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Can you tell me how to distinguish 'common,ordinary'
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Reply Sat 26 Apr, 2014 11:53 am
@Daisy2014,
distinguish
verb
tell the difference

Synonyms: analyze, ascertain, categorize, characterize, classify, collate, decide, demarcate, determinate, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, differentiate, discriminate, divide, estimate, extricate, figure out, finger, identify, individualize, individuate, judge, know, label, make out, mark, mark off, name, part, pinpoint, place, qualify, recognize, select, separate, set apart, set off, sift, signalize, single out, singularize, sort out, specify, spot, tag, tell apart, tell between, tell from

distinguish
verb
discern, identify

Synonyms: beam, catch, descry, detect, dig, discover, discriminate, eye, eyeball, flash, focus, get a load of, get an eyeful, know, make out, mark, note, notice, observe, perceive, pick out, pick up on, read, recognize, remark, see, spot, spy, take in, tell, view

distinguish
verb
make famous

Synonyms: acknowledge, admire, celebrate, dignify, honor, immortalize, pay tribute to, praise, signalize

aggrandize
verb
cause something to seem or be greater, bigger

Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, augment, beef up, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, enlarge, ennoble, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, hype, increase, intensify, jack up, jump, magnify, multiply, parlay, praise

Antonyms: belittle, debase, degrade, depress, disgrace, humble, lower

behold
verb
regard; look at

Synonyms: catch, consider, contemplate, descry, discern, distinguish, earmark, eye, eyeball, feast one's eyes, flash, lay eyes on, note, notice, observe, perceive, regard, scan, see, spot, spy, survey, view, watch, witness

>> dis·tin·guish [dih-sting-gwish]

—verb (used with object)

to mark off as different (often followed by from or by ): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
to recognize as distinct or different; recognize the salient or individual features or characteristics of: It is hard to distinguish her from her twin sister.
to perceive clearly by sight or other sense; discern; recognize: He could not distinguish many of the words.
to set apart as different; be a distinctive characteristic of; characterize: It is his Italian accent that distinguishes him.
to make prominent, conspicuous, or eminent: to distinguish oneself in battle.
to divide into classes; classify: Let us distinguish the various types of metaphor.
Archaic. to single out for or honor with special attention.
common
adjective
average, ordinary

Synonyms: accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out

Antonyms: abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable

common
adjective
generally known; held in common

Synonyms: accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread

common
adjective
low, coarse

Synonyms: Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar

Antonyms: aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior

commons

noun
dining hall

Synonyms: canteen, mess hall

acceptable
adjective
satisfactory, agreeable

Synonyms: A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big, common, cooking with gas, cool, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome

Antonyms: disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome

>> com·mon [kom-uh n]

—adjective, com·mon·er, com·mon·est.

belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests.
pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public: a common language or history; a common water-supply system.
joint; united: a common defense.
widespread; general; ordinary: common knowledge.
of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common event; a common mistake.
hackneyed; trite.
of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low: a rough-textured suit of the most common fabric.
coarse; vulgar: common manners.
lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary: a common soldier; common people; the common man; a common thief.
Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected.
Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches: the common carotid arteries.
Prosody. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short.
Grammar.
not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms: English nouns are in the common case whether used as subject or object.
constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Swedish nouns are either common or neuter.
noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female: French élève has common gender. English lacks a common gender pronoun in the third person singular.
(of a noun) belonging to the common gender.
Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities.
of, pertaining to, or being common stock: common shares.
common
adjective
average, ordinary

Synonyms: accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out

Antonyms: abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable

common
adjective
generally known; held in common

Synonyms: accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread

common
adjective
low, coarse

Synonyms: Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar

Antonyms: aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior

commons

noun
dining hall

Synonyms: canteen, mess hall

acceptable
adjective
satisfactory, agreeable

Synonyms: A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big, common, cooking with gas, cool, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome

Antonyms: disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome

>> or·di·nar·y [awr-dn-er-ee]

—adjective

of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
plain or undistinguished: ordinary clothes.
somewhat inferior or below average; mediocre.
customary; usual; normal: We plan to do the ordinary things this weekend.
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. common, vulgar, or disreputable.
(of jurisdiction) immediate, as contrasted with something that is delegated.
(of officials) belonging to the regular staff or the fully recognized class.

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As mentioned should explain my dear.
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