generalise

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++gen·e·ral·ise /ˈdʒenərəlaɪz/ verb [intransitive, transitive]  x-refa British spelling of generalize generalize的英式拼法→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

generalise• What is to stop us generalising?• Yet the evidence we have available suggests that this is too specific and narrow an example from which to generalise.• As Anne Gray has pointed out, it is difficult to generalise about housekeeping systems.• I think it's hard to generalise about western feminism and third world feminism.• Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment, it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted.• It is always risky to generalise from particulars.• Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years' experience.• What is wrong is the tendency to generalise negative attitudes and to blame the victim.

gen·e·ral·ise verbChineseSyllable  

British generalize a spelling Corpus of

generalise

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gen‧e‧ral‧ise /ˈdʒenərəlaɪz/ verb [I, T]
a British spelling of generalize

II

gen‧e‧ral‧ize (also generalise British English) /ˈdʒenərəlaɪz/ verb1. [intransitive] to form a general principle or opinion after considering only a small number of facts or examples
    generalize from
    She has a tendency to generalize from her husband to all men.
2. [intransitive] to make a general statement about the whole of a group or thing
    generalize about
    It is difficult to generalise about the kind of people who come on these courses.
3. [transitive] formal to say that an idea, result etc is related to a larger group:
    Can we generalise this principle?
    generalize something to something
    Can the research findings be generalized to a wider population?