Ordinary vs Close - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ordinary and close

is that ordinary is the part of the roman catholic mass that is the same every day while close is an end or conclusion or close can be an enclosed field.

As a verb close is

(label) to remove a gap.

As an adjective close is

closed, shut.

ordinary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases .

Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

* (Joseph Addison), 1741, The Works of the Late Honourable Joseph Addison, E?q. , Volume 3, page 545,

*:Method is not le?s requi?ite in ordinary conver?ation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make him?elf under?tood.

Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory .

*, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete , Volume 7, page 325,

*:An ordinary' lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ' ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.

*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

Bad or undesirable.

*1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats'', ''The Age'', republished 2003, David Headon (editor), ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection , page 480,

*:It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.

*1961', Joanna White, quoted in '''2005 , A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, ''Ten Pound Poms: Australia?s Invisible Migrants , page 80,

*:For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I?d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn?t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.

*2007 , Chris Viner-Smith, Australia?s Forgotten Frontier: The Unsung Police Who Held Our PNG Front Line , page 28,

*:Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on.

*2010 , Mal Bryce, Australia's First Online Community Ipswich Queensland , page 125,

*:Since the general public gained access to the Internet in 1993-4, firstly by narrowband dial-up access and since 1998 by very ordinary , so-called broadband speeds (generally less than 1 Mbps), a social and cultural revolution has been underway.

Antonyms

* (having no special characteristics) extraordinary, special

Derived terms

* ordinarily, ordinariness * ordinary differential equation, ordinary number, ordinary seaman

Noun

(ordinaries)

(obsolete) A devotional manual.

(Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.

A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.

(obsolete) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.

A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.

*, II.2.4, 1847, page 315,

We are most part too inquisitive and apt to hearken after news, which Cæsar, in his Commentaries, observes of the old Gauls, they would be inquiring of every carrier and passenger what they had heard or seen, what news abroad?as at an ordinary with us, bakehouse, or barber's shop.

* 1712 , (Jonathan Swift), A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'', ''The Works of Jonathan Swift , Volume 2, page 288,

Thus furnished, they come up to town, reckon all their errors for accomplishments, borrow the newest set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands, all the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary , are produced as flowers of style.

* (rfdate) Bancroft, 1899, Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (editors), The Universal Anthology , page 320,

He enjoyed a perpetual port duty of fourteen pence a ton, on vessels not owned in the province, yielding not far from five thousand dollars a year; and he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries .

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p.1,

it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.

(heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.

An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run.

* 1622 , (William Shakespeare), As You Like It'', Act 3, Scene 5, 1800, ''The Plays of William Shakspeare , Volume 8, page 287,

I ?ee no more in you than in the ordinary / Of nature's ?alework.

* (Francis Bacon), quoted in 1773, (Samuel Johnson), A Dictionnary of the English Language , unnumbered page,

Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary ; now they have coupled therewith the extraordinary of the Valtoline and Palatinate.

* (rfdate) Walter Scott

water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plough socks, and other ordinaries

(historical) A penny-farthing bicycle.

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close

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(clos)

(label) To remove a gap.

# To obstruct (an opening).

# To move so that an opening is closed.

#* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

# To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.

# To grapple; to engage in close combat.

#* (1796-1859)

They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.

(label) To finish, to terminate.

# To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

One frugal supper did our studies close .

# To come to an end.

# (label) To make a sale.

# To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.

# To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.

To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.

* Bible, (w) ii. 5

The depth closed me round about.

* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)

But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.

(label) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.

Synonyms

* close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off * shut * (put an end to) end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down * narrow * (terminate a computer program) close out, exit

Antonyms

* open * open * (put an end to) begin, commence, initiate, start * extend, widen * (terminate a computer program) open, start

Derived terms

* autoclosing * case closed * close down * close in * close off * close one's eyes * close out * close ranks * close the door on * close the face * close up *

Noun

(en noun)

An end or conclusion.

We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close .

* Macaulay

His long and troubled life was drawing to a close .

The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

* Chapman

The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.

A grapple in wrestling.

(Francis Bacon)

(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

* Dryden

At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.

(music) A double bar marking the end.

Synonyms

* (end) end, finale

Antonyms

* (end) beginning, start

Etymology 2

From (etyl) clos, from (etyl) clausum, participle of (m).

Adjective

(er)

Closed, shut.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew chapter 8:

There is nothinge so close , that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.

* Dryden

From a close bower this dainty music flowed.

Narrow; confined.

a close''' alley; '''close quarters

* Charles Dickens

a close prison

At a little distance; near.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close -packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close . This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

Intimate; well-loved.

# (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.

Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.

* Francis Bacon

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close , and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

Hot, humid, with no wind.

(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.

Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

a close prisoner

(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

* Bible, 1 Chron. xii. 1

He yet kept himself close because of Saul.

* Spenser

her close intent

Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.

a close contest

Short.

to cut grass or hair close

(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.

* John Locke

The golden globe being put into a press, the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.

(archaic) Concise; to the point.

close reasoning

* Dryden

Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.

(dated) Difficult to obtain.

Money is close .

(Bartlett)

(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.

* Hawthorne

a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice

Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.

a close translation

(John Locke)

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.

The patient was kept under close observation.

Synonyms

* (at a little distance) close by, near, nearby * (intimate) intimate * muggy, oppressive * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) high

Antonyms

* (at a little distance) distant, far, far away, far off, remote * (intimate) aloof, cool, distant * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) open

Derived terms

* close call * closely * closeness * close shave * close-up * thisclose

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed field.

(British) A street that ends in a dead end.

(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.

(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.

A cathedral close.

* Macaulay

closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.

(legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

(Bouvier)

Synonyms

* (street) cul-de-sac

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