Typical
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Capturing the overall sense of a thing; representing something by form.
Example sentence: My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.
Normal
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, a surface, or a plane.A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: According to norms or rules.Usual; ordinaryHealthy; not sick or illPertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.Heterosexual.of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.(Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See normal modePerpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.(Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group(Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K(Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape(Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact(Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology(Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose(Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint(Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism(Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism(Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism(Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal(Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution(Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoodsin the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
Example sentence: Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.