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Definition: Usual |
UsualAdjective1. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime". 2. Commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "usual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Usual \U"su*al\, adjective. [Latin expression usualis, from usus use: compare to the French expression usuel. See Use, noun.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In algebra, a polynomial function, or polynomial for short, is a function of the form
where x is a scalar-valued variable, n is a nonnegative integer, and a0,...,an are fixed scalars, called the coefficients of the polynomial f. The highest occurring power of x (n if the coefficient an is not zero) is called the degree of f; its coefficient is called the leading coefficient. Where the leading coefficient is 1, we describe the polynomial as monic. a0 is called the constant coefficient of f. Each summand of the polynomial of the form ak xk is called a term.
Monomials, binomials and trinomials are special cases of polynomials with one, two and three terms respectively.
The polynomial can be written in sigma notation as:
In calculus, the scalars are almost always real or complex numbers.
Polynomials of low degree
Polynomials of
The function
- degree 0 are called constant functions,
- degree 1 are called linear functions,
- degree 2 are called quadratic functions,
- degree 3 are called cubic functions,
- degree 4 are called quartic functions and
- degree 5 are called quintic functions.
is an example of a cubic function with leading coefficient -7 and constant coefficient 3.
Polynomials and calculus
Note that the polynomials of degree ≤ n are precisely those functions whose (n+1)st derivative is identically zero.
One important aspect of calculus is the project of analyzing complicated functions by means of approximating them with polynomials. The culmination of these efforts is Taylor's theorem, which roughly states that every differentiable function locally looks like a polynomial, and the Weierstrass approximation theorem, which states that every continuous function defined on a compact interval of the real axis can be approximated on the whole interval as closely as desired by a polynomial.
Quotients of polynomials are called rational functions. Piecewise rationals are the only functions that can be evaluated directly on a computer, since typically only the operations of addition, multiplication, division and comparison are implemented in hardware. All the other functions that computers need to evaluate, such as trigonometric functions, logarithms and exponential functions, must then be approximated in software by suitable piecewise rational functions.
Efficient evaluation
In order to determine function values of polynomials for given values of the variable x, one does not apply the polynomial as a formula directly, but uses the much more efficient Horner scheme instead. If the evaluation of a polynomial at many equidistant points is required, Newton's difference method reduces the amount of work dramatically. The Difference Engine of Charles Babbage was designed to create large tables of values of logarithms and trigonometric functions automatically by evaluating approximating polynomials at many points using Newton's difference method.
Roots
A root or zero of the polynomial f(x) is a number r such that f(r) = 0. Determining the roots of polynomials, or "solving algebraic equations", is among the oldest problems in mathematics. Some polynomials, such as f(x) = x2 + 1, do not have any roots among the real numbers. If however the set of allowed candidates is expanded to the complex numbers, every (non-constant) polynomial has a root (see Fundamental Theorem of Algebra).
Approximations for the real roots of a given polynomial can be found using Newton's method, or more efficiently using Laguerre's method which employs complex arithmetic and can locate all complex roots. These algorithms are studies in numerical analysis.
Formulae for roots
There is a difference between approximating roots and finding concrete closed formulas for them. Formulas for the roots of polynomials of degree up to 4 have been known since the sixteenth century (see quadratic formula, Cardano, Tartaglia). But formulas for degree 5 eluded researchers for a long time. In 1824, Abel proved the striking result that there can be no general formula (involving only the arithmetical operations and radicals) for the roots of a polynomial of degree ≥ 5 in terms of its coefficients (see Abel-Ruffini theorem). This result marked the start of Galois theory which engages in a detailed study of relations among roots of polynomials.
Several variables
In multivariate calculus, polynomials in several variables play an important role. These are the simplest multivariate functions and can be defined using addition and multiplication alone. An example of a polynomial in the variables x, y, and z is
The total degree of such a multivariate polynomial can be gotten by adding the exponents of the variables in every term, and taking the maximum. The above polynomial f(x,y,z) has total degree 6.
Complexity
In computer science, we say that a polynomial of highest order n has a running time of O(xn). For example, take the polynomials:
We say this polynomial has order O(x4). From the definition of order, |f(x)| ≤ C |g(x)| for all x>1, where C is a constant.
