Common vs. Neuter
Commonadjective
Mutual; shared by more than one.
Commonadjective
Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
Commonadjective
Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.
Commonadjective
Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
Commonadjective
(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.
Commonadjective
(grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
Commonadjective
Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.
Commonadjective
(obsolete) Profane; polluted.
Commonadjective
(obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
Commonnoun
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
Commonnoun
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
Commonnoun
The people; the community.
Commonnoun
(legal) 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.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To communicate (something).
Commonverb
(obsolete) To converse, talk.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To have sex.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To participate.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Commonadjective
Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
Commonadjective
Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
Commonadjective
Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
Commonadjective
Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; - often in a depreciatory sense.
Commonadjective
Profane; polluted.
Commonadjective
Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
Commonnoun
The people; the community.
Commonnoun
An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
Commonnoun
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.
Commonverb
To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
Commonverb
To participate.
Commonverb
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
Commonverb
To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Commonnoun
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
Commonadjective
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public;
Commonadjective
of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual;
Commonadjective
common to or shared by two or more parties;
Commonadjective
commonly encountered;
Commonadjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
Commonadjective
of or associated with the great masses of people;
Commonadjective
of low or inferior quality or value;
Commonadjective
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
Commonadjective
to be expected; standard;
Neuteradjective
Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
Neuteradjective
(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
Neuteradjective
(grammar) Intransitive.
Neuteradjective
(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
Neuteradjective
(literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
Neuternoun
(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
Neuternoun
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
Neuternoun
(grammar) The neuter gender.
Neuternoun
(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
Neuternoun
(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
Neuterverb
To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
Neuterverb
To rid of sexuality.
Neuteradjective
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
Neuteradjective
Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
Neuteradjective
Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
Neuternoun
A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
Neuternoun
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
Neuternoun
An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
Neuterverb
To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; - in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.
Neuternoun
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Neuterverb
remove the ovaries of;
Neuteradjective
of grammatical gender;
Neuteradjective
having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
