Ordinary
['ɔːdɪn(ə)rɪ;-d(ə)n-] or ['ɔrdnɛri]
Definition
(noun.) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields.
(noun.) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.
(noun.) a judge of a probate court.
(noun.) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.
(noun.) the expected or commonplace condition or situation; 'not out of the ordinary'.
(adj.) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; 'ordinary everyday objects'; 'ordinary decency'; 'an ordinary day'; 'an ordinary wine' .
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Definition
(a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
(a.) Common; customary; usual.
(a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
(n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
(n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
(n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
(n.) The mass; the common run.
(n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
(n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
(n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
(n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Common, usual, customary, habitual, settled, established, wonted, every day.[2]. Mean, vulgar, low, inferior.[3]. Plain, ugly, homely, inelegant, ill-looking, not handsome, not fine.
n. Eating-house (where a meal is offered at a settled price), TABLE D'HÔTE, public table.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Settled, wonted, conventional, plain, inferior, commonplace, humdrum,matter_of_fact
ANT:Extraordinary, unusual, uncommon, superior,[See FUTILE]
Checker: Shari
Definition
adj. according to the common order: usual: of common rank: plain: of little merit: (coll.) plain-looking.—n. a judge of ecclesiastical or other causes who acts in his own right: something settled or customary: actual office: a bishop or his deputy: a place where regular meals are provided at fixed charges: the common run or mass: (her.) one of a class of armorial charges called also honourable ordinaries figures of simple outline and geometrical form conventional in character—chief pale fess bend bend-sinister chevron cross saltire pile pall bordure orle tressure canton flanches.—adv. Or′dinarily.—Ordinary of the mass the established sequence or fixed order for saying mass.—In ordinary in regular and customary attendance.
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Examples
- It's like an ordinary tomorrow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For once in his life, the great Cuff stood speechless with amazement, like an ordinary man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But I had acted enough for one evening; it was time I retired into myself and my ordinary life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The motion, compared with that of an ordinary land engine, was thus inverted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The machine he built looked like an ordinary stage-coach on four wheels. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This, which he had intended to make more of the ordinary type, he gradually brings round to the other or ideal form. Plato. The Republic.
- They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Stacy