What's the difference between common and mutual?

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.

Mutual


Definition:

  • (a.) Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.
  • (a.) Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (2) The aortic area (Torlin) for diseased stenotic aortic valves was calculated in 10 patients using two different methods; data obtained in preoperative cardiac catheterization and by intraoperative flowmetric and aortic and left ventricular pressure-recording measurements, and their mutual correlation was tested.
  • (3) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (4) There was a mutually reversible interaction between bicuculline and intrathecal administration of the GABAA agonist, muscimol (8.8 nmol), which alone decreased arterial pressure and heart rate.
  • (5) The significance of the present findings on the mutual suppression of metabolism between benzene and toluene is discussed in relation to solvent toxicology and biological monitoring of exposure to the solvents.
  • (6) However, it should be stressed that none of these mechanisms is mutually exclusive; indeed, the enormous complexity of tumor promotion suggests that several of the mechanisms discussed above may very well be interrelated.
  • (7) In 254 findings of the acid-base balance ions and proteins, the authors evaluated mutual relations between the acid-base balance and calculation from the anion column.
  • (8) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (9) Great morphological variability of Apiosoma is reflected in variability of shape and size of the body and mutual arrangement of micro--and macronucleus.
  • (10) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
  • (11) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (12) According to informal private communications, a new joint recommendation on RFR ELs for all countries belonging to the Council of Mutual Economic Cooperation (COMECON) is being developed.
  • (13) Plasmin and elastase may play mutual roles in thrombolysis, inflammation, and tumour invasion and metastasis.
  • (14) A simple equilibrium method for detecting and quantifying these interactions is to study the mutual influence of the molecules on their respective counter-current distribution in liquid-liquid biphasic systems.
  • (15) A cell fractionation procedure is described which allowed, by use of MOPC 21 (P3K) mouse plasmocytoma cells in culture, the separation of the cytoplasmic free and membrane-bound ribosomes in fractions devoid of mutual cross-contamination, and in which the polyribosomal structure was entirely preserved.
  • (16) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
  • (17) "Building societies and other mutual lenders continue to play a dominant role in supporting members of the UK public looking to buy a new home," said Paul Broadhead, head of mortgage policy at the BSA.
  • (18) The 140-year-old mutual, the UK's 12th largest building society, will confirm that it lost £26m last year after risky investments in the property market.
  • (19) It’s called freedom.” 4.25pm GMT Nato has released a statement of solidarity following its meeting called by Poland under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty providing for mutual consultation and support.
  • (20) As the Labour leadership accused the coalition of launching a smear campaign over the party's links with the disgraced chairman, a transcript of an interview with Balls in 2010 showed that he highlighted his role in helped to create Britain's "first ever 'super-mutual'".