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to singularize

to singularize

8.7
To change a word to its single form or make something stand out from others
  • verb
  • /ˈsɪŋɡjʊləˌraɪz/
translation icon : singularizar
  • The artist aimed to singularize each piece in her collection to highlight its unique qualities.

Examples

  • As with traditional Christmas gift-giving, wrapping presents helps to "singularize" commodities (Kopytoff 73-74), but the untagged gifts render the giver anonymous.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Wrapping overlays them with personal sentiments, singularizing them (Kopytoff 73-74) and thus transforms them into gifts.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Hence, the future success of the law requires more than tariff-paying water users and singularized notions of water culture and water citizenship.

    Academic text (2016)

  • What Bonis's poetic meditation and his dream create is a concentrated, singularized image, which is objectified in the fetishistic effect of the fragment under analysis.

    Academic text (2002)

  • All this means that the shadow possesses an intense iconic character in Su nico hijo, first, for the manner in which it is singularized, literally projected upon the bedroom wall.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The two dreams reenact the same process, singularizing what doesn't exist in Su único hijo: children.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The problem is thus no longer how to get back to a warm, rich lifeworld from our alienation in "abstract space"; rather, it is to find new ways to move about in the diffuse space of the postmodern condition—how to "singularize" it, how to "complicate" our relations with it.

    Academic text (1998)

  • To better understand the factors at play, we must singularize the elements of the situation and analyze them individually.

  • The author decided to singularize the characters in the story to make their individual struggles more relatable.

Synonyms

to severalise
vsto singularize
  • UK
9.9

To separate things or people from each other

makes something unique or seen as one rather than merely separated

Antonyms

to generalize
  • US
41 4.2

To form a general idea from one or a few examples

How Singular

to isolate
256 4.2
to singularize
8.7
to separate
297 1.9
to include
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

singularize infinitive
singularized past
singularized past participle
singularizing present participle
singularizes third person singular

Morphology

singularize = singular (transparent) = singular + ize

Formed by the adjective 'singular' plus the productive suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make or become', so the meaning 'make singular' is directly derived.

Etymology

Singularize comes from the Latin root singulus, meaning 'single', and the ending -ize, meaning 'to make', much like the English word single. So to singularize something is to make it 'single' or to set it apart as special or distinct.