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Extraordinary vs Transcursion - What's the difference?

extraordinary | transcursion |

As an adjective extraordinary

is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.

As a noun transcursion is

a rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.

extraordinary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , passage=Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Remarkably good.

    • Usage notes

    * Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usual

    Derived terms

    * extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary rendition

    transcursion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
    • "And if Man'' were out of the world, who were then left to ''view'' the face of ''Heaven'', to ''wonder'' at the transcursion of ''Comets "
  • * Francis Bacon
    • In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.