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Example sentences for "collective name"

  • Collective name in the same sense as Montaraz; (2) Spanish name for Buquidnones and Buquitnon.

  • This is a contradiction, in which more stress is laid on the testimony of the two Augustinians, that Mundos is misused as a collective name, like Igorots, Maguianes, etc.

  • Collective name of the head-hunting peoples living in the province of Bontok, to whom also the Guinaanes belong.

  • Manguian (forest people) is a collective name of different languages and races.

  • The distinction lies in this, that whatever is said of a collective name is said about the collection as a whole, and does not apply to each individual; whatever is said of a general name applies to each individual.

  • A group or collection designated by a collective name is so far like a class that the individual objects have something in common: they are not heterogeneous but homogeneous.

  • A general name is one which can be predicated of each individual of a multitude; a collective name cannot be predicated of each separately, but only of all taken together.

  • The 76th regiment" is a collective name, but not a general one: "a regiment" is both a collective and a general name.

  • The 76th regiment of foot,” which is a collective name, is not a general but an individual name; for although it can be predicated of a multitude of individual soldiers taken jointly, it cannot be predicated of them severally.

  • The 76th regiment” is a collective name, but not a general one: “a regiment” is both a collective and a general name.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    address them; broke forth; collective bargaining; collective body; collective mind; collective name; collective noun; collective security; custard made; devout life; extensive practice; fairy tale; former note; found great; four times; half pints; holy convocation; laughed softly; leave him; often omitted; potential production; real property; rely upon; shall tell; ten years; will answer