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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
personalize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Helena has personalized her office with things she's collected on her travels.
▪ Meeting someone with AIDS can personalize the disease for many people.
▪ The President has personalized the debate by attacking his opponents by name.
▪ We try to personalize our presentation for each client.
▪ You can ask the author to personalize the book with your child's name.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And sure enough, the signatures did look personalized.
▪ Any one of the rights on the list can be personalized.
▪ He and others had to let go of personalizing criticism in order to sustain a learning context.
▪ Other products will help those same users personalize their workstations with themes reflecting their interests.
▪ What makes it special is it is a personalized video where you are part of the action.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Personalize

Personalize \Per"son*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Personalizing.] To make personal. ``They personalize death.''
--H. Spencer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
personalize

1747, from personal + -ize. Related: Personalized; personalizing.

Wiktionary
personalize

alt. 1 to adapt something to the needs of an individual 2 to represent something abstract as a person; to embody vb. 1 to adapt something to the needs of an individual 2 to represent something abstract as a person; to embody

WordNet
personalize

v. make personal or more personal; "personalized service" [syn: personalise, individualize, individualise] [ant: depersonalize, depersonalize]

Usage examples of "personalize".

I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

Sardonic humor flourished alongside despair, and for every personalized story of emotional exhaustion and shattered lives, it usually was possible to find an up-lifting counterexample of resilience, hope, and accomplishment.

Grabbing the Yellow Pages and her address book, she got on the phone to caterers, musicians, airlines, florists, the King Croesus, personalized shopping services, Mrs.

When we establish our own warranties, personalized products, image, customer service policies and personahties, we are on our way to establishing proprietary inventory.

The Watergate spectacle was a shock, but the fact of a millionaire President paying less income tax than most construction workers while gasoline costs a dollar in Brooklyn and the threat of mass unemployment by spring tends to personalize Mr.

So there were padded chairs and a luxurious bed, thick carpets on the floor and a well-stocked drinks cabinet, but no cybernetic toys or diversions, no holo views or personalized illusions on his walls.

I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.

And then the bureau hierarchy will continue using personalized rault casters so they'll have the advantage of zylphing whenever they need it.

He collects blurry non-color-adjusted photos taken with instamatics and scanned into JPEG format and posted on 30 million websites, and he brings them to his hard drive and categorizes them like his own personalized pornography magazine and he takes out his laptop on lonely Saturday nights and masturbates to his fellow slacker compatriots without them knowing.

This allows for users to have login scripts, personalized desktops, etc etc.

I'm going to be doorstepping the entire electorate in parallel, and the experience needs to be personalized.

Each night, when the briefcase was surrendered to the cipher clerk, it was affixed with a personalized wax seal, imprinted with a disk Alipov wore around his neck.

Her uniform was off the rack of a discount house, but she had personalized it.

And then a cavern where several people sat and just watched a rotating display of exciting gadgets: self-winding vinyl shavers, laminated automatic mattress inflaters, combination spectrometer-tachometers, Old West-style laser guns, disposable artificial epoxy kidneys, solid-state microwave oscillators in decorator colors, electroluminescent diodes in personalized carrying cases, solar-powered nose-hair clippers, princess-style videophones, geodesic teakettles, injectionmolded garlic presses, manually operated cherrystoners, alligator-finished episcopes, magnetostriction ultrasonic generators on patio stands, self-turning kaleidoscopes, robot flatirons, vestpocket bronchoscopes, paisley-surfaced binnacles, miniaturized vacuum cleaners, musical abacuses.