediate impact when she arrived to coach the team., emotional outbursts followed in t…

adjective

Single; separate.

Usage examples:

Individual tiny flowers

noun

A single human being as distinct from a group.

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Boat trips for parties and individuals

noun

A single person or thing, esp. when compared to the group or set to which it belongs

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We will remember him as an individual who always tried to make people happy., every company has its…

adjective

Tailored to suit a particular individual.

Usage examples:

Recent evidence highlights the importance of individualized treatment for each patient

verb

Tailor (something) to suit a particular individual.

Usage examples:

The study emphasizes the need to individualize treatment based on patient characteristics and prefe…

adjective

Prepared or suitable for individual people

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The hospital gives individualized care/attention/treatment to all its patients.

adjective

Closely acquainted; familiar.

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Intimate friends

noun

A very close friend.

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His circle of intimates

verb

State or make known.

Usage examples:

Mr hutchison has intimated his decision to retire

adjective

Used to single out an individual member of a specified group or class.

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The action seems to discriminate against a particular group of companies

noun

A detail.

Usage examples:

He is wrong in every particular

adjective

Special or single, or this and not any other

Usage examples:

Is there a particular restaurant you’d like to eat at?, what in particular (= special things) did y…

adjective

Different to what is normal or expected; strange.

Usage examples:

He gave her some very peculiar looks

noun

A parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it lies, and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch or an archbishop.

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Deans and canons of royal peculiars, notably westminster abbey and windsor

adjective

Unusual and strange

Usage examples:

The copy editor will check type size and technical details to see if anything looks peculiar., kath…

adjective

Designed or produced to meet someone's individual requirements.

Usage examples:

A steward will deliver personalized service to every passenger

verb

Design or produce (something) to meet someone's individual requirements.

Usage examples:

The wedding invitations will be personalized to your exact requirements

adjective

Used to describe an object that has someone's name on it, or that has been made for a particular person

Usage examples:

His car has a personalized number plate - tj 1.

adjective

Belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only.

Usage examples:

All bedrooms have private facilities

noun

The lowest rank in the army, below lance corporal or private first class.

Usage examples:

He enlisted in the army in 1980 and was first assigned as a young private as a supply clerk in germ…

adjective

Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.

Usage examples:

How did you guess i'd got a secret plan?

noun

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

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A state secret

noun

A piece of information that is not generally known or is not known by someone else and should not be told to others

Usage examples:

We don’t keep secrets from each other., don’t tell anyone – it’s a secret., what’s the secret of yo…

adjective

Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

Usage examples:

The situation was unique in british politics

noun

A unique person or thing.

Usage examples:

Some of lamb's writings were so memorably beautiful as to be uniques in their class

The single one of its kind