What's the difference between "specific" and "specified" ? + the meaning of "strike by" ?
1) I was looking for other meanings of the word "head" and found out this sentence:
"to move in a specified direction"

Why didn't they use "SPECIFIC" ? Can you explain what's the difference and when I use each one?

2) I was reading and this sentence got me confused

"... there are lots of players arrested for smoking weed and there is other people's behavior that goes way beyond that and it's tolerated because they're very famous players. I suppose the thing I was STRUCK BY was, we did have a guy who was reprimanded for weed on the film, essentially, so obviously what Johnny has been accused of is much greater than that."

What did he mean with "struck by" in this case? (surprised? or something like "it got me thinking..."?)

Thanks in advance.

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What's the difference between "specific" and "specified" ? + the meaning of "strike by" ?
1) I was looking for other meanings of the word "head" and found out this sentence:
"to move in a specified direction"

Why didn't they use "SPECIFIC" ? Can you explain what's the difference and when I use each one?

2) I was reading and this sentence got me confused

"... there are lots of players arrested for smoking weed and there is other people's behavior that goes way beyond that and it's tolerated because they're very famous players. I suppose the thing I was STRUCK BY was, we did have a guy who was reprimanded for weed on the film, essentially, so obviously what Johnny has been accused of is much greater than that."

What did he mean with "struck by" in this case? (surprised? or something like "it got me thinking..."?)

Thanks in advance.

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Thanks guys

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In relation to question number 2, I would say that the meaning of “struck by” is much closer to “ it got me thinking” rather than “ surprised “.

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STRUCK BY: yes, your assumption is correct.

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in this case I would say that it means was surprised by and it made a big impression on him

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Specified is the past tense of the VERB to specify. So it had been specified by somebody or something.

Specific could be also .be written as 'particular'. i.e.  he picked up a specific/particular book.

The book had been specified, so it was a specific book.

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