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Definition: General |
GeneralAdjective1. Applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader". 2. Not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge". 3. Of national scope; "a general election". 4. Prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent". 5. (medicine) affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms". 6. Somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise". 7. Of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience". Noun1. A general officer of the highest rank. 2. A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular". Verb1. Command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "general" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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Public Administration | General Officer, category OF-9, Army, UK. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In calculus, an antiderivative or primitive function of a given real valued function f is a function F whose derivative is equal to f, i.e. F ' = f. The process of finding antiderivatives is antidifferentiation (or indefinite integration).
For example: F(x) = x³ / 3 is an antiderivative of f(x) = x². As the derivative of a constant is zero, x² will have an infinite number of antiderivatives; such as (x³ / 3) + 0 and (x³ / 3) + 7 and (x³ / 3) - 36...thus; the antiderivative family of x² is collectively referred to by F(x) = (x³ / 3) + C; where C is any constant. Essentially, related antiderivatives are vertical translations of each other; each graph's location depending upon the value of C.
Antiderivatives are important because they can be used to compute integrals, using the fundamental theorem of calculus: if F is an antiderivative of the integrable function f, then:
Because of this connection, the set of all antiderivatives of a given function f is sometimes called the general integral or indefinite integral of f and is written as an integral without boundaries:
If F is an antiderivative of f and the function f is defined on some interval, then every other antiderivative G of f differs from F by a constant: there exists a number C such that G(x) = F(x) + C for all x. C is called the arbitrary constant of integration.
Every continuous function f has an antiderivative, and one antiderivative F is given by the integral of f with variable upper boundary:
This is another formulation of the fundamental theorem of calculus.
There are also some non-continuous functions which have an antiderivative, for example f(x) = 2x sin (1/x) - cos(1/x) with f(0) = 0 is not continuous at x = 0 but has the antiderivative F(x) = x² sin(1/x) with F(0) = 0.
There are many functions whose antiderivatives, even though they exist, cannot be expressed in terms of elementary functions (like polynomials, exponential functions, logarithms, trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions and their combinations). Examples of these are
Techniques of integration
Finding antiderivatives is considerably harder than finding derivatives. We have various methods at our disposal:
- the linearity of integration allows us to break complicated integrals into simpler ones,
- integration by substitution, often combined with trigonometric identities
- integration by parts to integrate products of functions,
- the inverse chain rule method, a special case of integration by substitution
- the method of partial fractions in integration allows us to integrate all rational functions (fractions of two polynomials),
- the natural logarithm integral condition,
- the Risch algorithm,
- integrals can also be looked up in a table of integrals.
- When integrating multiple time, we can use certain additional techniques, see for instance double integrals and polar co-ordinates, the Jacobian and the Stokes theorem.
- If a function has no elementary antiderivative (for instance, exp(x²)), an area integral can be approximated using numerical integration.
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General is a high military rank, in most nations the highest rank, although some nations refer to high-ranking generals as Field Marshals. The title is used by land and sometimes air forces. In the navies of the world, the rank of admiral is equivalent. It may also appear as the term "general officer".The term began appearing around the time of the organization of professional armies in the 1600s. At first it was added as an adjective to existing names of ranks, yielding "Captain-General" and the like, used to distinguish the ruler's most important officers and usually made up as needed for individuals, often involving a certain amount of negotiation over precedence. Later, as part of further professionalization efforts, some of the terms, such as "Major-General", were assigned to specific ranks.
In the United States Armed Forces, "General" may mean either any rank of general officer, or the highest regular rank, which is usually referred to as full general, or four-star general, if necessary to identify it specifically. The different ranks of general are identified by the number of stars worn; a General of the Army wears five stars, a General four stars, a Lieutenant General three stars, a Major General two stars, and a Brigadier General one star.
General is also the title of the leader of the Salvation Army religious group.
See also: General, Comparative military ranks
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Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space. In the modern formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures using logic and mathematical notation. Mathematics is often abbreviated to math in North America and maths in other English-speaking countries.These specific structures investigated often have their origin in the natural sciences, most commonly in physics, but mathematicians also define and investigate structures for reasons purely internal to mathematics, because the structures may provide, for instance, a unifying generalization for several subfields, or a helpful tool for common calculations. Finally, many mathematicians study the areas they do for purely aesthetic reasons, viewing mathematics as an art form rather than as a practical or applied science.
Overview and history of mathematics
See the article on the history of mathematics for details.The word "mathematics" comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthema) which means "science, knowledge, or learning"; μαθηματικός (mathematikós) means "fond of learning".
The major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations in commerce, to measure land and to predict astronomical events. These three needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics into the study of structure, space and change.
The study of structure starts with numbers, firstly the familiar natural numbers and integers and their arithmetical operations, which are recorded in elementary algebra. The deeper properties of whole numbers are studied in number theory. The investigation of methods to solve equations leads to the field of abstract algebra, which, among other things, studies rings and fields, structures that generalize the properties possessed by the familiar numbers. The physically important concept of vector, generalized to vector spaces and studied in linear algebra, belongs to the two branches of structure and space.
The study of space originates with geometry, first the Euclidean geometry and trigonometry of familiar three-dimensional space, but later also generalized to non-Euclidean geometries which play a central role in general relativity. Several long standing questions about ruler and compass constructions were finally settled by Galois theory. The modern fields of differential geometry and algebraic geometry generalize geometry in different directions: differential geometry emphasizes the concepts of functions, fiber bundles, derivatives, smoothness and direction, while in algebraic geometry geometrical objects are described as solution sets of polynomial equations. Group theory investigates the concept of symmetry abstractly and provides a link between the studies of space and structure. Topology connects the study of space and the study of change by focusing on the concept of continuity.
