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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unique
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rare/unique opportunity
▪ a unique opportunity to stay in a real castle
a unique experiment (=one that has not been done before)
▪ Congestion charging is a unique experiment that other UK cities are watching with interest.
a unique feature (=a feature which only one thing has)
▪ A unique feature of this guitar is its shape.
a unique position (=a situation that no one else is in)
▪ Their close knowledge of the area places them in a unique position to advise on social policy.
distinctive/unique (=very different from other foods or drinks)
▪ Juniper berries give the drink its distinctive flavour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Joseph, who succeeded the Ritz-Escoffier partnership, had an almost unique devotion to his art.
▪ He was almost unique in that the ruthless and suspicious King genuinely liked and trusted him.
▪ The preparasitic phase is almost unique in the trichostrongyloids in that development to the L3 takes place within the egg shell.
▪ At this level there will be sufficient cross association of elements to suggest some almost unique relationships.
■ NOUN
brand
▪ And his own unique brand of droll self-mockery had his audiences in stitches.
▪ And all of marketing is targeted at one vital objective: becoming a unique brand.
▪ So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
▪ There are three, key reasons entrepreneurs have got to be a unique brand.
▪ That is what building a unique brand is all about.
characteristic
▪ The red spots in the caudal peduncle region are one of the unique characteristics of this species.
▪ Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies.
▪ Each national market will have its unique characteristics.
▪ Each has unique characteristics, too.
▪ Because setting varies enormously, since each watercourse possesses its own unique characteristics, pollution is a highly relative notion.
▪ He saw the unique characteristics of adolescent thought and personality as a normal outgrowth of development.
▪ These are unit trusts that have unique characteristics with special appeal for charities.
▪ One problem with assisting work-inhibited students is helping parents and teachers to understand the unique characteristics of this disability.
collection
▪ Contains a unique collection of historical toys, books, costumes and items relating to childhood from all over the world.
▪ At its core is a unique collection of books on various non-Western art forms donated by Tàpies himself.
▪ The Edinburgh Room has a unique collection of over 25,000 books and 21,000 prints relating to the history of the city.
▪ The ground floor is best known for its unique collection of antique dolls' houses dating back to 1673.
▪ A unique collection of Arts and Crafts jewellery assembled over the last twenty years.
▪ A unique collection for research, and a place people can wander through for peace and tranquility.
▪ Read in studio Voice over A unique collection of drawings and paintings of life in a coal mine are going on display.
▪ The Patrick Collection at Kings Norton houses a unique collection of vintage cars and supercars of today.
combination
▪ Our unique combination of skills has helped literally thousands of companies.
▪ They employed a unique combination of theoretic analysis, practical grasp, and imaginative foresight.
▪ The scenery is breathtaking, a unique combination of mountains, fells, pastures and forested valleys filled with lakes and farms.
▪ A unique combination, offering an unequalled nationwide service.
▪ The membership of the teams is bringing together a unique combination of experience and expertise in developing services for carers.
▪ The Open University has a unique combination of foundation courses followed by a modular course structure.
▪ This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics.
▪ This unique combination is of too great a value to be wasted.
experience
▪ Link persons speak to each proposal from their unique experience of it, and advise the team on appropriate future action.
▪ We are going through a unique experience.
▪ We shall never know, and James Tomlinson remains mystified by his unique experience.
▪ Peer interviewing is a unique experience for most job applicants.
▪ For Guinness is a unique experience.
feature
▪ An unique feature of our Parish life is perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
▪ One useful, if imperfect, measure of luxury in a car is the number of unique features it has.
▪ The unique feature of ergonomics is its emphasis on the characteristics of human operators and their relevance to the design of work.
▪ Our voice-mail program has a unique feature that we recommend.
▪ A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.
▪ Another unique feature of this story is the duplication of stepmothers.
▪ The unique features for elemental analysis are the direct monitoring of surface hydrogen and the extreme sensitivity to the outermost atomic layers.
▪ This ability was sharpened by these players' meetings, which were a unique feature of football at this time.
opportunity
▪ There seems to have been very little resentment that Eva should have such a unique opportunity.
▪ Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor.
▪ But it seemed a waste not to seize the unique opportunity to stretch your brain on something that genuinely excited you.
▪ University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience.
▪ This gave a unique opportunity to spectators.
▪ Mr Dale said it would also provide Jaguar with a unique opportunity to reach people who might buy one of its cars.
▪ This discovery has given scientists a unique opportunity to study these unusual phenomena.
position
▪ He has staked out a unique position in the wars of digital supremacy, and he may well be right.
▪ Unlike obesity researchers, eating disorders researchers have been in a unique position to view the long-term effects of dieting.
▪ Are we not in a unique position as we reach the end of the Century of the Fruitbat?
▪ Other dominant players are also in a unique position to crush weaker competitors.
▪ Despite such naïvety, the concept that was to give Habitat a unique position in Britain's retailing trade was born.
▪ Because of her unique position she had been able to meet socially most of the members of Hitler's High Command.
▪ This gives a unique position called its address.
▪ He is in a unique position at this moment.
set
▪ Each firmlet offers a single offering to customers, an offering which has a unique set of potential customers and competitors.
▪ Every child comes into this world with a unique set of innate characteristics.
▪ And even if there is only one unique set of possible laws, it is only a set of equations.
▪ Every P-40 has a unique set of teeth and those teeth make or break the fearsome look which sets this fighter apart.
▪ Yet, the individual is at best a locus in which many lines of development come together in a unique set.
▪ A unique set of difficulties existed in Cambridgeshire.
style
▪ Whatever music they play, you always recognize the band's unique style.
▪ The Kings, meanwhile, have a synergy that translates into an entertaining and unique style of play.
▪ Most of all, develop your own unique style.
▪ This August I was at a festival of this unique style of singing.
way
▪ The factor that prevents gay men from following this course is the unique way gay society replenishes itself.
▪ We all respond in our own unique ways.
▪ It has matured, though, in a unique way.
▪ Every person reacts to a loss in their own unique way.
▪ Yet Venice, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, was entirely Gothicin its own unique way.
▪ Each person needs to be considered in his or her own unique way.
▪ Individual therapists tend to approach the art in their own unique way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a unique business opportunity
▪ Every child is unique, with their own needs, preferences and talents.
▪ Every person is unique.
▪ It was a unique achievement - no-one has ever won the championship five times before.
▪ Joan has a unique talent for languages.
▪ She has a unique ability of communicate with animals of all kinds.
▪ the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands
▪ The book is certainly very rare, and possibly unique.
▪ The exhibition provided a unique opportunity to see all of the artist's work.
▪ The power of speech makes the human race unique among animals.
▪ This vacation offers a unique opportunity to visit some of the most remote mountain areas of the region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fine farmhouse tea awaits those who complete this medium paced walk in the unique Cheviot landscape of Northumberland.
▪ It's not a unique product plan, as Sippl himself is first to admit.
▪ On their own bikes, wearing their unique outfits, contestants will haul clunky parcels between checkpoints.
▪ Pimm's is produced to the original unique recipe and bottled at Laindon.
▪ The accessing of such unique documents and the creation of new versions would be logged for future research purposes.
▪ They have only a vague idea about the unique culture around them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unique

