What's the difference between commonplace and remarkable?

Commonplace


Definition:

  • (a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • (n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
  • (n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
  • (v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
  • (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (2) Knowledge of the normal radiographic appearance of ASD occlusion devices and the findings in various complications will be necessary for radiologists as transcatheter ASD closure becomes more commonplace.
  • (3) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (4) Emergency medical response to a scene where hazardous materials are potentially involved is becoming more commonplace.
  • (5) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
  • (6) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
  • (7) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (8) Supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias remain relatively commonplace in the ICU.
  • (9) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (10) The camera’s capers have almost become so commonplace that some presenters just ignore them.
  • (11) Hepatic transplantation is now a relatively commonplace procedure, performed at many institutions around the world.
  • (12) Talk about corruption in Russia is commonplace and in our history there have been attempts to curb it through repression.
  • (13) But although the technology has become commonplace in Japan, where it was first developed, banks in Britain say it could be years before they appear on UK high streets.
  • (14) Although advanced gastrointestinal cancer is the most commonplace problem encountered by the medical oncologist, this group of diseases has proved exceedingly resistant to past chemotherapy efforts.
  • (15) But although he says he is against extrajudicial killing of criminals, the record in his city of Davao suggests such killings have been commonplace there.
  • (16) If listeners treat sinusoidal signals as speech signals however unlike speech they may be, then perception should exhibit the commonplace sensitivity to the dimensions of the originating vocal tract.
  • (17) The disease started with a commonplace contusion of the patella and rapidly progressed after arthrotomy.
  • (18) Automation of the assay is now commonplace, from reagent dispensing to automated reading of finished assay.
  • (19) Complaints that steel products are being exported below production cost (“dumped”) from China to the US and the EU are commonplace.
  • (20) Those are commonplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage.

Remarkable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
  • (2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
  • (3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (5) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
  • (6) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
  • (7) Tiropramide remarkably increased cAMP level but it had no effect on cGMP level in the bladder at the lower concentrations.
  • (8) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
  • (9) Specific antibody patterns in vaccinees were highly variable and in a small number of subjects a remarkable antibody titre decrease was noticed.
  • (10) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (11) Four of the tumours, 2 adenomas and 2 intramucosal carcinomas, having a remarkable macroscopic appearance like a large mucosal fold are especially mentioned.
  • (12) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
  • (13) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
  • (14) The iPTH values found in the hemofiltrate were remarkably high, a finding that could be explained by non-specific effects, by the occurrence of hormone fragments or by an increased secretion rate.
  • (15) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
  • (16) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
  • (17) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
  • (18) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
  • (19) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
  • (20) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.