Attender vs Common - What's the difference?
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An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting etc.
* 1850 , William Ellis, Alice Ellis and James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton , page 305, H. Longstreth
* 1900 , James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism , page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.
* 1950 , Harold Spears, The High School for Today , page 2, American Book Co.
* 2000 , Linda Woodhead and Paul Heelas, Religion in Modern Times: An Anthology , page 401, Blackwell Publishing
(metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
* 1873 , Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought , page 159, Trübner and Co.
* 1954 , Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies , page 48, Yale University Press
* 1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit , page 53, State University of New York Press
Mutual; shared by more than one.
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, title= Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
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, title= Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.
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Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
* Washington Irving
* Shakespeare
* A. Murphy
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(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.
Of or pertaining to uncapitalized nouns in English, i.e., common nouns vs. proper nouns.
Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.
(obsolete) Profane; polluted.
* Bible, Acts x. 15
(obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
* L'Estrange
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
* {{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= The people; the community.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) 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.
(obsolete) To communicate (something).
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans, Bible , Luke XXII:
(obsolete) To converse, talk.
* , II.ix:
* Grafton
(obsolete) To have sex.
(obsolete) To participate.
(obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
(obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
As nouns the difference between attender and common
is that attender is an attendee; one who attends a course, meeting etc while common is mutual good, shared by more than one.As an adjective common is
mutual; shared by more than one.As a verb common is
(obsolete) to communicate (something).attender
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to
- And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!
- The great distance that some youth travel... is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.
- If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender , the question is asked, Why have membership at all?
- the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender .
- Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like
- The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender .
Quotations
* 1969 , University of Melbourne Library: Report , page 1, Melbourne University Press *: Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41.References
* Concise Oxford English DictionaryAnagrams
* ----common
English
(wikipedia common)Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
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In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
- the honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life
- This fact was infamous / And ill beseeming any common man, / Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
- 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.
- What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common .
- a dame who herself was common
Synonyms
* (mutual ): mutual, shared * (usual ): normal, ordinary, standard, usual * (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity ): widespread * See alsoAntonyms
* (mutual ): personal, individual * (usual ): rare, unusual, uncommon * (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity ): few and far between, rare, uncommonSee also
* (English grammar ): epicene, feminine, masculine, neuterNoun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common .}}
- the weal o' the common
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- So long as Guyon with her commoned , / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye [...].
- Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.
- (Sir Thomas More)
- (Johnson)