Entertainment / Literature / Specialization: A semantic change restricting the referents of a word--i.e., a linguistic movement from a more general to a more specific meaning for a word. For instance, the Old English word wif (Modern English wife) once meant merely 'woman.' However, through linguistic specialization it has come to mean 'married woman' more specifically. In Middle English, a single French loanword might be adopted twice over different centuries--once from early Anglo-Norman French, and afterward from Central French. They would have slight differences from each other in spelling and pronunciation--so English speakers would give each one a slightly specialized meaning--even though the two originally meant the same thing in French. Examples include chief (leader of a war band) and chef (leader of a kitchen). Both were once the same word more or less meaning 'leader' generally.
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Lifestyle / College / Interdisciplinary (Curriculum): Study of all aspects of a particular field (e.g., chemistry, engineering) rather than complete specialization in a single area (e.g., marketing, electrical engineering). This gives students a broad, w MORE
Lifestyle / College / Entrepreneurship: The undertaking of a business or enterprise with the chance of profit or loss. This is a common specialization in business programs in which students study the traits of successful entrepreneurs as we MORE
Technology / Programming / Concept-Based Overloading: Concept-based overloading selects the most specific algorithm from a set of specializations of a given algorithm. MORE