Used in a Sentence

custom

How to use custom in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for custom.

Editorial note

At worst you'd have to get a custom designed output gear.

Examples15
Definitions5
Parts of speech2

Quick take

accepted or habitual practice

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of custom gathered in one view.

noun

accepted or habitual practice

noun

a specific practice of long standing

noun

money collected under a tariff

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for custom.

noun

accepted or habitual practice

noun

a specific practice of long standing

noun

habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"

adjective

made according to the specifications of an individual

Example sentences

1

At worst you'd have to get a custom designed output gear.

2

There is a class of submissions that only make sense or attract interest with a custom title.

3

I got handed a custom mp3 encoder and asked if I could figure out why the output was too quiet.

4

If you had a setup with a hosted machine at Rackspace and the power goes out, you don't expect a custom error.

5

Which underlying algorithm?The search engine was built on a ternary tree with a custom merging algorithm.

6

The real issue here is not the hardware and not Android, but what device manufacturers and network providers cram down the throats of their customers.

7

In the US, when I go to a restaurant, I am being 'served', but after the waiter gets off work he's a full and equal neighbor of mine under both law and custom.

8

That was almost five years ago and Opera was moving fast, too. Mouse gestures, broad customizability, passionate users and some of the greatest people working in the company.

9

Good politics: they had custom code for parts of OpenSSL, they published it when it seemed needed, open-source community told them what was wrong, they fixed it and apologized.

10

I know, because we've done a ton of sophisticated benchmarking comparing custom use case cache performance to general purpose page cache performance.

11

If you don't have the man power to review custom titles, and don't trust the community to do it then disallow them other than in the case of manually editing down titles that are too long.

12

If you really know what you're doing, a custom cache can be significantly more efficient than the general purpose kernel cache, which in turn can make significant impact on performance bottom line.

13

The other tenderers were accustomed to dividing the work up amongst themselves at inflated prices, they didn't even know who we were and we received a lot of abuse for breaking up their little scheme.

14

Bitcoin: a currency for which capability to buy pizza is noteworthy, required custom programming, comes with a 10% novelty tax, and is incapable of maintaining a single price for 24 hours.

15

If an interface value v is passed to a function f, then what does happen from time to time is that f will look for custom methods on v that are at least logically equivalent to the static interface type f is declared to expect.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use custom in a sentence?

At worst you'd have to get a custom designed output gear.

What does custom mean?

accepted or habitual practice

What part of speech is custom?

custom is commonly used as noun, adjective.