<B>universal, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1a. </B>of all; belonging to all; concerning all; shared by all. <BR> <I>Ex. Food is a universal need. Kings are not born; they are made by universal hallucination (George Bernard Shaw).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>coming from all; shared in by all. <BR> <I>Ex. a universal protest.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>understood or used by all. <BR> <I>Ex. the universal language of love.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>existing everywhere. <BR> <I>Ex. The law of gravity is universal. Sickness and disease are universal; they occur in every country of the world.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>covering a whole group, as of persons, things, or cases; general. <BR> <I>Ex. universal adult suffrage.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>accomplished in all, or many, subjects; wide-ranging. <BR> <I>Ex. a universal genius, universal knowledge.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>constituting, existing as, or regarded as a complete whole; complete; entire; whole. <BR> <I>Ex. the universal cosmos.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>adaptable as to different sizes, angles, or kinds of work. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Philosophy, Logic.) asserting or denying something of every member of a class; generic. <BR> <I>Ex. "All men are mortal" is a universal proposition.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Mathematics.) having todo with a universe of objects or numbers; comprising all the elements under consideration. <BR> <I>Ex. a universal set.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>capable of operating from either alternating-current or direct-current power lines. <BR> <I>Ex. a universal motor, a universal television receiver.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Philosophy, Logic.) <DD><B> a. </B>that which is predicated or asserted of all the individuals or species of a class or genus; universal proposition. <DD><B> b. </B>a general term or concept; abstraction. <BR> <I>Ex. The common man is a universal.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something universal, especially a person or thing that is universally powerful or current. <BR> <I>Ex. He made their pride, pity, love, anguish, glory, and endurance into universals (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=universal joint.</B> noun <B>universalness.</B> </DL>
<B>universal donor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a blood donor who has type O blood, that can be given safely in transfusion to a person of any blood type. </DL>
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<B>universal gravitation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> gravitation conceived as a property of all matter in the universe. </DL>
<A NAME="universalism">
<B>universalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality of being universal; universality. <BR> <I>Ex. This is ... the universalism of Jesus Himself ... He belongs to humanity, not to Israel (Andrew M. Fairburn).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the quality of having considerable knowledge of or interest in a great range of subjects. <DD><B> 3. </B>love or concern for all humanity. <DD><B> 4. </B>the doctrine of the unification of the world, as by establishing one religion, nationality, or economy for all mankind. </DL>
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<B>Universalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine or beliefs of Universalists. </DL>
<A NAME="universalist">
<B>universalist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in or practices universalism. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B><B>=universalistic.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with universalism or universalists. </DL>
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<B>Universalist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a Christian who believes that all people will finally be saved. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of a Christian church holding the belief that all people will finally be saved. The Universalists merged with the Unitarians in 1961. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Universalists or their doctrines. </DL>
<A NAME="universalistic">
<B>universalistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> universal in scope or character. <BR> <I>Ex. a broad universalistic concept.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="universality">
<B>universality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being universal. </DL>
<A NAME="universalization">
<B>universalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of making universal or general; generalization. </DL>
<A NAME="universalize">
<B>universalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to render universal; make generally or universally applicable. <BR> <I>Ex. Civilization requires a different kind of education to survive,one that humanizes rather than mechanizes man, and one that universalizes rather than nationalizes community (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="universaljoint">
<B>universal joint,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a joint or coupling between two shafts that allows or provides for movement or turning in almost any direction, especially a coupling for transmitting power from one shaft to another when they are not in line, as between the transmission and drive shaft of an automobile. </DL>
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<B>universal language,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a language created artificially for use throughout the world. Esperanto, Interlingua, and Volapuk are three well-known universal languages. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) something that can be understood by all. <BR> <I>Ex. Love and laughter are universal languages.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="universally">
<B>universally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in every instance; without exception. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=everywhere.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="universalman">
<B>universal man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man skilled in many fields of knowledge; Renaissance man. </DL>
<A NAME="universalmilitarytraining">
<B>Universal Military Training</B> or <B>universal military training,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a system in which every qualified man receives a general military training when he reaches a certain age. </DL>
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<B>Universal Product Code,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) code on the labels of supermarket products in a computerized system of checkout and inventory. <BR> <I>Ex. The Universal Product Code ... is the coded symbol of lines and spaces now on the labels of about 60 per cent of the products in markets (New York Post).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) UPC (no periods). </DL>
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<A NAME="universalrecipient">
<B>universal recipient,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person having type AB blood, that can receive safely a transfusion of any blood type. </DL>
<A NAME="universalsolvent">
<B>universal solvent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hypothetical substance, especially the alkahest, that dissolves everything. <DD><B> 2. </B>a substance that dissolves all or nearly all metals or classes of metals. <DD><B> 3. </B>water (because it can dissolve many compounds). </DL>
<A NAME="universalsuffrage">
<B>universal suffrage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> suffrage extended to all the adult men and women of a country other than those disqualified by law. </DL>
<B>universe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>Universe.</B> the whole of existing things; everything there is; cosmos, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>the whole of reality, as the creation of the Deity. <BR> <I>Ex. She had ... The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe (Byron). Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality (Walt Whitman).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the whole of observed or hypothesized physical reality; physical universe. <BR> <I>Ex. Our world is but a small part of the universe. The Egyptian's conception of the universe was ... anthropomorphic: the goddess of the heavens, Nut, arched her starry body over the solid Earth and let the ship of the Sun glide over her back (Rudolf Thiel).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the world, especially as the abode of mankind; earth. <BR> <I>Ex. Who all our green and azure universe Threatenedst to muffle round with black destruction (Shelley).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Mathematics, Logic.) the set of all objects being considered at one time. The universe might be the set of all natural numbers, the numbers from 0 through 10, all animals, or the animals on a farm. (Abbr:) U (no period). <DD><B> 4. </B>(Statistics.) the total numberof items from which a sample is selected; population. </DL>
<A NAME="universeofdiscourse">
<B>universe of discourse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Logic.) all the objects or ideas to which an argument or discussion refers. </DL>
<A NAME="university">
<B>university, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an institution of learning of the highest grade. A university usually has several schools, as of law, medicine, theology, teaching, and business. In the United States it also includes a college of liberal arts and a graduate school or schools, and is empowered to confer various degrees. (Abbr:) Univ. <DD><B> 2. </B>a building or buildings occupied by a university. </DL>
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<B>university extension,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the extending of the advantages of university instruction to adults who are not enrolled as university students, by means of lectures at convenient centers and sometimes also by classwork, homework, and correspondence. </DL>
<A NAME="universologist">
<B>universologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in universology. </DL>
<A NAME="universology">
<B>universology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science of the universe, or of all created things. </DL>
<A NAME="univocal">
<B>univocal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having one meaning only; not equivocal; capable of but one interpretation. adv. <B>univocally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="unjaundiced">
<B>unjaundiced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not affected by jaundice. <BR> <I>Ex. an unjaundiced complexion.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) not affected by envy, jealousy, anger, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. His description of the poverty program [was] all too true; and his strength and courage and unjaundiced eye beautifully evident throughout (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="unjealous">
<B>unjealous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not jealous; not suspicious or mistrustful. </DL>
<A NAME="unjelled">
<B>unjelled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not jelled; without a definite form; not fixed. <BR> <I>Ex. Its communal character gives the impression of being sketchy, not filled out, unjelled (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="unjoint">
<B>unjoint, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to take apart the joints of; dismember. </DL>
<A NAME="unjointed">
<B>unjointed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having no joints, nodes, or articulations; inarticulate. <DD><B> 2a. </B>unjoined. <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) disjointed; disconnected. </DL>
