specialness
World English Dictionary
special (ˈspɛʃəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | distinguished, set apart from, or excelling others of its kind |
| 2. | (prenominal) designed or reserved for a particular purpose: a special tool for working leather |
| 3. | not usual or commonplace |
| 4. | (prenominal) particular or primary: his special interest was music |
| 5. | denoting or relating to the education of physically or mentally handicapped children: a special school |
| —n | |
| 6. | a special person or thing, such as an extra edition of a newspaper or a train reserved for a particular purpose |
| 7. | a dish or meal given prominence, esp at a low price, in a café, etc |
| 8. | slang (Austral) history a convict given special treatment on account of his education, social class, etc |
| 9. | short for special constable |
| 10. | informal (Austral), (NZ), (US), (Canadian) an item in a store that is advertised at a reduced price; a loss leader |
| —vb , -cials, -cialling, -cialled | |
| 11. | informal (NZ) to advertise and sell (an item) at a reduced price: we are specialling butter this week |
| [C13: from Old French especial, from Latin speciālis individual, special, from speciēs appearance, | |
| 'specially | |
| —adv | |
| 'specialness | |
| —n | |
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| specialness | |
noun | |
| 1. | a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity] |
| 2. | the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance; "the particularity of human situations" [syn: particularity] [ant: generality] |
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Specialness
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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