Unique \U*nique"\, a. [F. unique; cf. It. unico; from L. unicus, from unus one. See One.] Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.

Unique

Unique \U*nique"\, n. A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

The phenix, the unique pf birds.
--De Quincey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unique

c.1600, "single, solitary," from Middle French unique (16c.), from Latin unicus "only, single, sole, alone of its kind," from unus "one" (see one). Meaning "forming the only one of its kind" is attested from 1610s; erroneous sense of "remarkable, uncommon" is attested from mid-19c. Related: Uniquely; uniqueness.

Wiktionary
unique

a. (context not comparable English) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched. n. A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.

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WordNet
unique

  1. adj. radically distinctive and without equal; "he is alone in the field of microbiology"; "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"; "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"; "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"; "unparalleled athletic ability"; "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history" [syn: alone(p), unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled]

  2. (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality; "a species unique to Australia" [syn: unique(p)]

  3. the single one of its kind; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions" [syn: singular]

  4. highly unusual or rare but not the single instance; "spoke with a unique accent"; "had unique ability in raising funds"; "a frankness unique in literature"; "a unique dining experience"

Wikipedia
Unique (band)

Unique was a short-lived post-disco studio act from New York, best known for their crossover number "What I Got Is What You Need" released in 1983 for a well-established dance label, Prelude Records. The group was formed by producer/ songwriter Deems J. Smith in 1982 and consists of Smith and Darryl K. Henry. The said hit song somewhat established itself on the Billboard Dance Singles and Black Singles charts and even scored over the atlantic reaching No. 27 on UK Singles Chart.

