Jobling points to one key difference between computers and DNA sequencers: computers are all-purpose machines.
They note that outside the show ring, Labradors are all-purpose dogs, skilled at guiding the blind, performing search-and-rescue missions, sniffing out bombs and excelling at nearly everything they are asked to do.
There are about fifty chairs all told, and in Doyle's scheme they are all-purpose.
What is "all-purpose cleaning"?
When they said it was all-purpose, boy, did they mean it.
The Games' five primary venues were all purpose built however, at significant cost.
Celebrities are all-purpose experts these days.
Facebook and Twitter are all-purpose social networks.
They are all-purpose horses, though they lean toward the riding-horse type more than formerly.
On the bistro's zinc bar, there are all-purpose corks and glossy white shopping bags with wine-colored ribbon handles provided gratis by the Wine Council of Bordeaux to 500 restaurants across the country.
There are all-purpose sites like DoItYourself.com, sites linked to magazines and television programs, including the public television show "This Old House" (www.pbs.org /wgbh/thisoldhouse) and topical sites -- for example, Toiletology 101 (www.toiletology.com/index.shtml).shtml
