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generalise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | generalize |
| Type of | distribute, spread |
generalise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| Type of | circularize, circulate, spread, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, propagate, pass around, broadcast, circularise |
| Verb group | popularise, popularize |
generalise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| Type of | reason out, conclude, reason |
| Has types | overgeneralize, overgeneralise, universalise, universalize |
| Derivation | generalisation |
Examples of generalise
generalise
If it's ok to generalise by gender when setting insurance premiums, why not race?
From the guardian.co.uk
The shortage of specialists may partly be because they're forced to generalise.
From the independent.co.uk
As for Europe, it is tricky to generalise, given the diversity within the region.
From the economist.com
Hi olympic, I think it is easy to generalise but more difficult to emphasise.
From the independent.co.uk
The types are crude, comical, they generalise horribly and I've adapted them.
From the bbc.co.uk
Again, retention varies so much across faculties, that it's difficult to generalise.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's so hard to say, America is such a place and it's hard to generalise it.
From the couriermail.com.au
It's hard to generalise but collectively the French remind me of teenagers.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is as hard to generalise about European royals as it is about any group of humans.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Generalize: speak or write in generalities
- Generalize: draw from specific cases for more general cases
- Popularize: cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- Generalize: become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"
- (generalised) generalized: not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment; "the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal"
- (generalisation) abstraction: the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (generalisation) generalization: (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- A generalization of a concept is an extension of the concept to less-specific criteria. It is a foundational element of logic and human reasoning. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements. ...
- Alternative spelling of generalize
