| صيغ مركبة |
| by common consent adv | (by the agreement of everyone) | بإجماع الآراء |
| common ancestry n | (shared family history) | سلالة مشتركة النسب أو القرابة |
| | My friend and I always thought it was strange how we looked so alike until we discovered we shared a common ancestry. |
| common ancestry n | (species: shared descent) | سلالة منحدرة من نفس الصنف |
| | Apes and humans share a common ancestry. |
| common belief n | (idea shared by many people) | اعتقاد عام |
| | It is a common belief that education will improve your employment prospects. |
| common belief n | (mutual, shared opinion) | رأي مشترك |
| | It means a lot to both of us that, over the years, we continue to share many common beliefs. |
| common bond n | (sth shared, unifying) | مصالح مشتركة |
| | My common bond with him is that we grew up in the same neighborhood. |
| common carrier n | (company providing freight service) | شركة شحن |
| | That company is a common carrier both in California and Nevada. |
| common cold n | (cold virus) | إصابة برد |
| | There's no cure for the common cold. |
| common denominator n | literal (mathematics: shared quantity in fractions) | مقام مشترك |
| common denominator n | figurative (common or shared factor) | عامل مشترك |
| | Though the sisters were different in almost every way, one common denominator was their love of horses. |
| common good n | (benefit of everyone) | الصالح العام |
| | Being honest with each other is for the common good. |
| common ground n | (shared interests) | مصلحة مشتركة |
| | We started dating because we had a lot of common ground in our likes and dislikes. |
| common knowledge n | (sth that most people know) | معرفة مشتركة |
| | It was common knowledge among the staff that Bill had a drinking problem. |
| | Though Galileo was persecuted for saying this in the 17th century, it is now common knowledge that the earth orbits around the sun. |
| common law, common-law n | (informal but recognized status) | قانون عام |
| ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is an adj before a noun |
| | Though they never married, they lived together long enough to be considered common-law partners. |
| common man n | (ordinary citizen, lay person) | رجل عادي |
| common man n | (commoner, without title) | رجل من عامة الناس |
| common ownership n | (joint ownership, trusteeship) | ملكية مشتركة |
| | The condominium owners have common ownership of the public areas. |
| common people n | (ordinary people) | عامة الناس |
| | They don't stand out for any particular reason, they're just common people. |
| common people n | (working-class people) | طبقة العمال |
| | God must have loved the common people, he made so many of them. A. Lincoln |
| common phrase n | (much-used expression) | عبارة شائعة |
| | It takes awhile to learn the common phrases in a foreign language. |
| common practice n | (sth customary, sth often done) | عرف، إجراء متبع |
| | It is common practice to speak softly in a library. |
| | It's common practice to shake hands in business affairs. |
| common saying n | (much-used expression or proverb) | مثل سائر |
| | When I use a common saying it's folk wisdom, and when you use it, it's called a cliché. |
| common sense n | (practical thinking) | الذوق العام |
| | | حسن التمييز |
| common source n | (frequent place of origin) | مصدر عام |
| | Poorly built homes are a common source of law suits. |
| | The Internet is now a common source of information. |
| common source n | (shared origin ) | مصدر مشترك |
| | All Indo-European languages are thought to come from a common source. |
| common stock n | (animal: not of pure breeding) | فصيلة حيوان عامة |
| | Breeding the common stock with purebreds improves the quality of the herd. |
| common stock n | pejorative (person: working-class background) | شخص ينتمي للطبقة العاملة |
| | They're not in our class, dear. They come from common stock. |
| common stock n | (finance: a type of capital stock) | الأسهم العادية المحررة (المباعة) |
| | The company issues two classes of equity: common stock and preferred stock. |
| common-law, common law adj | (unofficial, not formalized) | عام، تقليديّ |
| ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is a noun or an adj before a noun |
| common-law marriage n | (partnership not formalized by marriage ceremony) | زواج عرفي |
| | When a common law marriage exists, the spouses receive the same legal treatment given to legally married couples |
| common-law wife n | (woman in a partnership not formalized by marriage) | زوجة بالقانون العرفي |
| | John had more than one common-law wife, though he was never married. |
| have little in common v | (have few similarities or shared interests) | يمتلك القليل من المزايا المشتركة مع شخص آخر |
| | The rich have little in common with the poor. |
| have nothing in common v | (have no similarities or shared interests) | لا يوجد لديه امور مشتركة مع |
| | At first glance she seems to have nothing in common with her boyfriend. |
| have things in common v | (have similarities or shared interests) | يوجد لديه أشياء مشتركة مع |
| | Luckily, they get on well as they have so many things in common. |
| in common adv | (shared, mutually) | على نحو مشترك أو متبادل |
| | My best friend and I get on well because we have so many things in common,. |
| least common denominator n | (mathematics: lowest common multiple) | المقام المشترك الأصغر |
| | The least common denominator of the two fractions 1/6 and 1/4 is 12. |
| least common multiple n | (mathematics: lowest common denominator) | المضاعف المشترك الأصغر |
| lowest common denominator n | (mathematics: least common multiple) | العامل المشترك الأصغر |
| lowest common denominator n | figurative (people with least education, understanding) | العامل المشترك الأصغر |
| | The movie was crude and superficial, appealing to the lowest common denominator. |
| make common cause with vtr | (unite, join forces with) | يتّحد مع |
| | The union made common cause with the government in an effort to keep the factory from leaving town. |
