common
常见的,普通,共同,共同的
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Definitions
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com·mon·er, com·mon·est.
- : belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property;common interests.
- : pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public: a common language or history;a common water-supply system.
- : joint; united: a common defense.
- : widespread; general; universal: common knowledge.
- : of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common event;a common mistake.
- : hackneyed; trite.
- : of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low: a rough-textured suit of the most common fabric.
- : coarse; vulgar: common manners.
- : lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary: a common soldier;common people;the common man;a common thief.
- : Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected.
- : Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches: the common carotid arteries.
- : Prosody. able to be considered as either long or short.
- : Grammar. not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms: English nouns are in the common case whether used as subject or object.constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Swedish nouns are either common or neuter.noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female: French élève has common gender. English lacks a common gender pronoun in the third person singular. belonging to the common gender.
- : Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities.
- : of, relating to, or being common stock: common shares.
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- : Often commons. Chiefly New England. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town.
- : Law. the right or liberty, in common with other persons, to take profit from the land or waters of another, as by pasturing animals on another's land or fishing in another's waters .
- : commons, the commonalty; the nonruling class.the body of people not of noble birth or not ennobled, as represented in England by the House of Commons.Commons, the representatives of this body.Commons, the House of Commons.
- : commons,a large dining room, especially at a university or college.British.food provided in such a dining room.food or provisions for any group.
- : Sometimes Commons .Ecclesiastical. an office or form of service used on a festival of a particular kind.the ordinary of the Mass, especially those parts sung by the choir.the part of the missal and breviary containing Masses and offices of those saints assigned to them.
- : Obsolete. the community or public.the common people.
Phrases
- common cause
- common ground
- common touch, the
- in common
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Students would have a fully equipped laptop to call their own as well as one that didn’t lack key functionalities, which is common among donated devices.
The company’s financial history is occluded — common with private companies — and a bit uneven.
Residents often live four to a room, share a bathroom, and congregate in crowded common spaces.
The system can’t be easily reverse-engineered to determine what it learned to pay attention to during training — a common problem for researchers trying to use AI to do science.
Accounts on these platforms were all registered using a handful of common email addresses and phone numbers.
The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
Another read: “We need leaders who will stand against Common Core.”
Finding the common bonds that help us realize that we have far more in common than that which separates us.
At the time, screen quotas were far more common among film producing industries.
The Smooth Naked Horsetail is a common plant, specially by the sides of streams and pools.
I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
Diplococci without capsules are common in the sputum, but have no special significance.
He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.