Normal vs Queer - What's the difference?
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According to norms or rules.
Healthy; not sick or ill.
Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.
(chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
(organic chemistry) Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
(physics) (Of a mode in an oscillating system ) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See .
(geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.
* The interior normal vector of a ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.
(algebra) (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group.
(algebra) (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
(probability theory, statistics) (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape.
(complex analysis) (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact.
(set theory) (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
(linear algebra) (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
(functional analysis) (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint.
(category theory) (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism.
(category theory) (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism.
(category theory) (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism.
(category theory) (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal.
(Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution.
(topology) (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
(rail transport, Of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
(geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
(slang) A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
(now, slightly, dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
* (Washington Irving)
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
* , chapter=5
, title= (slightly, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in'' ''to feel queer ).
* , chapter=5
, title= (colloquial) Homosexual.
More broadly: pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual standards, assumptions etc.
*1999 , (Judith Butler), Gender Trouble , Routledge 2002, Preface to 1999 edition:
*:If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts?
(colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
(colloquial) A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.
(colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare (gay).
Counterfeit money.
* 1913 , edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 133:
To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 78:
To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
* 2003 , Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God (page 9)
* 2006 , Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern (page 80)
As nouns the difference between normal and queer
is that normal is standard while queer is (colloquial) a person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.As an adjective queer is
(now|slightly|dated) weird, odd or different; whimsical.As a verb queer is
to render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.As an adverb queer is
queerly.normal
English
(wikipedia normal)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (usual) conventional, ordinary, standard, usual, regular, average, expected, natural * (healthy) hale, healthy, well * (perpendicular) at right angles to, perpendicular, orthogonal * (statistics) GaussianAntonyms
* (usual) unconventional, nonstandard, unusual * (healthy) ill, poorly (British), sick, unwell * (perpendicular) tangential * (rail transport) reverseDerived terms
* abnormal * conormal * normalcy * normalise, normalize * normality * normally * normal school * normal vector * orthonormal * paranormal * subnormal * supernormal * ultranormalUsage notes
* Warning: normal , when used to describe a majority group of people, can be considered offensive to those who don't consider membership of their own minority to be unusual. Care should be taken when juxtaposing normal, particularly with stereotypical labels, to avoid undue insult.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (normal person) seequeer
English
(wikipedia queer)Adjective
(er)- “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer' thing, to be sure! However, everything is ' queer to-day.”
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer , I suppose.}}
Synonyms
* See also those of strange.Derived terms
* queercore * queer fish * queerplatonic * queerish * queerly * queerness * queer theoryNoun
(en noun)- You're shoving the queer .
Usage notes
* The use of this word to mean "homosexual" was formerly, and is often still, considered pejorative. However, in the way that all language is dynamic and pliable, the word is also sometimes now used (primarily as adjective) as a neutral or even positive descriptive term, including by some (primarily younger) homosexuals. In its pejorative use, it is applied usually to males. In its modern neutral use, it is applied to all genders. * Some LGBT individuals now use the term as an all-inclusive term for the GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersex, Queer) etc. community. This may include people who consider themselves to be politically (or otherwise sociologically) GLBTIQ without necessarily displaying, or even simply inclined towards behavior that is not heteronormative. This new usage is again by primarily younger people. * 'Queer' is also used as a positive term for people, some of whom reject mainstream-gay values and culture as exclusive and limiting. People who identify with this version of queer distance themselves from the commercialisation and (relatively) conformist values of the gay mainstream and embrace fluid and unconstrained definitions of sexuality and gender. There is some common ground between this definition of queer and the punk and DIY scenes. See also "genderqueer". * In the English dialect of the southern United States, the two senses of the adjective queer'' (''homosexual'' and ''weird, odd, different, or unwell'') are sometimes distinguished by pronunciation. Queer (''homosexual'') is pronounced (kwîr), queer (''weird, odd, different, or unwell'') is pronounced (kwär). This is generally considered old-fashioned and is only used when the word is emphasized, as in the phrase "''that's awful queer " (pronounced TH?ts ôr'f?l kwär). The distinction is dying out as that latter sense of the word dies out.Hypernyms
* LGBTQDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
- If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.
- Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.