"general meaning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the primary or overall sense conveyed by something. For example, "The general meaning of the poem was one of hope."
Between the two data groups, histone marks have larger spreads around the mean curve than the TFs in general, meaning the predictability of the histone mark signals varies more widely.
After the 16th century the vogue of posting pasquinades died out, and the term acquired its more general meaning.
Justice Antonin Scalia responded that the symbol in the context of a war memorial carried a more general meaning.
The general meaning of saint was transformed during the period of the persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire.
The best machine translation systems today, while capable of yielding a passage's general meaning, are better known for their muddled syntax than their accuracy.
Although one of several words might convey the same general meaning in any given sentence, lighting on a word that does more makes prose memorable.
A general meaning is "the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovery quickly".
The three-letter root k-t-b, with its general meaning of "writing", has the simplest verb form kataba, "he wrote".
Although reproduction is often considered solely in terms of the production of offspring in animals and plants, the more general meaning has far greater significance to living organisms.
The mise rolls (rotuli misae) of King John's reign (1199 1216), which record payments made from the Exchequer to various departments of the royal household, illustrate the general meaning of the word.
If you have ever listened to voices through a closed door, Frost reasoned, you will have noticed how it can be possible to understand the general meaning of a conversation even when the specific words are muffled.
