bait vs normal

bait

noun
  • Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. 

  • A light or hasty luncheon. 

  • A packed lunch. 

  • A post intended to get a rise out of others. 

  • Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something 

  • A small meal taken mid-morning while farming. 

  • Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. 

  • A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. 

  • A miner's packed meal. 

verb
  • To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass. 

  • (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey. 

  • To attract with bait; to entice. 

  • (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey. 

  • To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. 

  • To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. 

adj
  • Well-known; famous; renowned. 

  • Obvious; blatant. 

normal

adj
  • Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. 

  • Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution. 

  • Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K. 

  • 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. 

  • According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern. 

  • In the default position, set for the most frequently used route. 

  • Which commutes with its adjoint. 

  • In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode). 

  • Which commutes with its conjugate transpose. 

  • In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution. 

  • Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface. 

  • In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods. 

  • 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. 

  • teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms) 

  • Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution. 

  • Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution. 

  • Which is pre-compact. 

  • With cosets which form a group. 

  • Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology. 

noun
  • The usual state. 

  • A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. 

  • A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid. 

  • A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. 

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