Common decency

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

1. Mergers and takeovers have become increasingly common in recent years.
2. The most common criticism was that he was always late.
3. Today smog is a common occurrence in many major cities.
4. [it is common for to do something] : It was common for children to play in the street.
5. Member states also agreed to pursue a common trade policy.
6. A group of people descended from a common ancestor
7. [common language] : She was Swiss and I am from Vietnam
8. so French was our common language.
9. [common to] : These issues are common to all our clients.
10. A common soldier/criminal
11. [the common man] : This is true both for the philosopher and the common man.
12. [the common people] : In the fifteenth century the common people could neither read nor write.
13. [common courtesy] : It would only be common courtesy to return their hospitality.
14. [common decency] : Why didn’t you have the common decency to inform your uncle of where you were going?
15. He’s such a common little man.