Understanding and describing change in measurable quantities is the common theme of the natural sciences, and calculus was developed as a most useful tool for doing just that. The central concept used to describe a changing variable is that of a function. Many problems lead quite naturally to relations between a quantity and its rate of change, and the methods to solve these are studied in the field of differential equations. The numbers used to represent continuous quantities are the real numbers, and the detailed study of their properties and the properties of real-valued functions is known as real analysis. For several reasons, it is convenient to generalise to the complex numbers which are studied in complex analysis. Functional analysis focuses attention on (typically infinite-dimensional) spaces of functions, laying the groundwork for quantum mechanics among many other things. Many phenomena in nature can be described by dynamical systems and chaos theory deals with the fact that many of these systems exhibit unpredictable yet deterministic behavior.
In order to clarify and investigate the foundations of mathematics, the fields of set theory, mathematical logic and model theory were developed.
When computers were first conceived, several essential theoretical concepts were shaped by mathematicians, leading to the fields of computability theory, computational complexity theory, information theory and algorithmic information theory. Many of these questions are now investigated in theoretical computer science. Discrete mathematics is the common name for those fields of mathematics useful in computer science.
An important field in applied mathematics is statistics, which uses probability theory as a tool and allows the description, analysis and prediction of phenomena and is used in all sciences. Numerical analysis investigates the methods of efficiently solving various mathematical problems numerically on computers and takes rounding errors into account.
Topics in mathematics
An alphabetical list of mathematical topics is available; together with the "Watch links" feature, this list is useful to track changes in mathematics articles. The following list of subfields and topics reflects one organizational view of mathematics.
Quantity
Numbers -- Natural numbers -- Integers -- Rational numbers -- Real numbers -- Complex numbers -- Hypercomplex numbers -- Quaternions -- Octonions -- Sedenions -- Hyperreal numbers -- Surreal numbers -- Ordinal numbers -- Cardinal numbers -- p-adic numberss -- Integer sequences -- Mathematical constants -- Number names -- Infinity
Change
Arithmetic -- Calculus -- Vector calculus -- Analysis -- Differential equations -- Dynamical systems and chaos theory -- Fractional calculus -- List of functions
Structure
Abstract algebra -- Number theory -- Algebraic geometry -- Group theory -- Monoids -- Analysis -- Topology -- Linear algebra -- Graph theory -- Universal algebra -- Category theory
Space
Topology -- Geometry -- Trigonometry -- Algebraic geometry -- Differential geometry -- Differential topology -- Algebraic topology -- Linear algebra -- Fractal geometry
Discrete mathematics
Combinatorics -- Naive set theory -- Probability -- Theory of computation -- Finite mathematics -- Cryptography -- Graph theory -- Game theory
Applied Mathematics
Mechanics -- Numerical analysis -- Optimization -- Probability -- Statistics
Famous Theorems and Conjectures
Fermat's last theorem -- Riemann hypothesis -- Continuum hypothesis -- P=NP -- Goldbach's conjecture -- Twin Prime Conjecture -- Gödel's incompleteness theorems -- Poincaré conjecture -- Cantor's diagonal argument -- Pythagorean theorem -- Central limit theorem -- Fundamental theorem of calculus -- Fundamental theorem of algebra -- Fundamental theorem of arithmetic -- Four color theorem -- Zorn's lemma -- "The most remarkable formula in the world -- Axiom of countability
Foundations and Methods
Philosophy of mathematics -- Mathematical intuitionism -- Mathematical constructivism -- Foundations of mathematics -- Set theory -- Symbolic logic -- Model theory -- Category theory -- Theorem-proving -- Logic -- Reverse Mathematics -- Table of mathematical symbols
History and the World of Mathematicians
History of mathematics -- Timeline of mathematics -- Mathematicians -- Fields medal -- Abel Prize -- Millennium Prize Problems (Clay Math Prize) -- International Mathematical Union -- Mathematics competitions -- Lateral thinking
Mathematics and other fields
Mathematics and architecture
Mathematical tools
Old:
New:
- Abacus
- Napier's bones, Slide Rule
- Ruler and Compass
- Calculators and Computers
- Programming languages
- Computer algebra systems:
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Maxima
Quotes
Referring to the axiomatic method, where certain properties of an (otherwise unknown) structure are assumed and consequences thereof are then logically derived, Bertrand Russell said:
This may explain why John Von Neumann once said:
- Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Mathematics is Not...
- Numerology
Further Reading
- Davis, Philip J.; Hersh, Reuben: The Mathematical Experience. Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass., 1980. A gentle introduction to the world of mathematics.
- Gullberg, Jan: Mathematics--From the Birth of Numbers. W.W. Norton, 1996. An encyclopedic overview of mathematics presented in clear, simple language.
- Mathematical Society of Japan: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 2nd ed.. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993. Definitions, theorems and references.
- Michiel Hazewinkel (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000. A translated and expanded version of a Soviet math encyclopedia, in ten (expensive) volumes, the most complete and authoritative work available. Also in paperback and on CD-ROM.
External links
A tour through the various branches of modern mathematics.
- A mathematical thesaurus maintained by the University of Cambridge (UK), http://thesaurus.maths.org/
- Rusin, Dave: The Mathematical Atlas, http://www.math-atlas.org/.
