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IN ORDINARY

Definition: IN ORDINARY

IN ORDINARY

1. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: IN ORDINARY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Inaction

Lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.

Store

Adjective: stored; Verb:; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: IN ORDINARY

English words defined with "IN ORDINARY": civilen clairfactor of safety, fibrocartilageLock railProximate cause, Pseudospheresafety factorTidal air. (references)
Specialty definitions using "IN ORDINARY": anthracite siltCandle-holderD20, distribution functionfire classification, forbidden linegrant durante absentiaHackney Horseskerosine flotationMay MollochNEGROE'S HEADSPeradventure, Perchance, petrogenic elementschool for delicate children, school for the chronically sickwild card. (references)

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Commercial Usage: IN ORDINARY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Metaphysics in Ordinary Language (Carthage Reprint) (reference)

  • Power over Power: What Power Means in Ordinary Life, How It Is Related to Acting Freely, and What It Can Contribute to a Renovated Ethics of educatio (reference)

  • Achieving the Impossible: Interagency Collaboration to Address the Housing, Health and Social Care Needs of People Able to Live in Ordinary Housing (reference)

  • Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club (Grand Haven, Mich.).) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis: Being an Exact Copy, in Ordinary Type, of the Celebrated Uncial Graeco-Latin Mra M. Robinson. Connolly. Do When Touri (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: IN ORDINARY

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John Forbes, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. : Physician in Ordinary to Her Majestey's Household / Painted by John Partridge. Engraved by Wm. Walker. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

USS Nevada (ex-Neshaminy) laid up at the station pier, circa 1871-1873, with USS Dictator "in ordinary" at the right. The original photograph was published as a stereograph pair by E. Ayer, Norwich, Connecticut. Credit: NAVY.

Monitors in ordinary at League Island Navy Yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men of the 68th Regiment in ordinary dress. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Historic Usage: IN ORDINARY

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: IN ORDINARY

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In ordinary times, to disperse an anachronism and cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell the year of our Lord.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: IN ORDINARY

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Other common early symptoms are changes in personality such as a loss of interest in ordinary pleasurable activities or increased irritability, cantankerousness, and forgetfulness. (references)

Children

Lebanon

Juvenile delinquency is rising; many juveniles wait in ordinary prisons for trial and remain there after sentencing. (references)

Economic History

Cameroon

The 180-member National Assembly meets in ordinary session three times a year (March/April, June/July, and November/December), and has seldom, until recently, made major changes in legislation proposed by the executive. (references)

Human Rights

Uruguay

Conditions in these facilities are generally better than those in ordinary jails, in part because they are less crowded. (references)

Worker Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

The minimum wage law does not apply to the approximately 3,000 workers in ordinary FEZ's. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: IN ORDINARY

Expression using "IN ORDINARY": physician in ordinary. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: IN ORDINARY

Language Translations for "IN ORDINARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

professor ordinarius (full professor, professor in ordinary), katedral professor (full professor, professor in ordinary), kapitalindskud i interessentskaber,som er juridiske personer (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

professor ordinarius (full professor, professor in ordinary), ordinarius (full professor, professor in ordinary), gewoon hoogleraar (full professor, professor, professor in ordinary), deelnemingen in het kapitaal van personenvennootschappen met rechtspersoonlijkheid (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

French

  

professeur titulaire de chaire (professor in ordinary), participations au capital des sociétés de personnes ayant la personnalité juridique (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

German

  

Ordinarius (full professor, professor in ordinary), Beteiligungen an Personengesellschaften mit eigener Rechtspersönlichkeit (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κεφάλαιο που επενδύεται σε προσωπικές εταιρείες που αναγνωρίζονται ωε ανεξάρτητα νομικά πρόσωπα (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities), τακτικός καθηγητής της έδρας (full professor, professor in ordinary). (various references)

   

Italian

  

professore ordinario (full professor, professor, professor in ordinary), partecipazione al capitale delle societ di persone aventi personalit giuridica (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities), ordinario (coarse, common, ordinary, ornery, permanent, run of the mill, simple, usual, usually, workaday). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

平"は (in ordinary days). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

へいぜいは (in ordinary days). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inay ordinaryay

   

Portuguese

  

professor titular (full professor, professor in ordinary), participações no capital de sociedades de pessoas que têm personalidade jurídica (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

постоянный (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, eternal, hard, hourly, immanent, invariable, invariant, perdurable, perm, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, settled, stationary, uniform, unvarying). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

titular de cátedra (full professor, professor in ordinary), profesor ordinario (full professor, professor in ordinary), participaciones en el capital de sociedades personalistas que tienen personalidad jurídica (capital invested in ordinary or limited partnerships recognized as independent legal entities). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sürekli olarak (continually, continuously, evermore, incessantly, invariably, on), devamlı (assiduous, away, chronic, continual, continued, continuous, everlasting, evermore, forever, frequent, hourly, incessant, invariable, invariably, lasting, non-stop, on end, permanent, persistent, regular, regularly, settled, steady, sustained, unabating, unbroken, unceasing, unremitting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: IN ORDINARY

Misspellings

"IN ORDINARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inordinary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: IN ORDINARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-y"

-2 letters: nondairy, ordinary.

-3 letters: andiron.

-4 letters: inroad, ordain.

-5 letters: adorn, anion, annoy, ardor, aroid, dairy, danio, diary, dinar, donna, drain, indri, inion, iodin, irony, nadir, noria, oidia, radii, radio, radon, rainy, randy, ranid, rayon, yaird.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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