What's the difference between customary and wont?

Customary


Definition:

  • (a.) Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  • (a.) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
  • (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
  • (2) It is customary to describe abnormal interactions between accommodation and convergence according to the Duane-White classification of convergence excess and insufficiency or divergence excess and insufficiency.
  • (3) Oxipurinol plasma levels and plasma elimination half-life were investigated in five healthy volunteers after oral administration of 300 mg allopurinol in customary (A 300) and in slow-release preparation (A ret) in a double blind cross-over study.
  • (4) The situation occurs when the customary staple food--for instance, rice in Thailand--has such a high caloric density that children cannot eat enough food to meet their needs.
  • (5) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
  • (6) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
  • (7) Extended ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in the patient's customary environment provides clear evidence of circadian patterns in myocardial ischemic episodes.
  • (8) One hundred-seventeen subjects 65 years of age and over, meeting eligibility criteria to target frail older persons with changing medical and social needs, were randomly assigned to receive a comprehensive geriatric assessment by a multidisciplinary team (treatment) or by one of a panel of community internists who were reimbursed according to their usual and customary fee (controls).
  • (9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
  • (10) Klopp kept his customary counsel over Liverpool’s transfer business on Friday and refused to discuss Teixiera, who has scored 22 goals in 15 league games for the Ukrainian club this season.
  • (11) Construction rules of developmental mechanics can also be used to describe many of the histological and morphological adaptations of mature skeletal tissues to changes in customary physical activity.
  • (12) You've shown "elan, dedication, skill and customary energy" while "producing a terrific newspaper and keeping the staff motivated and happy".
  • (13) Some issues have existed for decades: land inheritance practices, customary duty of care disproportionately burdening women and exploitative tenancy agreements.
  • (14) Care of the experimental babies included supporting the head on a small water pillow and supporting the torso at the same level to avoid flexion or curvature of the spine; the control group received customary care.
  • (15) The original said that Putin replied, with his customary flare.
  • (16) Chiefs – in effect the most local of government administrators – were given such duties by Sudan's colonial powers, working at the lower end of a judicial hierarchy that combined elements of both customary and statutory law.
  • (17) In a three-year period in the Washington, DC, area, Blue Shield UCR protocols permitted "customary" allowances for selected surgical procedures to rise 29 to 75 per cent; charges by two physicians increased allowances for coronary-artery bypass from $2000 to $3500.
  • (18) Based upon our results, we postulate that the CIEIA represents a good alternative to the customary diagnosis of organophosphate intoxications, measuring blood cholinesterase activity.
  • (19) It is customary in the House of Lords for bills agreed by MPs to be given a second reading and amendments at this stage are rare.
  • (20) Joey Barton tweeted with customary elan, "Go on the birds", and for the next 20 minutes GB peppered the Brazilian goal.

Wont


Definition:

  • (a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
  • (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
  • (imp.) of Wont
  • (p. p.) of Wont
  • (v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
  • (v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
  • (3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
  • (4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
  • (5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
  • (6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
  • (7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
  • (8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
  • (9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
  • (10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
  • (11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
  • (12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
  • (13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
  • (14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
  • (15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
  • (16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
  • (17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
  • (18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
  • (19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
  • (20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.