English words for 'Ellipsis of brigadier general.'
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noun
- a general officer of the highest rank
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
verb
adj
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- Brigadier.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
noun
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral.
- (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
- (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
- (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
- (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
- (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
- (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
noun
- a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
- (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
- A subordinate.
- (British, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
- (social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
adj
noun
- to a superior military officer.
- to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
- A man of a higher rank or position.
- A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
- to a teacher.
- A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
- term of address for a man
verb
noun
noun
- a male orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
- Coelostathma discopunctana, a moth of Eastern North America.
- (by extension, informal) A personal assistant or supporter.
- (Turkish units of measure) A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.
- (military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
- (historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).
verb
noun
- (military, countable) Ellipsis of warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
- formal and explicit approval
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
verb
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
- provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)
- stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
noun
- A commander.
- The head of a prefecture in Japan.
- The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
- (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
- (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
- The head of a department in France.
- a chief officer or chief magistrate
noun
- a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation
- a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver
- (perfumery) Newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume.
- (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
- (business, marketing) A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.
- (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
- (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
- (archaeology) One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
noun
- an officer in command of a military unit
- someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others
- an officer in the airforce
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain
- A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
- One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
- A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.
- (Singapore, military) A soldier who has attained the rank of sergeant or higher
- A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.
- One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.
- A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.
noun
- adjutant
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
adj
adv
name
prep
verb
noun
- (military) Officer Commanding.
- Initialism of oleoresin capsicum.
- Initialism of office conference.
- Officer of the Order of Canada.
- Initialism of office consultation.
- Initialism of organizing committee.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of original character.
- (computing) Initialism of overclock.
- (business) Initialism of organizational climate.
- Initialism of original content.
- (UK, roleplaying games) Initialism of out of character.
- (television, film, media) Initialism of open captioning.
adj
name
noun
noun
- a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
- an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
- (countable) One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
- (countable) One with a specified rank.
- A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
- (countable, military) A common soldier.
adj
noun
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The head boy of a school.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
verb
noun
- (historical) A military officer in Ancient Rome ranking below a legate and above a centurion, a military tribune.
- (Christianity, architecture) The domed or vaulted apse in a cathedral housing the bishop's throne (see).
- (figurative) A protector of the people; a public figure who appeals to and on behalf of the people through oratory.
- (historical) An elected official in Ancient Rome, a tribune of the plebs.
- (uncommon) Synonym of pulpit, a platform, a place or opportunity to express one's opinion
- (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests
- the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne
noun
- a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general
- A commissioned officer in the British Army or Royal Marines or the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, or United States Air Force, ranked above a major general and below a general.
- A similar rank in the armed forces of some other countries.
noun
name
noun
adj
intj
noun
- an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
- A (para)military commissioned officer who holds a field grade, ranking under general officers but above lower grades and fit to command medium-size units on the field, such as a battalion or regiment; or a non-army equivalent in rank.
noun
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
adj
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
noun
- a general officer of the highest rank
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
verb
adj
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- Brigadier.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
noun
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral.
- (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
- (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
- (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
- (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
- (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
- (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
noun
- a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
- (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
- A subordinate.
- (British, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
- (social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
adj
noun
- to a superior military officer.
- to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
- A man of a higher rank or position.
- A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
- to a teacher.
- A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
- term of address for a man
verb
noun
noun
- a male orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
- Coelostathma discopunctana, a moth of Eastern North America.
- (by extension, informal) A personal assistant or supporter.
- (Turkish units of measure) A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.
- (military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
- (historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).
verb
noun
- (military, countable) Ellipsis of warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
- formal and explicit approval
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
verb
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
- provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)
- stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
noun
- A commander.
- The head of a prefecture in Japan.
- The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
- (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
- (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
- The head of a department in France.
- a chief officer or chief magistrate
noun
- a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation
- a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver
- (perfumery) Newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume.
- (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
- (business, marketing) A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.
- (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
- (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
- (archaeology) One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
noun
- an officer in command of a military unit
- someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others
- an officer in the airforce
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain
- A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
- One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
- A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.
- (Singapore, military) A soldier who has attained the rank of sergeant or higher
- A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.
- One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.
- A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.
noun
- adjutant
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
adj
adv
name
prep
verb
noun
- (military) Officer Commanding.
- Initialism of oleoresin capsicum.
- Initialism of office conference.
- Officer of the Order of Canada.
- Initialism of office consultation.
- Initialism of organizing committee.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of original character.
- (computing) Initialism of overclock.
- (business) Initialism of organizational climate.
- Initialism of original content.
- (UK, roleplaying games) Initialism of out of character.
- (television, film, media) Initialism of open captioning.
adj
name
noun
noun
- a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
- an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
- (countable) One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
- (countable) One with a specified rank.
- A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
- (countable, military) A common soldier.
adj
noun
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The head boy of a school.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
verb
noun
- (historical) A military officer in Ancient Rome ranking below a legate and above a centurion, a military tribune.
- (Christianity, architecture) The domed or vaulted apse in a cathedral housing the bishop's throne (see).
- (figurative) A protector of the people; a public figure who appeals to and on behalf of the people through oratory.
- (historical) An elected official in Ancient Rome, a tribune of the plebs.
- (uncommon) Synonym of pulpit, a platform, a place or opportunity to express one's opinion
- (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests
- the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne
noun
- a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general
- A commissioned officer in the British Army or Royal Marines or the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, or United States Air Force, ranked above a major general and below a general.
- A similar rank in the armed forces of some other countries.
noun
name
noun
adj
intj
noun
- an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
- A (para)military commissioned officer who holds a field grade, ranking under general officers but above lower grades and fit to command medium-size units on the field, such as a battalion or regiment; or a non-army equivalent in rank.
noun
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
adj
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
noun
- a general officer of the highest rank
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
verb
adj
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
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