Normal vs Social - 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.
A festive gathering to foster introductions.
(Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.
(British, colloquial) for its employees.
(US, colloquial)
(dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.
Being extroverted or outgoing.
Of or relating to society.
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(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
(rare) Relating to a nation's allies]] (compare [[w:Social War, the Social War)
(botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups.
As nouns the difference between normal and social
is that normal is standard while social is a festive gathering to foster introductions.As an adjective social is
being extroverted or outgoing.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) seesocial
English
(wikipedia social)Noun
(en noun)- They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.
- Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
- What's your social ?
Adjective
(en adjective)- James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
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- Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
- Unemployment is a social problem.
- social gaming
- a social insect
