(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.
Uncommon
Definition:
(a.) Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(2) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
(3) Leprosy is an uncommon disease in Saudi population.
(4) Three diagnoses or less per patient were not uncommon; more than three diagnoses per patient were uncommon.
(5) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(6) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
(7) It is uncommon in children and usually associated with disease not localised to the gallbladder.
(8) The peculiar aspects of uncommon causes of IVH are discussed on the basis of a review of the literature.
(9) Although uncommon, the occurrence of seizures and elevated aminotransferase values are potentially serious side effects of clomipramine.
(10) ST-segment elevation is an uncommon finding in these patients and does not reliably differentiate those with and without fixed CAD.
(11) Substantial variations were identified in the point of origin of 6 of 41 arterial branches; extra vessels and absence of vessels were uncommon.
(12) When arterial lines are maintained for even a few days, it is not uncommon that some form of complication develops at the arterial site, such as redness, inflammation, positional problems, or even infection.
(13) Efferent units with spontaneous activity were uncommon at the start of the recording sessions but were more frequently encountered later in the experiments.
(14) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
(15) D. latum infection has been an uncommon intestinal parasitosis, but it tends to increase nowadays.
(16) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
(17) The literature on this uncommon syndrome was reviewed and it was found that there are an open prevalence of this entity in children younger than 15 years, as well as severe respiratory complications in affected patients.
(18) It is not uncommon for thyrotoxicosis to appear in an atypical manner in older patients.
(19) Foregut cysts are uncommon congenital defects of the developing airway and gut.
(20) Strains of this phage type were uncommon among patients attending the casualty department, and those found were usually either fully sensitive to antibiotics or resistant to benzylpenicillin only.