(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.
Saltire
Definition:
(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winner of the Saltire prize will have to generate 100 gigawatt hours over a two-year period, not 100GW
(2) Milne and his wife Moira live in a former coastguard’s station on the highest point overlooking Trump’s course, which now has the Mexican flag fluttering alongside his Scottish saltire flag.
(3) "A few saltires," as Salmond said after waving one around at Wimbledon, so as to own the Murray victory, "doesn't really harm at all."
(4) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
(5) It confirms that the saltire will continue to serve as the national flag of Scotland and that the choice of national anthem will be made by the Scottish parliament.
(6) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(7) In the ballroom, couples at a lunchtime tea dance swirl around an interior decked with miniature saltires – and on 30 November, St Andrew's Day will be celebrated with the help of the association's pipe band, a "Scottish disco", and one Gerry Trew, "with his tribute to Rod Stewart".
(8) The first minister claims that he was the first to recognise that the Pentland Firth could be the Saudi Arabia of tidal energy, but it is increasingly clear that his Saltire prize is becoming the Millennium Dome of marine energy."
(9) This picture shows a discoloured, ragged Ineos flag flying behind the Scottish Saltire: Photograph: Sean Farrell A second look at a sign for the Grangemouth Business Centre shows that "BP" has been covered up with white tape.
(10) But hold on to your hats and your seat-backs, your Union Jacks and Saltires.
(11) As the journalist Iain Macwhirter writes in an alarm-bell-ringing essay published this week by the Saltire Society , "Scotland has a national political system, but is in danger of losing a national media."
(12) We heard from Catalans seeking a secession vote on what they think about Scotland’s own independence vote , and plenty of Saltires found their way to the streets of Barcelona.
(13) The saltired, heather-dusted frock coat has already been tailored, and awaits your beloved, skeletal frame.
(14) No doubt a thistle or a Saltire will be on the shortlist.
(15) The announcement of the Saltire prize has brought huge international publicity," he said.
(16) Writing for the Guardian , as the independence movement prepares to mark a year to go before the referendum, on 18 September 2014, Bell said: "The campaigns to date have been a tedious parade of union jacks versus saltires, of pop identity about caring Scots versus heartless Tories."
(17) In fact it looks like more of the same – but under the saltire.
(18) It is striking that the referendum has turned out not to be about certain things: Braveheart , kilts, the saltire , hating Sassenachs , Rabbie Burns, Renton’s rant in Trainspotting about the Scots allowing themselves to be “ colonised by wankers ”.
(19) The saltire, perhaps with a wee silhouette of Holyrood behind it, could be a kitemark to denote the highest band of democratic excellence.
(20) The Saltire prize has been endorsed by National Geographic, but opposition parties today dismissed it as a publicity-stunt, a view privately shared by some senior renewables industry figures.