Generalize

Definitions: Generalize

Generalize

Verb

1. Draw from specific cases for more general cases.

2. Speak in generalities.

3. Become systemic; spread throughout the body; of diseases and infections.

Date "generalize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references)

Synonyms: Generalize

Synonyms: extrapolate (v), generalise (v), infer (v). (additional references)

Antonym: specify (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Generality	Render general; Adjective: generalize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Generalize

English words defined with "generalize": Generalizing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "generalize": attempts to generalize ♦ relational structure. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	One does not like to generalize about so many people all at once, Mr. Knightley, but you may be sure that men know nothing about their hearts, whether they be six-and-twenty, or six-and-eighty. (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath)
Clever	You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. (references; author: Mark Twain)
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Domain	Title
Books	Processing the Experience: Strategies to Enhance and Generalize Learning (reference) Some Basic Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials That Generalize Jacobi Polynomials (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 319) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Georg Hegel	An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
William Blake	To generalize is to be an idiot.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is premature to generalize from these data on course and outcome for the entire population of persons with recurrent mood disorders, which presumably includes a substantial number whose conditions remit spontaneously, who never seek treatment, or who are treated in other settings. (references)
Business		For sewage improvement, the government plans to generalize the access of potable water countrywide during the period 2000-2004 to raise the rate of potable water use to 62% for about 6,000 villages representing a population of 3.2 million inhabitants in the rural areas. (references)
Economic History	Austria	It is impossible to generalize about pricing structures. (references)
	Morocco	The government is actively undertaking tariff reform that would generalize to some extent its tariff reductions vis � vis the EU. (references)
Travel	Ukraine	Given the fact that "business" in a Western sense is something new to the current generation of Ukrainians, it is difficult to generalize about proper protocol and customs for doing business in Ukraine. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Lawrence Lindsey	Again, I think it depends on the job the person does. I don't think you can generalize. I think, again, some people are worth every penny they get paid and some aren't. That's the way it is.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Generalize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.51% of the time. "Generalize" is used about 137 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90.51%	124	28,785
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.49%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	137	N/A

Language		Translations for "generalize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbatoj gjerësisht, përgjithësoj, flas në përgjithësi. (various references)

Arabic		‏عمم (popularize, propagate), ‏إستقرى, ‏أطلق تعميمات, ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter). (various references)

Bulgarian		разпространявам (broadcast, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, overspread, promulgate, propagate, purvey, put about, tell around), говоря общо, въвеждам в употреба, обобщавам (colligate, resume, summarize). (various references)

Chinese		推断 (generalise, generalised, generalized, Generalizing, infer, inference, Inferred, Inferring), 概括 (briefly, summarize). (various references)

Czech		generalizovat, zobecnit, zevšeobecnit. (various references)

Farsi		تعمیم دادن (Distribute), عمومی کردن (Secularize), بطورعام گفتن . (various references)

Finnish		yleistää. (various references)

French		généraliser. (various references)

German		verallgemeinern (distribute, to generalize, to make generalizations, universalize). (various references)

Greek		γενικεύω (generalise, generilise). (various references)

Hebrew		לקבוע כלל. (various references)

Hungarian		általánosít (to generalize, to universalize). (various references)

Indonesian		menyamaratakan. (various references)

Italian		generalizzare (generalise, universalize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		総括 (recap, synthesis). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そうかつ (being in general control of, recap, synthesis). (various references)

Korean		일반�"하십시�" (generalise). (various references)

Manx		goll roish veih, goll er hoshiaght veih. (various references)

Pig Latin		eneralizegay

Portuguese		generalizar, generalização (generalisation, generalization), difundir (blow, broadcast, diffuse, disseminated, propagate, publish, radiate, send). (various references)

Romanian		generaliza, universaliza, absolutiza. (various references)

Russian		обобщать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uopštiti. (various references)

Spanish		generalizar (spread, universalize). (various references)

Swedish		popularisera (popularize, vulgarize), generalisera (make sweeping statements). (various references)

Thai		กล่าวสรุป (generalise). (various references)

Turkish		genellemek, genelleme yapmak, yaygınlaştırmak (universalize). (various references)

Ukranian		узагальнювати (colligate), надавати невизначеності, поширювати (distribute, expand, extend, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, propagate, push, put about, radiate, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "generalize": generalized, generalizer, generalizers, generalizes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "generalize": overgeneralize. (additional references)
	Words containing "generalize": overgeneralized, overgeneralizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Generalize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: generali, generalis, generalism, generaliter. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "generalize" (pronounced je"nerulī'z)
6	-n er u l ī' z	mineralize.
5	-er u l ī' z	collateralize, federalize, liberalize, naturalize.
4	-u l ī' z	actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize.
3	-l ī' z	butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-z"
	-2 letters: algerine, energize, razeeing.
	-3 letters: agenize, alienee, aliener, aligner, elegize, engrail, enlarge, general, glazier, gleaner, greenie, leering, lineage, nargile, realign, realize, reeling, reginae, reginal, reglaze, zingare.
	-4 letters: agnize, aliner, angler, earing, eelier, enrage, gainer, galere, geezer, genera, genial, glaire, glazer, larine, lazier, lazing, leaner, lierne, linage, linear, linger, nailer, razing, reagin, regain, regale, regina, regnal, reline, renail, renege, zanier, zinger.
	-5 letters: aerie, agene, agile, aglee, agree, algin, alien, align, aline, anele, angel, anger, angle, anile, argil, argle, ariel, azine, eager, eagle, eagre, eerie, elain, garni, gazer, gelee, genie, genre, glair, glare, glaze, glean, gnarl, grail, grain, graze, green, ingle, lager, laree, large, learn, leger, liane, liang, liege, ligan, liger, liner, linga, ragee, ranee, range, razee, regal, regna, reign, renal, renig, zaire.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-z"
	+1 letter: generalized, generalizer, generalizes.
	+2 letters: generalizers.
	+3 letters: etherealizing, generalizable.
	+4 letters: overgeneralize.
	+5 letters: governmentalize, overgeneralized, overgeneralizes.
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