What's the difference between ordinary and quotidian?

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.

Quotidian


Definition:

  • (a.) Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
  • (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (The work is named after Jack Foley, who first came up with a process for adding quotidian noises, such as footsteps, to films in the 1920s.)
  • (2) Adult-onset Still's disease is a systemic illness characterized by quotidian fever and a fleeting, salmon-colored rash.
  • (3) A mixture of a special kind is febris semitertiana: a continuous quotidian is accompanied by an intermittent tertian.
  • (4) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
  • (5) The myth is that of the eponymous artist who stepped into his painting as the culmination of his work and to elude quotidian reality.
  • (6) For registering the postural component of lithium-induced tremor, the first two methods proved themselves worthy of recommendation in quotidian practice.
  • (7) We'd gathered at Downing College, Cambridge, to discuss the economic crisis, although the quotidian misery of that topic seemed a world away from the honeyed quads and endowment plush of this place .
  • (8) Those having left school and receiving less education were also significantly more pessimistic and worried about quotidian contact with HIV+ people, and their ability to control against HIV infection.
  • (9) Activity of the enzyme in P. knowlesi, an intrinsically synchronous quotidian parasite, was found to be dependent on the stage of parasite development.
  • (10) Lower down the scale one could cite the quotidian grumbling in workplaces across the land from underlings hamstrung by their less competent bosses – a tendency observed by Richard Sennett among others, though we can surely all supply examples.
  • (11) The attacks on Paris were, after all, an attack on the ordinary, on the quotidian routines of Parisian life.
  • (12) This is less high-flown and more quotidian than it sounds.
  • (13) This is an economy of minor anxieties and insignificant dangers: the emotional range of a comfortable life, fretted by quotidian storms – a parking ticket, a stressful day at work, a forgotten lunch date.
  • (14) It includes explicit sex and copious drug use; it also includes domestic squabbles, quotidian work hassles and meals with friends, straight and gay.
  • (15) The novel prompted comparisons with Kafka and Philip K Dick for its exploration of arbitrary authority and individual disorientation, and has been read as an allegory of divided cities such as Jerusalem and Berlin as well as the quotidian willed blindness of modern life.
  • (16) Photograph: Alamy The idea that food is an "art form" in itself is a much stronger claim than traditional phrasing such as "the art of cookery" (on the model of the French l'art de … ), a more modest attribution of creativity and craft ( techné rather than poésis ) to quotidian activity.
  • (17) The onset of this illness is sudden and is characterized by quotidian fever, evanescent rash, arthritis, leukocytosis and with variable frequency abnormalities of the liver function tests, adenopathy, splenomegaly and loss of weight.
  • (18) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
  • (19) On the one hand, the procession of people with their quotidian concerns, nervous demeanour and hoarded bits of paper resemble nothing so much as feudal petitioners; a real reminder of the powerlessness of many ordinary people.
  • (20) Nkosi effortlessly acquired the habits of his colleagues – the demanding journalistic assignments, the clashes with the law, the insatiable literary talk, heavy drinking, jazz through the night – against the backdrop of quotidian township violence.