Word?

Oct 30, 2006 12:05

I've lost a word - it means something like customise but isn't ( Read more... )

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itsjustaname October 30 2006, 12:28:19 UTC
No, that's not it. Gosh this would be so much easier if I was any good at describing the meaning of words.

This is likely to bug me for weeks. I lost the word derivative a while ago and it was nagging at me for ages until rosamicula used it on her journal.

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mr_flay October 30 2006, 12:20:52 UTC
Hone? Calibrate? Tune? I'm groping in the dark a bit here, because I don't really understand what you're doing (Pedal-power To The Luddites!)...

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itsjustaname October 30 2006, 12:26:59 UTC
All good suggestions but none are what I'm looking for. It's a word (which to be fair may not actually exist, my brain sometimes like to play games with me) that means to make things more relevant and specific to the group/individual concerned.

It's bad enough that I forget words but it's really not helped by the fact that I'm really bad at trying to explain what I'm looking for.

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mr_tom October 30 2006, 12:28:02 UTC
"... offer greater concordance ..."

"correlate"

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mr_flay October 30 2006, 12:38:18 UTC
Correlate is not transitive though. I can't correlate you, no matter how much I might want to, for example.

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mr_tom October 30 2006, 13:06:14 UTC
Correlate is not transitive though.

It can be, although you'd probably give it a plural object. Someone could correlate us as old pedants, f'rinstance.

Correlate \Cor`re*late"\, v. t.
To put in relation with each other; to connect together by
the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural
phenomena. --Darwin.
[1913 Webster]

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mr_flay October 30 2006, 13:15:39 UTC
Bah! Bloody Darwin.

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sushidog October 30 2006, 12:30:47 UTC
Start here and click on the ones that are closest to what you want until you find the right word?

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itsjustaname October 30 2006, 12:56:21 UTC
That hasn't helped (although thank you for the link, I shall definitely be making use of that in the future) leading me to suspect that either a) the word doesn't exist; or b) it does not mean what I think it means.

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trampledamage October 30 2006, 12:34:14 UTC
Represent?

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