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Generic
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- 1 Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
"Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants."
- 2 Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- 3 Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
"The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien."
- 4 Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
"Holonym: familial"
- 5 Relating to gender.
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- 6 Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex. nonstandard
"Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic."
- 7 Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- 8 Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- 9 Relating to genre.
"Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries."
- 10 Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
""That movie was so generic; it was so such a bore""
- 1 applicable to an entire class or group wordnet
- 2 (of drugs) not protected by trademark wordnet
- 3 relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus wordnet
- 1 A product sold under a generic name.
- 2 any product that can be sold without a brand name wordnet
- 3 A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
- 4 wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as ‘vin rouge’, ‘vino rosso’, ‘rotwein’, ‘red wine’, etc.), or by general class (as ‘vin ordinaire’, ‘vin de table’, ‘vino da tavola’, ‘tafelwein’, ‘table wine’, etc.) wordnet
- 5 A term that specifies neither male nor female.
"[…]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…]"
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- 6 The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.
"Where the generic of an English-language place name has been translated into French, it is essential to restore it to its original English form when translating the French document into English."
Etymology
From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.
From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.
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