Many people also use common brand names to refer to them generically.

I will use small letters a, b to refer generically to terminal symbols.

The term air corps can generically refer to an air force.

Nonetheless, the term "high street" is often used in the Irish media to refer generically to shopping streets.

In common speech, people often generically refer to communities of either type as "towns", drawing no distinction between the two.

He said the label on the site referred generically to the many ministries he runs.

Television listings refer to these commercials generically as "paid programming" or "commercial programs."

The device was generically referred to as a frequency changer or just mixer.

The technique may be referred more generically to as openwork or piereced work.

In modern Persian, the term bukhari generically refers to a heater.