(n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
(n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
(n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.
(n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.
(n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.
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.
Concept
Definition:
(n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) 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.
(3) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(4) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(5) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(6) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(7) The data also support the concept that IgE and IgG4 are not elevated in these patients.
(8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(9) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(10) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(11) Homologous insemination in 52 couples during a period of one year yields a conception rate of 38.5%.
(12) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
(13) The timing of the occurrence of the disease is closely related to the conceptional age of the infant rather than weeks post birth, birth weight, gestational age at birth.
(14) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(15) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(16) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
(17) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(18) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
(19) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(20) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.