Proof:
From the definition of O-notation above, the polynomial is in O(x4)
- where x > 1
- because x3 < x4, and so on.
Abstract algebra
In abstract algebra, one must take care to distinguish between polynomials and polynomial functions.
A polynomial f is defined to be a formal expression of the form
where the coefficients a0, ... , an are elements of some ring R and X is considered to be a formal symbol. Two polynomials are considered to be equal if and only if the sequences of their coefficients are equal. Polynomials with coefficients in R can be added by simply adding corresponding coefficients and multiplied using the distributive law and the rules
One can then check that the set of all polynomials with coefficients in the ring R forms itself a ring, the ring of polynomials over R, which is denoted by R[X]. If R is commutative, then R[X] is an algebra over R.
- X a = a X for all elements a of the ring R
- Xk Xl = Xk+l for all natural numbers k and l.
One can think of the ring R[X] as arising from R by adding one new element X to R and only requiring that X commute with all elements of R. In order for R[X] to form a ring, all sums of powers of X have to be included as well. Formation of the polynomial ring, together with forming factor rings by factoring out ideals, are important tools for constructing new rings out of known ones. For instance, the clean construction of finite fields involves the use of those operations, starting out with the field of integers modulo some prime number as the coefficient ring R (see modular arithmetic).
To every polynomial f in R[X], one can associate a polynomial function with domain and range equal to R. One obtains the value of this function for a given argument r by everywhere replacing the symbol X in f's expression by r. The reason that algebraists have to distinguish between polynomials and polynomial functions is that over some rings R (for instance over finite fields), two different polynomials may give rise to the same polynomial function. This is not the case over the real or complex numbers and therefore analysts don't separate the two concepts.
Divisibility
In commutative algebra, one major focus of study is divisibility among polynomials. If R is an integral domain and f and g are polynomials in R[X], we say that f divides g if there exists a polynomial q in R[X] such that f q = g. One can then show that "every zero gives rise to a linear factor", or more formally: if f is a polynomial in R[X] and r is an element of R such that f(r) = 0, then the polynomial (X - r) divides f. The converse is also true. The quotient can be computed using the Horner scheme.
If F is a field and f and g are polynomials in F[X] with g ≠ 0, then there exist polynomials q and r in F[X] with
and such that that the degree of r is smaller than the degree of g. The polynomials q and r are uniquely determined by f and g. This is called "division with remainder" or "polynomial long division" and shows that the ring F[X] is a Euclidean domain.
- f = q g + r
Analogously we can define polynomial "primes" (more correctly, irreducible polynomials) which cannot be factorized into the product of two polynomials of lesser degree. Depending on the degree of the polynomial to be considered, simply checking if the polynomial has linear factors can eliminate several cases, and then resorting to checking divisibility of some other irreducible polynomials, however Eisenstein's criterion can be used to more efficiently determine irreducibility.
More variables
One also speaks of polynomials in several variables, obtained by taking the ring of polynomials of a ring of polynomials: R[X,Y] = (R[X])[Y] = (R[Y])[X]. These are of fundamental importance in algebraic geometry which studies the simultaneous zero sets of several such multivariate polynomials.
Polynomials are frequently used to encode information about some other object. The characteristic polynomial of a matrix or linear operator contains information about the operator's eigenvalues. The minimal polynomial of an algebraic element records the simplest algebraic relation satisfied by that element.
Other related objects studied in abstract algebra are formal power series, which are like polynomials but may have infinite degree, and the rational functions, which are ratios of polynomials.
Special polynomials
See also:
- Polynomial sequence
- Chebyshev polynomials
- Ehrhart polynomial (It is appropriate that this title is singular although some of the other special polynomials named after persons that are listed here are plural, because those are special polynomial sequences.)
- Hermite polynomials
- Hurwitz polynomial (It is appropriate that this title is singular although some of the other special polynomials named after persons that are listed here are plural, because those are special polynomial sequences.)
- Legendre polynomials
- Polynomial interpolation
- Binomial type
- Sheffer sequence
- List of polynomial topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Polynomial."
