(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.
Superpose
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
(v. t.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is demonstrated that this method is very efficient for finding the correct superposing mode in such systems where hydrogen bonds play important roles.
(2) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(3) On the other hand, counterparts of the C spikes were initial depolarization with a superposed spike burst followed by relatively shorter lasting hyperpolarization which seemed to indicate an enhancement of excitation during the kindling process.
(4) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
(5) In the 3 cases, plain chest X-ray showed regular homogeneous radiolucency superposed on cardiac shadow.
(6) Lineweaver-Burk plots for insulin as varied substrate were linear, whereas those for the thiol substrates were nonlinears: the plots for low molecular weight monothiols (GSH and mercaptoethanol) were parabolic; those for low molecular weight dithiols (dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoic acid, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol) were apparently linear modified by substrate inhibition; and the plots for protein polythiols (reduced insulin A and B chains and reduced ribonuclease) were parabolic with superposed substrate inhibition.
(7) In 15-21-day-old rats subjected to pilocarpine-induced convulsions high voltage fast activity superposed over hippocampal theta-rhythm, progressed into high voltage spiking and spread to cortical records.
(8) delta-activity is no contra-indication, when faster activity is superposed.
(9) The observation was confirmed by a reclassification through nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis of K(1) and K(2) which revealed a correct classification in the pathological range for all factor deficiencies investigated with the exception of factors VIII and IX, the distribution patterns of which were superposed within the limits of distribution.
(10) The accuracy and reproducibility for superposing myocardial images by this digital technique are found to be well within the spatial resolution (FWHM) of the imaging system of the Tl-201 tracer studied.
(11) The main features of this model consist in a subdividing of the whole process in growth parts with a biological meaning, and in a mathematical description of these parts which are mutually independent but superposing one with another.
(12) If the best 203 alpha-carbon atoms are superposed, then an rms deviation of 0.05 nm is obtained (Gros et al.
(13) A consistent interpretation is possible if the linearly superposed displays are assumed to indicate the state of an autonomous optimizer with n linearly independent subfunctionals.
(14) A method is discussed for finding the transformations that mutually superpose an arbitrary number of structures in the least-squares sense given specified atom-to-atom correspondence.
(15) The basic mechanism is connected with the presence of vascular congenital malformation (a. trigemini primitiva persistens), second mechanism is associated with immunologic events (leucopenia-dyshematopoiesis) in which central nervous system is secondarily involved with headaches partly superposed and personality features mildly neurotic, which would represent the third etiologic factor.
(16) The alterations caused by exogenous catecholamines are superposed by alterations caused by emotional stress (injection, tooth extraction).
(17) The markers of the 16-week tracing were superposed on the markers of the 6-week tracing.
(18) The time course of this audiospinal facilitation was superposed over the EMG events during hopping to a simplified musical stimulus.
(19) by superposing in flash on a step of light which was strong enough to saturate the L.R.P.
(20) Incremental flashes superposed on a steady light of increasing intensity evoked responses that had a progressively shorter time-to-peak and faster relaxation, another sign of light adaptation.