Word Meanings - UNSPECIALIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.

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• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• SPECIALIZATION
  The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
  Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.