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common flicker
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
common/ˈkɒmən/
▶adjective (commoner, commonest)
- 1 occurring, found, or done often; not rare.
■ without special rank or position; ordinary.
■ (of a quality) of a sort to be generally expected: common decency.
■ of the most familiar type.
- 2 shared by two or more people or things.
■ belonging to or affecting the whole of a community: common land.
■ Mathematics belonging to two or more quantities.
- 3 showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar.
- 4 Grammar of or denoting a noun that refers to individuals of either sex (e.g. teacher) or belongs to a gender conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine.
- 5 Prosody (of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
- 6 Law (of a crime) of lesser severity.
- 1 a piece of open land for public use.
- 2 a form of Christian service used for each of a group of occasions.
- 3 (also right of common) English Law a person's right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage.
– phrases
common ground views shared by each of two or more parties.
common or garden Brit. informal of the usual or ordinary type.
the common touch the ability to get on with ordinary people.
in common in joint use or possession; shared.
in common with in the same way as.
common ground views shared by each of two or more parties.
common or garden Brit. informal of the usual or ordinary type.
the common touch the ability to get on with ordinary people.
in common in joint use or possession; shared.
in common with in the same way as.
– derivatives
commonness noun.
commonness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. comun, from L. communis.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flicker1
▶verb
- 1 shine or burn unsteadily and fitfully.
- 2 (of a feeling) be briefly perceptible.
- 3 make small, quick movements.
– derivatives
flickering adjective & noun.
flickering adjective & noun.
– origin OE flicorian, flycerian ‘to flutter’, prob. of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flicker2
▶noun an American woodpecker that often feeds on ants on the ground. [Colaptes auratus (common or northern flicker) and related species.]
– origin C19: imitative of its call.
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