| ordinary |
| 1. adj. (legal, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases. | |
| 2. adj. Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine. | |
| On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym. | |
| 3. adj. Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory. | |
| I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica. | |
| He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder. | |
| 4. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A devotional manual. | |
| 6. n. (Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass. | |
| 7. n. A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment. | |
| 9. n. (archaic or historical) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn. | |
| 10. n. (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess. | |
| 11. n. An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run. | |
| 12. n. (historical) A penny-farthing bicycle. | |
| civilian |
| 1. n. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces. | |
| Three civilians were apprehended by the soldiers and taken away in a military vehicle. | |
| 2. n. (informal) A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity. | |
| 3. n. One skilled in civil law. | |
| 4. n. A student of civil law at a university or college. | |
| 5. adj. Not related to the military, police or other professions. | |
| The three detainees were actually army defectors wearing civilian clothing. | |
| He worked as a civilian journalist for ten years before being employed by the public broadcaster. | |
| clothes |
| 1. n. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) plural of cloth. | |
| 3. n. The covering of a bed; bedclothes. | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present indicative of clothe | |
| clothe |
| 1. v. To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. | |
| to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly | |
| 2. v. (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment. | |
| to clothe somebody with authority or power | |
| rather |
| 1. adv. (obsolete) More quickly; sooner, earlier. | |
| 2. adv. Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably. (Now usually followed by than) | |
| I'd rather stay in all day than go out with them. I'd like this one rather than the other one. I'd rather be with you. | |
| 3. adv. (conjunctive) Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary. | |
| It wasn't supposed to be popular; rather, it was supposed to get the job done. She didn't go along, but rather went home instead. | |
| 4. adv. (conjunctive) Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or.) | |
| I didn't want to leave. Or rather I did, just not alone. | |
| 5. adv. (degree) Somewhat, fairly. | |
| This melon is rather tasteless. This melon is rather tasteless, especially compared to the one we had last time. | |
| 6. v. (nonstandard, or dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to. | |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Prior; earlier; former. | |
| 8. interj. (England, dated) An enthusiastic affirmation. | |
| than |
| 1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for. | |
| 2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. | |
| she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was | |
| 3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two | |
| Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years. | |
| 4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then. | |
| uniform |
| 1. adj. Unvarying; all the same. | |
| 2. adj. Consistent; conforming to one standard. | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence | |
| 4. adj. (of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species. | |
| 5. adj. (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polyto | |
| 6. n. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group. | |
| 7. n. Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet. | |
| 8. n. A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective). | |
| 9. v. To clothe in a uniform. | |
