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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
speciality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ Breakfast is buffet style, while dinner is four courses, often with local specialities and always with a salad buffet.
▪ These percentages were not uniform across the country: local specialities dictated what was available.
regional
▪ He recommended a regional speciality and local wine - both delicious.
▪ There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
▪ Perch, Salmon, Pike and Eel; regional specialities from the freshwater fish are perfect accompaniment to the wines of Anjou.
■ NOUN
chemical
▪ Meanwhile Hobor predicts that the speciality chemical businesses will continue to grow through small niche acquisitions as well as internal growth through new products.
▪ This increase reflected progress in the health sector - particularly Rhône-Poulenc Rorer - as well as in the speciality chemical and agrochemical divisions.
▪ Coalite sale Anglo United is preparing to sell Coalite Chemicals, its speciality chemical business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it took writers, editors and phrase-makers, all New York specialities, to provide content.
▪ Maybe sports comedy will become his speciality.
▪ Rhineland dishes are a speciality of restaurant and there's a superbly comfortable bar.
▪ The home-made bread, pies and puddings are a speciality.
▪ The Jakarta operation is geared up to serve protection coatings, marine, packaging and speciality industrial end-users.
▪ There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
▪ Two years ago women still made up only 17 % of consultants in medical specialities in hospitals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speciality

Speciality \Spe`ci*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Specialities. [See Special, and Specialty.]

  1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. (Law) See Specialty,

  3. 3. The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.

    On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent.
    --Hooker.

    Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.
    --Ld. Lytton.

    We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, For that'a his speciality.
    --Mrs. Browning.

    Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities -- if I may use that strong remark -- of prejudice.
    --Dickens.

  4. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
speciality

early 15c., "a special quality or thing;" mid-15c. as "quality of being special," from Old French specialte, especialte "nature, special quality, particularity; special point, distinction," and directly from Latin specialitatem (nominative specialitas) "peculiarity, particularity" from specialis "individual, particular" (see special (adj.)). French form spécialité (especially in reference to restaurant dishes) is recorded in English from 1839.

Wiktionary
speciality

n. (standard spelling of from=British spelling lang=en specialty)

WordNet
speciality
  1. n. an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte" [syn: forte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty, strong point, strength] [ant: weak point]

  2. a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness, specialty, distinctiveness]

  3. the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology" [syn: specialization, specialisation, specialty, specialism]

Wikipedia
Speciality (album)

Speciality is the third album from Japanese pop singer Nami Tamaki. The album was Tamaki's second to reach number one on the Oricon charts.

Sanctuary, Tamaki's 12th single and the first one released from the Specialty album, was used as the opening theme for the anime, Kiba, for episodes 1 - 26. It charted for 5 weeks on Oricon, peaking at number 12.

Usage examples of "speciality".

I cannot say the same for barbecued spaghetti, another Memphian speciality.

Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation, Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods -- Chemical and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Oils and Fats used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- General Cosmetic Preparations -- Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes -- Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and Depilatories -- Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities -- Colouring Cosmetic Preparations -- Antiseptic Washes and Soaps -- Toilet and Hygienic Soaps -- Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth, etc.

Marat was speaking metaphorically or with the kind of punitive hyperbole that he had made a speciality of his paper.

He watched as they attempted vainly to spread the lump of icy butter that had been crushed into the centre of the bun by some joyless jobsworth in a stupid white hat, dry teacakes with a bit of butter in the middle being a speciality of the restaurant chain they were in.

Miss Avellanos was quite aware of his new and unexpected vocation, which in Costaguana was generally the speciality of half-educated negroes and wholly penniless lawyers.

And arms were another speciality of the duke, who had already purchased cannons and shot from Doria.

Speciality of the day was intended to be granting M Didius Falco the gold ring: four hundred thousand sesterces and promotion to the middle rank.

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Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation, Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods -- Chemical and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Oils and Fats used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- General Cosmetic Preparations -- Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes -- Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and Depilatories -- Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities -- Colouring Cosmetic Preparations -- Antiseptic Washes and Soaps -- Toilet and Hygienic Soaps -- Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth, etc.

There were twelve archangels - thirteen, if you counted Lucifer, a number she found rather ironic - and hundreds of lesser angels, all with specialities, hobbies, likes and dislikes.

Would the existence of such a psychiatric speciality encourage others to take fantasies or delusions of this sort seriously?

During these trips through the catacombs, Mary Catherine liked to tell herself that her chosen speciality gave her an advantage in self-defense: she could diagnose people from a distance.

Foster-Stern was hardly an expert in computer theory, or he would have been too busy in his own speciality to accept the appointment he held on the GT board, but since Projects and Planning Dept relied entirely on computers he could scarcely be ignorant about the subject, either.

The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.

Stonebraker was known in Air Corps circles as a salty, hard-shelled genius with the speciality of air transportation.