What's the difference between common and dominant?

Common


Definition:

  • (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
  • (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
  • (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
  • (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
  • (v.) Profane; polluted.
  • (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
  • (n.) The people; the community.
  • (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
  • (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
  • (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
  • (v. i.) To participate.
  • (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
  • (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (2) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (3) Melanoma is the second most common cancer, after testicular cancer, in males in the U.S. Navy.
  • (4) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (5) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (6) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (7) The common polyamines, spermidine and spermine, and histones were not substrates.
  • (8) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (9) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
  • (10) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
  • (11) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
  • (12) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
  • (13) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (14) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (15) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
  • (16) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (17) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
  • (18) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
  • (19) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (20) These are particularly common in the field of sport.

Dominant


Definition:

  • (a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
  • (n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
  • (3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (4) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
  • (6) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
  • (8) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (9) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (10) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
  • (11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
  • (12) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
  • (13) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
  • (14) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (16) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (17) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
  • (18) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
  • (19) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
  • (20) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.