Conventional

Definition: Conventional

Conventional

Adjective

1. Following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address".

2. Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world".

3. Weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons".

4. Unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes".

5. (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form.

6. In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake".

7. Rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conventional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, adjective. [Latin expression conventionalis: compare to the French expression conventionnel.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

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Synonyms: Conventional

Compact

Adjective: agreed; Verb: conventional; under hand and seal.

Conformity

Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.

Fashion

Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous).

Impulse

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Crosswords: Conventional

C.U.M.: Conventional Urge Management (1996)

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References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Conventional Mineral Oil (reference)

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Books

• Cancer, An Integrative Approach: Combining Conventional and Alternative Therapy for Treating the Whole Person (reference)

• Choices in Healing : Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches (reference)

• Healthy Child, Whole Child Integrating the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine to Keep Your Kids Healthy (reference)

• Living Healthy With Hepatitis C: Natural and Conventional Approaches to Recover Your Quality of Life (reference)

• Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child: A Practical A-To-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants and Children (reference)

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High Tech

• Benwin CLT30T 2.1 Titanium Conventional Speaker System (White) (reference)

• Koss Y88 Y Cord for Conventional Headphones (reference)

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Image of a breast and axillary nodes by conventional PET scan. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is a laboratory setting and a piece of equipment that allows scientists to obtain interferon by conventional means. Presently this means growing human cells. Only the piece of equipment is visible. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Large planes with conventional landing gear can land on the sea ice A DC-3 offshore at Tigvariak Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

New orange trees are straightened, staked, and pruned by workers riding only inches above the ground pulled by a slowly moving tractor. The tractor is driven not from the conventional drivers's seat perched high over the rear wheels, but by one of the workers below, using an extra steering wheel and control. Credit: USDA.

A low-temperature scanning electron microscope enables acarologist Ron Ochoa (background) and botanist Eric Erbe to observe tiny mites in detail impossible with conventional microscopes and slide-mounting techniques. Liquid nitrogen is first used to flash-freeze mites on their hosts in their natural positions. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Strategy for generating conventional knockout mice. Credit: NIAA.

Members of the carrier's V-2 Division rigging arresting gear on the flight deck, circa 1962. The caption released with this photo on 24 July 1962 reads: "Speeding toward a record-breaker, V-2 divisionmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain show what it takes to come out on top in barrier rigging. The 'Champ' crew recently broke the Atlantic Fleet record for setting the Davis (S2F) barrier with a time of 59 seconds flat. Having gained momentum, they went on to rig the conventional (AD) barrier in a pace-setting 53 seconds. When the men slowed down enough to look in the record books, they quickly found out that the record they had broken was their own, set in July of '61.". Credit: NAVY.

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Moreover, the French Government have no doubt that the provisional maintenance of the regime of 1815 as to the free zones referred to in the above mentioned paragraph of the note from the Swiss Legation of May 5, whose object is to provide for the passage from the present regime to the conventional regime, will cause no delay whatsoever in the establishment of the new situation which has been found necessary by the two Governments. (reference)

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Health

Lithium in conventional forms is satisfactory. (references)

Treatment is with medicines, laser surgery, or conventional surgery. (references)

In this study, ECMO appeared to be no more useful than conventional therapy. (references)

Business

Some use conventional film and some are digital image recorders. (references)

So accessing the market is no longer confined to conventional retail sales. (references)

There are conventional, autonomous, preferential, and lowered customs rates. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kenya

The practice of witchcraft is understood widely to encompass attempts to harm others not only by magic, but also by conventional means such as poisons. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Until 1990, the United States provided military aid to Pakistan to modernize its conventional defensive capability. (references)

Syria

Besides sustaining its conventional forces, Syria seeks to improve its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capability. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRIA

The opening of the market for conventional telephones on January 1, 1998, represented the final phase of Austria's telecom liberalization. (references)

Angola

In late 1999, a massive offensive by the Armed Forces of Angola (FAA) destroyed the conventional military capacity of UNITA, and by January 2000, had driven the rebels from their heartland on the central plateau into the country's far east and into scattered pockets elsewhere. (references)

Libya

Much of the country's income has been lost to waste, corruption, conventional armament purchases, and attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction, as well as to large donations made to developing countries in attempts to increase Qadhafi's influence in Africa and elsewhere. (references)

Trade

Singapore

They offer free, 72-hour storage for import/export of conventional and containerized cargo and 14-day free storage for transhipment/re-export cargo. (references)

France

COFACE' s second function is to support French exporters in markets that conventional insurance companies are not willing to cover due to the perceived risks. (references)

Japan

While most American banks operating in Japan engage in lending to subsidiaries of U.S. companies (especially their home market clients), many of them focus on higher value-added lines of business than conventional credit products. (references)

Travel

Pakistan

Cellular phones are available for visiting businessmen and are at times more reliable for international communications than the local conventional telephones. (references)

Cyprus

Business customs in Cyprus are not very different from the U.S. Despite the long and hot summer, the conventional business dress code usually calls for a suit and tie for men and conservative attire for women. (references)

Women

Brazil

For example, 20 percent lacked a conventional telephone line, 53 percent lacked police officers trained in dealing with violence against women, and 77 percent did not have an officer on duty 24 hours a day. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "conventional": conventional aeroplane ♦ conventional armament ♦ conventional bond length Ls ♦ conventional counterpart ♦ conventional cut ♦ conventional engine ♦ conventional equipment ♦ conventional formal schematic ♦ conventional impulse withstand voltage ♦ conventional limit of elasticity 0.2 ♦ conventional material ♦ conventional memory ♦ conventional milling ♦ conventional therapy ♦ conventional treatment ♦ conventional war ♦ conventional warfare ♦ conventional weapon ♦ conventional weapons ♦ the conventional limit of elasticity. Additional references.

