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Definition: Common |
CommonAdjective1. Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community". 2. Of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap". 3. Common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor". 4. Commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting". 5. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species". 6. Of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses". 7. Of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population". 8. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich". 9. To be expected; standard; "common decency". Noun1. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "common" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Term applied to wines which are sound but without any special quality. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In North American grading rules a collective term for a)medium and low-grade hardwood lumber; b)softwood lumber suitable for general construction and manufacture; c)grades of lumber containing defects that render it unsuitable for finish. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Mutual, Common. Some men seek to be great by copying great men's faults. Dickens may say "Our Mutual Friend," but Dickens's strong point was not grammar. If you have a friend in common with Smith, in speaking of him to Smith, say our common friend. The word mutual should always convey a sense of reciprocity, as "Happy in our mutual help and mutual love." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Common (aka Common Sense, born Lonnie Rashied Lynn) is a Chicago-based alternative hip hop artist. Common debuted in 1992 (see 1992 in music) with the single "Take It EZ" and the LP Can I Borrow a Dollar. Though popular success was virtually nonexistent, Common established a solid fanbase among alternative rap fans, in spite of critical criticism for misogyny.In 1997 (see 1997 in music), Common released One Day It'll All Make Sense, which included nu soul artists like Lauryn Hill along with rappers like Q-Tip and Black Thought. The album was critically acclaimed, and led to his major label contract with MCA Records.
With ?estlove producing, 2000's Like Water for Chocolate was almost a breakthrough success, and greatly expanded his fanbase among critics and listeners. His latest album, Electric Circus (2002, 2002 in music) was similarly successful.
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Common Tern Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Sternidae Genus: Sterna Species: hirundo Binomial name Sterna hirundo The Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution breeding in temperate and sub-arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans.
This species breeds in colonies on coasts and islands and often inland on suitable waters. This latter practice is assisted by the provision of floating "tern rafts" to give a safe breeding area. It lays two to four eggs. Like all white terns, it is fiercely defensive of its nest and young and will attack humans and other large predators, usually attacking the back of the head. It is too small to cause serious injury, and rarely draws blood, a distinction from the sharper-billed Arctic Tern.
Like all Sterna terns, Common Tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. It usually dives directly, and not from the "stepped-hover" favoured by Arctic Tern. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
This is a medium-sized tern, most readily confused within its range with the similar Arctic Tern Sterna pardisaea and Roseate Tern Sterna dougalli .
Its thin sharp bill is red with a dark tip. Its longish legs are also red. Its upperwings show a dark primary wedge, unlike Arctic, in which they are uniformly grey. Its long tail extends only to the wingtips on the standing bird, unlike Arctic and Roseate Terns, which extend past the wingtips. It is not as pale as Roseate Tern, and has longer wings.
In winter, the forehead and underparts are white. Juvenile Common Terns show extensive ginger coloration and lack the scaly appearance of juvenile Roseate Terns.
The call is a clear piping, like Arctic Tern.
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Commoner is a social class term used to describe people who are not of royal blood. It is sometimes mistaken as referring to those not of noble blood, but this is incorrect; Lady Diana Spencer, though the daughter of Earl Spencer, was described as a commoner at the time of her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales, as was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) at the time of her marriage to Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI.The most famous continued usage of the reference is found in the term House of Commons (literally House of Commoners), through ironically its sister chamber, the House of Lords, was also largely made up of commoners, ie, members of the peerage who were not of royal birth. In practice those holding peerages are not called commoners but nobles, ie, those of had been ennobled, that is had been made a peer by the monarch or by birth.
In some British universities (notably Oxford and Cambridge), a commoner is an undergraduate student who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
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Commons are any sets of resources that a community recognises as being accessible to any member of that community. The nature of commons is different in different communities, but they often include cultural resources and natural resources. An example of a cultural resource is a place "where everybody knows your name" (as in the TV program, Cheers); Ref. the book "The Great Good Place" by Ray Oldenburg.
