Specific name

A person that gets overly confident after going through the urban dictionary

Person 1: dude you know Specific name

Person 2: yeah

Person 1: he asked out a gender spicific person out just because something in the urban dictionary said something good about him

by Ms.pac man May 30, 2018

Specificiphilia

A paranoia related to design specifications, giving the sufferer a compunction to eliminate any and all vagueness in what the client thinks they want, and remove any and all possible ambiguity.

Client: I want tight facebook and twitter integration.
Designer: Having automatic sharing is a very very bad idea and pisses people off, it should be opt-in based on each individual action.
Client: But that's what I meant.
Designer: Just covering my bases; specificiphilia, you know?

by bedstraw November 15, 2011

specifist

a person who is very specific in what they like.

i am a specifist as i am specific in what i do

by mike blown January 7, 2008

non-specific encouraging noises

sounds made by government officials when interviewing a member of the public, intended to convey empathy but promising nothing.

As she listened to the refugee's heart-wrenching story, the immigration officer made non-specific encouraging noises.

by wellwell January 29, 2009

inverse specificity law

A natural law that dictates that the depth and accuracy of your task description is inversely proportional to the importance of the task. You will be given a ten-page written specification on preparing an invitation for five customers to come to morning coffee, a tax audit report will be requested in an email consisting of a single paragraph, while a request to revise the organization's entire cost structure will be delivered verbally in a single sentence.

CEO: Bernie, our database manager left and we need a report of all customers who bought semi-spleeted widgets in the northwest region since the beginning of the month. There's a potentially fatal fault and we need to do a product recall.
Bernie: Sure, right away! What's the product code for semi-spleeted widgets, and what's the region code?
CEO: Dunno. The database manager left. But it's all in the database. Just do it.
Bernie: Hmmm... the inverse specificity law indicates that this task must be critically important!

by Terrible Tadpole June 3, 2010

specificity

A CSS rule that states that in case of conflict, the properties of the most specific selector is applied.

For example: if we make all tables bold, but make all table cells have a normal weight, the latter rule will be applied. This is because "table cell" is more specific than "table".

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

specificate

To make a product adhere to certain specifications

That computer is specificated to Vista.

by Flash5 February 11, 2008