Custom

Definition: Custom

Custom

Adjective

1. Of clothing.

Noun

1. Accepted or habitual practice.

2. A specific practice of long standing.

3. Money collected under a tariff.

4. Habitual patronage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "custom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Custom

Barter

Trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery.

Conformity

Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Infraction of usage; (unconformity); nonprevalence; "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance".

Fashion

Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word.

Frequency

Noun: frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness; normality; example (conformity); routine, custom (habit).

Impulse

Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor.

Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.

Conformable.; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable; (genteel).

Oldness

Tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.

Price

Dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage, likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Sale

Noun: sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom; (traffic).

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter.

Wrong

A custom more honored in the breach than the observance.

Crosswords: Custom

We look forward to your custom in future lives (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

A girl who takes ten minutes to custom order a cappuccino (Jack & Jill; writing credit: Kathy Giaconia)

Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

Personally, I've never subscribed to that old Egyptian custom. (All That Heaven Allows; writing credit: Peg Fenwick; Edna L. Lee)

It's just a custom to call the father (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

He got a custom Continental (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; performing artist: Jim Croce)

All your suits are custom made in London (Dress You Up; performing artist: Madonna)

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. (references; author: Mark Twain)

An Old Gypsy Custom (1934)

Slaves of Custom (1926)

Scandal in the Custom House (1900)

Candy's Custom Car Wash (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Custom Silicon Configuration Services NV: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Advanced Custom Rod Building (reference)

• Fender Custom Shop Guitar 2003 Calendar (reference)

• Hack Attacks Revealed: A Complete Reference for UNIX, Windows, and Linux with Custom Security Toolkit, Second Edition (reference)

• How to Custom Paint & Graphics (reference)

• Professional ASP.NET Server Controls: Building Custom Controls with C# (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Custom Home (reference)

• Custom Planes (reference)

• Custom Rodder (reference)

• Custom Tailor (reference)

• Custom Wheel And Tire Style Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Custom Landscaping (reference)

• Loveless Legend: How to Make Custom Knives (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Full Custom Gospel Sounds (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bausch & Lomb Custom 7x26 Compact Binocular (reference)

• Canon SLR Custom Accessory Pack S1 (reference)

• Custom Panel Designer (reference)

• My Custom Edition Engine: My Animation Plug-In [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

• Photo Express 4.0 My Custom Edition [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisinart DFP-14 Custom 14-Cup Food Processor (reference)

• Cuisinart DLC-8S 11-Cup Pro Custom 11 Food Processor, White (reference)

• Custom Leathercraft 5020 Cordless Drill Holster (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

F-16XL with Custom Paint. Credit: NASA.

The Custom House. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 255. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View of Monterey from offshore. The large building to the right, the Custom House, is still standing. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 138. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Print after a sketch by T. Dart Walker, entitled "Christmas Eve in the United States Navy". Its original caption reads: "Giving the famous Highland toast and song for sweethearts and wives. Wherever Uncle Sam's fighting ships are stationed throughout the world, it is the custom of the officers to rise, as here depicted, at the conclusion of the Christmas Eve festivities in honor of the absent home folks. This sketch was made by the noted marine artist, T. Dart Walker, while crossing the Arabian Sea on board the battleship 'Kansas'.". Credit: NAVY.

Five DesRon12 destroyers make formation "S-turns" in Iron Bottom Sound, off Guadalcanal, while passing Savo Island. They were returning from one of their raids on Rabaul in February 1944, and executed the high-speed turns as a salute to the three ships of the squadron that had been sunk in the vicinity of Iron Bottom Sound. This had become a custom whenever DesRon12 ships passed Savo Island after a successful raid against the Japanese. Commanded by Captain Rodger W. Simpson, the squadron raided Rabaul on 17-18 and 23-25 February 1944. His flagship was USS Farenholt (DD-491). Credit: NAVY.

Architectural drawing for a government building ("U.S. Custom House, Court House & P.O."), Chicago, Illinois. Perspective rendering. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loco Foco persecution, or custom house, versus caricatures. Credit: Library of Congress.

Public reception to President and Mrs. Cleveland at Custom House, Kansas City, Mo., October 13th, 1887. Credit: Library of Congress.

