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Definition: IN ORDINARY |
IN ORDINARY1. (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. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: IN ORDINARY |
| English words defined with "IN ORDINARY": civil ♦ en clair ♦ factor of safety, fibrocartilage ♦ Lock rail ♦ Proximate cause, Pseudosphere ♦ safety factor ♦ Tidal air. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IN ORDINARY": anthracite silt ♦ Candle-holder ♦ D20, distribution function ♦ fire classification, forbidden line ♦ grant durante absentia ♦ Hackney Horses ♦ kerosine flotation ♦ May Molloch ♦ NEGROE'S HEADS ♦ Peradventure, Perchance, petrogenic element ♦ school for delicate children, school for the chronically sick ♦ wild card. (references) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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Expression using "IN ORDINARY": physician in ordinary. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) 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) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"IN ORDINARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inordinary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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