speak or write in generalities
Used in a Sentence
generalise
How to use generalise in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for generalise.
Editorial note
What happened with your sister is certainly horrible, but you can't generalise from that to every case.
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Quick take
speak or write in generalities
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of generalise gathered in one view.
draw from specific cases for more general cases
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"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for generalise.
verb
speak or write in generalities
See also: generalize
verb
draw from specific cases for more general cases
See also: generalize, extrapolate, infer
verb
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"
See also: popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize
verb
become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"
See also: generalize
Example sentences
What happened with your sister is certainly horrible, but you can't generalise from that to every case.
Except that would still only be the effects of peas on my body, and may not generalise to other humans anyway.
Which is all fine, but it doesn't generalise well to newer companies who don't have a long-established fanbase already.
If you generalise the whole world of ideas and problem solving to the word "creativity" then I have no idea what conclusions you can make.
" "You shouldn't generalise," said the painter, dissatisfied, "I've only been talking about my own experience.
In a rant essentially about people generalizing and forcing their own world views onto others' words, the man sure likes to generalise and force his own world views onto others' words.
That stuff does take effort and time, particularly if you aren't intimately familiar with the other party and have to generalise it to the generic person.
Personally I think that it's not a "free tool" if you charge for it, even at 50 or 500 emails a month, to me it's a paid service with a "free tier".For example I would never generalise Amazon AWS as "free hosting".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use generalise in a sentence?
What happened with your sister is certainly horrible, but you can't generalise from that to every case.
What does generalise mean?
speak or write in generalities
What part of speech is generalise?
generalise is commonly used as verb.