Synonym: UsualSynonym: common (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unusual (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday. |
Adverb: conformably; Adjective: by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more-majorum. for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake, by the card. | |
Expectance | Common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual; (habitual). |
Frequency | Common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar. |
Impulse | As usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more. |
Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. | |
Normality | Adjective: normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency); |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Usual |
| English words defined with "usual": as usual. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "usual": usual home elsewhere, Usual hours, Usual residence elsewhere, Usual weekly earnings ♦ whole household usual home elsewhere. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "usual": Yellow-covered. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Usual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (accustomed, customary, used to, usual, wonted), Portuguese (accustomed, common, customary, general, habitual, inevitable, ordinary, orthodox, regular, used to, usual, wonted), Spanish (general, habitual, usual). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, the usual. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) Your usual table, sir. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Like usual. (Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas.) Round up the usual suspects (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) My usual suite, please (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) | |
Lyrics | He came to the world in the usual way ("The Cat's in the Cradle"; performing artist: Harry Chapin) And as usual the day turns into minutes (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Business as Usual (1971) The Usual Way (1913) Business as Usual During Alterations (1913) The Usual Children (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The "face" on Mars. Taken from image 035A72. The image wasclipped, inverted (to produce the usual orientation which has been published),magnified by a factor of three, and contrast enhanced again, all usingColor It!™. (Note: Much of the "blocky" nature of the image is causedby the lossy compression scheme used in JPEG files.). Credit: NASA. |  | Unusual specimen of cushion starfish, Culcita novaeguineae, more flattened than usual. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | The girls were prettier than usual. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The result was the usual one. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Well, you asked for it by running in the usual partisan political sense. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wonder if they'll pay their usual attention to it?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. embassy business as usual / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Usual Summer eruption / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Scene on farm in southeastern Alaska, where small fruits and vegetables grow to twice the size usual elsewhere in the U.S. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day. The usual traveling "dusting circus" has at least three or four planes,. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Things 1" by Isaac Esteban Commentary: "Usual objects in my life." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. |
Oliver Goldsmith | I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. |
Samuel Johnson | The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. |
St. Augustine | In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Moreover, for all those possessions, from which anyone has, without the lawful judgment of his peers, been disseised or removed, by our father, King Henry, or by our brother, King Richard, and which we retain in our hand (or which as possessed by others, to whom we are bound to warrant them) we shall have respite until the usual term of crusaders; excepting those things about which a plea has been raised, or an inquest made by our order, before our taking of the cross; but as soon as we return from the expedition, we will immediately grant full justice therein. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | The usual, and almost only way whereby this union is dissolved, is the inroad of foreign force mak ing a conquest upon them: for in that case, (not being able to maintain and support themselves, as one intire and independent body) the union belonging to that body which consisted therein, must necessarily cease, and so every one return to the state he was in before, with a liberty to shift for himself, and provide for his own safety, as he thinks fit, in some other society. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes to approve the designation of the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, and consular agents, whose names shall be notified to her, and to admit them to the exercise of their functions in conformity with the usual rules and customs. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1949) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | Litigation involving pregnancy, which is "capable of repetition, yet evading review," is an exception to the usual federal rule that an actual controversy must exist at review stages, and not simply when the action is initiated. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | William Larkins let me keep a larger quantity than usual this year |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | She faced me again now, having quite recovered her usual calmness of manner |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | In other words, all the usual conditions which bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had, without asking, added to the usual dinner of the bishop a bottle of fine old Mauves wine |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His household returned to its usual way of life |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The children caught the fever and were more noisy than usual. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He asked me what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some also have more diarrhea than usual. (references) | |
