(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.
Marshal
Definition:
(n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
(n.) An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
(n.) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
(n.) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
(n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
(n.) The highest military officer.
(n.) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
(v. t.) To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
(v. t.) To direct, guide, or lead.
(v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Naylor, S.L., Marshall, A., Hensel, C., Martinez, P.F., Holley, B.
(2) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(4) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
(5) The carbohydrate structures of the glycopeptides and relative affinities of TBG, glycopeptides and oligosaccharides for hepatocyte plasma membrane binding are presented in the accompanying paper (Zinn, A.B., Marshall, J.S., and Carlson, D.M.
(6) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
(7) It is a small return for a six-month investigation that involved the US justice department, the financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission, Picard's office and the US marshals.
(8) The amount pumped into the Greek economy so far amounted to 1.5 times the GDP of Greece, she said, while the post-world war two Marshall plan had amounted to just 3% of European GDP.
(9) Richard Murphy, a former director of field operations for the Tories, has been seconded, and is hiring a dozen regional directors to marshall grassroots support.
(10) These values are discussed with reference to Hammett's and Marshall's equations and a general equation that predicts these equilibrium constants in the media under discussion has been formulated.
(11) Urine samples were spotted directly on the plate; lorapride was determined after spraying the plate with the Bratton-Marshall reagent, and measurements were carried out in the simultaneous reflectance and transmittance mode (540 nm).
(12) Although the two cDNAs encode Na channels with substantially different activation properties (Auld, V. J., A. L. Goldin, D. S. Krafte, J. Marshall, J. M. Dunn, W. A. Catterall, H. A. Lester, N. Davidson, and R. J. Dunn.
(13) This is not quite the “global village” of Marshall McLuhan’s imagination: “These new media of ours,” he said in 1964 , “have made our world into a single unit.
(14) We may be in the world’s last hour in which our planet can be saved,” Tony de Brum, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, told the meeting.
(15) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(16) Safety plans – talking to people about how they would take their life and discussing how they might stop themselves – and a “safe from suicide” emergency team to marshal resources for those thought at immediate risk are among initiatives.
(17) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
(18) But he’s nothing if not a believer in facts, and so he marshaled enough evidence to persuade his father that the $930m sale to Monsanto was not just good for his business, but good for the planet.
(19) The Brazilian accepted the invitation to beat Marshall with a trademark shot from 25 yards and the home team continued to coast towards a fourth consecutive victory.
(20) The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare Read more “There are still corals bleaching,” Marshall said.