Beginning with "conventional": conventional-looking, conventional-style, conventional-weapon.

Ending with "conventional": non-conventional.

Albanian

tradicional (old age, traditional, traditionary), konvencional. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متمسك بالعرف, ‏مؤتمري, ‏مؤتمر (conference, congress, consultation, convention, parley, seminar), ‏مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, usual, vulgar), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏لطيف بطريقة رسمية, ‏تقليدي (academic, classic, classical, imitative, imitator, oldish, orthodox, traditional), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont), ‏إصطلاحي (formal, idiomatic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стандартен (accredited, repetitive, standard, stock), условен (conditional, conditioned, nisi, provisional, provisory), уговорен (covenanted, set), шаблонен (hackneyed, mundane, routine, stereotyped, stereotypical, stock), конвенционен, конвенционален, общоприет (accepted, orthodox, received, standard). (various references)

Chinese 

慣例 , 常规 (Convention, routinely), 常規 (common, routine). (various references)

Czech

konvenèní (formal). (various references)

Danish

konventionel. (various references)

Dutch

conventioneel. (various references)

Finnish

tavanomainen, konventionaalinen. (various references)

French

traditionnel, classique. (various references)

German

konventionell (conventionally, orthodox), hergebracht (customary), üblich (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, general, normal, ordinary, standard, traditional, used to, usual, vulgar, wonted). (various references)

Greek 

κλασσικόσ, συνβατικόσ, συνηθισμένοσ (accustomed, common, customary, habitual, ordinary, used to, usual, wont, wonted), συμβατικόσ, παραδοσιακόσ (folk, traditional, traditionary), εθιμοτυπικόσ (ceremonial), Συμβατικός, τυπικόσ (ceremonial, ceremonious, formal, modal, perfunctory, prim, starched, typical). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוסכם (accepted, agreed, certain, done, recognized), מקובל (accepted, common, current, customary, received), ש�'רתי (customary, everyday, hackneyed, routine, stock, trite), �"סכמי. (various references)

Hungarian

konvencionális (academic, button-down, convenances), hagyományos (academic, devisee, time honored, time-honored, time-honoured, traditional, traditionary). (various references)

Italian

convenzionale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

在来 (already there, pre-existing), 伝統的 (traditional), コン�"ュータ�"�語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざいらい (already there, pre-existing), で�"とうてき (traditional), コンベンショナル . (various references)

Korean 

평�"한 (Commonplace, mediocre). (various references)

Manx

cliaghtagh (consuetudinal, customary, habitual), cadjincliaghtit (hackneyed). (various references)

Pig Latin

onventionalcay

Portuguese

convencional (formal, orthodox). (various references)

Romanian

convenţional (artificial, conventionally, hypocritical, nominal, sham), uzitat (accepted, common, current, customary, usual), ortodox (approved, established, orthodox), oficial (approved, authoritative, authorized, ceremonial, coldly, conventionally, formal, formally, governmental, inspired, legal, official, officially, state, stiffly). (various references)

Russian 

традиционный (traditional, traditionary), обусловленный (due, specified), общепринятый (accredited, common, generally accepted, long established, received), обычный (accustomed, bog-standard, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, customary, everyday, familiar, habitual, natural, normal, ordinary, regular, run-of-the-mail, run-of-the-mill, usual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

konvencionalan. (various references)

Spanish

convencional (according to contract, formal, traditional), tradicional (classic, classical, time honored, time-honoured, traditional, used). (various references)

Swedish

konventionell (formal), vedertagen (established). (various references)

Turkish

konvensiyonel, geleneksel (classic, customary, folksy, groovy, institutional, set, traditional), beylik (hackneyed, seigniory, stereotyped, stereotypical), basmakalıp (banal, cliché, common place, copybook, hackneyed, Pat, platitudinous, routine, set, stereotyped, stock, trite, well worn), atomik olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian

ввічливий (affable, bland, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, debonair, diplomatic, discreet, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave, urbane), обумовлений (bespoke, conditional, conditioned, given, modal, providential), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), загальноприйнятий (accredited, general, orthodox, passant, received), порядний (decent, decorous, gentlemanly, well doing, white). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quy ước theo tập quán. (various references)

Welsh

confensiynol. (various references)

conveniens, convenientes, convenientia, convenientibus, vulgatum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conventional": conventionalism, conventionalisms, conventionalist, conventionalists, conventionalities, conventionality, conventionalization, conventionalizations, conventionalize, conventionalized, conventionalizes, conventionalizing, conventionally. (additional references)

Words ending with "conventional": anticonventional, nonconventional, unconventional. (additional references)

Words containing "conventional": unconventionalities, unconventionality, unconventionally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conventional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: convensional. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: convention, nonviolent.

-3 letters: antinovel, connivent, evocation, nonaction, noncoital, nonnative, novocaine.

-4 letters: cannelon, coinvent, conation, conative, covalent, covenant, ecotonal, innocent, innovate, invocate, location, locative, nonnovel, nontonal, nonvocal, notional, novation, venation, vocation.

-5 letters: aconite, actinon, alencon, aloetic, ancient, antlion, cannoli, centavo, connate, connive, connote, contain, convent, coolant, coontie, elation, enation, encinal, lactone, lection, noncola, octanol, ovation.

+2 letters: conventionally, unconventional.

+3 letters: conventionalism, conventionalist, conventionality, conventionalize, nonconventional.

+4 letters: anticonventional, conventionalisms, conventionalists, conventionalized, conventionalizes, noncontroversial, unconventionally.

+5 letters: conventionalities, conventionalizing, unconventionality.