customize

English

Alternative forms

• customise (mostly British)

Etymology

custom +‎ -ize. First attested in 1934 in American English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌst.ə.maɪ̯z/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

customize (third-person singular simple present customizes, present participle customizing, simple past and past participle customized)

1. To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customary
• customer
• customization

 

Translations

alter according to preferences

• Armenian: հարմարեցնել (hy) (harmarecʿnel)
• Bulgarian: изработвам по поръчка, приспособявам според потребностите си (prisposobjavam spored potrebnostite si)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定制 (zh) (dìngzhì), 定做 (zh) (dìngzuò), 客製化／客制化 (kèzhìhuà), 自定義／自定义 (zìdìngyì)

• Czech: přizpůsobit pf
• Danish: skræddersy, specialbygge
• Esperanto: agordi
• Estonian: kohandama, isiksustama
• Finnish: mukauttaa (fi), muuttaa toiveiden mukaiseksi, kustomoida (fi) (colloquial)
• Galician: personalizar
• German: speziell anfertigen
• Hungarian: testre szab (hu)
• Indonesian: menyesuaikan (id)
• Italian: customizzare (it), personalizzare (it)
• Japanese: カスタマイズする (kasutamaizu-suru)
• Lithuanian: pritaikymas individualiam vartojimui
• Maori: whakawhaiaro
• Persian: سفاریستن‎ (fa)
• Polish: dostosowywać (pl) impf, personalizować impf
• Portuguese: personalizar (pt), customizar (pt)
• Russian: модифици́ровать (ru) (modificírovatʹ) (в соотве́тствии с тре́бованиями)
• Spanish: personalizar (es)
• Swedish: anpassa (sv), skräddarsy (sv)
• Yiddish: אינדיווידואַליזירן‎ (individualizirn)

See also

• bespoke
• characterize
• differentiate
• individualize
• personalize
• tailor (verb)