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 com·mon /ˈkɑmən/
 (a.)公共的,共同的,普通的,一般的平民;公地;眾議院,下院

 com·mon /ˈkɑmən/ 形容詞
 共同的,總的,普通的,通常的

 common
 共用的

 common
 公用 共用

 Com·mon a. [Compar. Commoner superl. Commonest.]
 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
    Though life and sense be common to men and brutes.   --Sir M. Hale.
 2. 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.
    Such actions as the common good requireth.   --Hooker.
    The common enemy of man.   --Shak.
 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
    Grief more than common grief.   --Shak.
 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
    The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life.   --W. Irving.
 This fact was infamous
 And ill beseeming any common man,
 Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.   --Shak.
    Above the vulgar flight of common souls.   --A. Murphy.
 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.]
    What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.   --Acts x. 15.
 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
    A dame who herself was common.   --L'Estrange.
 Common bar Law Same as Blank bar, under Blank.
 Common barrator Law, one who makes a business of instigating litigation.
 Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas.
 Common brawler Law, one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler.
 Common carrier Law, one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself.
 Common chord Mus., a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth.
 Common council, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation.
 Common crier, the crier of a town or city.
 Common divisor Math., a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure.
 Common gender Gram., the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender.
 Common law, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton.
 Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from statute law. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See Law.
 Common lawyer, one versed in common law.
 Common lewdness Law, the habitual performance of lewd acts in public.
 Common multiple Arith. See under Multiple.
 Common noun Gram., the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing).
 Common nuisance Law, that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large.
 Common pleas, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court. Its powers are generally defined by statute.
 Common prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
 Common school, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all.
 Common scold Law, a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public.
 Common seal, a seal adopted and used by a corporation.
 Common sense. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under Sense.
 Common time Mus., that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions.
 In common, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally.
 Out of the common, uncommon; extraordinary.
 Tenant in common, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See Joint tenant, under Joint.
 To make common cause with, to join or ally one's self with.
 Syn: -- General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See Mutual, Ordinary, General.

 Com·mon n.
 1. The people; the community. [Obs.] “The weal o' the common.”
 2. 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.
 3. Law 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.
 Common appendant, a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell.
 Common appurtenant, a similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs.
 Common because of vicinage or Common because of neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields. - - Common in gross or Common at large, a common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. --Blackstone.
 Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate.
 Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. --Burill.
 Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging to another.
 Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

 Com·mon, v. i.
 1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs.]
    Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.   --Grafton.
 2. To participate. [Obs.]
 3. To have a joint right with others in common ground.
 4. To board together; to eat at a table in common.
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 common
      adj 1: 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" [ant: individual]
      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" [ant: uncommon]
      3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common
         friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
         [syn: mutual]
      4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint";
         "the usual greeting" [syn: usual]
      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"
         [syn: vernacular, vulgar]
      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"
         [syn: plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
      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" [syn: coarse]
      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" [syn: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
      9: to be expected; standard; "common decency"
      n : a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
          "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons,
           green]