commonness
普通性,共通性,共同点,共性
Related Words
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
Just as most happy eras are alike in similar ways, periods of darkness have more in common than they’re usually given credit for, and London in the early ’80s seems a not-so-distant reality from one we’re very familiar with.
Now, 84 years later, sprouts are as common as broccoli and kale, and the only still-novel thing about them may be how they grow.
This method is common for other types of at-home diagnostics, such as pregnancy tests.
These include software that can translate between 100 languages without using a common intermediary.
The most common type of ant that people find in their homes on the East Coast and in the Midwest is called the odorous house ant, and when squished, it releases a pheromone that smells like blue cheese.
It seemed as if Professor Theobald had suddenly become a stranger to her, whom she criticised, whose commonness of fibre, ah me!
Commonness vanished before Ewart, at his expository touch all things became memorable and rare.
This commonness of experience and of present effort had made him seem very near to her—very attainable.
The objection to machine products is often formulated as an objection to the commonness of such goods.
In it one rises to the stillness of production, wherein one bathes in mystery and potency and all commonness is cleansed away.