A Dutch pug; a kind of lap-dog, formerly much in vogue; also a general name for a monkey.
A general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of CLAUS, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation.
A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman.
That is to say, every proposition may be resolved into a form in which the predicate is a general name.
A general name is a name applicable to a number of different things on the ground of some likeness among them, as man, ratepayer, man of courage, man who fought at Waterloo.
Every proposition, every sentence in which we convey knowledge to another, contains a general name or its equivalent.
After cleaning the buttons are best put on a tray of marked watch-glasses, and then taken to the balance and weighed.
The proportion of lead required~ for the cupellation of any particular alloy requires consideration.
The slag when fused should be liquid and homogeneous, and not too corrosive on the crucible.
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are employed in securing a ship in a road or harbour.
A general name for a river in India, whence comes Ganges.
First requisite of philosophical language, a steady and determinate meaning for every general name 215 2.
It is not unusual, by way of explaining what is meant by a general name, to say that it is the name of a class.
It would be more logical to reverse the proposition, and turn it into a definition of the word class: “A class is the indefinite multitude of individuals denoted by a general name.
A general name is familiarly defined, a name which is capable of being truly affirmed, in the same sense, of each of an indefinite number of things.
A general name is one which can be predicated of each individual of a multitude; a collective name can not be predicated of each separately, but only of all taken together.
The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded.
He had seen Mrs Croft, too; she was at Taunton with the admiral, and had been present almost all the time they were talking the matter over.
The expression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes.
It would be more logical to reverse the proposition, and turn it into a definition of the word class: "A class is the indefinite multitude of individuals denoted by a general name.
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 initiald in English is not satisfactorily explained.
Whilst the denotation of a general name is limited by the qualities connoted, the connotation of an abstract name includes all the things in which its denotation is realised.
Defn: A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
Defn: A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia.
The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.
A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general name" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
