Peculiar vs Normal - What's the difference?
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Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
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* 2001 , Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane ,
* 2008', Stephen Arnott, '''''Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World .
Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
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* 1895 , , XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes,
(dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
* Bible, Titus ii. 14
* Hooker
(dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
* Milton
* Dryden
That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
* South
(UK, canon law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
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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.
As nouns the difference between peculiar and normal
is that peculiar is that which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic while normal is standard.As an adjective peculiar
is out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.peculiar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
- It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
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- I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
- "Wasn't it peculiar ," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
- "Peculiar ?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
- "Everything about him is peculiar ." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
- Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
- This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
- But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar', and at least three ' peculiar species of birds.
- And purify unto himself a peculiar people.
- hymns that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
- while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
- My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.
Synonyms
* (out of the ordinary) strange, uncommon, unusual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) specificAntonyms
* (out of the ordinary) common, usual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) common, general, universalDerived terms
* peculiarity * peculiarly * peculiarnessSee also
* (wikipedia "peculiar")Noun
(en noun)- Revenge is the peculiar of Heaven.