Dictionary entry
Common land
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Myanmar Meaning
(n) [U] ဘုံလယ်ယာ။
Definition
common /'kɒmǝn/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ေတြ႕ေနက်၊ ျဖစ္ေနက် စသည္။ သာမန္။ a common flower/sight/occurrence ❍ Doctors are still trying to find a cure for the common cold. ❍ Is this word in common use? (ie Is it commonly used?) ❍ Smith is a common English surname. ❍ Robbery is not common in this area. ❍ Car thefts are becoming increasingly common. Compare UNCOMMON ၂။ ~ (to sb/sth) အမ်ားႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ ဘံု။ common property/ownership ❍ We share a common purpose. ❍ He and I have a common interest: we both collect stamps. ❍ He is French and she is German, but they have English as a common language (ie they can both speak English). ❍ measures taken for the common good (ie for the benefit of everyone) ❍ A fruity quality is common to all wine made from this grape. ၃။ သာမန္။ He's not an officer, but a common soldier. ❍ the common people (ie the average citizens of a country) ❍ He's nothing less than a common criminal. ၄။ ( derog ) အဆင့္အတန္းမရိွေသာ။ ေအာက္တန္းက်ေသာ။ She's so common, shouting like that so all the neighbours can hear! ၅။ ( mathematics ) ဘံု(ကိန္း)။ a common factor/multiple. See also COMMON DENOMINATOR n (ရြာပိုင္) ကြင္းျပင္။ လြင္။ cows grazing on the common ❍ go for a walk on the common. Compare COMMON LAND ❏ common decency n [U] ေလာကဝတ္။ You'd think he'd have the common decency to apologize for what he said. ❏ common denominator n ၁။ ( mathematics ) ဘံုပိုင္းေျခ။ ၂။ အမ်ားလက္ခံသည့္အယူအဆ၊ သေဘာထား။ have difficulty finding a common denominator between them in terms of style. See also LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR ❏ common ground n [U] အေျခခံတူညီမႈ။ The two rival parties have no common ground between them. ❏ common land n [U] ဘံုလယ္ယာ။ Compare COMMON n ❏ common law n [U] (အဂၤလိပ္) ေရွးထံုးတမ္းဥပေဒ၊ ျဖတ္ ထံုး။ Compare CASE-LAW, STATUTE LAW ❏ common-law wife, common-law husband ns ဓေလ့ထံုးတမ္းအရ လင္မယားအရာေျမာက္သူ။ ပုဆိုးတန္းတင္ လင္မယား။ ❏ commonly adv ၁။ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္။ It's a commonly held opinion. ❍ Thomas, commonly known as Tom. ❍ The disease is less rare than commonly supposed. ၂။ ( derog ) ေအာက္တန္းက်က်။ ❏ the Common Market n [sing] = THE EUROPEAN UNION ❏ common noun n ( grammar ) အမ်ားဆိုင္နာမ္။ (eg book, dog, house or knife). ❏ common or garden [ IDM ] သာမန္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ It isn't a rare bird, just a common or garden sparrow. ❏ common-room n ( Brit ) (ဆရာ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား) နားေနခန္း။ the sixth-form common-room. ❏ common sense n [U] ဘဝေပးအသိ။ သာမန္အသိ။ လူၿပိန္းသိ။ It's common sense to keep medicines away from children. ❍ I like her common-sense approach to everyday problems. ❏ the common touch [ IDM ] အမ်ားျပည္သူႏွင့္ ဝင္ဆံ့ျခင္း။ A politician needs the common touch. ❏ have sth in common (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] ဝါသနာ၊ စ႐ိုက္ စသည္ခ်င္း တူညီသည္။ အေျခခံသေဘာထားခ်င္း တူညီ သည္။ Jane and I have nothing in common. ❍ I have nothing in common with Jane. ❏ in common [ IDM ] အမ်ားပိုင္။ ဘံုပိုင္။ land owned in common by the residents. ❏ in common with sb/sth [ IDM ] အမ်ားလိုပဲ ။ သူလို ကိုယ္လိုပဲ။ In common with many others, she is finding it hard to get a job. ❏ make common cause (with sb) [ IDM ] ( fml ) အက်ဳိး တူပူးေပါင္းသည္။ The rebel factions made common cause (with each other) to overthrow the regime.
Examples
- Mergers and takeovers have become increasingly common in recent years.
- The most common criticism was that he was always late.
- Today smog is a common occurrence in many major cities.
- [it is common for to do something] : It was common for children to play in the street.
- Member states also agreed to pursue a common trade policy.
- A group of people descended from a common ancestor
- [common language] : She was Swiss and I am from Vietnam
- so French was our common language.
- [common to] : These issues are common to all our clients.
- A common soldier/criminal
- [the common man] : This is true both for the philosopher and the common man.
- [the common people] : In the fifteenth century the common people could neither read nor write.
- [common courtesy] : It would only be common courtesy to return their hospitality.
- [common decency] : Why didn’t you have the common decency to inform your uncle of where you were going?
- He’s such a common little man.