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communal

/kuh-myoon-l, kom-yuh-nl/US // kəˈmyun l, ˈkɒm yə nl //UK // (ˈkɒmjʊnəl) //

社区,公用的,公用,社区的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
    • : of, by, or belonging to the people of a community; shared or participated in by the public: communal land; Building the playground was a communal project.
    • : pertaining to a commune or a community: communal life.
    • : engaged in by or involving two or more communities: communal conflict.

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Examples

  • You might catch baby rats mischievously battling to figure out how to fight, or Komodo dragons sticking their heads into buckets to learn about communal feeding.

  • The large chains have introduced apps that turn your smartphone into a remote control to avoid touching communal buttons or screens.

  • This same complex communal response helped fuel the riots in Kenosha last week.

  • Food items for lunch and dinner are available from points on each floor at specified times and communal areas are cleaned every 15 minutes.

  • So, first I’d have a talk with the renter and point out that – in a communal environment, especially in times of a public health crisis – everyone’s actions affect everyone else.

  • The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.

  • It was about his art-making, but the communal life was based on erotic liberation.

  • Elsewhere, the bi-communal separation continues, with fierce nationalists seemingly intent on cementing this divide.

  • Contestants, huddled on the couches of a communal room, clutched their faces in shock and some broke into sobs.

  • Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation.

  • One important characteristic of the communal animals is that they become mentally specialized.

  • The hive bee, the most communal in habit, shows the highest traits of intelligent activity.

  • The social animals differ from the communal in that the individuality of the members is fully preserved.

  • The result of such a process of evolution in the case of the communal animals is a strict specialism.

  • While only in minor traits communal, they are eminently social, and have doubtless derived great advantage from this.