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ORDINARILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under normal conditions

Example:

usually she was late

Synonyms:

commonly; normally; ordinarily; unremarkably; usually

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

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 Context examples: 

"What more have you to say?" she asked, rather in the tone in which a person might address an opponent of adult age than such as is ordinarily used to a child.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The teeth collectively in the dental arch. Dentition ordinarily refers to the natural teeth in position in their alveoli.

(Dentition, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The sevengill and great white are both ordinarily apex predators and seek some of the same food, such as cape fur seals, but great whites can also prey directly on sevengills.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)

Ligand Binding is the tight and specific (high affinity) interaction between a small molecule (typically) and a macromolecule (usually protein) that ordinarily results in modification of its function, e.g., antigen-antibody binding, hormone- or neurotransmitter-receptor binding.

(Ligand Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Astrologers call this gathering of planets a crown of stars, and this one includes Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter, and Mars, all very powerful planets that can elevate your career in ways that would ordinarily be very difficult.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ordinarily grey and cold and harsh, they were now warm and soft and golden, and all a-dance with tiny lights that dimmed and faded, or welled up till the full orbs were flooded with a glowing radiance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He agreed to it, but with so quiet a Yes, as inclined her almost to doubt his real concurrence; and yet there must be a very distinct sort of elegance for the fashionable world, if Jane Fairfax could be thought only ordinarily gifted with it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A team at the University of Cambridge has shown how, in osteoarthritis patients, the viscous lubricant that ordinarily allows our joints to move smoothly triggers a pain response from nerve cells similar to that caused by chilli peppers.

(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)

I wouldn't ask such a thing ordinarily—I wouldn't so dishonour you as to imply a doubt; but this is a mystery that goes beyond any honour or dishonour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Manuscript readers and editors were away on vacation, and publications that ordinarily returned a decision in three weeks now retained his manuscript for three months or more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)