Prevent vs Common - What's the difference?
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To stop; to keep (from happening).
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* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete) To come before; to precede.
* Bible, 1 Thess. iv. 15
* Book of Common Prayer
* Prior
(obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
(obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
* Alexander Pope
Mutual; shared by more than one.
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, title= Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
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Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
* Washington Irving
* Shakespeare
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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.
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, 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.
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* 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 verbs the difference between prevent and common
is that prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening) while common is to communicate (something).As an adjective common is
mutual; shared by more than one.As a noun common is
mutual good, shared by more than one.prevent
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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- ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
- We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
- We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
- Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- their ready guilt preventing thy commands
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* preventative * prevention * preventivecommon
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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- 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)