The most widespread instance of a common is the public right-of-way, a.k.a. public roads.
While commons are generally seen as a system opposed to private property, the ideas have been combined in the idea of "common property", which are resources "owned" equally by every member of the community, even though the community recognises that only a limited number of members may use the resource at any given time.
The act of transferring resources from the commons to individual ownership is known as "enclosure."
The commons in English common-law (History)
See also:
- Tragedy of the commons
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COBOL | English | Common Business oriented language | Computing |
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Synonyms: CommonSynonyms: coarse (adj), mutual (adj), plebeian (adj), uncouth (adj), unwashed (adj), usual (adj), vernacular (adj), vulgar (adj), commons (n), green (n), park (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: commonage (food & agriculture, real estate). |
| Antonyms: individual (adj), uncommon (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. |
Conformity | Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday. |
Generality | Universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with. |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
Normality | Adjective: normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency); |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Unimportance | Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable. |
Vulgarity | Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | After all your posturing, all your speeches, you're nothing but a common thief (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Hey, you and I have something in common - we both eat Chinese (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Then you and I have something in common. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) We've got a lot in common. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher) Common sense and a guy in a wheelchair (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | Marching in a common band (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler) Yeah, there's one thing in common that we both share (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) Common Dj play that song (Play; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) Oh the war is common cry, Pick up you swords and fly. (The battle of evermore; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) Just common folks like you and me (When the Lights Go Out; performing artist: Oingo Boingo) | |
Clever | Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. (references; author: Mark Twain) It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (references; author: Mark Twain) The most common name in the world is Mohammed. (references; author: unknown) The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is because they have a common enemy. (references; author: unknown) What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide? A fart. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fanfare for the Common Man (1974) The Common (1973) Nothing But Common Sense (1972) Common Law Cabin (1967) For the Common Defense! (1942) | |
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 | The delicate, hazy, tan macular rim of this lesion, although not clinically dramatic, represents persistent melanocytic proliferation beyond the lateral limits of the common mole at its center. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Natural history of common acquired nevi. Ordinary moles begin as uniformly tan or brown macules, 1 to 2 mm in diameter (a), expand to a larger macule (b), progress to a pigmented papule that may be minimally (c) or obviously (d) elevated above the surface of the skin, and terminate as a pink or flesh-colored papule (e). These lesions are junctional (a,b), compound (c,d), and dermal (e) nevi, respectively. Note their smooth borders and clear demarcation from the surrounding skin. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Leaves in threes characterize poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans. This plant is common in the eastern United States. Credit: CDC. |  | This image shows the common characteristics of Culex mosquitoes. In the United States, West Nile virus is transmitted by infected mosquitoes, primarily members of the genus Culex. Credit: CDC. |
 | Wrecks between two galaxies were a common occurrence in the early cosmos. But pileups among ... Credit: NASA. |  | The first guyot -discovered by Harry Hess of Princeton University Flat-topped seamounts which are common in the Pacific Discovered by Hess as naval officer in WWII. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Astoria Channel - to the west of Oregon continental slope Note small ridge-like structures running left to right in image These are artifacts of sounding system and common on flat bottom These artifacts are parallel to survey ship tracks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Oiled Spartina - a cordgrass common in coastal marshes. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Close-up of oiled Spartina - a cordgrass common in coastal marshes. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Some common groundfish from the waters around South Georgia Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Common lizard" by L L Commentary: "This was taken by David Towers when he was 16. The lizard was photographed in the wild, near the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland." | "Common flowers" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Very common macro shot of flowers..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bernard Joseph Saurin | Valor is common but great souls are rare. |
