What's the difference between general and generalship?
General
Definition:
(a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
(a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.
(a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.
(a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.
(a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.
(a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
(a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.
(a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
(a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.
(a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.
(a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.
(a.) The public; the people; the vulgar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(4) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(5) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(6) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(7) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
(10) In general, the concentrations measured by bioassay were higher than those by HPLC.
(11) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(12) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(13) Augmentation of transformation response was generally not seen at 40 degrees C; incubation at that temperature was associated with decreased cellular viability.
(14) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(15) 2009 Visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly.
(16) UN internal investigators delivered a report to the then secretary general, Kofi Annan, but it was not published.
(17) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(18) Ferrocene derivatives, in general, show a degree of versatility, coupling the electron-transfer reactions of many enzymes.
(19) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(20) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
Generalship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
(n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.
(n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's most powerful television executive has not given an exact timetable for his departure, but friends say he acknowledges that he has entered the final chapter of his eight-year director generalship and is "psychologically ready" to leave a job that paid him £779,000 last year.
(2) Well, no-one could claim Shorten’s own generalship, as displayed during his AWU years, represented any sort of “working class rebellion” – faux or otherwise.
(3) "It is important we recognise the leadership and generalship of Sir Douglas Haig in commanding what was the largest land force ever to leave these shores," he said.
(4) Ofcom also said that Ed Richards, its chief executive, would not be formally recusing himself from any decisions regarding Newsnight - despite speculation that the regulator could again become a candidate for the vacant BBC director generalship.
(5) And while Wellington's generalship and the courage of his motley collection of soldiers held Napoleon's 72,000 men at bay through the day, it was only the arrival of more than 45,000 Prussian troops under Marshal Blücher that turned the tide and drove the French from the field.
(6) "Amano's director-generalship began under a bad star," said Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
(7) After years of communities, activists, scholars and the government working to make issues of race and policing part of the national conversation, a Sessions attorney generalship would effectively end cooperative efforts between federal and local governments on issues of police reform and accountability.
(8) The director generalship is not decided in the newspapers."
(9) In a profile he wrote many years ago of the legendary Post editor Ben Bradlee, Remnick remarked: 'Generalship is not about fighting the battle; it's about inspiring the enlisted.'
(10) The absence of candidates with management and editorial experience has led to speculation that the traditional role of editor in chief could be separated from the director generalship, but the dual function is written into the royal charter so it is unlikely that will be a practical solution.
(11) The much criticised executive spent the last days of his short-lived director generalship preparing intensively for his appearance, which is expected to last several hours, and comes as the Pollard inquiry moves into its third week of evidence, having seen most of the senior BBC executives touched by the Savile film that never aired.
(12) Thompson was initially piqued that Patten had begun to talk so openly about a BBC without him in charge, and his initial response was to have the BBC issue a statement saying that there was no vacancy for the director generalship, as he hoped to concentrate on preparations for what he describes as the biggest year in the BBC's history, with the diamond jubilee in June and the Olympics in July.
(13) Some of the most excoriating criticisms of British generalship, even the case for fighting in 1914, come from military historians mostly associated with the Conservative side.
(14) "The director generalship is a very big job, and you have to grow into it.
(15) Through the director generalships of Greg Dyke and Mark Thompson this message has never been explicitly reversed in the way it should have been.