Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make universal; generalize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make universal; generalize. Also spelled
universalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make universal; to generalize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
universal , to makeconsistent or common across all cases.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make universal
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Hanukkah menorah most certainly does not "universalize" a Christmas tree; if anything, the opposite is true: it turns the tree, which symbolizes a holiday whose message is "joy to the world and peace on Earth" into a particularist symbol like the menorah itself.
Archive 2005-12-11 Steve Sailer 2005
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A Hanukkah menorah most certainly does not "universalize" a Christmas tree; if anything, the opposite is true: it turns the tree, which symbolizes a holiday whose message is "joy to the world and peace on Earth" into a particularist symbol like the menorah itself.
Holidays Steve Sailer 2005
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Similarly, if we take a three-place relation Sxyz and "universalize" the third argument position, we get a two place relation that we might represent thus: zSxyz
Structured Propositions King, Jeffrey C. 2001
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner proposed to "universalize" her country's claims over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, but vowed not to resort to military force.
News Agence France Presse 2010
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