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Example sentences for "general term"

  • Commeatus, in admiralty law, is a general term, signifying drink as well as eatables.

  • A general term for a man of any age after boyhood; but it is not generally meant as a compliment.

  • A general term applied to fishing on the great bank of Newfoundland.

  • A general term for a native of Nova Scotia.

  • Geordie~, general term in Northumberland and Durham for a pitman, or coal-miner.

  • Carboy~, a general term in most parts of the world for a very large glass or earthenware bottle.

  • A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

  • In delivering the opinion at General Term, Presiding Justice Talcott said that this case was very close to the border line, but in his judgment it was beyond the province of experts and within the province of jurors.

  • It will facilitate the study of the subject if we use the word ligature as a general term to cover the many forms of cords, ropes, etc.

  • If we are asked to explain the meaning of a general term, our reply in many cases will be a brief definition.

  • General term (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion.

  • Defn: Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.

  • Note: The word is sometimes used as a general term, including both hydrostatics and hydraulics, together with pneumatics and acoustics.

  • Also used as a general term to include the whole species.

  • The other species want a name in our language, and in most others; I suppose, because it was not requisite for any, but philosophical purposes, to rank them under a general term or appellation.

  • General ideas, do not really exist, but only particular ideas attached to a general term, 125 n.

  • It seems hardly necessary to say that the word impinge, as a general term to express collision of forces, is here used by a figure of speech, and not as expressive of any theory respecting the nature of force.

  • The word is sometimes used as a general term, including both hydrostatics and hydraulics, together with pneumatics and acoustics.

  • The party aggrieved may appeal from a Justice Court to a County Court; from County or Supreme Courts to Special Term; from Special Term to General Term; from General Term to Court Of Appeals.

  • What is a General Term Court; and how many are there in the State?

  • What is the territory embraced in the jurisdiction of a General Term called?

  • A general term used of any triclinic feldspar.

  • A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

  • The subject may be a general term taken in its full denotation, as All apes are sagacious; and in this case a Predication is made concerning the whole subject distributively; that is, of each and everything the subject stands for.

  • An Universal Proposition may have for its subject a singular term, a collective, a general term distributed, or an abstract term.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general term" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but had; general advance; general assessment; general catalogue; general conception; general consent; general council; general culture; general government; general interest; general movement; general name; general principles; general prosperity; general rise; general rules; general sense; general strike; general symptoms; general tendency; general way; generally accepted; other universities; public conveyances; seedless raisins; white flag