normal

normal
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noun
VERB + NORMAL
▪ be back to, go back to, return to
▪

After a week of festivities, life returned to normal.

PREPOSITION
▪ above normal
▪

The rainfall has been above normal for this time of year.

▪ below normal
▪

Sales to December are well below normal.

▪ near normal
▪

His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal.

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adj.
VERBS
▪ be
▪ become
▪ feel
▪ appear, look, seem
▪ consider sth, regard sth as, view sth as
▪

It is now regarded as normal for women to work outside the home.

ADVERB
▪ very
▪ completely, entirely (esp. BrE), perfectly, quite, totally
▪

It started out as a perfectly normal day.

▪ fairly, pretty
▪

I'd say it was pretty normal to be upset if your house burned down.

▪ relatively
▪ apparently, seemingly
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪

The temperature is normal for spring.

PHRASES
▪ as normal
▪

First work out the answers as normal.

▪ in the normal way
▪

Go for your check-ups in the normal way until you are six months pregnant.

▪ in normal circumstances, under normal circumstances
▪

Under normal circumstances Martin would probably have gone to college.

▪ sb's normal self
▪

Mandy doesn't seem her normal self today.

Normal is used with these nouns: ↑baby, ↑bedtime, ↑behaviour, ↑birth, ↑bloke, ↑blood pressure, ↑cell, ↑channel, ↑childhood, ↑circumstance, ↑clothes, ↑complement, ↑condition, ↑context, ↑convention, ↑conversation, ↑course, ↑curve, ↑day, ↑development, ↑distribution, ↑expectation, ↑fare, ↑fashion, ↑fee, ↑folk, ↑growth, ↑guy, ↑habit, ↑hearing, ↑individual, ↑infant, ↑intake, ↑intelligence, ↑kid, ↑kind, ↑level, ↑life, ↑limit, ↑liver, ↑manner, ↑mode, ↑occurrence, ↑operation, ↑pattern, ↑people, ↑person, ↑practice, ↑precaution, ↑pregnancy, ↑procedure, ↑process, ↑rainfall, ↑range, ↑reaction, ↑reading, ↑residence, ↑response, ↑rhythm, ↑routine, ↑schedule, ↑self, ↑shape, ↑size, ↑speech, ↑speed, ↑subject, ↑teenager, ↑temperature, ↑tissue, ↑tone, ↑usage, ↑use, ↑vision, ↑way

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  • normal —  normal …   Hochdeutsch - Plautdietsch Wörterbuch

  • normal — normal, ale, aux [ nɔrmal, o ] adj. et n. f. • 1753; verbe normal h. XVe; lat. normalis, de norma « équerre » 1 ♦ Math. Droite normale, ou n. f. la normale à une courbe, à une surface en un point : droite perpendiculaire à la tangente, au plan… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Normal — Nor mal (n[^o]r mal), a. [L. normalis, fr. norma rule, pattern, carpenter s square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. gnw rimos well known, gnw mwn gnomon, also, carpenter s square: cf. F. normal. See {Known}, and cf. {Abnormal},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • normal — NORMÁL, Ă, normali, e, adj. 1. (Adesea adverbial) Care este aşa cum trebuie să fie, potrivit cu starea firească, obişnuit, firesc, natural. ♢ Plan normal = plan perpendicular pe tangenta dusă într un punct al unei curbe. Linie normală (şi… …   Dicționar Român

  • Normal — may refer to: Normality (behavior), conformance to an average Norm (sociology), social norms, expected patterns of behavior studied within the context of sociology Normal distribution (mathematics), the Gaussian continuous probability… …   Wikipedia

  • normal — normal, ale (nor mal, ma l ) adj. 1°   Terme de géométrie. Ligne normale, ou, substantivement, une normale, droite passant par le point de tangence et perpendiculaire, soit à la tangente d une courbe, soit au plan tangent d une surface. 2°   Fig …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • normal — (adj.) c.1500, typical, common; 1640s, standing at a right angle, from L.L. normalis in conformity with rule, normal, from L. normalis made according to a carpenter s square, from norma rule, pattern, lit. carpenter s square (see NORM (Cf. norm)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • normal — (Del lat. normālis). 1. adj. Dicho de una cosa: Que se halla en su estado natural. 2. Que sirve de norma o regla. 3. Dicho de una cosa: Que, por su naturaleza, forma o magnitud, se ajusta a ciertas normas fijadas de antemano. 4. Geom. Dicho de… …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • normal — [nôr′məl] adj. [L normalis < norma, a rule: see NORM] 1. conforming with or constituting an accepted standard, model, or pattern; esp., corresponding to the median or average of a large group in type, appearance, achievement, function,… …   English World dictionary

  • normal — I (regular) adjective according to rule, average, common, commonplace, conforming, conventional, customary, established, everyday, habitual, natural, orderly, ordinary, representative, routine, standard, standardized, true to form, typical,… …   Law dictionary

  • normal — UK US /ˈnɔːməl/ adjective ► usual, and what you would expect: »They were selling the good at half the normal price. »In normal circumstances, you should be able to decide this sort of thing without consulting your manager. »It is normal practice… …   Financial and business terms

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