Removing milk from the diet is the usual treatment. (references) | ||
Eat small meals, and eat more frequently than usual. (references) | ||
Business | It is usual for the local distributor to invest in a COAP (cooperative advertising and promotional funds). (references) | |
In some cases, where a public procurement is involved, it is usual to have an extended payment terms of 180 days. (references) | ||
Additionally, the average client tends to trust the car dealer more than the usual parts and accessories retailer. (references) | ||
Children | Sweden | The authorities generally respect these laws, and the usual sentence is a fine combined with counseling and monitoring by social workers. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | On May Day, many of the usual venues for these rallies were blocked by police vehicles or buses and patrolled by policemen. (references) |
Hungary | The investigations have not affected the usual management of the Church and have not required the expenditure of large amounts of Church funds. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Note: We are not providing a data table because the usual data line items do not apply to this industry. (references) |
Netherlands | Certain firms have used this technique successfully in combination with their usual retail outlet operation. (references) | |
Honduras | As usual, the vast majority is expected to come from the United States, but regional trade also plays a part. (references) | |
Human Rights | Germany | Bail exists but seldom is employed; the usual practice is to release detainees unless there is clear danger of flight outside the country. (references) |
Mozambique | Many victims chose not to seek police assistance because of their usual demand for bribes or a lack of confidence that the police would help. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | Chechen IDP's and the Civic Assistance Committee for migrants reported that Chechens face great difficulty in finding lodging in Moscow and frequently are forced to pay at least twice the usual rent for an apartment. (references) |
Political Economy | India | On the other hand, after the nuclear tests the BJP government cleared a number of pending projects, including several proposals from the United States, in record time, presumably to signal that business would proceed as usual. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Food products derived from modern biotechnology can be imported subject to the usual customs regulations. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Letters of credit, confirmed by Western banks, are the usual method for small to medium transactions in Azerbaijan. (references) | |
Travel | Georgia | Business lunches are less usual than in the U.S. and Europe. (references) |
Georgia | However, foreign visitors are advised to maintain their usual level of punctuality. (references) | |
Chad | Tractor trailers and pickup trucks are the usual means of transport between N'Djamena and most other towns. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The Government employs special groups of workers, known as "microbrigades," who are reassigned temporarily from their usual jobs to work on special building projects. (references) |
Malaysia | From 1998 through June, 130 individuals involved in the harboring of prostitutes were placed under "restricted residence." The Restricted Residence Act is designed to deter organized criminal activity and requires individuals to temporarily move to a predetermined location far from their usual domicile, and check in regularly with police. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | I mean, that's an issue that I have fought for very much for purely philosophical reasons. Btu I find it, as usual with this cause, very hard to get the people to organize in the way they should. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | In this dangerous crisis the people of America were not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or integrity. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will as usual be laid before you. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The fruits of the seasons, though in particular articles and districts short of their usual redundancy, are more than sufficient for our wants and our comforts. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Our political and commercial relations with Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark stand on the usual favorable bases. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I did this outside of the usual diplomatic channels with the hope that with the necessity of making statements for propaganda removed, there might be constructive progress toward bringing the war to an end. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While this invasion continues, we and the other nations of the world cannot conduct business as usual with the Soviet Union. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | This is too important for politics as usual. |