Commercial St. and Custom House, Boston, Mass / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by L.H. Abdalian..

Richmond, Va. Custom House (left) and Capitol (center); rubble in street. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If any of our earls or barons, or others holding of us in chief by military service shall have died, and at the time of his death his heir shall be full of age and owe "relief", he shall have his inheritance by the old relief, to wit, the heir or heirs of an earl, for the whole baroncy of an earl by L100; the heir or heirs of a baron, L100 for a whole barony; the heir or heirs of a knight, 100s, at most, and whoever owes less let him give less, according to the ancient custom of fees. (reference)

He was fittest to be trusted; paternal affection secured their property and interest under his care; and the custom of obeying him, in their childhood, made it easier to submit to him, rather than to any other. (Second Treatise of Government)

The rate of interest shall be 5 per cent. per annum except in cases where, by contract, law or custom, the creditor is entitled to payment of interest at a different rate. (reference)

All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And it cannot be for the value of our custom now, for what is our consumption of bread, you know

I will now discuss individual cases, taking the worst first, as my custom is.

The bishop said the blessing, and then served the soup himself, according to his usual custom.

His position was honorary and a matter of custom.

There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Methods for resurfacing the skin have gradually changed the medical and aesthetic outcomes for patients with severely damaged skin. Current grafting techniques may eventually be superseded by tissue engineering methods that produce prefabricated custom flaps of skin that match the size and type of skin needed. (references)

Business

There is a 20 percent custom duty levied on all imports of office furniture. (references)

If these documents are not in German, custom authorities may insist on a translation. (references)

The big Swiss hydroelectric generating facilities are custom tailored for this purpose. (references)

Children

Samoa

Tradition dictates that families care for persons with disabilities, and this custom is observed widely in practice. (references)

Benin

Some traditional practices inflict hardship and violence on children, including most prominently the custom of "vidomegon," whereby poor, often rural, families place a child, primarily a daughter, in the home of a more wealthy family to avoid the burden the child represents to the parental family. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Custom and law required affiliation with some religion, and atheism was considered apostasy and was punishable by death. (references)

Discrimination

Afghanistan

Despite the legal primacy of the 1964 Constitution at year's end, local custom and practices generally prevailed. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Custom duties are 4%. (references)

Austria

The custom is for Parliament to call for new elections if needed. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

They may conduct hearings according to Islamic law and tribal custom. (references)

Somalia

Custom allows parents to place children in prison without judicial proceedings. (references)

Swaziland

The authorities may bring ethnic Swazis to these courts for minor offenses and violations of traditional law and custom. (references)

Minorities

India

Since Devadasis are by custom required to be sexually available to higher caste men, it reportedly is difficult for them to obtain justice from the legal system if they are raped. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

Certain specified essential commodities (e.g., defense purchases) are not subject to custom duties. (references)

ITALY

By custom, although not by law, national collective bargaining agreements apply to all workers, regardless of union affiliation. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

Chiefs are custodians of Swazi law and custom and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their chiefdom. (references)

Swaziland

In general the report concluded that most Swazis want a continuation of the status quo, a strengthening of the King's powers, a continued ban against political parties, greater emphasis on traditional law and custom, and stiffer penalties for those who speak against the state. (references)

Trade

Chad

Chad's tariff structure is based on fiscal and custom duties. (references)

Travel

Denmark

Business gifts are not a normal custom in Denmark. (references)

Vietnam

Vietnamese often reciprocate this custom when addressing foreigners. (references)

Czech Rep

The business custom is to be punctual - or even early - for appointments and engagements. (references)

Women

Madagascar

Under this custom, the wife has a right to only one-third of a couple's joint holdings. (references)

Yemen

The law, social custom, and Shari'a, as interpreted in the country, discriminate against women. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Polygyny and the custom of paying a bride price tend to reinforce the view that women are property. (references)

Worker Rights

Sierra Leone

By custom all labor unions join the Sierra Leone Labor Congress (SLLC), but such membership is voluntary. (references)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Restrictions on striking by workers who provide essential services, such as the police and civil servants, are enforced by established practice and custom, but not by law. (references)

