Generalize vs Conclude - What's the difference?
generalize | conclude |
To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
To end; to come to an end.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
* Francis Bacon
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
* Shakespeare
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
* Addison
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
* Bible, Romans xi. 32
* Bible, Gal. iii. 22
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
As verbs the difference between generalize and conclude
is that generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms while conclude is to end; to come to an end.generalize
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Alternative forms
* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
Antonyms
* specializeDerived terms
* generalizable, generalisable * generalizability, generalisability * generalization, generalisation * generalizer, generaliser * generalistconclude
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Verb
(conclud)- The story concluded with a moral.
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- to conclude a bargain
- if we conclude a peace
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.