Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind |
General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals |
General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import |
General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number |
General (a.) Having a relation to all |
General (a.) As a whole |
General (a.) Usual |
General (a.) The whole |
General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country |
General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together |
General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. |
General (a.) The public |
Governor general () A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him |
Lieutenant general () An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Postmasters-general (pl. ) of Postmaster-general |
Postmaster-general (n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. |
Register (n.) A written account or entry |
Register (n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. |
Register (n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. |
Register (n.) One who registers or records |
Register (n.) That which registers or records. |
Register (n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. |
Register (n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. |
Register (n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc. |
Register (n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel |
Register (n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. |
Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. |
Register (n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2. |
Register (v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument |
Register (v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. |
Register (n.) To enter in a register |
Register (n.) To enroll |
Register (v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register. |
Register (v. i.) To correspond in relative position |
Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain |
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. |
States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. |
general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
Attorney General Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
quarterback signal caller field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
accumulator accumulator register | (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register |
cash register register | a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions, used in shops to add up the bill |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
general anesthetic general anaesthetic | an anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousness |
general-purpose bomb GP bomb | a large bomb ( to , pounds that is % explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect |
index register | (computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand |
inhalation anesthetic inhalation anaesthetic inhalation general anesthetic inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
register | a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device |
register | an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room |
register | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind |
shift register | (computer science) register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right |
register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments |
head register head voice head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register chest voice chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
public knowledge general knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone |
general | a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular), he discussed the general but neglected the particular |
internal medicine general medicine | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) |
anatomy general anatomy r | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
general relativity general theory of relativity general relativity theory Einstein's general theory of relativity | a generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence) |
check register | a register of checks issued (usually in numeric order) |
register registry | an official written record of names or events or transactions |
register language | a tone language that uses different voice registers |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command PFLP-GC | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
Arminian Baptist General Baptist | group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists) |
general delivery poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
legislature legislative assembly legislative body general assembly law-makers | persons who make or amend or repeal laws |
States General | assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from th to th centuries |
Estates General | assembly of the estates of all France, last meeting in |
General Assembly | the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
Shin Bet General Security Services | the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency, the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline |
Office of Inspector General OIG | the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission |
General Services Administration GSA | a central management agency that sets Federal policy for Federal procurement and real property management and information resources management |
general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
adjutant general | a general's adjutant, chief administrative officer |
attorney general | the chief law officer of a country or state |
brigadier brigadier general | a general officer ranking below a major general |
Comptroller General | a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government |
general full general | a general officer of the highest rank |
general superior general | the head of a religious order or congregation |
general manager | the highest ranking manager |
general officer | officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel |
general practitioner GP | a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses |
governor general | a governor of high rank |
inspector general | a military officer responsible for investigations |