Weisstein, Eric: World of Mathematics, http://www.mathworld.com/. An online encyclopedia of mathematics.Planet Math, http://planetmath.org/. An online math encyclopedia under construction. Uses the GFDL license, allowing article exchange with Wikipedia. Uses TeX markup.MathForge, http://www.mathforge.net/. A news-blog with topics ranging from popular mathematics to popular physics to computer science and education.Metamath, http://metamath.org/. A site, and a language, that formalize math from its foundations.simple:Mathematics
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, (236 - 183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic.He was present at the disastrous battles of the Ticinus (where, according to one tradition, he saved his father's life), the Trebia and Cannae. Even after the last of these defeats at the hands of the Carthagineans, he was resolutely focussed on securing Roman victory, and on hearing that Lucius Caecilius Metellus and other politicians were at the point of giving up the struggle and quitting Italy in despair, he gathered what few followers he could find and stormed upon the meeting, where at sword-point forced all present to swear that they would continue in faithful service to Rome. The year after his father's death, he offered himself for the command of the new army which the Romans resolved to send to Spain. In spite of his youth, his noble demeanor and enthusiastic language had made so great an impression that he was unanimously elected. All Spain south of the Ebro river in the year of his arrival (210) was under Carthaginian control, but fortunately for him the three Carthaginian generals, Hasdrubal and Mago (Hannibal's brothers), and Hasdrubal the son of Gisgo, were not disposed to act in concert and were preoccupied with revolts in Africa. Scipio, on landing at the mouth of the Ebro, was thus enabled to surprise and capture Carthago Nova, the headquarters of the Carthaginian power in Spain. He thus obtained a rich booty of war stores and supplies, and an excellent harbor. His kindly treatment of the Spanish hostages and prisoners brought many over to his side. In 209 he drove back Hasdrubal from his position at Baecula, on the upper Guadalquivir, but was unable to hinder his march to Italy. After winning over a number of Spanish chiefs he achieved in 206 a decisive victory over the full Carthaginian levy at Ilipa (near Corduba), which resulted in the evacuation of Spain by the Punic commanders.
With the idea of striking a blow at Carthage in Africa, he paid a short visit to the Numidian princes, Syphax and Massinissa, but at the court of Syphax he was foiled by the presence of Hasdrubal, the son of Gisgo, whose daughter Sophonisba was married to the Numidian chief. On his return to Spain, Scipio had to quell a mutiny which had broken out among his troops. Hannibal's brother Mago had meanwhile sailed for Italy, and in 206 Scipio himself, having secured the Roman occupation of Spain by the capture of Gades, gave up his command and returned to Rome. In the following year he was unanimously elected to the consulship, the province of Sicily being assigned to him. By this time Hannibal's movements were restricted to the south-western toe of Italy, and the war was now to be transferred to Africa. Scipio was himself intent on this, and his great name drew to him a number of volunteers from all parts of Italy, but the old-fashioned aristocracy of Rome, who disliked his luxurious tastes and his Greek culture, and still entertained a wholesome dread of Hannibal, opposed the idea; all Scipio could obtain was permission to cross over from Sicily to Africa, if it appeared to be in the interests of Rome. The introduction (205) of the Phrygian worship of Cybele and the transference of the image of the goddess herself from Pessinus to Rome to bless the expedition no doubt had its effect on public opinion. A commission of inquiry was sent over to Sicily, and it found that Scipio was at the head of a well-equipped fleet and army. At the commissioners' bidding he sailed in 204 and landed near Utica. Carthage meanwhile had secured the friendship of the Numidian Syphax whose advance compelled Scipio to raise the siege of Utica and to dig in on the shore between that place and Carthage. Next year he destroyed two combined armies of the Carthaginians and Numidians. After the failure of peace negotiations in which Scipio displayed great moderation, he defeated Hannibal in a decisive battle near Zama (October 19, 202 BC).
In the subsequent settlement with Carthage he upheld with success his comparatively lenient terms against the immoderate demands of many Roman aristocrats. Scipio was welcomed back to Rome with the surname of Africanus, and had the good sense to refuse the many honours which the people would have thrust upon him. For some years he lived quietly and took no part in politics. In 193 he was one of the commissioners sent to Africa to settle a dispute between Massinissa and the Carthaginians. In 190, when the Romans declared war against Antiochus III of Syria, Publius was attached as legate to his brother Lucius, to whom the chief command had been entrusted. The two brothers brought the war to a conclusion by a decisive victory at Magnesia in the same year. Meanwhile Scipio's political enemies had gained ground, and on their return to Rome a prosecution was started (187) by two tribunes against Lucius on the ground of misappropriation of moneys received from Antiochus. As Lucius was in the act of producing his account-books his brother wrested them from his hands, tore them in pieces, and flung them on the floor of the senate-house. This created a bad impression; Lucius was brought to trial, condemned and heavily fined. Africanus himself was subsequently (185) accused of having been bribed by Antiochus, but by reminding the people that it was the anniversary of his victory at Zama he caused an outburst of enthusiasm in his favor. The people crowded round him and followed him to the Capitol, where they offered thanks to the gods and begged them to give Rome more citizens like Africanus. He then retired to his native country seat at Liternum on the coast of Campania where he died. By his wife Aemilia, daughter of the consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus who fell at Cannae, he had a daughter Cornelia Africana, who became the mother of the two famous Gracchi.
Scipio was one of Rome's greatest generals. He never lost a battle. Skillful alike in strategy and in tactics, he had also the faculty of inspiring his soldiers with confidence. According to the story, Hannibal, who regarded Alexander as the first and Pyrrhus as the second among military commanders, confessed that had he beaten Scipio he should have put himself before either of them. He was a man of great intellectual culture and could speak and read Greek, and wrote his own memoirs in Greek. He also enjoyed the reputation of being a graceful orator. There was a belief that he was a special favourite of heaven and held actual communication with the gods. It is quite possible that he himself honestly shared this belief; to his political opponents he was often harsh and arrogant, but towards others singularly gracious and sympathetic. According to Gellmus, his life was written by Oppius and Hyginus, and also, it was said, by Plutarch.
