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Look up: conventional

  1. conventional
    [Adjective] If something is conventional it is being done in the usual way.
    Example: He was dressed in the conventional way, in a suit and tie.
    See also: convention
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. conventional
    [adj] - (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form 2. [adj] - conforming with accepted standards 3. [adj] - in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past 4. [adj] - weapons that are not nuclear 5. [adj] - unimaginative and conformist 6. [adj] - following accepted customs and proprieties
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. conventional
    in describing punched card equipment,used to distinguish tabulators,sorters,collators,etc.,from computers.Coined at a time when computers were unconventional Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Conventional
    Con·ven'tion·al adjective [ Latin conventionalis : confer French conventionnel .] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. « Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. » 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/152

  5. conventional
    Following what is traditional or customary. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. conventional
    established adjective conforming with accepted standards; `a conventional view of the world`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. conventional
    formal adjective represented in simplified or symbolic form
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. conventional
    adjective in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; `a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white`; `the conventional handshake`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. conventional
    adjective following accepted customs and proprieties; `conventional wisdom`; `she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior`; `conventional forms of address`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Conventional
    The adjective `conventional` may be used in the sense of *ordinary, unexceptional, as expected now *agreed according to a convention (norm) *conventional weapon, one which does not incorporate chemical, biological or nuclear payloads *conventionally grown, agricultural products that are grown using synthetic chemicals, unlike organically grown produce
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventiona

  11. Conventional
    • (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. • (a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. • (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. • (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the delibe...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. conventional
    following what is traditional or customary.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  13. conventional
    conventional Relating to convention or general agreement; established by social convention; having its origin or sanction merely in an artificial convention of any kind; arbitrarily or artificially determined.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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