Universal

(noun.) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings; 'some form of religion seems to be a human universal'.

(noun.) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class.

(noun.) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages.

(adj.) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations; 'universal wrench', 'universal chuck'; 'universal screwdriver' .

(adj.) applicable to or common to all members of a group or set; 'the play opened to universal acclaim'; 'rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys' .

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• One of these compounds, namely, chloride of lime, is the almost universal bleaching agent of commerce. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• God was the loving father of all life, as incapable of showing favour as the universal sun. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The universal stare made the eyes ache. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Europe relapsed into universal insecurity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, I told you so! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was the universal reason divested of a human personality. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It deals with the eternal and the universal. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This use of the word empire was evidently a different one from its former universal significance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Has EVERYTHING that happens a universal significance? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The phonograph was now fairly launched as a world sensation, and a reference to the newspapers of 1878 will show the extent to which it and Edison were themes of universal discussion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The image in the mind is only that of a particular object, though the application of it in our reasoning be the same, as if it were universal. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I think Henrique, now, has a keener sense of the beauty of truth, from seeing lying and deception the universal badge of slavery. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The things which are seen are opposed in Scripture to the things which are unseen--they are equally opposed in Plato to universals and ideas. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She did not believe in her own universals--they were sham. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He means to say that the higher faculties have to do with universals, the lower with particulars of sense. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Reason deals with universals, with general principles, with laws, which lie above the welter of concrete details. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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