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par⋅tic⋅u⋅lar

[per-tik-yuh-ler, puh-tik-]

–adjective

1.	of or pertaining to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.

2.	immediately present or under consideration; in this specific instance or place: Look at this particular clause in the contract.

3.	distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy; marked; unusual: She sang with particular warmth at last evening's concert.

4.	exceptional or especial: Take particular pains with this job.

5.	being such in an exceptional degree: a particular friend of mine.

6.	dealing with or giving details, as an account or description, of a person; detailed; minute.

7.	exceptionally selective, attentive, or exacting; fastidious; fussy: to be particular about one's food.

Logic.

a.	not general; referring to an indefinite part of a whole class.

b.	(of a proposition) containing only existential quantifiers.

c.	partaking of the nature of an individual as opposed to a class.

Law.

a.	noting an estate that precedes a future or ultimate ownership, as lands devised to a widow during her lifetime and after that to her children.

b.	noting the tenant of such an estate.

–noun

10.	an individual or distinct part, as an item of a list or enumeration.

11.	Usually, particulars. specific points, details, or circumstances: to give an investigator the particulars of a case.

12.	Logic. an individual or a specific group within a general class.

—Idiom

13.	in particular, particularly; specifically; especially: There is one book in particular that may help you.

Origin:
1350–1400; < LL particulāris, equiv. to L particul(a) particle + -āris -ar ¹ ; r. ME particuler < MF < LL, as above

Synonyms:
1. See special. 1, 2. specific. 2. distinct; discrete. 3. notable. 6. scrupulous, careful, exact, precise. 7. discriminating; finical, finicky. Particular, dainty, fastidious imply great care, discrimination, and taste in choices, in details about one's person, etc. Particular implies esp. care and attention to details: particular about one's clothes. Dainty implies delicate taste and exquisite cleanliness: a dainty dress. Fastidious implies being difficult to please and critical of small or minor points: a fastidious taste in styles. 10. feature, particularity.

Antonyms:
3. ordinary. 6. inexact. 7. undiscriminating.

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par·tic·u·lar (pər-tĭk'yə-lər, pə-tĭk'-)

adj.

Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal: has a particular preference for Chinese art.
Separate and distinct from others of the same group, category, or nature: made an exception in this particular case.
Worthy of note; exceptional: a piano performance of particular depth and fluidity.
1. Of, relating to, or providing details: gave a particular description of the room.
2. Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; meticulous or fussy.
Logic Encompassing some but not all of the members of a class or group. Used of a proposition.

An individual item, fact, or detail: correct in every particular. See Synonyms at item.
An item or detail of information or news. Often used in the plural: The police refused to divulge the particulars of the case.
A separate case or an individual thing or instance, especially one that can be distinguished from a larger category or class. Often used in the plural: "What particulars were ambushed behind these generalizations?" (Aldous Huxley).
Logic A particular proposition.

[Middle English particuler, from Old French, from Late Latin particulāris, from Latin particula, diminutive of pars, part-, part; see part.]

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Particular

Par*tic"u*lar\, a. [OE. particuler, F. particulier, L. particularis. See Particle.]

1. Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. --Shak.

[/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. --Shak.

Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. --Chaucer.

2. Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. "Thine own particular wrongs." --Shak.

Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth. --Bacon.

3. Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

4. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

5. (Law) (a) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder. (b) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. --Blackstone.

6. (Logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.

Particular average. See under Average.

Particular Baptist, one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.

Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.

Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.

Syn: Minute; individual; respective; appropriate; peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical; circumstantial. See Minute.

Particular

Par*tic"u*lar\, n. 1. A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal. --Bacon.

It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. --L'Estrange.

2. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. [Obs.]

For his particular I'll receive him gladly. --Shak.

If the particulars of each person be considered. --Milton.

Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular. --Whole Duty of Man.

3. (Law) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. --Ayliffe.

Bill of particulars. See under Bill.

In particular, specially; peculiarly. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs." --Blackmore.

To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.

Language Translation for : particular

Spanish: particular, especial,

German: speziell,

Japanese: 特定の

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particular

c.1386, "pertaining to a single thing or person," from O.Fr. particuler, from L.L. particularis "of a part," from L. particula "particle" (see particle). Sense of "precise, exacting" first recorded 1814. Noun meaning "a part or section of a whole" is from 1494. Particulars "small details of statement" is from 1606. Particularly "in a special degree, more than others" is attested from 1676.

Main Entry: par·tic·u·lar
Function: adjective
in the civil law of Louisiana : of or relating to a designated property or to the inheritance of it —compare UNIVERSAL

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