(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.
Undistinguished
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The background rhythmic burst activity was undistinguishable in both states.
(2) A former defender who packed in a fairly undistinguished playing career to become a fitness coach, Menezes's stints in charge of Gremio and Corinthians were his most high profile management gigs prior to getting the Brazil job.
(3) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
(4) Antisera prepared against axonal preparations isolated from bovine white matter only stained astroglia and were thus undistinguishable from anti-GFA sera in this respect.
(5) For a while Manchester United briefly threatened to add their name to what had hitherto been an undistinguished week for English teams in Europe’s premier club competition.
(6) Thin-section immunoelectron microscopy showed accumulation of viruslike particles undistinguished from immature HIV-1 virions in the culture medium of the cells infected with vC5.
(7) The midfield diamond, with Raheem Sterling at its front tip, was instrumental in making this one of the better performances of the Hodgson era and the level of opposition in Group E is so undistinguished it would need an extraordinary kind of meltdown now for England not to reach the tournament.
(8) Effects of Neurotropin, an analgesic and antiallergic drug, have been compared to those of an inert, undistinguishable placebo in a double-blind study on twelve experienced Sabena (Belgian national airline) Boeing-737 captains who were requested to operate in unexpected scenarios of emergency and ILS instrument approaches in a flight simulator of their company.
(9) These molecules were undistinguishable by gel electrophoresis analysis at six different acrylamide concentrations.
(10) But the trust, composed of 12 mostly undistinguished individuals, must acknowledge how wrong it was in selecting George Entwistle, an untried man who had risen without leaving much trace at the BBC.
(11) On the other hand, inhibition of 80% (average) of the proteinase activity by means of previous incubation of the trophozoites with human a2M gave way to minimal inflammatory lesions almost undistinguishable from the controls which were injected with PBS-A.
(12) The homogeneous enzyme appears to be undistinguishable from the corresponding enzyme derived from sheep lactating mammary gland, as judged by acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and by titration with antibodies raised against the enzyme purified from liver.
(13) Once back at school, he was a lonely child who suffered from dyslexia and had an undistinguished academic career.
(14) Delays in binding were not caused by different enzymatic activities, since 218 R1 and 218 R2 produce, in similar amounts, beta-lactamases undistinguishable in isoelectric point and Km of cephaloridine.
(15) On the contrary, in the late stages of renal amyloidosis, when pathologic changes lead to progressive nephrosclerosis, US findings appear aspecific, since they are undistinguishable from the patterns observed in other renal medical disorders.
(16) The SLE vacuolar myopathy is a pathological entity clinically undistinguishable from SLE myositis.
(17) Furthermore, the symptomatology they induce is undistinguishable from that induced by cardiotoxins.
(18) The BUDR-treated cultures were undistinguishable from the untreated mother cultures after 2 to 3 passages.
(19) To look at, it is a distinctly undistinguished and desolate-looking piece of utilitarian 1940s architecture.
(20) Klebocin with homologous activity on K. pneumoniae seemed to be undistinguishable from the compound with heterologous action on Staphylococci in the aspects that were characterized in this work; both were heat labile to the same degree; optimum pH was 7, acidity decreased klebocin activity more intensely than alkaline pH.