Unique (DJ Encore album)

Unique is the second album by the Danish eurodance producer DJ Encore, with vocals by Swedish singer Johanna Elkesdotter, whereas the first album featured the vocals of Danish singer Engelina. It was released on May 8, 2007 on US label Koch Records.

The song " You Can Walk on Water" is a cover version of the 2002 song "Walk on Water (Baby U Can)" by Danish dance act Catch. "Out There" was originally released on DJ Encore's first album, Intuition, with vocals by Engelina.

Unique (Juliette Schoppmann album)

Unique is the debut studio album by German recording artist Juliette Schoppmann. It was released by BMG-Ariola on February 9, 2004 in German-speaking Europe, following Schoppmann's participation in the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, where she had finished second the previous year. Production on the album was chiefly handled by Peter Ries, while Stephen Lipson and Pete Martin contributed additional tracks. Songs were penned by Jörgen Elofsson, Toby Gad, Yak Bondy, Sheppard Solomon, Jade Anderson and Greg Wells among others.

Initially scheduled for a 2003 release, the album garnered a generally mixed reception from music critics upon its release and peaked at number 15 on the German Albums Chart. With a domestic sales total of 40,000 copies, it widely failed to satisfy the label's commercial expectations, resulting in the termination of Schoppmann's contract with the record company only four months after its release. Unique was preceded by three singles, including a cover version of the Jevetta Steele classic " Calling You", "Only Uh, Uh,..." and the ballad "I Still Believe".

Unique

__NOTOC__ Unique primarily refers to:

  • Uniqueness, a state or condition wherein something is unlike anything else
  • In mathematics and logic, a unique object is the only object with a certain property; see Uniqueness quantification

Unique may also refer to:

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Usage examples of "unique".

Yet this ambivalence is not unique to cross-dressing, for when it comes to dealing with their sexuality people seem to want either therapy, catharsis, or pornography.

This is a truly unique age, where the individual has become the supreme agent of anarchist theory, without his even being aware of it.

Neither does its nature as the unique annul its freedom when this is the result of no compulsion but means only that The Good is no other than itself, is self-complete and has no higher.

To quickly get intercepts from the ship to NSA, a unique sixteen-foot dish-shaped antenna was installed on its fantail.

I dissent not to condone the intrusion of humankind into this ecosystem, but to protest a proceeding which will attempt on the basis of quantitative anthropocentric standards to determine the relative value of a lifeform against the desire of humankind to possess what this world has held until now unique within the rules established by its own genetic heritage.

This political side of his apostolate needs to be clearly apprehended if we would understand its amazing success and the wholly unique character of the Franciscan movement in its beginning.

The Iron Curtain countries do not have copyright agreements with the United States, and this anthology stands unique as the first from that part of the world actually to send American authors payment for republished stories.

The feeling was akin to assuaging hunger or thirst, but unique, powerful, and good.

I neither want my cousin with her unique and irreplaceable talents endangering herself by confronting this bardic abomination, nor do I want an assassin with two not entirely stable kigh wandering around Shkoder.

Braden as her unique scent, but she allowed herself to be herded upstairs by her cousin, the scuffing of her shoes betraying her reluctance.

And as he stared at it, he imagined that he himself was such an alembic, simmering away inside just like this one, out of which there likewise gushed a distillate, but a better, a newer, an unfamiliar distillate of those exquisite plants that he tended within him, that blossomed there, their bouquet unknown to anyone but himself, and that with their unique scent he could turn the world into a fragrant Garden of Eden, where life would be relatively bearable for him, olfactorily speaking.

Perhaps there would be exploitive creatures who came to take advantage of the unique qualities of science, or to steal the Phazite that powered the magic locally.

Bruenor and Wulfgar felt ridiculous carrying their mounts, but Drizzt accepted it with a smile and Regis thoroughly enjoyed the whole outrageous spectacle, having learned on his first visit that Longsaddle was a place to be taken lightly, appreciating the idiosyncrasies and unique ways of the Harpells purely for the sake of amusement.

England and has a different style of mediumship that is very unique to English mediums.

Describes unique design he deduces in himself: special intestinal microfauna plus superefficient body chemistry extracts enough energy to live on from blood.