What's the difference between ordinary and overall?

Ordinary


Definition:

  • (a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
  • (a.) Common; customary; usual.
  • (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
  • (n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
  • (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
  • (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
  • (n.) The mass; the common run.
  • (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
  • (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
  • (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
  • (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
  • (2) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (3) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
  • (4) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (5) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
  • (6) Our knowledge of the pathogenesis of ordinary baldness is far from complete but a genetic predisposition is necessary and androgen production must be present.
  • (7) Ordinary details that any mother would recognise have been magnified into major problems.
  • (8) A simple method for distinction between RNA- and DNA-containing structures in aldehyde- and osmiumtextroxide-fixed electron microscopic autoradiographs (or ordinary thin sections) is described: the developer and the acetic acid used for processing autoradiographs extract selectively uranium acetate from DNA containing-structures which, after staining with lead citrate, leads to a characteristically 'bleached' appearance of the DNA.
  • (9) We have the president of the tribunal, Sir Michael Burton, arguing that his work needs to be done in secret to secure the trust and co-operation of the intelligence services – but what about the trust of the British people and the confidence of the lawyers who seek to establish the rights of ordinary members of the public?
  • (10) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
  • (11) The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said Heydon had “got it wrong” in his decision and had “not really approached this as an ordinary, fair-minded person would”.
  • (12) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.
  • (13) These blocks may be responsible for the substantial differences between the ordinary and Andean strains at the symptom and aphid transmissibility levels.
  • (14) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.
  • (15) Both by direct plate counts of survivors and by quantitative ultraviolet spectrophotometric analyses of released cellular constituents, the respiration-impaired mutants were less vulnerable to the destructive actions of the basic proteins than were ordinary wild-type cells.
  • (16) We fought back and we won,” she said, boasting that the CFPB had already recouped $4bn for ordinary people from major financial institutions.
  • (17) Patients with all forms of angina, stable effort and unstable rest angina, and those with coronary artery spasm have very frequent episodes of silent myocardial ischemia during ordinary activity.
  • (18) Normal male ICR mice were divided into a cafeteria diet group (CC) and an ordinary chow group (Cont).
  • (19) The approach also emphasises the self-evident fact that the voices of ordinary citizens, using our lived experiences to motivate others, are the most powerful tools for building relationships and mobilising a wider movement of support.
  • (20) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.

Overall


Definition:

  • (adv.) Everywhere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
  • (2) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
  • (3) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
  • (4) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (5) The CHI patients were impaired overall on the FTE but not the CTE.
  • (6) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
  • (7) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (8) The sensitivity of SPECT for detection of overall coronary stenosis was 79%, contrary that of treadmill exercise test was only 33% (p < 0.001).
  • (9) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
  • (10) A significant linear correlation was found between the effect in this test and plasma and overall brain levels of metapramine.
  • (11) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
  • (12) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
  • (13) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
  • (14) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (15) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (16) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (17) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
  • (18) These studies show that females develop significantly more cell-mediated immune responses to some chemical haptenes than men and the data also points to an overall higher rate of haptene recognition.
  • (19) At 7 years, the overall survival for all patients was 52%, and the disease-free survival was 64%.
  • (20) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.