Emerson | Cant is good to provoke common sense. |
George Meredith | That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Common sense is calculation applied to life. |
James Shirley | Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. |
Mandell Creighton | All true knowledge contradicts common sense. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Absence -- that common cure of love. |
Plato | Friends have all things in common. |
Seneca | The best ideas are common property. |
Sir Edward Coke | Common law is above Parliament and the King. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in some fixed place. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | He by his labour does, as it were, inclose it from the common. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Members of the League recognise that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | In these States control is enforced upon the common people by various kinds of all-embracing police governments. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In the South, the movement toward free common schools, supported [347 U.S. 483, 490] by general taxation, had not yet taken hold. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are --but as a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Here the Empress experienced one of those flashes of Common Sense which were the surprise of all around her. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It was debated whether or no, with safety to the common weal, yonder scarlet letter might be taken off your bosom |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The common herd is an old Narcissus, who adores himself, and who applauds the common |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Aubrey and Stephen had a common milkman and often they drove out in the milkcar to Carrickmines where the cows were at grass |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They give me a new sense of the variety and capacity of that nature which is our common dwelling |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Epilepsy is common. (references) | |
Sports injuries are common. (references) | ||
Blood tests are most common. (references) | ||
Business | Both of these are common in Denmark. (references) | |
Credit terms of 30-60-90 days are common. (references) | ||
Hypermarkets are not too common in Germany. (references) | ||
Children | Yemen | Child marriage is common in rural areas. (references) |
Bolivia | Corporal punishment and verbal abuse are common in schools. (references) | |
Djibouti | Child abuse exists; however, except for FGM, it is not thought to be common. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | Peaceful demonstrations were common. (references) |
Taiwan | Foreign travel by passport holders is common. (references) | |
Mauritius | Libel suits between private parties are common. (references) | |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | Cabinet changes are common. (references) |
Nigeria | Tax evasion is very common. (references) | |
Burundi | Kirundi is the common language. (references) | |
Human Rights | Suriname | Beatings by police are common. (references) |
Georgia | Lengthy trial delays were common. (references) | |
Angola | Delays of 2 or 3 years are common. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Ecuador | Land is scarce in the more heavily populated highland areas, where high infant mortality, malnutrition, and epidemic disease are common. (references) |
Guatemala | Indigenous people were the most common victims of extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights abuses during the internal conflict. (references) | |
Guatemala | Since 1999 there have been no reports of schools denying children the right to wear traditional indigenous dress, a common complaint under the previous administration. (references) | |
Minorities | Albania | Intermarriage among religious groups is extremely common. (references) |
Gabon | Urban neighborhoods are not segregated ethnically; interethnic marriage was common. (references) | |
Lesotho | Most citizens speak a common language and share common historical and cultural traditions. (references) | |
Political Economy | HAITI | Reports of abuse are common. (references) |
Philippines | Long delays in trials were common. (references) | |
Sudan | Gender segregation is common in social settings. (references) | |
Political Rights | Monaco | The 1962 Constitution cannot be suspended, but it can be revised by common agreement between the Prince and the elected National Council. (references) |
Comoros | The declaration called for the creation of a new Comorian entity, in which the islands would share a common policy on religion, nationality, currency, foreign relations, and defense. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | The seven emirate rulers, their extended families, and those persons and families to whom they are allied by historical ties, marriage, or common interest hold political and economic power in their respective emirates. (references) | |
Trade | Portugal | Intercompany borrowing is also common. (references) |
Australia | The first and most common, is the transaction value method. (references) | |
Spain | The EU common customs apply to the mainland and Balearic Isles. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Tipping is common in Mexico. (references) |
Nigeria | Follow-up visits are common. (references) | |
Egypt | Arabic is the common language. (references) | |
Women | Bhutan | Divorce is common. (references) |
