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Definition: GENERAL TERM |
GENERAL TERM1. (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Myopathy is a general term referring to any disease of muscles. (references) | |
In ancient times stroke was called apoplexy,* a general term that physicians applied to anyone suddenly struck down with paralysis. (references) | ||
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a general term that refers to infection of the fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovary to the womb) and of other internal reproductive organs in women. (references) | ||
Indigenous People | Belize | Among the country's indigenous people, the Mopan and Ke'kchi are grouped under the general term Maya, although their leaders say that they should be identified as the Masenal, meaning "common people." The Maya have sought official recognition of their communal claims to land, but the Government has been reluctant to single out one ethnic group for special consideration. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "GENERAL TERM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 梆子" (the music of such operas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sorptio (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption), imeytyminen (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, absorption, infiltration, percolation, seepage, sorption, wicking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρόφηση (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | általános tag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 総称 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうしょう (contentious, dispute by legal action, inheritance, master, symmetry, teacher, wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneralgay ermtay sorción (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references) sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-l-m-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: agreement. | |
-3 letters: eglatere, emergent, enameler, enlarger, generate, greenlet, lamenter, lateener, meterage, regelate, regental, relearnt, relegate, teenager, telegram. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, eagerer, elegant, element, enlarge, enteral, enterer, etagere, eternal, garment, gatemen, general, genteel, gentler, germane, gleamer, gleaner, gleeman, gleemen, grantee, granter, greaten, greater, greener, greeter, learner, legatee, mangler, margent, melange, meltage, negater, reagent, realter, reenter, regaler, regrant, regrate, regreen, regreet, relater, relearn, remerge, reneger, tangler, teenage, teleman, telemen, teleran, terrane, terreen, terrene. | |
-5 letters: almner, angler, antler, argent, armlet, eaglet, earner, elater, emerge, enamel, engram, enrage, entera, entree, ergate, errant, eterne, galere, gamete, garner, garnet, garret, garter, gelant, gelate, genera, gentle, gerent, german, germen, grater, lament, larger, lateen, leaner, learnt, legate, legman, legmen, magnet, malgre, manege, mangel, manger, mangle, mantel, mantle, marten, meager, meagre, meaner, meeter, melter, menage, mental, merger, metage, nearer, neater, negate, ragmen, ranger, ranter, realer, reamer, reearn, reeler, regale, regear, regent, reglet, regnal, regret, relate, relent, remate, remeet, remelt, rename, renege, rental, renter, reteam, retear, retene, retral, tangle, tearer, teemer, teener, tegmen, telega, tergal, termer, terrae, tramel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 45 4E 45 52 41 4C      54 45 52 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E N E R A L   T E R M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 004E 0045 0052 0041 004C      0054 0045 0052 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41394839523546254395247 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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