See also: Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree
This article incorporates material from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| GE | English | General Electric Company | Electrical Engineering |
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Synonyms: GeneralSynonyms: cosmopolitan (adj), ecumenical (adj), oecumenical (adj), universal (adj), worldwide (adj), full general (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: -gen (general, transportation). |
| Antonyms: local (adj), specific (adj), particular (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
Master | Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon. |
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Screenplays | If this works, you get to be Postmaster General. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Yes, I know that, Comrade General. (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) Uh, anything in this general area right in here (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) I'll be General Custer (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) On behalf of my country and in the name of the other leaders of the world with whom I have today consulted, I hereby abidicate all authority and control over this planet to General Zod. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Lyrics | The surgoen general say's it's hazardous to breathe (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) A General, a Doctor, maybe a emcee (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | General Massacre (1973) Boulevard General Koenig 35 (1971) Die Neffen des Herrn General (1969) General Rakhimov (1968) | |
Song Titles | Firing The Surgeon General (performing artist: The Foremen) | |
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 | Dr. Thomas Parron, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service and Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, participate in the cornerstone laying of NIH Building 6. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shown is page 2 of the newspaper Washington Post on August 6, 1937 just after President Roosevelt signed a bill to authorize the erection of the National Cancer Institute, with Dr. Carl Voegtlin as the Chief. Shown are photos of Drs. Carl Voegtlin, R. H. Fitch, Herbert Kaher and Thomas Parran (Surgeon General). Shown is "'Conquer Cancer' Adopted as Battle Cry of the Public Health Service.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | This photomicrograph reveals central nervous system syphilis, causing general paresis, or paretic neurosyphilis. Numerous treponemes can be identified using silver impregnation technique; magnification 950X. Credit: CDC. |  | Original Walter Reed General Hospital at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Kugel auf Gummituch" (movie) by Rainer Wonisch. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, while watching general relativity in motion. |  | General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Credit: NASA. |
 | General Hap Arnold Visits AERL. Credit: NASA. |  | Preparing to pull tooth of large sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus. Bears were measured and tagged for future study. Teeth were pulled to study age and general health of bears. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Gabby - the talking current buoy Gabby getting a new face for a Norfolk, Virginia, open house MARMER hosted open house for general public Article appeared in Norfolk Ledger-Star on November 13, 1963. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ambrose P. Hill Confederate Lieutenant General Head of Coast Survey Drawing Division from 1855-1861. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Fixing up at the general store" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "This place is still operating, though mostlyas a club in the back." |
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Benjamin Disraeli | As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. |
Gaius C. Gallus | Reason can in general do more than blind force. |
General Douglas Macarthur | Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. |
| No army has ever done so much with so little. | |
General George S. Patton, Jr. | Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. |
Jane Austen | Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. |
John Ruskin | In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. |
Robert Burton | No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Men who dwell without the forest need not henceforth come before our justiciaries of the forest upon a general summons, unless they are in plea, or sureties of one or more, who are attached for the forest. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And Abimelech particularly is called king, though at most he was but their general. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It has been insisted, at the bar, that as the original grant of jurisdiction, to the supreme and inferior courts, is general, and the clause, assigning original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, contains no negative or restrictive words, the power remains to the legislature, to assign original jurisdiction to that court in other cases than those specified in the article which has been recited; provided those cases belong to the judicial power of the United States. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In no case must formations, administrative services or General Staffs include supplementary cadres. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | None of these clash with the general interest of a world agreement, or a world organization; on the contrary they help it. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In the South, the movement toward free common schools, supported [347 U.S. 483, 490] by general taxation, had not yet taken hold. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | And there was a general rush for the door |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | This pleasantry was received with a general laugh |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | After what it had calculated to ten significant decimal places as being the precise length of pause most likely to convey a general contempt for all things mattressy, the robot continued to walk round in tight circles |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Every capital, like every general, has its staff |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Though nobody spoke to him of the affair after class he could feel about him a vague general malignant joy. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The General came into the same opinion, so that for a long time there was a majority against you. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Later it may become more general. (references) | |
Others prefer only general information. (references) | ||
Patients may be tired or notice a general malaise. (references) | ||
Business | Medicare is funded by general taxes. (references) | |
This field takes on two general forms. (references) | ||
This is a general health concern of Singaporeans. (references) | ||
Children | Egypt | The Child Law provides for privileges, protection, and care for children in general. (references) |
