Specialized
Words derived from Finnish used in more specialized fields:
- aapa mire - a marsh type, in biology
- palsa - low, often oval, frost heaves occurring in polar and subpolar climates
- pulk - a type of toboggan (derivative of word pulkka)
- Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology
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Famous quotes containing the word specialized:
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)