单词 | normal |
释义 | normal1/ˈnɔːm(ə)l /adjective 1Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected: it’s quite normal for puppies to bolt their food normal working hours...
Synonyms usual, standard, typical, stock, common, ordinary, customary, conventional, habitual, accustomed, expected, wonted, everyday, regular, routine, day-to-day, daily, established, settled, set, fixed, traditional, quotidian, prevailing ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill, standard, typical, middle-of-the-road, common, conventional, mainstream, unremarkable, unexceptional, plain, simple, homely, homespun, workaday; North American garden-variety informal bog-standard, vanilla, plain vanilla, a dime a dozen British informal common or garden North American informal ornery 1.1(Of a person) free from physical or mental disorders: until her accident Louise had been a perfectly normal little girl many previously normal people exhibit psychotic symptoms after a few nights without sleep...
Synonyms sane, in one's right mind, right in the head, of sound mind, in possession of all one's faculties, able to think/reason clearly, lucid, rational, coherent, balanced, well balanced; Latin compos mentis informal all there 2 technical (Of a line, ray, or other linear feature) intersecting a given line or surface at right angles: a single plane of symmetry with a diad axis normal to it...
3 Medicine (Of a salt solution) containing the same salt concentration as the blood: dilute the stock solution with sterile water or normal saline...
3.1 Chemistry, dated (Of a solution) containing one gram-equivalent of solute per litre. 4 Geology Denoting a fault or faulting in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata situated on the upper side of the fault plane.As much as 1.3 km of sediment were eroded on the footwall blocks of normal faults at that time....
noun 1 [mass noun] The usual, typical, or expected state or condition: her temperature was above normal the service will be back to normal next week...
1.1 informal A person who is conventional or healthy.As Modes had promised beforehand, the march ended with the clowns piling into three small cars and driving off, ‘leaving the normals confused and frightened.’...
2 technical A line at right angles to a given line or surface: the view is along the normal to the surface...
Phrasesthe new normal OriginMid 17th century (in the sense 'right-angled'): from Latin normalis, from norma 'carpenter's square' (see norm). Current senses date from the early 19th century. RhymesNormal2/ˈnôrməl /A town in central Illinois, home to Illinois State University (originally a normal, or teachers, school); population 52,056 (est. 2008). |
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