Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give individuality to.
- transitive verb To consider or treat individually; particularize.
- transitive verb To modify to suit the wishes or needs of a particular individual.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To note or consider separately or as individuals: as, careful observation individualizes the features of a landscape.
- To stamp with individual character; give a distinctive character to; distinguish: as, Carlyle's peculiar style strongly individualizes his works.
- Also spelled
individualise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality; to give distinctive character to; to make distinctive; to enable differentiation from others of similar type; -- of properties of things.
- transitive verb to render (a product or service) suitable to each individual person by varying to some degree its characteristics; to personalize.
- transitive verb To consider individually; to mention each individual.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To give something its own
individuality ; tocharacterize ordifferentiate . - verb To
modify something to suit an individual; topersonalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make or mark or treat as individual
- verb make personal or more personal
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Examples
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VORDER BRUEGGE: Patterned shirts are very easy to individualize, that is to say, to identify them, to the exclusion of all other shirts.
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I don't know that a homeopath, after doing one of their workups, wouldn't have run perhaps a stool sample in an effort to "individualize" the treatment as they look for more details.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This is a great advantage when working with an e-commerce solution that does not provide any sort of code access, as that provides the only way for us to "individualize" the hundreds of dynamic pages that may be present on your website when working on your SEO campaign.
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This is a great advantage when working with an e-commerce solution that does not provide any sort of code access, as that provides the only way for us to "individualize" the hundreds of dynamic pages that may be present on your website when working on your SEO campaign.
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I don't know that a homeopath, after doing one of their workups, wouldn't have run perhaps a stool sample in an effort to "individualize" the treatment as they look for more details.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I don't know that a homeopath, after doing one of their workups, wouldn't have run perhaps a stool sample in an effort to "individualize" the treatment as they look for more details.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This is a great advantage when working with an e-commerce solution that does not provide any sort of code access, as that provides the only way for us to "individualize" the hundreds of dynamic pages that may be present on your website when working on your SEO campaign.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2008
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Fortunately, with only a little creativity and a home computer, homeschooling educators and parents can individualize many of these materials to reflect the interest of the child (ren) as they teach them to learn to read.
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Homemade worksheets used together with new electronic reources, such as computer programs that can individualize the instruction for each student, have been found to result in increased student success.
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They need an interesting and rich curriculum, a deep knowledge base, and support from the principal and school district to individualize instruction.
Paula Smith: What Makes a 'Good' Teacher? Paula Smith 2011
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