Word Finder - special

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A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.

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We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving.

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One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.

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Today's special is our tuna melt on rye.

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Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.

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Did you see the Christmas special?

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A special constable.

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Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.

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Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin.

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Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.

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A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.

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A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.

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A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.

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(nursing) To supervise a patient one-on-one.

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Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.

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a special episode of a television series

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Of particular personal interest or value; dear; beloved.

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Everyone is special to someone.

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Of or related to learning or intellectual disabilities.

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He goes to a special school.

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Constituting or relating to a species.

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The seven dark spots is a special property unique to Coccinella septempunctata.

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Chief in excellence.

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Of or related to unconventional warfare, as in "special forces" and "special operations".

It's nice to have that special respect.

I have a special board on which I play these games.

You have a very special gift.

It was rude to act this way to hosts who had invited them into their home on such a special occasion.

Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes."

I have a special mission for you.

The biographies and special national histories are like paper money.

Certainly she wanted to feel special to Alex - and did.

She had learned the printed letters, and for some time had amused herself by making simple sentences, using slips on which the words were printed in raised letters; but these sentences had no special relation to one another.

She's a very special person.

The evening slipped by and when the band took a break, special requests were played on a stereo.

Your special gift will protect you.

It's one of my special talents, he said.

As before he was absent-minded and seemed occupied not with what was before his eyes but with something special of his own.

That evening she prepared a special supper for Alex and dressed in the white sundress he liked so well.

It may be supposed that originally the public roads, when worn by the cartage of the coal, were repaired by laying planks of timber at the bottom of the ruts, and that then the planks were laid on the surface of special roads or ways' formed between the collieries and the river.

Besides the system of charges thus prescribed in the classification and rate-sheet, each tariff provides for a certain number of special rates or charges made for particular lines of trade in certain localities, independently of their relation to the general system.

A special class of Roman prelatures exist at Rome, endowed as a kind of ecclesiastical majority to which those members of certain families who are destined for the clerical life naturally succeed.

The real ruler and the chief officers of the state were members of the Tupou family, from which also the wife of the Tui Tonga was always chosen, whose descendants through the female line had special honours and privileges, under the title of tamaha, recalling the vasu of Fiji.

The Leibzoll (body-tax) was also abolished, in addition to the special law-taxes, the passport duty, the nightduty and all similiar imposts which had stamped the Jews as outcast, for they were now (Dec. 19) to have equal rights with the Christian inhabitants."

It soon became evident, however, that the Porte was endeavouring to obstruct the execution of the new reforms. Several months passed without any step being taken towards this realization; difficulties were raised with regard to the composition of the international commissions charged with the reorganization of the gendarmery and judicial system; intrigues were set on foot against the Christian governorgeneral; and the presence of a special imperial commissioner, who had no place under the constitution, proved so injurious to the restoration of tranquillity that the powers demanded his immediate recall.

And first as to Italy, where the Jews in a special degree have identified themselves with the national life.

As time went on, a more progressive policy intervened, the special form of Jewish oath was abolished in 1846, and in 1848, as a result of the revolutionary movement in which Jews played an active part, legislation took a more liberal turn.

But gradually the title was extended to ecclesiastical persons having a prominent office even without jurisdiction, and later still it has come to be applied to ecclesiastical persons marked by some special honour though without any definite office or jurisdiction.

This circumstance deserves attention owing to the special connexion traditionally existing between the Minyans of Iolcus and those of Orchomenus, the point of all others on this side where the early Cretan influence seems most to have taken root.

In contrast to the palace of Phaestus, the contents of the royal villa proved exceptionally rich, and derive a special interest from the fact that the catastrophe which overwhelmed the building belongs to a somewhat earlier part of the Late Minoan age than that which overwhelmed Cnossus and Phaestus.

Both the signet types and the other objects of art here discovered display the fresh naturalism that characterizes in a special way the first Late Minoan period.

The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.

In accordance with authority conferred by the home-rule amendment of the state constitution, a charter, submitted by a special commission, was accepted by the citizens on July I 1913.

It meets in regular session quadrennially, in special sessions in the middle of the interval to pass the appropriation and revenue bills, and in extraordinary session whenever the governor sees fit to call it.

The constitution goes into minute detail in prohibiting local, private and special legislation.

The public school system, established in 1846, never was universal, because of special legislation for various counties; public education was retarded during the Civil War and the Reconstruction period (when immense sums appropriated for schools were grossly mismanaged), but conditions gradually improved after 1875, especially through the concentration of schools.

Congress granted another township (thirty-six sections) for the university in 1892, and its income is supplemented by legislative appropriations for current expenses and special needs.

This body is not, however, a special board, as in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, but a kind of administrative cabinet as in Iowa, consisting of the secretary of state, the auditor, the treasurer, and the superintendent of 2 The changes made in 1875 were adopted in a convention, were ratified in 1876, and were so numerous that the amended constitution is frequently referred to as the Constitution of 1876.

The word Orchis is used in a special sense to denote a particular genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae); very frequently, also, it is employed in a more general way to indicate any member of that large and very interesting group. It will be convenient here to use the word Orchis as applying to that particular genus which gives its name to the order or family, and to employ the term "orchid" in the less precise sense.

Although for the purposes of geographical nomenclature, boundaries formed by a coast-line - that is, by depressions of the earth's solid crust below the ocean level - are most easily recog- Political nized and are of special convenience; and although such divisions.

Although the succession of the periodical winds follows the progress of the seasons as just described, the changes in the wind's direction everywhere take place under the operation of special local influences which often disguise the more general law, and make it difficult to trace.

Its animals and plants have a special character suited to the peculiar climatal conditions, more closely allied to those of the adjacent northern Siberian tract than of the other bordering regions.

Much still remains to be done in the exploration of China and eastern Asia; but it is known that many of the special forms of this region extend to the Himalaya, while others clearly indicate a connexion with North America.

The reindeer of northern Siberia call also for special notice; they are used for the saddle as well as for draught.

It amounts to this, that Asiatics stand on a higher level than the natives of Africa or America, but do not possess the special material civilization of western Europe.

Where Chinese influence had full play it introduced Confucianism, a special style in art and the Chinese system of writing.

Even more than Buddhism Islam has carried with it a special style of art and civilization.

It is nevertheless certain that during the first half of 1794 he was very strictly secluded; he had no special guardian, but was under the charge of guards changed from day to day.

Hugh, who was probably one of William the Conqueror's companions, was made earl of Chester in 1071; he had special privileges in his earldom, and he held land in twenty counties.

The manufacture of cloth had disappeared, the harbour is silted up, and there is no special local industry.

Another son, Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), studied at Brown University in1852-1854(in 1894, by a special vote, he was placed on the list of graduates in the class of 1856); he was a lawyer and a freestate politician in Kansas in 1857-1861, and was the first chiefjustice of the Kansas supreme court (1861-1862).

In others, it lies in the coelom, often surrounded by a special and occasionally rather thick sheath.

Special sacs developed from the intersegmental septa lodge the developing ova and sperm.

Special gonad ducts always present.