The difference between Normal and Sick
When used as nouns, normal means a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane, whereas sick means sick people in general as a group.
When used as adjectives, normal means according to norms or rules, whereas sick means having an urge to vomit.
Sick is also verb with the meaning: to vomit.
check bellow for the other definitions of Normal and Sick
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Normal as an adjective:
according to norms or rules
Examples:
"Organize the data into third normal form."
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Normal as an adjective:
healthy; not sick or ill
Examples:
"John is feeling normal again."
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Normal as an adjective (education, of a school):
teaching teachers how to teach
Examples:
"My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School."
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Normal as an adjective (chemistry):
of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution
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Normal as an adjective (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
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Normal as an adjective (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system):
in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency
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Normal as an adjective (rail transport, of points):
in the default position, set for the most frequently used route
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Normal as an adjective (geometry):
perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface
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Normal as an adjective (mathematics):
adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context: whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution with cosets which form a group which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a normal distribution which is pre-compact which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology which commutes with its conjugate transpose which commutes with its adjoint being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods
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Normal as a noun (geometry):
a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
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Normal as a noun (slang, countable):
a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
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Normal as a noun (uncountable):
the usual state.
Examples:
"His workload is now back to normal."
"Heavy workload is the new normal."
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Sick as an adjective:
Having an urge to vomit.
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Sick as an adjective (chiefly, American):
In poor health.
Examples:
"She was sick all day with the flu."
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Sick as an adjective (colloquial):
Mentally unstable, disturbed.
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Sick as an adjective (colloquial):
In bad taste.
Examples:
"That's a sick joke."
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Sick as an adjective:
Tired of or annoyed by something.
Examples:
"I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it."
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Sick as an adjective (slang):
Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
Examples:
"This tune is sick."
"Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!"
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Sick as an adjective:
In poor condition.
Examples:
"'sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick'"
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Sick as an adjective (agriculture):
Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
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Sick as a noun:
Sick people in general as a group.
Examples:
"We have to cure the sick."
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Sick as a noun (British, colloquial):
vomit.
Examples:
"He lay there in a pool of his own sick."
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Sick as a verb:
To vomit.
Examples:
"I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor."
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Sick as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To fall sick; to sicken.
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Sick as a verb (rare):
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- normal vs unwell
- Gaussian vs normal
- conventional vs normal
- normal vs ordinary
- normal vs standard
- normal vs usual
- normal vs regular
- average vs normal
- expected vs normal
- natural vs normal
- normal vs unconventional
- nonstandard vs normal
- normal vs unusual
- normal vs reverse
- normal vs perpendicular
- normal vs orthogonal
- normal vs tangential
- nauseated vs sick
- disturbed vs sick
- sick vs twisted
- sick vs warped
- rad vs sick
- sick vs wicked
- crap vs sick
- naff vs sick
- sick vs uncool
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- sick vs sickly
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- fit vs sick
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