Swaziland | A large percentage of students finish grade 10. In general medical care for children is inadequate. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | In more general social situations, boys are segregated at the age of 12 and girls at the onset of puberty. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Angola | The station's general manager subsequently denied any political pressure. (references) |
Bangladesh | Both opposition and ruling party activists mount processions during general strikes. (references) | |
Congo | However, security forces committed general human rights abuses against missionaries. (references) | |
Discrimination | France | Statutes ban discrimination based on race, religion, sex, ethnic background, or political opinion, and in general the Government effectively enforces them. (references) |
Economic History | The Netherlands | States General (parliament). (references) |
Spain | Estudio General de Medios (EGM). (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | General officers head both tribunals. (references) |
Zimbabwe | He was hospitalized at Chivhu General Hospital. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | The SNB, the MVD, and the General Procurator carry out investigations. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Mexico | The CNDH's office of the Fourth Inspector General reviews and investigates violations of indigenous rights. (references) |
El Salvador | As with the poor rural sector in general, access to land is a growing problem confronting indigenous people. (references) | |
Honduras | Some 450,000 persons, constituting 11 percent of the general population, are members of various indigenous groups. (references) | |
Minorities | Senegal | While general regions of origin can be identified for most ethnic groups, these regional separations no longer are distinct. (references) |
Belgium | Belgium is a pluralistic society in which individual differences in general are respected, and linguistic rights in particular generally are protected. (references) | |
Slovak Republic | It also created an Interministerial Committee and launched a public relations campaign to improve the image of the office and the Roma minority in general. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | For general agricultural workers, it is $2.47 per day. (references) |
Kenya | Kenya's next general election must occur by law by late 2002. (references) | |
NIGERIA | The 1974 decree contains general health and safety provisions. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The Deputy Governor General is also female. (references) |
Venezuela | The ANC also decreed new general elections. (references) | |
Jamaica | One of the 16 cabinet members is a woman, as is the PNP General Secretary. (references) | |
Trade | Romania | The license may be individual or general. (references) |
Uk | With such a well-developed banking sector, general finance is readily available. (references) | |
Brazil | Tariffs, in general, are the primary instrument in Brazil for regulating imports. (references) | |
Travel | Senegal | Health: The general level of health is good. (references) |
Vietnam | A general business call lasts no more than one hour. (references) | |
Thailand | Bring lots of your own as a general form of introduction. (references) | |
Women | Yemen | Several ministries have a number of female directors general. (references) |
Latvia | Instead, episodes are placed under more general categories such as assault or battery. (references) | |
Nepal | At least six NGO's in Kathmandu work on the problem of violence against women and on women's issues in general. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Yemen | Only the General Assembly of the GFWTUY may dissolve unions. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Labor officers in this unit conduct general inspections of work places annually. (references) | |
Sweden | These standards are very high, making workplaces both safe and healthy in general. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Mr. Leader, we're going to take a break. But when we come back, we'll ask Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle about his former colleague Attorney General John Ashcroft. |
Andrew Weil | It's a powerful anti-oxidant. It helps to treat diabetes, extends survival of breast cancer. Great protective against gum disease, good general anti-oxidant protection. |
Gennifer Flowers | I am very proud for him in the way that he's the president because I know that was his goal when he was Attorney General of Arkansas. |
John McCain | Sure. There's always that possibility, but I believe that there are very capable professionals in the Justice Department, and I think that the attorney general made the right decision turning this situation over to them. |
Julia Child | Well, because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. |
Robert Novak | General Richard Myers, there has been testimony by generals and admirals before Congress that the U.S. forces, after the campaign in Afghanistan, are tired, overextended, depleted. |
Rush Limbaugh | The General Accounting Office, the official investigative arm of Congress, completed its final report and was releasing it on its Web site Tuesday afternoon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy, for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With a view to a general reform in the system, I recommend the subject to the attention of Congress. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | As a general rule, I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I can not properly offer an answer. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | That is the policy which General Marshall is so ably executing today. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We brought about with the Congress, after much delay, the renewal of the general revenue sharing. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Independent Inspectors General have been appointed in major agencies to attack fraud and waste. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Military's Southern Command, General Barry McCaffrey, as America's new drug czar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "General" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.38% of the time. "General" is used about 25,641 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.38% | 19,329 | 463 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.95% | 5,116 | 1,913 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.66% | 1,194 | 6,483 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,641 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "general" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| General | Last name | 170 | 43,702 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "general". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Tartan | N/A | Biblical | A general (official title) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | General Property Trust | Austria | General Partners Immobilienbesitz AG |
| Canada | Canadian General Investments, Limited | Chile | Compania General De Electricidad Industrial S.A. |
| France | General Industries SA | Greece | Ethniki Greek General Insurance Company SA |
| Japan | Fujitsu General Limited | Malaysia | General Corporation Berhad |
