| folk |
emerging from the ordinary people, as opposed to specialists. [1/6 definitions] |
| garden-variety |
not out of the ordinary; typical; common. |
| grounded |
aware of; concerned with, or experiencing the ordinary problems of real life that most people experience. [1/2 definitions] |
| habitual |
usual; ordinary. [1/3 definitions] |
| hackney |
a horse suited for ordinary riding or driving. [1/4 definitions] |
| halfway house |
a special residence where people who have been released from institutions, such as mental patients, prisoners, and drug addicts, are helped to adjust to ordinary life. |
| holiday |
a day on which ordinary business activity is suspended, in commemoration or celebration of some person or event. [1/5 definitions] |
| housekeeping |
the carrying out of ordinary household tasks. [1/3 definitions] |
| humdrum |
that which is monotonous and ordinary. [1/2 definitions] |
| indicative |
in grammar, designating the mood of a verb used for ordinary statements and questions. (Cf. imperative, subjunctive.) [1/2 definitions] |
| interlining1 |
a lining between the ordinary lining of a garment and its outer fabric. |
| iodized salt |
ordinary table salt combined with a small amount of sodium or potassium iodide. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. [1/3 definitions] |
| irregularity |
a violation of rules, customs, ordinary procedures, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| larger-than-life |
having qualities or behaviors that seem magnified or exaggerated beyond those of ordinary human beings; impressive; imposing. |
| literal |
in accordance with the ordinary, exact, or primary meaning of a word or words; not figurative or metaphorical. [1/5 definitions] |
| lull |
to cause (someone) to relax his or her ordinary alertness, so as to make vulnerable to deception. [1/4 definitions] |
| man in the street |
a common, ordinary man; average citizen (usu. understood to include women). |
| mediocre |
of average to poor quality; ordinary. |
| mill-run |
ordinary or unrefined; run-of-the-mill. |
| Moab Isolation Center |
a special U.S. internment camp located near Moab, Utah, occupied in 1943 by American citizens of Japanese descent who had been deemed to be "trouble-makers" during their previous internment at ordinary camps created for the holding of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The conditions at the Moab Isolation Center were harsher than at other camps. At its peak, there were about fifty people being held there. |