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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
especially
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
particularly/especially suitable
▪ The resort is particularly suitable for families.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ This is especially important in a home with young children.
▪ Most claimed that staffing and training were especially important managerial responsibilities in building an efficient organization.
▪ In tropical and subtropical areas, Oe. columbianum and Oe. radiatum, in sheep and cattle respectively, are especially important.
▪ This is especially important for work-inhibited children, who are typically overly dependent upon the support of others to complete school assignments.
▪ Being fit and healthy is especially important if you have to fight your way out of trouble or run for home.
▪ Each time you mention a new or especially important point, to support your statements and create continuity.
▪ Written sources were especially important for the economic sector.
▪ Such coalitions are especially important in legislatures where no single party commands a majority.
true
▪ This is especially true of open reservoirs, less so on established pits or lakes where bankside vegetation restricts movement.
▪ This is especially true in acquisition or merger situations, where there are no shared corporate values.
▪ This is especially true for those growing up at the time, like my own children.
▪ But I find it especially true now.
▪ This is especially true if a small area only has been tessellated.
▪ This is especially true of original and futuristic ideas.
▪ This is especially true where dust and grime collects and in heavy tread areas like the hall, stairs and landing.
▪ This is especially true when you need to discuss a conflict involving a colleague or family member.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Drive carefully, especially with all this fog.
▪ Everyone's excited about the trip, especially Wendy.
▪ Families, especially those with young children, benefit from the program.
▪ I'm especially interested in hearing about your trip to China.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alliances, after all, have to be directed against some one, especially defensive ones.
▪ He was 24, a young age for a priest, especially one who had failed to finish training in two seminaries.
▪ It is also known that, in some central nervous system neurones, second messengers especially cyclic AMPcontrol membrane electrical activity.
▪ Look especially for the frieze of statues on the upper tier.
▪ Politicians, unlike actors and especially writers, know that their opinions have to be sold, that they must please.
▪ The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds.
▪ This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Especially

Especially \Es*pe"cial*ly\, adv. In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
especially

c.1400, from especial + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
especially

adv. 1 (lb en manner) In a special manner; specially. 2 (lb en focus) particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. 3 (lb en focus) (non-gloss definition: Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something).

WordNet
especially
  1. adv. to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger" [syn: particularly, peculiarly, specially]

  2. in a special manner; "a specially arranged dinner" [syn: specially]

Usage examples of "especially".

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

It was terrible in the nineteen thirties, the Depression was on and people were so poor, especially Aboriginal people.

She knew she could not scale a blank seven-foot wall fast enough to save herself, especially not with one stingingly abraded hand, so she studied the trees as she ran.

At Port Resolution, in the New Hebrides, Martin elected to walk barefooted in the bush and returned on board with many cuts and abrasions, especially on his shins.

Gore effort to challenge absentee votes on a legal technicality, especially since the intent of these voters was quite clear.

Their theory is confirmed by the cases in which two mixed substances occupy a greater space than either singly, especially a space equal to the conjoined extent of each: for, as they point out, in an absolute interpenetration the infusion of the one into the other would leave the occupied space exactly what it was before and, where the space occupied is not increased by the juxtaposition, they explain that some expulsion of air has made room for the incoming substance.

Tim had always found himself especially attuned to the deserted charms of Candie Gardens in winter, enjoying the bare traceries of the trees and the widened harbour view, the few points of colour against the monochrome background - the red and pink of the camellias near the top gate, the hanging yellow bells of the winter-flowering abutilon with their red clappers, even the iridescence of the mallard drake circling the largest of the ponds with his speckled mate.

Botanically, each fruit is a collection of berries on a common pulpy receptacle, being, like the Strawberry, especially wholesome for those who are liable to heartburn, because it does not undergo acetous fermentation in the stomach.

All who receive influx from heaven and acknowledge divine providence, especially those who have become spiritual through reformation, on beholding events taking a wonderful course see providence as it were from an interior acknowledgment and confess it.

The direct actionists by their inflammatory speeches and writings are especially successful in gaining recruits from among the more disorderly elements of society, whereas the political actionists appeal rather to those persons who are opposed to the destruction of life and property.

Most of the crew suffered from some degree of nausea while adapting to microgravity, and those especially affected, such as AH Tillman and Alex Dyachkov, are still prone to attacks if they spin around too quickly, or if they find themselves without an absolute reference point.

While the lack of physical adaptitude may be the occasion of much suffering and unhappiness in such unions, especially on the part of the wife, being even productive of most serious local disease, and sometimes of sterility, it is in childbirth that the greatest risk and suffering is incurred.

The ambassadors of the nations, more especially of the unbelieving nations, were solemnly admonished, that such strange alliances had been condemned by the founder of the church and city.

During adolescence, humans experiment intensely with new intimate relationships, especially opposite sex relationships.

Though Catholic adoption services took considerable care in the placement of children, they were not pointlessly slow and obstructive, as were public agencies, especially when the would-be adopters were solid members of the community like Hatch and Lindsey, and when the adoptee was a disabled child with no option except continued institutionalization.