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| "Usual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Usual" is used about 6,255 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.97% | 6,253 | 1,554 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,255 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "usual": as is usual ♦ as per usual ♦ as usual ♦ become the usual thing ♦ business as usual ♦ it has become the usual thing with us ♦ the usual thing ♦ through the usual channels ♦ under the usual reserves ♦ usual channels ♦ usual home elsewhere ♦ usual practical unit ♦ usual procedure ♦ usual residence. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "usual": usual-story. | |
Ending with "usual": better-than-usual, business-as-usual, earlier-than-usual, faster-than-usual, higher-than-usual, longer-than-usual, more-than-usual, out-of-the-usual, politics-as-usual, sharper-than-usual, smaller-than-usual, thicker-than-usual, treatment-as-usual. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "usual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gewoon (common, ordinary), algemeen (general). (various references) | |
Albanian | i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, vulgar, wonted, workaday). (various references) | |
Arabic | عادي (normal), معتاد (accustomed, customary, frequent, habitual, wonted), مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, vulgar), إعتيادي (habitual, ordinary, regular). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обичаен (accustomed, common, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, general, habitual, ordinary, regular, stock, wonted), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, wonted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 通常 (normal, ordinary, regular). (various references) | |
Czech | obyèejný (average, coarse, common, common or garden, ordinary, pedestrian, unexceptional), obvyklý (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, in use, normal, ordinary, regular, routine, standard, unexceptional, wonted), obligátní, normální (normal, standard), bìžný (common, common or garden, current, customary, going, habitual, ordinary, passable, routine, standing, unexceptional), bìžnì užívaný. (various references) | |
Danish | sædvanlig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted), ordinær (common, ordinary). (various references) | |
Dutch | gewoon (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, normally, ordinary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ordinara (common, ordinary), kutima (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), ĝenerala (general). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vanligur (common, everyday, ordinary, vulgar), gerandis (common, ordinary), almennur (general, official, public). (various references) | |
Farsi | متداول (Current, General, Ordinary, Prevalent, Standard, Uptodate, Vogue), معمول (Normal, Usage), مرسوم (Customary, Prevalent, Standard, Vogue), همیشگی (Continual, Eternal, Habitual, Perennial, Perpetual), عادی (Common, Customary, Habitual, Naked, Normal, Ordinary, Ornery, Regular, Rife, Uncritical). (various references) | |
Finnish | tavallinen (common, frequent, general, ordinary). (various references) | |
French | ordinaire, habituel (used, used to). (various references) | |
Frisian | mien (general, universal, worldwide), gewoan (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), bewend (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), algemien (general, universal, worldwide). (various references) | |
German | normal (normal, normally, ordinarily, ordinary, regular, sane, standard), gewöhnlich (common, commonly, conveniently, customary, everyday, generally, habitually, low, low-bred, normally, ordinarily, ordinary, ornery, regular, run-off-the-mill, simple, usually, vulgar, vulgarly), üblich (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, everyday, general, normal, ordinary, standard, traditional, used to, vulgar, wonted). (various references) | |
Greek | συνηθισμένοσ (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, habitual, ordinary, used to, wont, wonted), συνήθησ (beaten, customary, familiar, habitual, ordinary, stock, unexceptional, wonted, workaday), συνήθης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצוי (available, common, current, draining, exhaustion, extraction, frequent, ordinary, regular, squeezing), מנהגי (customary, habitual), שכיח (common, frequent, habitual, medial, prosaic), רגיל (accustomed, common, habitual, mediocre, ordinary, par, simple, standard, stock, unexceptional, wont, wonted), נהוג (conducting, customary, driven, driving, leading, led, piloting, steerage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szokásos (accustomed, customary, habitual, ordinary, regular, ruling, run, wonted), rendes (decent, easy on the eye, easy to look at, good egg, jobholder, natty, neat, neatness, nice, normal, orderly, ordinary, ornery, regular, right, there are no flies on him, tidy, trim), általános (broad, civil engineering, common, current coin, general, generic, indefinite, ordinary, overhead, public, selective service, skedaddle, to pass current, to run current, universal, worldwide). (various references) | |
Icelandic | venjulegur (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lumrah (commonplace, customary, normal, ordinary), kaprah (ordinary), biasa (accustomed, adjusted, banal, conversant, habitual, lay, ordinary, regular, trivial). (various references) | |
Irish | hiondúil, gnách. (various references) | |
Italian | usuale (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, ordinary, stock, used to, wonted), consueto (accustomed, customary, familiar, habitually, used to, wonted), solito (customary, ordinary, stock, wont, wonted), ordinario (coarse, common, ordinary, ornery, permanent, run of the mill, simple, usually, workaday), generale (broad, catholic, general, generale, overall, overhead). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 尋常 (common). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ただ (common, free of charge, mere, only, sole), おさだまり (normal, stereotyped), ひととおり (briefly, in general, ordinary), ぼんぼんたる (ordinary), つうじょう (common, general, normal), にちじょう (everyday, ordinary, regular), いつもの (habitual), あたりまえ (common, natural, obvious, ordinary, reasonable), ありがち (common, frequent), よのつね (ordinary, run-of-the-mill), じんじょう (common), へいぜい (barrier, evil practice, ordinary), へいじょう (armed soldier, arms, closing of a place, normal, Pyongyang), へんてつもない (mediocre, monotonous). (various references) | |