| Singapore | General Magnetics Limited | South Africa | General Optical Company Limited |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "general": "Mutual Help" General Social Fund for the Improvement of Public Health ♦ Accountatn general ♦ Adjutant general ♦ American General ♦ armchair general ♦ army general ♦ as a general rule ♦ assembly general ♦ attorney general ♦ attorney General of the United States ♦ average unless general ♦ be in general wear ♦ brigadier general ♦ Captain general ♦ Captaincy general ♦ caviare to the general ♦ chief of general staff ♦ College Marketing General Information Services ♦ Commissary general ♦ Commissary general of subsistence ♦ Commission of general gaol delivery ♦ comptroller general ♦ computable general equilibrium ♦ Computable general equilibrium model ♦ consul general ♦ consulate general ♦ data General ♦ data General mN601 ♦ designación general de la clase de documento ♦ director general ♦ Einstein's general theory of relativity ♦ estate in tail general ♦ estates general ♦ field general ♦ for the general weal ♦ full general ♦ general account ♦ general accounting ♦ General Adaptation Syndrome ♦ general agency ♦ general agent ♦ general agreement ♦ general Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ♦ general air cargo ♦ general alert ♦ general anaesthesia ♦ general anaesthetic ♦ general and administrative costs ♦ general and annual survey processing ♦ general and complete disarmament ♦ general anesthesia ♦ general anesthetic ♦ general Appearance ♦ General Arrangement to Borrow ♦ general arts ♦ general assembly ♦ general atomic war ♦ General average ♦ general average damage ♦ general aviation ♦ general Baptist ♦ general breaking up ♦ general call 'to all station' ♦ general cargo ship ♦ general conception ♦ general condition ♦ General confession ♦ General Court ♦ general covering forces ♦ General customs ♦ general damages ♦ General dealer ♦ general death rate ♦ general defense ♦ general delivery ♦ General demurrer ♦ general department ♦ general direction ♦ general disarmament ♦ general editor ♦ general election ♦ general Electric Comprehensive Operating System ♦ General Electric Information Services ♦ general engagement ♦ General epistle ♦ general equilibrium ♦ general expenses ♦ General guides ♦ general headquarters ♦ general history ♦ General homology ♦ general hospital ♦ General hospitals ♦ general income tax ♦ general industrial holiday ♦ general interdependent system ♦ general introduction to the subject ♦ General issue ♦ general journal ♦ general knowledge ♦ general laborer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "general": general-added, general-at-sea, general-dealer, general-duties, General-elect, general-election, general-human, general-in-chief, general-including, general-interest, General-law, general-manager, general-obligation, general-obligations, general-owned, general-practice, general-protection, general-purpose, general-purposes, General-secretary, general-secretaryship, general-staff officer, general-to-specific, general-use. | |
Ending with "general": adjutant-general, advocate-general, auditor-general, brigadier-general, captain-general, colonel-general, comptroller-general, consulate-general, consul-general, controller-general, directorate-general, director-general, directors-general, ex-general, governor-general, governors-general, inspector-general, Justice-general, Lieutenant-general, palestine-general, procurator-general, prosecutor-general, quartermaster-general, receiver-general, registrar-general, secretary-general, surgeon-general, surveyor-general, surveyors-general, Under-secretary-general, vicar-general. | |
Containing "general": director-general-designate, secretary-cum-telephonist-cum-general-dogsbody. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "general"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | generaal, algemeen (usual). (various references) | |
Albanian | gjeneral, kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i papërcaktuar (impersonal, indefinite, indeterminate, neutral, uncertain, undetermined), i përgjithshëm (all out, appellative, blanket, common, ecumenical, generic, overall, public, sketchy, universal), i gjithanshëm (all round, all-rounder, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic, encyclopedical, universal, versatile). (various references) | |
Arabic | فكرة عامة, كلي (aggregate, total, universal, utter), لواء (brigade, major general), سائد (current, epidemic, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, ruling), عام (catholic, common, encyclic, generic, gross, historical, open, prevailing, public, rife, sketchy, universal, year), جنرال لواء, شامل (catholic, comprehensible, comprehensive, extensive, full, full scale, generic, global, including, inclusive, overall, pandemic, perfect, sweeping, thorough, total, universal), شائع (afloat, common, current, epidemic, popular, prevalent, public, rife, trendy, two a penny, widespread). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръководен (directional, directorial, directory, governing, key, leading), ръководител на религиозен орден, генерален, генерал, главен (arterial, capital, chief, decuman, grand, head, high, leading, magistral, main, major, master, pivotal, premier, primary, prime, principal, stellar), всеобщ (omnibus, overall, universal), основен (abecedarian, alkali, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, essential, fundamental, grade, gut, key, key note, main, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), общ (aggregate, blanket, broad, collective, common, communal, corporate, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide), обичаен (accustomed, common, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, habitual, ordinary, regular, stock, usual, wonted), неконкретен (inexplicit), пълководец (soldier), прислужница която върши всичко, повсеместен (across the board, all over, nationwide, ubiquitous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 一般 (common, ordinary, same). (various references) | |
Czech | globální (global, overall), generální (complete), generál, všeobecný (all around, all round, blanket, broad, common, sweeping, universal), rámcový, povšechný (broad), obecný (blanket, common, rife, universal), celkový (aggregate, overall, total). (various references) | |
Danish | generel (usual), almindelig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, universal, used to, usual, wonted, worldwide). (various references) | |
Dutch | generaal (usual), algemeen (common, joint, universal, usual, vague, worldwide). (various references) | |
Esperanto | generalo, universala (universal, worldwide), maldetala (vague), ĝenerala (usual). (various references) | |
Faeroese | heims- (universal, worldwide), almennur (official, public, usual), al- (universal, worldwide). (various references) | |
Farsi | متداول (Current, Ordinary, Prevalent, Standard, Uptodate, Usual, Vogue), معمولی (Banal, Common, Commonplace, Ordinary, Ornery), همگانی (Communal, Public, Universal), همگان (Public), کلی (Generic, Material, Total, Totality, Universal), ژنرال , عمومی (Common, Encyclical, Exoteric, Generic, Overt, Public, Rife, Universal, Wide), جامع (Catholic, Comprehensive, Large, Plenary, Precise, Spacious, Universal), ارتشبد (Marshal). (various references) | |
Finnish | yleinen (usual). (various references) | |
French | général. (various references) | |
