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Definition of Norm

Norm

A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

A typical, structural unit; a type.

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Authoritative, Model, Or, Rule, Standard, Structural, Type, Typical, Unit

Norm Quotations

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark Zuckerberg

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
Travis Barker

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.
Lawrence Taylor

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
Marlee Matlin

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Alice Cooper

The Gospel has to be the norm.
Hans Kung

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
Floyd Abrams

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
James Levine

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Kathryn Bigelow

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Robyn Hitchcock

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
Ludacris

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
Dee Dee Myers

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.
Mark Roberts

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
Mark Roberts

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Stanley Crouch

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Robyn Hitchcock

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
Oscar Robertson

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Malcolm Boyd

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Roger Mudd

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
Richard Morris

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
Ben Edwards

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Norm Translations

norm in Afrikaans is standaard
norm in Dutch is regel, standaardmaat, norm
norm in French is norme
norm in German is Norm, Typ, Regel
norm in Portuguese is norma
norm in Swedish is norm

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