(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.
Populace
Definition:
(n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
Example Sentences:
(1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(2) There can be little doubt that the populace, whose taxes should be used appropriately, would support such a move.
(3) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
(4) The populace chose to remain, wrongly believing the world would comply with legally binding obligations to protect them.
(5) Interestingly, also in 400 MS patients examined, hyperuricaemia or gout, which are widespread among the populace, were not found in a single case.
(6) Such decisions are likely to either under- or over-define the requirements and standards for food additives and other chemicals which are important to the well-being of the populace.
(7) We conclude that the primary MS affection (PMSA) is a single, widespread infectious disease whose acquisition in virgin populations follows two years of exposure starting between age 11 and 45, which then produces clinical neurologic MS (CNMS) in only a small proportion of the affected after an incubation period of 6 (virgin populace) or 12 (endemic areas) years, and which is transmissible only during the systemic PMSA phase which ends by age 27 or younger.
(8) The collective punishment of a populace has its own grim legacy in western historical memory.
(9) The regime is a source of violence, but people go there to avoid the violence.” But the manpower shortage remains the Assad regime’s achilles heel – it could never really defeat the country’s demographics, maintaining Alawite rule over an overwhelmingly Sunni populace, and it has faced significant challenges mobilising foot soldiers to fight its war.
(10) Over the course of these long transits of time and geography, the purpose of ideas and objects (like that of the gold coin in India) was frequently changed, lassoed by the local populace for their own use.
(11) The expulsion of the disgraced Bo Xilai from the party and, yesterday, from parliament, for, among other offences, corruption, is hardly likely to convince a sceptical populace that China's leaders are ready to clean up their act.
(12) Active modification of risk factors in the general populace would include using such methods as screening, education, and mass-media campaigns.
(13) Remember Dickens' contemporaries digested the books in shorter episodes – produced in instalments, discussed and relished by the populace as a kind of Victorian soap opera.
(14) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
(15) It is proposing to "support a set of measures" to develop digital audio broadcasting – DAB – radio, including extending its national multiplex beyond 90% of the UK populace and "initiating a stronger marketing effort co-ordinated across the industry".
(16) The government doesn’t drag people off the streets, but the populace acts as if it could be a possibility.
(17) The jury had been picked from the local populace, many of whom earned their living from the prison or had families and friends that worked there; all were white.
(18) In Dodoma Region of Tanzania, the populace consumes large numbers of ground nuts which are believed to predispose to liver cancer.
(19) Concern over potential eye injury from sunlight prompted this study to see if the levels of sunlight in Christchurch posed a particular risk to our population's eyes, whether the populace was aware of any risk and whether effective sunglasses were freely available to the public.
(20) The military incursion is welcomed by many of the populace.