general description
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralanddescription
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition ofgeneralanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Our aim is to extend and reassess their analysis for a moregeneraldescriptionof preferences.
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The presence of chain connectivity and excluded volume make ageneraldescriptionof reconfigurational kinetics difficult.#!
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Figure 1 highlights these organellar compartments and provides ageneraldescriptionof their resident metabolic pathways and enzymes.
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While thegeneraldescriptionstill applies to both of them, they are distinguishable from one another in important ways.
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Systems without any funded assets are only a special case of thegeneraldescriptionthat follows.
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Section 2 provides ageneraldescriptionof the clime system as a whole.
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These results provide ageneraldescriptionof orientation phenomena for s-p excitations in a classical nonideal plasma.
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Instead, several chapters focus on ageneraldescriptionof the decumulation process and characteristics of beneficiaries.
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Since both problems share common analytical calculations, we have striven to give a reallygeneraldescriptionof multispecies plasmas in this respect.
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We would naturally think of a woman as a human being and work with the criteria which go with this moregeneraldescription.
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For both the analogous product and the problem description, two levels of participants were compared, a domain specific description group and ageneraldescriptiongroup.
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Along with ageneraldescription, we discuss enforcement and monitoring design to induce compliance with t ransferable e mission capacity rights in the program.
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It also includes ageneraldescriptionof the whole entry.
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We will now give ageneraldescriptionof the method we will use for proving the properties.
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Ageneraldescriptionof cooperative agent behaviour is represented by built-in knowledge.
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We present ageneraldescriptionof our project, as well as statistics of our target lists.
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Generaldescriptionof the surveys' results is presented for each country.
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The book combines ageneraldescriptionof the environmental conditions of lichens with systematics on an artificial key on genera and a substantial amount of photographic documentation of lichens.
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Second, ageneraldescriptionof the alignment process is given.
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