different between common vs transverse

English

Etymology

From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gemeini, gamaini (“common”) in Old French), from Latin comm?nis (“common, public, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moy-ni- (“held in common”). Displaced native Middle English imene, ?em?ne (“common, general, universal”) (from Old English ?em?ne (“common, universal”)), Middle English mene, m?ne (“mean, common”) (also from Old English ?em?ne (“common, universal”)), Middle English samen, somen (“in common, together”) (from Old English samen (“together”)). Doublet of gmina.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?m'?n, IPA^(key): /?k?m?n/
• (General American) enPR: k?m'?n, IPA^(key): /?k?m?n/
• (obsolete) enPR: k?m'?n, IPA^(key): /?k?m?n/
• Rhymes: -?m?n
• Hyphenation: com?mon

Adjective

common (comparative commoner or more common, superlative commonest or most common)

1. Mutual; shared by more than one.

2. Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

3. Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.

   ' Commoner' used to be commoner, but 'more common' is now more common.

4. Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
   • 1893, Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics

     If it be asked wherein the utility of some modern extensions of mathematics lies, it must be acknowledged that it is at present difficult to see how they are ever to become applicable to questions of common life or physical science.

   • 1768, Arthur Murphy, Zenobia

     above the vulgar flight of common souls

   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

5. (grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.
6. (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
7. Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.
8. (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
9. (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.

Synonyms

• (mutual): mutual, shared; see also Thesaurus:joint
• (usual): normal, ordinary, standard, usual; see also Thesaurus:common
• (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity): widespread; see also Thesaurus:widespread
• (ordinary): common-or-garden, everyday; see also Thesaurus:normal
• (grammar, gender of coalescence of masculine of feminine): epicene
• (grammar, antonym of proper): appellative
• (vernacular): common parlance

Antonyms

• (mutual): personal, individual, peculiar; see also Thesaurus:sole
• (usual): special, exceptional, rare, uncommon; see also Thesaurus:strange
• (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity): rare, uncommon, few and far between
• (ordinary): exceptional, extraordinary, noteworthy, special
• (vernacular): technical term

See also

• (grammar, gender of coalescence of masculine of feminine): feminine, masculine, neuter

Translations

Noun

common (plural commons)

1. Mutual good, shared by more than one.
2. A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
3. The people; the community.
4. (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.

Translations

Verb

common (third-person singular simple present commons, present participle commoning, simple past and past participle commoned)

1. (obsolete) To communicate (something).
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans, Bible, Luke XXII:

     Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.

2. (obsolete) To converse, talk.
   • 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle

     Capitaine generall of Flaunders, which amiably enterteyned the sayd Duke, and after they had secretly commoned of.

3. (obsolete) To have sex.
4. (obsolete) To participate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas More to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Derived terms

References

• common at OneLook Dictionary Search
• common in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• common in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette