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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ordinary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ordinary citizen (also a regular citizen American English)
▪ The government is not aware of the views of ordinary citizens.
an ordinary individual
▪ Ordinary individuals need no more than 3–5 grams of salt per day.
average/typical/ordinary punter
▪ The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
in the normal/ordinary course of sth
▪ His bravery was far more than was required in the normal course of duty.
Ordinary level
ordinary seaman
ordinary shares
ordinary/everyday clothes
▪ Everyone else was wearing ordinary clothes.
the ordinary meaning
▪ They are a 'nuisance' in the ordinary meaning, not the legal meaning, of that word.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ That is, her face wasn't as ordinary as her dress.
▪ We managed to insert it into the schools: conflict resolution becomes as ordinary as brushing your teeth.
▪ He eventually resigned as ordinary in November 1727.
▪ I called, got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was.
▪ Not one of them could be described as ordinary.
▪ The door appears as ordinary dark wood door at first sight, with a pair of brass doorknobs.
most
▪ It is camaraderie on the most ordinary level.
▪ Her exceptional goodness in executing the humblest and most ordinary of tasks fired the imagination of Catholics everywhere.
▪ However, some of the most formidable-looking questions can be the most ordinary and helpful titles. 1.
▪ Mitchell needed now to see her perform the most ordinary habits.
▪ But most ordinary citizens - buffeted by price rises and aware of worsening poverty in the slums - remain unimpressed.
▪ Thus our work assumes a kind of holiness that permeates even the most ordinary of everyday activities.
▪ The man with the feather brush is indispensable in the highest ceremonials, and is present on the most ordinary occasions.
▪ Race, relegated to the periphery, can intrude into the most ordinary evening out.
quite
▪ She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.
▪ In fact, she is quite ordinary.
▪ In terms of physics it is quite ordinary, but in terms of its usefulness to people on Earth it is unique.
▪ Here is the problem: much of ordinary life appears quite ordinary and remote from the power centres of the world.
▪ Here again, there are many quite ordinary terms for the internal parts of discourse types.
▪ Even things which looked quite ordinary turned out to be interesting when Dad told you about them.
▪ Even quite ordinary forms of stress can have an exaggerated effect on an irritable bowel.
▪ When confident, few drivers were in his ultimate class, technically; when unconfident, he could be quite ordinary.
so
▪ But he's so ordinary that he's extraordinary.
▪ Everything looked so ordinary, but only for the moment and only as far as I could see.
▪ He seemed so ordinary, so harmless.
▪ Incidentally Nu, which looks so ordinary, is still more luminous and still more remote.
▪ He was so interested in life and so well-informed and so inquisitive about everything and so ordinary in many respects.
▪ Adamus used a key, something so ordinary.
▪ Water to you and me is so ordinary.
very
▪ In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
▪ They just seemed very ordinary and very dull and boring people.
▪ It was, after all, a very ordinary murder.
▪ Lilianenot a very ordinary name, I think.
▪ We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task.
▪ The Seahawks have been a very ordinary franchise every since.
▪ If you take away the image all that's left is a bunch of exceptionally pretty boys making some very ordinary music.
▪ Woodforde was a very ordinary man.
■ NOUN
business
▪ The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company.
▪ All the ordinary business of life stopped.
▪ They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery.
▪ They were most sacred days, when much of the ordinary business of life was suspended.
▪ They would include, for example, small charities and pension funds, unless the trustees are themselves ordinary business investors.
▪ The L.T.E.'s basic obligation was to run its operations on ordinary business principles, which the fare reduction contravened.
citizen
▪ The unpaid volunteers will not wear uniforms and will not have any special powers over and above those of ordinary citizens.
▪ They passed legislation that often made it impossible for ordinary citizens to sue for their injuries.
▪ The fact of production and the images presented have strong economic implications for the film and television industry and the ordinary citizen.
▪ Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
▪ When the Senate adopts a measure by 100 votes to none, the ordinary citizen should count the spoons.
▪ But his main ploy was to portray Weld as a friend of the rich eager to reduce educational opportunities for ordinary citizens.
▪ They are the ordinary citizens for whom the honours system was designed - people who have dedicated their lives to duty.
▪ Together leaders and ordinary citizens produced widely differing evaluations.
course
▪ Target business to be run in ordinary course up to completion with no material changes in trading performance or net assets.
▪ Workers have become expendable parts for sale in the ordinary course of commerce.
▪ Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
▪ In the ordinary course of everyday living we are immersed completely in the personality.
▪ It was in fact made without protest and in the ordinary course of customs business.
▪ It is sufficient that he was acting within the ordinary course of business of mercantile agents generally.
▪ However, although it will not be accepted, it will not in the ordinary course of events be anticipated.
▪ In the ordinary course of banking the victim gets the cheque back but after encashment.
language
▪ It is good because it is written in friendly, ordinary language and where jargon creeps in, it is explained.
▪ The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service.
▪ What this meant in ordinary language was that only those who subscribed to Francoist ideals would be remembered and honoured.
▪ So once again the emphasis is not on poetry in itself, but on the difference between poetry and ordinary language.
▪ The third aspect of ordinary language which is violated by poetry is semantics.
▪ Reality is at his disposal in the same way that ordinary language and the current literary conventions and devices are.
▪ But it works the same way as ordinary language.
▪ In order to participate in ordinary language usage, one must be able to make such calculations, both in production and interpretation.
life
▪ The collection of texts, songs, refrains and acclamations brings Holy Week and Easter vividly and fruitfully into ordinary lives.
▪ Most of these memories, these scenes of ordinary life, came to me from Katherine, who still lives in Denver.
▪ The impact of war on ordinary lives was beginning to create the conditions for a mass peace movement.
▪ Afterwards, ordinary life seems unimportant: business; politics; all the things people get worked up about: unimportant.
▪ Jenny Wilson was an ordinary woman, leading an ordinary life, had an ordinary job in an ordinary town.
▪ In our ordinary life this truth is hidden from us or only dimly glimpsed at times or imperfectly held and conceived.
▪ Any revolutionary aspirations of the younger members are centred on gaining work and admittance to the mainstream of ordinary life.
▪ This is the setup for a small movie about small moments in an ordinary life.
man
▪ Fortunately the dogged good sense of the ordinary man is far from dead.
▪ But what about the ordinary man himself?
▪ Diana had married no ordinary man.
▪ This chapter will deal with the first question: What does the ordinary man think he should do?
▪ The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
▪ If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
▪ Woodforde was a very ordinary man.
▪ The political behavior of ordinary men and women is seldom analyzed using explicit, personality-based approaches.
member
▪ My own aspirations are more lowly - I am just an ordinary member.
▪ But they were no ordinary members of the Washington press corps.
▪ The Association is eager to recruit more shareholders and ordinary members to facilitate this.
▪ He remained an ordinary member of Legco.
▪ I am not alone in this stage of limbo, for none of the other ordinary members of the committee knows either.
▪ The bondholders elected their committee representatives, i.e. eight bondholders to the Club's four ordinary members.
▪ However, the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25.
▪ The chairman historically was a person who had served on the tribunal as an ordinary member for some time.
mortal
▪ Lords, ladies, dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means.
▪ She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
▪ However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals.
▪ This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
▪ This to ordinary mortals seems quite inaccessible but it has been climbed, the first ascent being in 1967.
▪ An ordinary mortal named Zeuxis had set up his easel to portray the family group.
▪ Artists are terribly difficult people for us ordinary mortals to deal with.
▪ He reckons wise men don't need to bother much with the truth as far as ordinary mortals are concerned.
people
▪ But, we know surprisingly little of a systematic nature about what ordinary people nowadays think of the subject.
▪ The movie is strongest when Lee keeps his eye on the prize: the experiences of ordinary people in an extraordinary time.
▪ But three ordinary people with very different lifestyles are about to display theirs in public.
▪ Could an interface be designed so that ordinary people could use it?
▪ These inventories, therefore, give a sound idea of the standard of living of thousands of ordinary people.
▪ But how to convince ordinary people that this was so?
▪ Announcing a change in policy, Idris Wakil said that from now on what ordinary people did should make the news.
▪ Ford made the automobile affordable for ordinary people, and they bought it in incredible numbers.
person
▪ No ordinary person wants them any more, though they will for years to come provide talking points for the chattering classes.
▪ I provide the example of the country lawyer who has won big for the ordinary person.
▪ Ken Kessler is an ordinary person trying to get by in the information age.
▪ The rich guys can get elected on their money, but somebody like me, an ordinary person, needs the party.
▪ It would certainly create more work for the lawyers but would not add a great deal of protection for the ordinary person.
▪ The local paper gives the ordinary person a voice.
▪ The ordinary person does not inherently dislike work: according to the conditions it may be a source of satisfaction or punishment.
▪ Nevertheless, an ordinary person might be hard put to tell one from the other.
school
▪ This number sequence is frequently used in mathematical investigations in ordinary schools.
▪ More than 1,000 pupils go to ordinary schools, after assessments from the five area boards.
▪ Approximately 20 percent of elementary school age children were attending 2,000 ordinary schools by 1933.
▪ Amongst the general population of children in ordinary schools, about a sixth have special educational needs of one kind or another.
▪ A much higher proportion of special schools offer boarding facilities than ordinary schools, especially those run by voluntary organisations.
▪ Conrad's figure excludes those placed in ordinary schools.
▪ It was not necessary for a boy to be musical; in addition to the choirboys there was an ordinary school.
▪ With Herbert's support, John seems to have applied that principle to his own education, even in an ordinary school.
sense
▪ Cobras do not hear in the ordinary sense as they have no extended ears.
▪ Not through the medium of the brain and nervous system and the ordinary sense organs.
▪ It will not be a Coalition in the ordinary sense of the term but a co-operation of individuals. 3.
▪ Well, yes, but not in any ordinary sense.
▪ We shall be using the term in the ordinary sense, without, we hope, any fear of being misunderstood.
▪ And its author certainly shows himself to be bright enough, in every ordinary sense.
▪ This computer has no machine code instruction set or data formats in the ordinary sense.
share
▪ The convertibles swap into Caird ordinary shares at 535p, compared to a share price of 479p, down 12p, yesterday.
▪ Forte has 949 million ordinary shares outstanding.
▪ An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
▪ The Directors propose to offer ordinary shareholders the opportunity to receive fully paid ordinary shares in the Company in lieu of the cash dividend.
▪ It requests that an authority for market purchases should not normally exceed 10 percent of the company's issued ordinary share capital.
▪ Sketchley requires you to hold 300 ordinary shares, costing about £3.71 each, to qualify for its discount.
▪ The ordinary shares at 564p yield 7.5%.
▪ The capital structure is simple, with only ordinary shares in issue.
way
▪ The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way, after all counsel involved had been consulted.
▪ Oh, I mean ordinary in ordinary ways, he said, flushing.
▪ The parcel is then sent, bearing this label, in the ordinary way but without payment being made at the counter.
▪ And I wondered if she was right, if Clarisa was losing her last inclination to do things the ordinary way.
▪ Mining operations on new sites require planning permission in the ordinary way.
▪ Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.
▪ But in the ordinary way we shouldn't expect to, of course, he isn't a writing man.
▪ Such men are where they are because they are in touch in more than the ordinary way with humanity and its concerns.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lesser/ordinary/mere mortals
▪ A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals.
▪ And together we were emphatically co-operative that neighbouring forces were populated by lesser mortals.
▪ However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals.
▪ Lords, ladies, dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means.
▪ Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
▪ She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
▪ This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ordinary household items
▪ an ordinary workday
▪ Can you get connected to the Internet through an ordinary telephone line?
▪ Gillman's known for her photographs of ordinary household items.
▪ He wore an ordinary business suit with a white shirt and tie.
▪ Housing prices in New York are out of reach for ordinary people.
▪ I thought it was a pretty ordinary performance.
▪ It's just an ordinary house in an ordinary street.
▪ It's surprising that a girl as attractive as Sarah is going out with someone so ordinary looking.
▪ She was a serious young woman, rather ordinary in appearance.
▪ The house was clean and well kept, but very ordinary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I am just an ordinary girl, with ordinary parents and went to an ordinary school with 2,000 other kids.
▪ But, for Ricardo, the system survived not because it served the ordinary man.
▪ Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
▪ He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting.
▪ It's a small, ordinary little village, its only claim to fame the castle, and the burial mounds.
▪ Never despise ordinary things - the ordinary in yourself or in others.
▪ The shares of ordinary insurers would be cheap.
▪ We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinary

Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).

  1. (Law)

    1. (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

    2. (Eng. Law) 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.

    3. (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.

  2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]

    I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework.
    --Shak.

  3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]

    Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary.
    --Bacon.

  4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

    Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  5. 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'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
    --Shak.

    All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
    --Swift.

    He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
    --Bancroft.

  6. (Her.) 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. In ordinary.

    1. In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.

    2. (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.

      Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.

Ordinary

Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See Order.]

  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. ``The ordinary forms of law.''
    --Addison.

  2. Common; customary; usual.
    --Shak.

    Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation that in writing.
    --Addison.

  3. 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.

    An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way.
    --Macaulay.

    Ordinary seaman (Naut.), one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman.

    Syn: Normal; common; usual; customary.

    Usage: See Normal. -- Ordinary, Common. A thing is common in which many persons share or partake; as, a common practice. A thing is ordinary when it is apt to come round in the regular common order or succession of events.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ordinary

early 15c., "belonging to the usual order or course," from Old French ordinarie "ordinary, usual" and directly from Latin ordinarius "customary, regular, usual, orderly," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). Its various noun usages, dating to late 14c. and common until 19c., now largely extinct except in out of the ordinary (1893). In British education, Ordinary level (abbrev. O level), "lowest of the three levels of General Certificate of Education," is attested from 1947. Related: Ordinarily.

Wiktionary
ordinary

a. 1 (lb en legal of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; ''now only used in certain phrases''. 2 Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine. 3 Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; ''often deprecatory''. 4 (lb en Australia New Zealand colloquial informal) bad or undesirable. n. 1 (context obsolete English) A devotional manual. 2 (context Christianity English) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass. 3 A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese. 4 (context obsolete English) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment. 5 (context archaic or historical English) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn. 6 (context heraldry English) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess. 7 An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run. 8 (context historical English) A penny-farthing bicycle.

WordNet
ordinary
  1. adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" [ant: extraordinary]

  2. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average]

ordinary
  1. n. a judge of a probate court

  2. the expected or commonplace condition or situation; "not out of the ordinary"

  3. a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

  4. an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel [syn: ordinary bicycle]

  5. (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

Wikipedia
Ordinary (Wayne Brady song)

For the Train song, see Ordinary (Train song)

"Ordinary" is the first single released off Wayne Brady's first album, A Long Time Coming released on August 19, 2008, peaking at number 41 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

This song is a cover version of 2005 TVXQ's Beautiful Life

This song is covered from 2005 TVXQ "Beautiful Life".

This song is covered from 2005 TVXQ'S Beautiful Life from the album Rising Sun

Ordinary (heraldry)

In heraldry, an ordinary (or honourable ordinary) is a simple geometrical figure, bounded by straight lines and running from side to side or top to bottom of the shield. There are also some geometric charges known as subordinaries, which have been given lesser status by some heraldic writers, though most have been in use as long as the traditional ordinaries. Diminutives of ordinaries and some subordinaries are charges of the same shape, though thinner. Most of the ordinaries are theoretically said to occupy one-third of the shield; but this is rarely observed in practice, except when the ordinary is the only charge (as in the coat of arms of Austria).

The terms ordinary and subordinary are somewhat controversial, as they have been applied arbitrarily and inconsistently among authors, and the use of these terms has been disparaged by some leading heraldic authorities. In his Complete Guide to Heraldry (1909), Arthur Charles Fox-Davies asserted that the terms are likely inventions of heraldic writers and not of heralds, arguing the "utter absurdity of the necessity for any [such] classification at all," and stating that the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries are, in his mind, "no more than first charges."

Ordinary (officer)

An ordinary (from Latin ordinarius) is an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws.

Such officers are found in hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical legal system. For example, diocesan bishops are ordinaries in the Roman Catholic church and the Church of England. In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch (from Greek hierarkhēs "president of sacred rites, high-priest" which comes in turn from τὰ ἱερά ta hiera, "the sacred rites" and ἄρχω arkhō, "I rule").

Within civic governance, notably in the southern United States, the role of the county ordinary historically involved the discharge of certain, often legal or legally related, tasks falling to city or county authorities, such as licensing marriages and adjudicating claims against an authority.

Ordinary (liturgy)

The ordinary, in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies, refers to the part of the Eucharist or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed. It is contrasted to the proper, which is that part of these liturgies that varies according to the date, either representing an observance within the liturgical year, or of a particular saint or significant event, and to the common, which contains those parts that are common to an entire category of saints, such as apostles or martyrs.

The ordinary of both the Eucharist and the canonical hours does, however, admit minor variations in accordance with the seasons, such as omission of "Alleluia" in Lent and its addition in Eastertide.

These two are the only liturgical celebrations in which a distinction is made between an ordinary and other parts. It is not made in other celebrations of Christian liturgy: administration of sacraments other than the Eucharist, blessings, and other rites.

In connection with liturgy, the term "ordinary" may also refer to Ordinary Time - those parts of the liturgical year that are part neither of the Easter cycle of celebrations (Lent and Eastertide) nor of the Christmas cycle ( Advent and Christmastide), periods that were once known as "season after Epiphany" and "season after Pentecost".

