different between genericize vs templatize

English

Alternative forms

• genericise, generitize

Etymology

generic +? -ize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??.n?.??.sa?z/

Verb

genericize (third-person singular simple present genericizes, present participle genericizing, simple past and past participle genericized)

1. (transitive) To make generic.
   1. (law, transitive) To turn into a genericized trademark.
   2. (pharmacy) To make generics out of.
   3. (programming, transitive) To make more generic: usable in more contexts.
   4. (transitive) To make generic: bland.

Synonyms

• (make bland): See also Thesaurus:generalize

Derived terms

• genericized trademark

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• templatise (British)

Etymology

template +? -ize

Verb

templatize (third-person singular simple present templatizes, present participle templatizing, simple past and past participle templatized)

1. (transitive, computing, programming) To genericize by means of templates.
   • 2004, Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland, Windows Forms programming in Visual Basic.NET

     This makes it trivial to templatize your application; changes to the new generic base form automatically cascade to the derived classes at the next build.

Derived terms

• nontemplatized