单词 | generic name, term, word |
释义 | > as lemmasgeneric name, term, word a. Characteristic of or relating to a class or type of objects, phenomena, etc.; applicable to a large group or class, or any member of it; not specific, general. Also: characteristic of or relating to the use of language, as generic name, term, word, etc. Frequently opposed to specific. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > not specific generical?a1475 generic1658 unspecific1807 non-specific1860 1658 S. Rutherford Surv. of Surv. Church-discipline iv. vi. 406 By this interpretation, when Paul saith the body is one, he meaneth a generick body; and the particular congregations are subjective parts, suitable to the whole. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 97 He makes it be only a remote concurse to the act considered in genere, in its generic nature, not to the individual particular act. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. vi. 158 This Saline Principle..is..a Generik Name, under which divers Species are comprehended. 1724 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §4 Though wine differs from other liquids in that it is the juice of a certain fruit, yet this is but a general or generic difference, for it does not distinguish wine from cyder or perry. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xviii. §35 The circumstance of fraudulency then may serve to characterize a particular species, comprisable under each of those generic heads. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 208 The terms ‘weight’ and ‘balance’ were thus generic terms, without specific meaning. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 209 The man is self-conscious alike when he remembers, wills, and understands; but in what sense is the generic term ‘memory’ conscious to the generic word ‘will?’ 1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 208 The preservation of the generic and specific characters of fossil remains varies in different strata. 1880 J. Inglis Our Austral. Cousins 149 ‘Cornstalk’ is the generic nickname applied to the native-born New South Welshman. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxiv. 424 The derisive individual in her pained and repelled him; but the attraction of what was generic, of the whole feminine species, the entire sex, was stronger. 1942 Mind 51 80 Part II is a systematic and richly illustrated description of generic and special forms, of inter-medial and intra-medial forms. 1983 B. Cottle Names i. 12 Primitive languages have words for various trees but no generic term for ‘tree’. 2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics iv. 235 Kagura is the generic term for all Shinto music and dance. < as lemmas |
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