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Definition: THE COMMON RUN |
THE COMMON RUN1. Etc., ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind. I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. --Walpole. Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. --Prof. Wilson. His whole appearance was something out of the common run. --W. Irving. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unconformity | Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: THE COMMON RUN |
| English words defined with "THE COMMON RUN": Buffy coat ♦ The run. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THE COMMON RUN": 64 bit ♦ archive site ♦ binary GCD algorithm ♦ Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol, Common Gateway Interface, cup holder ♦ directory service ♦ Ensemble Hydrologic Forecasting ♦ file type ♦ Horn with Horn ♦ ISP ♦ Kiss the Hare's Foot ♦ multitasking ♦ off the trolley ♦ power-on self-test, PowerPC Platform ♦ RC, RefLisp ♦ Troll-O-Meter ♦ Yale Haskell. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Johann W. Von Goethe | The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expression using "THE COMMON RUN": out of the common run. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "THE COMMON RUN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 不同凡響 (out of the common run, out of the ordinary, outstanding), 不凡 (out of the common run, out of the ordinary). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人"並み (the common run of people). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | に"'"なみ (the common run of people). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethay ommoncay unray extra (Extrafine, out of the common run, super). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-m-m-n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: uncommoner. | |
-3 letters: contemnor, truncheon. | |
-4 letters: commoner, commuter, monument, motormen, nocturne, nonmetro, outhomer, uncommon, unthrone. | |
-5 letters: centrum, cheroot, chetrum, chronon, chunter, comment, commune, commute, connote, contemn, contour, cornute, cornuto, coronet, cothurn, counter, couther, crouton, hormone, momento, monomer, montero, monuron, moocher, moorhen, mounter, mouther, muncher, neutron, nocturn, nonhero, nonhome, notcher, omentum, outcome, outecho, recount, remount, retouch. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 45 43 4F 4D 4D 4F 4E 52 55 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H E   C O M M O N   R U N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0045 0043 004F 004D 004D 004F 004E 0052 0055 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54423923749474749482525548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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