Burundi

Most of the population lives by subsistence agriculture, and children are obliged by custom and economic necessity to participate in subsistence agriculture, family-based enterprises, and the informal sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Custom

Expressions using "custom": a custom more honored in the breach than the observance ♦ an unbroken custom ♦ burial custom ♦ custom dictionary ♦ custom duties ♦ custom habit ♦ custom house ♦ custom house charges ♦ custom house clearance ♦ custom IC ♦ custom local area signalling service ♦ custom of Lloyd's ♦ Custom of merchants ♦ custom rate ♦ custom roaming ♦ custom tailor ♦ custom tariff ♦ Dissemination of solicitations for custom ♦ exploded custom ♦ extinct custom ♦ full custom circuit ♦ full custom IC ♦ heir by custom ♦ Heriot custom ♦ irish custom ♦ local custom ♦ ole custom controls ♦ silly custom ♦ suit custom ♦ tout for custom ♦ trade custom. Additional references.

Beginning with "custom": custom-blend, custom-bound, custom-build, custom-builds, custom-built, custom-built model, custom-configuration, custom-configured, custom-cut, custom-design, custom-designed, custom-fit, custom-fitted, custom-house, custom-house officer, custom-made, custom-make, custom-order, custom-ordered, custom-painted, custom-tailored, custom-type, custom-wound, custom-written.

Ending with "custom": Folk-custom, full-custom, non-custom, semi-custom.

Containing "custom": semi-custom-made.

Afrikaans

gewoonte (habit, way), gebruik (employ, habit, make, make use of, turn to account, use, way). (various references)

Albanian

adet (habit, habitude, manners, mode, way). (various references)

Arabic 

عادة (habit, practice), ‏زبون (chap, client, customer), ‏عادة (as a rule, commonly, freak, generally, groove, habit, habit of body, institution, observance, ordinarily, practice, praxis, rite, rubric, rule, usage, usually, wont), ‏عرف (acquaint, constitution, convention, define, figure out, form, habit, impart, know, know what's what, locate, manners, mores, realize, rule, savvy, see, sort out, tradition, usage, use), ‏جمرك, ‏الزبانة معاملة المستهلك, ‏رسوم جمركية (customs), ‏شيمة (habit). (various references)

Basque

ohitura (habit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

купувачи (market), клиентела (clientage, clientele, connection, connexion, patronage, practice, trade), обичай (consuetude, convention, habit, institution, manner, manners, memorial, observance, practice, praxis), навик (habit, habitude, knack, manner, practice, use, wont), мито (duty, imposition, impost), по мярка, по поръчка. (various references)

Catalan

costum (habit, way). (various references)

Chinese 

風俗 , 風 (manner, news, style, wind), 規矩 (rule, well-behaved), 習慣 (habit, to be used to, usual practice), 习惯 (Accustom, Accustomed, Accustoming, Acquainted, customs). (various references)

Czech

zvyklost (convention, tradition, usage, use), zvyk (consuetude, form, habit, rote, trick, usage, use, way, wont), zákaznictvo, obyèej (habit, observance, usage, use), klientela (clientele, patronage), úzus (usage, use). (various references)

Danish

sædvane (habit, way). (various references)

Dutch

gebruik (habit, mores, use, way), usance (habit, way), gewoonte (habit, way). (various references)

Esperanto

moro (mores), kutimo (habit, way). (various references)

Faeroese

vani (habit, way), siður (mores, musical time, tact, tradition). (various references)

Farsi 

گمرک , سنت (Tradition), عادتی , عادت (Accustom, Addict, Hank, Rote, Rut, Ure, Usage, Vogue, Wont), عرف (Institution, Tradition, Unwrittenlaw, Ure, Usage, Usance), رسم (Mode, Order, Trace, Tradition, Usage, Wont), برحسب عادت . (various references)

Finnish

tapa (fashion, habit, manner, mode, mores, practice, usage, way), käytäntö (practice, usage, use). (various references)

French

coutume, usage, habitude. (various references)

Frisian

wizânsje (habit, way), wenst (habit, way), gewoante (habit, way), brûkme (habit, way). (various references)