Frisian | generaal, mien (universal, usual, worldwide), algemien (universal, usual, worldwide). (various references) | |
German | general (wholesale), allgemein (across board, across the board, broad, broadly, common, generally, in general terms, in the main, joint, nationwide, omnibus, overall, popularly, public, received, universal, universally, usual, widely). (various references) | |
Greek | στρατηγόσ (strategist), στρατηγός (eneral), γενικόσ (catholic, generic, omnibus, universal), γενικός (eneral, overall). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כללי (bulk, common, generic, sketchy, universal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | általános (broad, civil engineering, common, current coin, generic, indefinite, ordinary, overhead, public, selective service, skedaddle, to pass current, to run current, universal, usual, worldwide). (various references) | |
Icelandic | almennt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jendral, awam (common, nonexpert), am (common, ordinary, universal). (various references) | |
Italian | generale (broad, catholic, generale, overall, overhead, usual), universale (catholic, multipurpose, universal, worldwide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 全般 (universal, whole, wholly), 一般 (average, liberal, ordinary, universal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうぐん (shogun), だいたい (battalion, change of ownership, main point, outline, subrogation, substantially, substitution, thigh), げんそくてき, ジェネラル , りくしょう (army minister, lieutenant general), いっぱん (a bowl of rice, a half, a meal, a part, a spot, an edition, average, liberal, ordinary, universal), いっぱんてき (popular, typical), つうじょう (common, normal, usual), ぐんもん (camp gate), だいしょう (admiral, boss, brigadier general, commodore, compensation, consideration, indemnification, reparation, size), しょうかん (admiral, amortization, firm, killing time, lull, petty official, recall, redemption, repayment, short break or breather, short interval of leisure, summons, trading company), たいしょう (a caravan, admiral, antithesis, big prize, boss, comparison, contrast, crushing victory, first prize, great victory, hearty laugh, imperial rescript, loud laughter, object, specific, subject, symmetry, Taisho Era, target), しれいかん (commandant, commanding officer), そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), くうしょう (lieutenant, major), ぜんめんてき (all-out, complete, extensive, full-scale, over-all), ぜんぱん (first half, universal, whole, wholly), ぜんぱんてき (universal), がいねんてき (conceptual), おおまか (broad, generous, rough), しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound). (various references) | |
Korean | 일반 (generic, Generical). (various references) | |
Manx | kionfenee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | generell, general, alminnelig (common). (various references) | |
Papiamen | general (usual), univèrsal (universal, worldwide). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eneralgay.(various references) | |
Polish | generał. (various references) | |
Portuguese | geral (across the board, all-purpose, broad, current, exoteric, gallery, multipurpose, overhead, public, universal, usual, vague, worldwide), universal (across the board, all-purpose, common, multipurpose, oecumenical, pervasive, usual, worldwide), general, genérico (generic, usual). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | geral, gerais. (various references) | |
Romanian | general (all round, broad, common, generic, grand, immanent, rife, universal, usual). (various references) | |
Russian | расплывчатый (nebulous, overbroad), широкий (broad, catholic, ever-growing, far reaching, flyaway, large, loose, slip on, sweeping, wide), генеральный, генерал, главный (best, capital, central, governing, grand, head, hegemonic, magistral, main, major, primal, primary, prime, principal), всеобщий (consensual, overall, universal), общего характера, общий (blanket, collective, common, conjoint, corporate, generic, genl general, global, joint, mutual, overall, sharable, shareable), неспециализированный, повсеместный (pervasive, ubiquitous). (various references) | |
Scottish | coitcheann (common, public). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glavni (arch, basic, capital, cardinal, chief, head, key, leading, magistral, main, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, salient, trunk), generalni, general, princip (principle, ruler, tenet), opšti (broad, common, generic, overhead, public, universal), okvirni (basic, main). (various references) | |
Spanish | general (blanket, broad, catch-all, extensive, headlong, omnibus, sweeping, usual), universal (all purpose, catholic, overall, universal, usual, world). (various references) | |
Swedish | general (air chief marshal), allmän (across the board, broad, common, generic, generical, omnibus, ordinary, overall, pandemic, public, universal, usual), generell (across the board, generic, generical, overall), fältherre (military commander, warlord). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lahát (all, altogether, everything, usual), henerál. (various references) | |
Thai | นายพล, ทั่วไป (run-of-the-mine). (various references) | |
Turkish | general (general officer), genel (across the board, blanket, broad, collective, common, exoteric, generic, grand, liberal, overhead, plenary, prevailing, prevalent, running, sweeping, widespread), yaygın (broad, common, diffuse, diffusive, endemic, epidemic, epidemical, expansive, extensive, familiar, far flung, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, wide, widespread), umumi (communal), tarikat lideri, tahmini (approximative, calculated, conjectural, estimated, pro forma), orgeneral, komutan (commandant, commander), baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), şef (captain, chef, chief, clerk, commander, gaffer, guv, guvnor, head, headman, principal, supervisor, taskmaster, top dog). (various references) | |
Turkmen | serkerde (commander), дhlumumy (universal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | генерал, загальноприйнятий (accredited, conventional, orthodox, passant, received), загальний (aggregate, all out, appellative, blanket, collective, common, generic, generical, global, net, nominal, overall, pandemic, universal), більшість (majority, mass), повсюдний (omnipresent, ubiquitous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhà chiến lược xuất sắc, chung (broad, common, communal, public, universal), cái tổng quát, cái chung, cái đại thể (rough). (various references) | |
Welsh | penbaladr (universal), cyffredinol (universal), cyffredin (banal, common), cadfridog. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | catholicus, communis, duce, ducem, duces, ducesque, duci, ducibus, ducis, ductor, ducum, dux, dux ducis, generalis, imperator, oecumenicus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | catholicus, vulgata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai saoul hgnohsen agnoian megalhn en th hmera ekeinh kai aratai tw law legwn epikataratoV o anqrwpoV oV fagetai arton ewV esperaV kai ekdikhsw ton ecqron mou kai ouk egeusato paV o laoV artou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et vir Israhel sociatus sibi est in die illa adiuravit autem Saul populum dicens maledictus vir qui comederit panem usque ad vesperam donec ulciscar de inimicis meis et non manducavit universus populus panem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And men of Yrael ben felawshipt to hem seluen in that day; forsothe Saul swore to the puple, seyynge, Cursid be the man that etith breed vnto euen, to the tyme that I be vengid of myn enemyes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug ang mga tawo sa Israel nangaguol niadtong adlawa; kay si Saul nagpahamangno sa katawohan, nga nagaingon: Tinunglo ang tawo nga mokaon sa bisan unsang kalan-ona hangtud sa kagabhion, ug ako magapanimalus sa akong mga kaaway. Busa wala sa katawohan ing mitilaw ug kalan-on. |
