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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

special-case en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of special case (“treat specially”).
    • Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values. 2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work:

Forms

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special-cases Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
special-cased Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
special-cased Tense=Past lexicographic
special-casing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic