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specifically
Adverb
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You use specifically to focus attention on the particular or special reason that something is done.
The software is designed specifically to address the needs of blind users.
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You use specifically to focus attention on something separately from other things of the same kind.
We want this to be interesting to women, specifically 40-year old women living in cities.
ground
Noun
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The ground is what you stand or sit on when you are outside.
I ran out of the house and fell on the ground.
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Ground is terrain; it is the land.
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Ground is earth or soil.
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A ground is the bottom of a body of water.
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The ground for something is the basis or foundation of it.
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The ground for something is the background or context of it.
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A ground is a soccer stadium.
ground
Verb 1
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If you ground a pilot of an airplane, you stop them from flying.
The plane had been grounded because of the blizzard.
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If you ground a circuit of electricity, you connect it with a ground.
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If you ground a child, you take away their privileges, like the phone and the television, and not allow them to go out, usually as a punishment.
ground
Adjective
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If something is ground, it is crushed into small particles.
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If something is ground, it has been prepared through grinding.
form
Noun
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Form is the shape or structure of a person or a thing.
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A thing that makes shapes to other things, as in a mold.
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Form is a blank document which is to be filled in by a person.
To join with the club, please fill in this application form.
form
Verb
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If you form something, you give it shape or structure.
tool
Noun
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A tool is an object that you use to do a specific job, such as a hammer.
I used to fix my own car, but I sold all my tools.
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A tool is a person being used by another person or organization.
He is such a tool. He should think for himself, instead of doing everything they tell him to do.