Korean | 보통 (Plainer, Plainest). (various references) | |
Malay | biasa (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Papiamen | usual (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), komun (accustomed, common, customary, daily, joint, used to, wonted), hewon (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), gewon (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), general (general). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ualusay.(various references) | |
Polish | zwykły (common, ordinary, simple, straightforward). (various references) | |
Portuguese | usual (accustomed, common, customary, general, habitual, inevitable, ordinary, orthodox, regular, used to, wonted), comum (accepted, accredited, appellative, blanket, cheap, common, commonplace, communal, demotic, everyday, garden, general, habitual, inelaborate, joint, mutual, ordinary, public, run-of-the-mill, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Romanian | obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, routine, standard, used to, usually, wonted, workaday). (various references) | |
Russian | обычный обычно, обычный (accustomed, bog-standard, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, familiar, habitual, natural, normal, ordinary, regular, run-of-the-mail, run-of-the-mill), обыкновенный (common, common-or-garden, Everyman, normal, ordinary, unremarkable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uobičajen (consuetudinary, customary, habitual, ordinary, trivial, wonted), redovan (ordinary, organic, regular), običan (common, habitual, ordinary, plain, prosaic, quotidian, unexceptionable, unexceptional). (various references) | |
Spanish | universal (all purpose, catholic, general, overall, universal, world), general (blanket, broad, catch-all, extensive, general, headlong, omnibus, sweeping), común (common, commonalty, commonplace, communal, community, current, dismal, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, ordinary, prevailing, rife, team, trite, widespread), usual (general, habitual). (various references) | |
Sranan | gwenti (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanligt (common, generally, ordinarily), bruklig (accustomed, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lahát (all, altogether, everything, general). (various references) | |
Turkish | olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill), klasik (classic, classical), her zamanki (regular), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, everyday, of every day, per diem, quotidian, ready, routine), bayaği (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), alixik (accustomed, customary, used to, wonted), alelade (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, used to, wonted), alışılmış (accustomed, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, habitual, set, wonted), adí (common, everyday, ordinary, vulgar). (various references) | |
Turkmen | adaty. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thường lệ (habitual, regulation, usually), thường dùng (used), thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, often, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, vulgar), thông thường (common, commonly, customary, everyday, normal, normally, ordinary, regulation, vulgar, wonted), dùng quen. (various references) | |
Welsh | gnawd (customary), cynefinol (accustomed), arferol (customary). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adsuetus, catholicus, consueta, cotidiano, cotidianum, ordinarius, promiscus promiscuus, solita, soliti, solitis, solito, solitoque, solitum, solitus, usitas, usus, vulgaris. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | usualis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "usual": usually, usualness, usualnesses, usuals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "usual": unusual. (additional references) | |
Words containing "usual": unusually, unusualness, unusualnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Usual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gusau, Lusulas, Ossola, oual, Ucal, ugua, uguale, ulua, ulula, unsual, Upsala, uqua, usaac, usu, usua, Usuall, usuallr, usualy, usuel, usura, ususal, utula, Uwusa, uzoal, uzu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "usual" (pronounced yuw"zhuwul or yuw"zhuwul) |
| 7 | y uw" zh u w u l | unusual. |
| 5 | -zh u w u l | casual, visual. |
| 4 | -u w u l | individual, actual, heterosexual, homosexual, spiritual, textual, mutual, perceptual, semiannual, sensual. |
| 3 | -w u l | bilingual, coequal, equal, monolingual, multilingual, sequel, tranquil, unequal. |
| 4 | -zh uw u l | audiovisual. |
| 3 | -uw u l | ineffectual, annual, biannual, bisexual, conceptual, consensual, continual, contractual, eventual, factual, gradual, habitual, intellectual, manual, menstrual, parimutuel, perpetual, residual, ritual, sexual, transsexual, virtual. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: luaus. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: luau, saul, sulu, ulus. | |
-2 letters: als, las, sal, sau, ulu. | |
-3 letters: al, as, la, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: usuals, uvulas. | |
+2 letters: aculeus, alumnus, annulus, famulus, hamulus, mutuals, subdual, sutural, umlauts, unusual, usually, uvulars. | |
+3 letters: acaulous, angulous, apiculus, arugulas, augustly, baculums, busulfan, calculus, custumal, fabulous, | |
