Generalize vs Recap - What's the difference?
generalize | recap |
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 seal (something) again with a cap.
To recapitulate.
As verbs the difference between generalize and recap
is that generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms while recap is to seal (something) again with a cap.As a noun recap is
a recapitulation.generalize
English
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.
