TAILORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tailored mean? 

• TAILORED (adjective)
  The adjective TAILORED has 2 senses:

1. severely simple in line or design

2. (of clothing) custom-made

  Familiarity information: TAILORED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Severely simple in line or design

Synonyms:

tailored; trim

Context example:

tailored curtains

Similar:

plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of clothing) custom-made

Synonyms:

bespoke; bespoken; made-to-order; tailor-made; tailored

Similar:

custom; custom-made (made according to the specifications of an individual)

 Context examples 

Co-researcher Associate Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko said the invention could be tailored for other light spectrums including visible light, which opened up a whole array of innovations, including architectural and energy saving applications.

(Protecting Astronauts from Radiation in Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Since many forms of hearing loss are limited to specific frequencies, this approach could lead to replacement sensory cells that are tailored to individual needs.”

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Bacteria in certain communities have genes tailored by evolution for cycling the nutrients that are naturally available in their ecosystems.

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

Such systems, which have the potential of being tailored to specific diseases or individual patients, could be an important tool for oncologists.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

MistNet is based on neural networks for images and includes several architecture components tailored to the unique characteristics of radar data.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Scientists have developed spray gun that uses a process called electrospinning to 'paint' on bandages with drug cocktails tailored to treat patients' wounds.

(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To make according to individual requirements or specifications; to make more personalized or tailored for a specific need.

(Customize, NCI Thesaurus)

By determining how these vulnerabilities interact with sociocultural and psychological influences on tobacco use, and by improving the ability to assess risks quantitatively, more effective prevention and cessation interventions can be developed and tailored to those most likely to benefit from them.

(Biobehavioral Determinants of Tobacco Use and Addiction, NCI Thesaurus)

By tweaking the ink composition and the sensor design, the team were able to make the ink change colour faster or slower, allowing them to produce different sensors that are tailored to the six different types of skin colour.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)

If we can learn to control the disorder even more precisely, we could expect further LED or solar cell performance improvements – and even push well beyond silicon with tailored tandem solar cells comprising two different colour perovskite layers that together can harvest even more power from the sun than one layer alone, said Dr Sam Stranks, University Lecturer in Energy at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and the Cavendish Laboratory.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)