Definition von a-general im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- General American
- The form of pronunciation of the English language considered to be typical of the United States, largely derived from a Midwestern accent
- General Packet Radio Service
- a packet oriented Mobile Data Service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It provides data rates from 56 up to 114 kbit/s
- Governor General
- governor general, a specific case of
- Lieutenant General
- A similar rank in the armed forces of some other countries
- Lieutenant General
- A commissioned officer in the British Army or Royal Marines or the United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force, ranked above a major general and below a general
- Lieutenants General
- plural form of Lieutenant General
- New General Catalogue
- : A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from William Herschel. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. Objects in the catalogue are numbered, and the letters NGC are prepended to these numbers, as in NGC 224 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or NGC 6205 (the globular cluster in Hercules)
- Secretaries General
- plural form of Secretary General
- Secretary General
- The chief administrator of an international body such as NATO or the United Nations
- accountant general
- An officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England
- accountant general
- A head or superintending accountant in certain public offices
- armchair general
- An outspoken warmonger, and/or a self-appointed strategist, who normally lacks actual military experience, and probably has no intention to get any in the near future
- attorney general
- A major government officer throughout the English-speaking world, generally responsible for interpreting the law for the head of government and executive department and functioning as chief prosecutor, with the ability to bring civil and criminal actions directly
Janet Reno was Attorney General under Bill Clinton.
- attorneys general
- plural form of attorney general
- bond for general purposes
- : Government bonds that are a charge against the taxpayers generally, as distinguished from bonds for improvements, the cost of which is charged to the property specially benefited
- brigadier general
- A military officer who commands a brigade
- brigadier general
- A military rank between colonel and the second lowest general rank or major general, having an O7 NATO rank scale equivalency
- brigadier general
- A one star general
- captain general
- A commander-in-chief or a ceremonial head
- director-general
- the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department
- general
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual
The general opinion on Baz Luhrmann's overstuffed epic Australia seems to be that it throws in everything but the kitchen sink, and then tosses that in too, just to be sure.
- general
- Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a general term indicating a rapid heartbeat (tachycardia) coming from the top chambers of the heart - in essence, above (supra) the lower chamber (ventricular).
- general
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular
One advantage of having profitable companies in Britain is that they pay large sums in corporate tax into the Exchequer, which in theory at least is used for the general good.
- general
- a commissioned rank in the British Army and Royal Marines, above lieutenant general and below field marshal
- general
- a commissioned general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force superior to a lieutenant general. A general is equal in rank or grade to a four star admiral. In the US Army, a general is junior to a general of the army. In the US Marine Corps, a general is the highest rank of commissioned officer. In the US Air Force, a general is junior to a general of the air force
- general
- Short for general anaesthetic or general anaesthetia
- general
- Commander of an army
Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world.
- general
- 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
He becomes the chief chartered libertine, the whoremaster-general flourishing his standard over a female army .
- general
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite
Given the scarcity of relevant historical detail in the New Testament, we are left with only a general outline about Joseph.
- general
- Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area
His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer .
- general
- A rank in the army and air force that is higher than colonel or brigadier, and is usually the highest rank group next to commander in chief, except in countries that use the rank of field marshal
- general anaesthetic
- Alternative spelling of general anesthetic
- general anaesthetics
- plural form of general anaesthetic
- general anesthetic
- An anesthetic that causes loss of sensation to the whole body
- general anesthetics
- plural form of general anesthetic
- general availability
- A release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company (available to the general public)
- general aviation
- the section of the aviation industry that excludes both military and commercial passenger transport; for example sightseeing, pleasure flights, etc
- general classification
- The overall standings in a bicycle stage race, based on a rider's total elapsed time in all stages of the race with the lowest time being the leader. Cp: mountains classification, sprints classification, points classification
- general classifications
- plural form of general classification
- general contractor
- A contractor hired to manage a project and to hire subcontractors. (If a customer serves as their own general contractor then this means they undertake the management tasks and the hiring of subcontractors.)
- general election
- An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation
- general formula
- The molecular formula of a class of compounds in which actual numbers are represented by x, n etc., and organic radicals are represented as Rn
The general formula for alcohols is R-OH and the molecular formula for methanol is CH3-OH.
- general formulae
- plural form of general formula
- general formulas
- plural form of general formula
- general knowledge
- The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life; not all of it has practical use
- general ledger
- The central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements
- general ledgers
- plural form of general ledger
- general manager
- A manager with overall responsibility for an organisation or a distinct unit of an organisation
- general managers
- plural form of general manager
- general of the army
- A military officer of the highest rank in several countries that follow the United States military rank system, including Liberia
- general of the army
- A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States, ranking directly above a general, and corresponding to marshal or field marshal in other countries. A general of the army is equal in grade or rank to an admiral of the fleet
- general partnership
- a business partnership in which each partner is liable for the firm's debts
- general practice
- The conduct of a profession, especially medicine or law, as a general practitioner, without a specialty
- general practitioner
- a physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor
- general practitioners
- plural form of general practitioner
- general public
- Those members of the public who have no special role in a specific public area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access
- general public
- Members of the public not in the attentive public of any given issue; laypeople
- general relativity
- A theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass
- general semantics
- An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world
- general store
- A store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized
- general stores
- plural form of general store
- general strike
- A coordinated work stoppage by a substantial proportion of the workers of a particular city, region or state, normally to achieve economic or political goals
- general strikes
- plural form of general strike
- general-election
- Attributive form of general election
general-election candidates.
- gold general
- A piece in shogi
- governor general
- Canadian Governor General
- governor general
- a governor or viceroy possessing some military authority and particularly used of colonial administrations
- governor-general
- An official in a similar position in other countries
Nikolai Bobrikov served as governor-general of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1898 until his untimely death in 1904.
- governor-general
- In most Commonwealth realms, an official appointed by the reigning monarch to govern the realm as the monarch's representative
- governors general
- plural form of governor general
- in general
- generally
- in general
- In the general case; without further assumption; without qualification; in all respects
- major general
- A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier
- major-general
- Alternative spelling of major general
- secretary-general
- Alternative spelling of Secretary General
- silver general
- A piece in shogi
- attorney-general
- the chief law-officer of a government
- general
- {n} a whole, great military officer, director
- general
- {a} common, usual, public, extensive, large
- postmaster-general
- {n} the head postmaster of all
- general secretary
- The term General Secretary (alternatively First Secretary) denotes a leader of various unions, parties, churches or associations