Morocco | Spousal violence is common. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Prostitution is legal and common. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ethiopia | Child domestic workers are common. (references) |
Tajikistan | Debt bondage is a common form of control. (references) | |
China | Workplace-based worker congresses are common. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | That's right. It's insane the way they are trying to make it un-American, to have a different idea about the way we should handle a common problem. |
Jeffrey Koplan | Well, it shows what a word and a disease that was very obscure to all of us just a couple weeks ago, has now become common in our discussions, and even in children's knowledge. |
Pierce Brosnan | There's a certain typecasting there. But this is about a common and that's kind of closer to who I am than Remington Steele or James Bonds. You know, I'm Irish. I'm a father. |
Rush Limbaugh | I'm just standing up for common sense and brains, because I do not allow myself to get trapped by emotions. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Democratic systems are being fostered to the end that the voice of the common man may be heard in the councils of his government. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Every member of NATO stands with us in a common commitment to preserve this symbol of free man's will to remain free. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Men want to be a part of a common enterprise--a cause greater than themselves. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | So let us all now join together in firming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | My friends in this chamber, we can bring the same courage and sense of common purpose to the economy that we brought to Desert Storm. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our common ground is shifting out from under us. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Government has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. |
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| "Common" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.29% of the time. "Common" is used about 17,391 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.29% | 16,920 | 552 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.37% | 413 | 13,687 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.32% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17,391 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "common" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Common | Last name | 200 | 36,061 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "common". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Publius | N/A | Biblical | Common |
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Expressions using "common": A common multiple ♦ Accidental Common Vocal ♦ as was common ♦ Austin Kyoto Common Lisp ♦ book of Common Prayer ♦ butterfly Common LISP ♦ by common assent ♦ by common consent ♦ Central American Common Market ♦ cmu Common Lisp ♦ common access channel ♦ common adder ♦ common ageratum ♦ common alder ♦ common Algorithmic Language ♦ common allamanda ♦ common alum ♦ common aluminum ♦ common American shad ♦ common amsinckia ♦ common ancestor ♦ Common appendant ♦ common application service element ♦ common Applications Environment ♦ common Applications Service Element ♦ Common appurtenant ♦ common apricot ♦ common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol ♦ common area ♦ common arrowhead ♦ common as dirt ♦ Common at large ♦ common auxiliaries ♦ common ax ♦ common axe ♦ common bamboo ♦ common bar ♦ common barberry ♦ common barley ♦ Common barrator ♦ common basil ♦ common battery ♦ common bean ♦ common bean plant ♦ common bearberry ♦ Common because of ♦ Common because of neighborhood ♦ Common because of vicinage ♦ common beech ♦ common beet ♦ common beetroot ♦ Common Bench ♦ Common Bile Duct ♦ Common Bile Duct Calculi ♦ Common Bile Duct Diseases ♦ Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Common Bile Duct Obstruction ♦ common birch ♦ common bird cherry ♦ common blackfish ♦ common bog rosemary ♦ common booklouse ♦ common box ♦ common brant goose ♦ Common brawler ♦ common broom ♦ common burdock ♦ common Business Oriented Language ♦ common buttercup ♦ common calamint ♦ common camas ♦ common canary ♦ common caper ♦ common cardinal vein ♦ common carline thistle ♦ common carotid ♦ common carotid artery ♦ common carrier ♦ common case ♦ common cause ♦ Common causes of constipation ♦ common chickweed ♦ common chord ♦ common cockscomb ♦ common cold ♦ common comfrey ♦ common Command Set ♦ common Communication Services ♦ common control ♦ common coral tree ♦ common core ♦ common corn salad ♦ common costs ♦ common cotton grass ♦ common council ♦ Common crier ♦ common crime ♦ common daisy ♦ common dandelion ♦ common debtor ♦ common denominator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "common": common-base, common-carrier, common-carrier network, common-channel, common-collector, common-core, common-crime, common-denominator, common-earth, common-emitter, common-envelope, common-format, common-grazing, common-ground, Common-ISDN-API, common-know, common-land, common-law, common-law marriage, common-man, common-mode, common-or-garden, common-place, common-places, common-prim, common-room, common-rooms, common-sense, common-senseless, common-sensical, common-source, common-user, common-weale, common-wealth-men, common-yard. | |
Ending with "common": all-too-common, anti-common, tenancy-in-common. | |
Containing "common": Father-in-common-law. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
