| specific performance | the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms |
| site visit | a visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise |
| wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
| drill site | workplace that is the site of a drill hole |
| specific | a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease, quinine is a specific for malaria |
| specific gravity | the density of a substance relative to the density of water |
particular
specific | a fact about some part (as opposed to general), he always reasons from the particular to the general |
web site
website
internet site
site | a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web, the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers |
portal site
portal | a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet, a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. |
| bomb site | an area in a town that has been devastated by bombs, they opened a parking lot on the bomb site |
campsite
campground
camping site
camping ground
bivouac
encampment
camping area | a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent |
cemetery
graveyard
burial site
burial ground
burying ground
memorial park
necropolis | a tract of land used for burials |
dig
excavation
archeological site | the site of an archeological exploration, they set up camp next to the dig |
toxic waste dump
toxic waste site
toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
| launching site | a place for launching pads |
| site situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings, the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides |
| active site | the part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occurs |
| restriction site | the specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA |
site
land site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school |
toxic site
toxic waste area
Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
| orphan site | a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup |
vacant lot
building site | a lot on which there are no permanent buildings |
| specific heat | the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade |
prostate specific antigen
PSA | a protein manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland, PSA is produced for the ejaculate where it liquifies the semen and allows sperm cells to swim freely, elevated levels of PSA in blood serum are associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer |
locate place
site | assign a location to, The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles |
| specific | stated explicitly or in detail, needed a specific amount |
| specific | (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique, rules with specific application, demands specific to the job, a specific and detailed account of the accident |
| specific | being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition, used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides, quinine is highly specific for malaria, a specific remedy, a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements |
| on-site | taking place or located at the site, on-site inspection |
| off-site | taking place or located away from the site, an off-site waste treatment operation |
| specific | relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species, specific characters |