| Croatian | Izraelci su onog dana bili vrlo izmoreni, jer je Šaul izrekao nad narodom ovu zakletvu: "Proklet bio èovjek koji okusi hrane prije veèeri, prije nego što se osvetim svojim neprijateljima!" Tako sav narod ne okusi hrane toga dana. |
| Dutch | En de mannen van Israel werden mat te dien dage; want Saul had het volk bezworen, zeggende: Vervloekt zij de man, die spijze eet tot aan den avond, opdat ik mij aan mijn vijanden wreke! Daarom proefde dat ganse volk geen spijs. |
| Finnish | Israelin miehet olivat sinä päivänä ylen rasitetut, mutta Saul vannotti kansan ja sanoi: "Kirottu olkoon se mies, joka syö mitään ennen iltaa ja ennen kuin minä olen kostanut vihollisilleni". Ja koko kansa oli ruokaa maistamatta. |
| French | La journée fut fatigante pour les hommes d`Israël. Saül avait fait jurer le peuple, en disant: Maudit soit l`homme qui prendra de la nourriture avant le soir, avant que je me sois vengé de mes ennemis! Et personne n`avait pris de nourriture. |
| German | Und da die Männer Israels matt waren desselben Tages, beschwor Saul das Volk und sprach: Verflucht sei jedermann, wer etwas ißt zum Abend, daß ich mich an meinen Feinden räche! Da aß das ganze Volk nichts. |
| Hungarian | És Izráel népe igen elepedett vala azon a napon, mert Saul esküvel kényszeríté a népet, mondván: Átkozott az, a ki kenyeret eszik estvéig, míg bosszút állok ellenségeimen, azért az egész nép semmit sem evék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada hari itu orang-orang Israel dalam keadaan lemah karena lapar, sebab Saul telah bersumpah demikian, "Terkutuklah orang yang memakan apa pun pada hari ini sebelum aku membalas dendam terhadap musuhku." Karena itu tidak seorang pun yang makan sepanjang hari itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka penatlah orang Israel pada hari itu, sebab Saul menyumpahi orang banyak itu, titahnya: Kutuklah orang yang makan barang sesuatu sebelum petang, sebelum aku menuntut bela kepada musuhku! Maka sebab itu segenap orang banyak tiada mengecap barang makanan. |
| Maori | ¶ A i hemanawa nga tangata o Iharaira i taua ra: i whakaoati hoki a Haora i te iwi, i mea, Ki te kai tetahi tangata i te kai a ahiahi noa, ka kanga ia, kia whai utu ra ano ahau i oku hoariri. Na reira kihai tetahi o te iwi i anga ki te kai. |
| Norwegian | Mens nu Israels menn var hårdt anstrengt den dag, lot Saul folket sverge og sa: Forbannet være den mann som nyter nogen mat innen aften, før jeg får hevnet mig på mine fiender! Og det var ingen av folket som smakte mat. |
| Portuguese | Ora, os homens de Israel estavam já exaustos naquele dia, porquanto Saul conjurara o povo, dizendo: Maldito o homem que comer pão antes da tarde, antes que eu me vingue de meus inimigos. Pelo que todo o povo se absteve de comer. |
| Rumanian | Ziua aceea a fost obositoare pentru bqrbayii lui Israel. Saul pusese pe popor sq jure, zicknd: ,,Blestemat sq fie omul care va mknca pkne pknq seara, pknq mq voi rqzbuna pe vrqjmawii mei!`` Wi nimeni nu mkncase. |
| Spanish | Pero aquel día los hombres de Israel fueron puestos en apuros, porque Saúl había sometido al pueblo bajo juramento, diciendo: "¡Maldito sea cualquiera que coma algo antes del anochecer, hasta que yo haya tomado venganza de mis enemigos!" Así que ninguno del pueblo había probado alimento. |
| Swedish | När nu Israels män på den dagen voro hårt ansträngda, band Saul folket med följande ed: "Förbannad vare den man som förtär någon föda före aftonen, och innan jag har tagit hämnd på mina fiender." Så smakade då ingen av folket någon föda. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "general": generalisation, generalisations, generalise, generalised, generalises, generalising, generalissimo, generalissimos, generalist, generalists, generalities, generality, generalizabilities, generalizability, generalizable, generalization, generalizations, generalize, generalized, generalizer, generalizers, generalizes, generalizing, generally, generals, generalship, generalships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "general": outgeneral. (additional references) | |
Words containing "general": outgeneraled, outgeneraling, outgenerals, overgeneralization, overgeneralizations, overgeneralize, overgeneralized, overgeneralizes, overgeneralizing. (additional references) | |
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"General" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benzeval, Enerdale, feneral, gemera, Gemerek, genderal, geneal, Genefa, ge'neral, generale, generali, generalia, generaly, generat, genere, generia, generily, Gennari, gennera, genneral, Genrad, genral, genreal, genrel, gentra, gereral, Ginera, gineral, Ginevra, Gomersal, veneral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "general" (pronounced je"nerul or je"nrul) |
| 6 | j e" n er u l | Gen. |
| 4 | -n er u l | funeral, mineral. |
| 3 | -er u l | admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, guttural, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, structural, supernatural, temporal, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral. |
| 3 | -r u l | amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enlarge, gleaner. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angler, enrage, galere, genera, leaner, regale, regnal. | |
-2 letters: agene, aglee, agree, anele, angel, anger, angle, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, genre, glare, glean, gnarl, green, lager, laree, large, learn, leger, ragee, ranee, range, regal, regna, renal. | |
-3 letters: agee, ager, alee, earl, earn, egal, eger, elan, erne, gaen, gale, gane, gear, gene, glee, glen, gnar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: algerine, allergen, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, generals, gleaners, regental. | |
+2 letters: algerines, allergens, angerless, embrangle, engrailed, enlargers, entangler, generable, generally, germanely, glandered, greenmail, largeness, laveering, legendary, organelle, pregnable, realigned, rectangle, releasing, repealing, resealing, revealing, sloganeer. | |
+3 letters: allergenic, camerlengo, challenger, embrangled, embrangles, enfleurage, entanglers, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, goaltender, governable, greenmails, integrable, leaguering, leathering, leveraging, loungewear, malingered, malingerer, organelles, outgeneral, pregenital, realtering, recleaning, rectangles, regelating, regimental, relabeling, relearning, relegating, relegation, repaneling, repleading, ringleader, sloganeers, underglaze, unenlarged. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Names: Company Usage 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Bible Trace 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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