Meaning of particular in English

particular
adjective
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particular adjective (SPECIAL)

B2 [ before noun ]
special, or this and not any other:
She wanted a particular type of cactus.
He wouldn't take just any book - he had to have this particular one!
"Why did you ask?" "Oh, no particular reason, just making conversation."
 in particular
B1
especially:
What in particular did you like about the last apartment that we saw?
Are you looking for anything in particular?
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particular adjective (NOT EASILY SATISFIED)

C1 [ after verb ]
not easily satisfied and demanding that close attention should be given to every detail:
He's very particular about the kitchen - everything has to be perfectly clean and in its place.
She's very particular about what she eats.
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particular
noun
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 particulars [ plural ]
details or information about a person or an event, especially when officially recorded:
There's a form for you to note down all your particulars.
 the particular formal
If you are considering the particular, you are considering single examples rather than general matters or ideas:
The report focuses on the particular rather than the general and so doesn't draw any overall conclusions.
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(Definition of particular from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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particular
adjective
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particular adjective (SPECIAL)

special or single, or this and not any other:
Is there a particular restaurant you’d like to eat at?
What in particular (= special things) did you like about the last apartment that we saw?

particular adjective (CAREFUL)

wanting to make choices carefully because you are not easily satisfied:
She’s very particular about what she eats.
(Definition of particular from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of particular

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The instrument should be readily accessible to trained string players, but is designed to fill a particular role in computer or amplified music.
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One of the particular strengths of qualitative research is its capacity to generate unexpected findings.
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While there are no particular names by category, crickets are divided into two groups: large, ordinary crickets and non-ordinary.
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Thus, this group of immigrants was at particular risk for psychological distress.
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In particular, implementation of regulations in the private sector should be taken as a policy opportunity to improve the delivery of health care.
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As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.
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In particular, they form their past tense forms in untypical ways, and they distinguish two types of onset.
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In particular, we identified the fact that the paths are the only tractable component of the design space.
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However, this particular frontier has been well mined, and large parts of this book tread well-worn paths.
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In particular, they should have all the properties of a random bipartite graph.
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In particular, the book is aimed at signal processing practitioners, especially research workers and students working in areas of radar, sonar, telecommunications and biomedical engineering.
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Particular importance is attached to the gap between the theory and practice of law, and how the divergence could be reduced.
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Future research should pay particular attention to the disruption of values, roles and social relationships.
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The paper examines the contribution that gender roles and identities make to the overall configuration of resources available to particular individuals.
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This can perhaps best be illustrated by a particular frame of reference that surrounds the grafted tree.
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Translations of particular

in Chinese (Traditional)
特殊的, 特定的，具體的, 不易滿足的…
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特殊的, 特定的，具体的, 不易满足的…
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particular, concreto, especial…
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determinado, específico, especial…
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特定の, 特別な…
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belli, belirli, muayyen…
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particulier/-ière, spécial/-ale, exigeant/-ante…
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determinat, concret, especial…
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مُعَيَّن, خاص…
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jednotlivý, zvláštní, vybíravý…
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bestemt, særlig, speciel…
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khusus, istimewa, pemilih…
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โดยเฉพาะ, ซึ่งไม่ธรรมดา, จู้จี้…
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riêng biệt, đặc biệt, cầu kỳ…
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konkretny, szczególny, wybredny…
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yang ini, yang lebih, terlalu teliti…
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speziell, besondere, -s…
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spesiell, særlig, bestemt…
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particolare, preciso, speciale…
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конкретный, особенный, особый…
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