Usually means: Clearly define or identify details.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word specify:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. specify: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. specify, specify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. specify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. specify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. specify: Vocabulary.com
  6. Specify, specify: Wordnik
  7. specify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. specify: Wiktionary
  9. specify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. specify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. specify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. specify: Dictionary.com
  13. specify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Specify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. specify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. specify: Rhymezone
  17. specify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. specify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. specify: Free Dictionary
  20. specify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. specify: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specify: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specify: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See specifiable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
verb:  (transitive) To include in a specification.
verb:  (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To speak explicitly or in detail (often used with of).

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