In addition the term "ordinary liturgy" is used to refer to regular celebrations of Christian liturgy, excluding exceptional celebrations.

Ordinary

Ordinary may refer to:

  • Ordinary (heraldry), a simple geometrical figure displayed on a shield
  • Ordinary (lecture), a type of lecture given in universities of the Middle Ages
  • Ordinary (liturgy), a set of texts in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies that are generally invariable
  • Ordinary (officer), an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws
    • Ordinary (Catholic Church), a supervisor similar to a bishop in charge of a diocese
  • Ordinary (Every Little Thing album) (2011)
  • Ordinary (Beast album) (2015)
  • "Ordinary" (Wayne Brady song) (2008)
  • "Ordinary" (Train song) (2004)
  • Ordinary (film), a Malayalam-language film
  • Ordinary, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
  • Ordinary, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
Ordinary (lecture)

An Ordinary was a type of lecture given in universities of the Middle Ages. Lectures were distinguished by the time of day they were conducted: an ordinary was conducted by fully qualified professors on fundamental texts in the morning, while extraordinary lectures were given in the afternoon by bachelors (the medieval equivalent of a graduate student) on less important texts.

Ordinary (Train song)

"Ordinary" is a song by the American alternative rock band Train, for the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack.

Ordinary (Every Little Thing album)

Ordinary is the tenth studio album by Japanese music duo Every Little Thing. It was released on September 21, 2011, by Avex Trax.

Ordinary (EP)

Ordinary is the eighth mini-album by South Korean boy band Beast. It was produced by Cube Entertainment and released on July 27, 2015 by Universal Music Group. According to Gaon Chart, as of the end of December 2015, the album has sold a cumulative total of 87,524 copies.

Ordinary (film)

Ordinary is a 2012 Malayalam comedy drama film directed by Sugeeth and written by Nishad K. Koya and Manu Prasad. The film stars Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon, Asif Ali, Jishnu Raghavan, Ann Augustine and Shritha Sivadas in the main roles. The cinematography is by Faisal Ali and the music is composed by Vidyasagar. The film follows the adventures of a K.S.R.T.C. bus that travels from Pathanamthitta to the village of Gavi via Angamoozhy.

The film was remade in Tamil as Jannal Oram by Karu Pazhaniappan and in Telugu as Right Right.

Usage examples of "ordinary".

For instance, as dust and gas from the outer layers of nearby ordinary stars fall toward the event horizon of a black hole, they are accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

As for the rest, I was being invited to place my eyes against the goggles of a quite ordinary visual acuity tester.

On the proof of the fact, instead of granting, like an ordinary judge, sufficient or ample damages to the plaintiff, the sovereign adjudged to her use and benefit the palace and the ground.

In the opposing picket line, men and women of ordinary appearance were in the majority, though there was a noticeable admixture of men in biknis, and women in codpieced, translucent business suits.

These delicate diseases should not be intrusted to physicians who advertise under fictitious names, or to those of ordinary qualifications.

But when you have the honor of associating with ordinary men, and the pleasure of leaving politics for a moment, try to find your affectionate heart, which you leave with your stick when you go to the Chamber.

In my humble opinion the ordinary method of agitating by way of petitions, deputations and the like is no remedy for moving to repentence a Government so hopelessly indifferent to the welfare of its charges as the Government of India has proved to me.

When you have any ordinary ailment, particularly of a feverish sort, eat nothing at all during twenty-four hours.

For a week the old man suffered from feverish symptoms, and, though he threw off the ailment, it was in a state of much feebleness that he at length resumed the ordinary tenor of his way.

That thought, so ordinary for an airman on hectic days, made him shudder now that he was excluded from the life of the airfield.

And so I say, we cannot, we have no right to treat you as an ordinary airman, no right, do you understand?

That ordinary alimentation, which includes the process of digestion, the subsequent vital changes involved in the conversion of food into blood, and its final transformation into tissue, causes mental languor and dullness, as well as bodily exhaustion, is attested by universal experience.

It had occurred to me that Alsa might have left something in the cinema deliberately, but all this stuff was ordinary, the litter of a passing trade.

It is absurd to discuss American local governments as agents of individual and social amelioration until they begin to meet their most essential and ordinary responsibilities in a more satisfactory manner.

For the ordinary history of the popes, their life and death, their residence and absence, it is enough to refer to the ecclesiastical annalists, Spondanus and Fleury.