German

brauch (convention, fashion, habit, mores, ordinance, practice, rite, tradition, usage, use, way), sitte (convention, fashion, mores, practice, tribe, usage), Gewohnheit (consuetude, fashion, habit, habitualness, practice, usualness, way), angewohnheit (habit, mannerism, practice, way), usus (habit, usage, use, way), gepflogenheit (habit, practice, tradition, way), gebrauch (application, habit, usage, use, way). (various references)

Greek 

έθιμο (practice, practise). (various references)

Hawaiian

adet (habit, way). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטבע (coin, currency, form, formula, medal, tender, type), מנהג (conduct, groove, habit, manner, order, usage, way), שגרה (convention, fluency, habit, rote, routine, rut), חוקה (constitution, law), חוק (act, decree, enactment, law, measure, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute), הליך (action, gait, going, manner, process, step), הרגל (groove, habit, habituation, wont), רגילות (habit, habituation, practice), נוהג (conduct, habit, practice, praxis, procedure, usage), נוסח (copy, formula, manner, style, text, version). (various references)

Hungarian

szokás (fashion, habit, institution, mode, modernism, practice, rule, use, way, wont), vevőkör (clientele, patronage), vásárlóközönség (goodwill), rendelésre készített (bespoke), rendelésre dolgozó, mértékre készített, mértékre dolgozó, cég állandó vásárlója, állandó vásárló. (various references)

Icelandic

vani (habit, way). (various references)

Indonesian

langgam (melody, style, tune, way), kelaziman (fad, the fashion, usage), kegaliban, kebiasaan (fashion, habit, natural, usage, wont), adat (customary law, decency, manner, tradition). (various references)

Irish

nós. (various references)

Italian

uso (adhibition, exercise, habit, usage, use, wear), usanza (habit, practice, rite, ritual, usage, use), costume (costume, fancy dress, habit, outfit, suit, usage, use, way, wont). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恒例 (established practice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふうしゅう, じょうしゅう (common practice, habit), カスタム , れい (actor, case, cold, command, companion, cool, departed soul, dictation, example, experience, expression of gratitude, ghost, illustration, instance, nought, order, parallel, precedent, soul, spirit, usage, zero), これい (old precedent, tradition), こうれい (advancedage, communication with the dead, established practice, good example, heartfelt thanks), じょうれい (above example, common usage, laws, ordinance, regulation, regulations, rules, usual practice), ふりあい (comparison, consideration, usage), ぞくしゅう (crowd, masses, people, the public, usage, vulgarity, worldliness), さだまり (rule, tranquility), さが (characteristic, one's nature, property), しゅうかん (cessation of publication, habit, imprisonment, manners, published weekly, week, weekly), きまり (conclusion, regulation, rule, settlement), しきたり (conventional practice, customs, mores, ordinance), ためし (case, example, experience, illustration, instance, parallel, precedent, test, trial, usage), かんれい (chilliness, cold, coldness, considering old precedents, of convention, precedent, the Hakone Mountains, warship's age). (various references)

Korean 

관례 (customs). (various references)

Malay

kebiasaan (habit, way), adat (habit, way). (various references)

Manx

oayllaght (usage), oash (fashion, formality, habit, manner, mannerism, vogue, wont), custym (customs duty, tariff), cliaghtey (acclimatization, acclimatize, exercise, familiarization, familiarize, fashion, follow, follow as trade, formality, habit, habituate, institution, inure, practice, practise, profess, prosecute, prosecution, rehearsal, rehearse, seasoning, train, usage). (various references)

Norwegian

bruk (habit, way). (various references)

Occitan

costuma (habit). (various references)

Papiamen

kutumber (habit, way), kostumber (habit, way), bisio (habit, way). (various references)

Pig Latin

ustomcay.(various references)

Polish

zwyczaj (habit, way). (various references)

Portuguese

costume (choky, conventionality, costume, fashion, habit, habitude, institution, inurement, inveteracy, mode, mores, observance, outfit, praxis, rule, rut, usage, way). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

costume. (various references)

Romanian

obicei (consuetude, convention, dead letter, groove, habit, habitude, manner, observance, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way, wont). (various references)

Russian 

обычай (consuetude, convention, fashion, habit, mode), привычка (habit, habitude, inurement, knack, rut, use, wont), пошлина (duties and customs, duty, toll). (various references)