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commonly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be widely/generally/commonly held (=be the opinion of a lot of people)
▪ This view is not widely held.
commonly known as
▪ Nitrous oxide is commonly known as laughing gas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Moreover, the technology that is commonly available for large cement factories is inappropriate for most developing countries.
▪ This interchange takes place rapidly, usually in a matter of seconds, using fairly inexpensive and commonly available technology.
▪ In contrast to fifteen years ago, mortgages are commonly available to people over retirement age.
▪ Of these classes, Extra Large, Large, and Medium are commonly available in the supermarket.
▪ I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available.
▪ Teachers, parents, and students all need access to better information about colleges and careers than is commonly available.
known
▪ Here are some of the most commonly known services.
used
▪ Suggested doses of commonly used laxatives are given in reference 17.
▪ Possibly the most commonly used punch in karate is the reverse punch.
▪ These include for example syntax and semantics, and the use of information about compounds, commonly used phrases and idioms.
▪ And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides.
▪ The most commonly used survey methods are direct observation of user behaviour or direct seeking of user opinions.
▪ These specific storage conditions however, although commonly used, need not necessarily be employed.
▪ The most commonly used argument for standardising delivery of meals is that it is a more economic use of resources.
▪ Currently the need for a revision is the most commonly used definition of a failed operation.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Last year, its statistics division found that commonly accepted estimates of gun injuries may be too high.
▪ The ponderosa is, in fact, almost as good an indicator as the commonly accepted standard.
associate
▪ Though more commonly associated with wet weather, early morning dews or irrigation may be enough to keep rust multiplying.
▪ It requires an altruism not commonly associated with the nature of big time politics.
▪ Non-practitioners commonly associate these sounds with the breaking of wood or other materials.
▪ Such conditions are commonly associated with deltaic sedimentation which along the Gulf Coast attain thicknesses of 50, 000 feet.
believe
▪ The lime juice myth was so firmly entrenched that it is still commonly believed.
▪ Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do.
call
▪ The mitochondria, dotted throughout the cytoplasm, are commonly called ` the power houses' of the cell.
▪ Black children from middle-class or affluent families, they say, are more apt to adopt what is commonly called black slang.
▪ The noise is probably pre-ignition, commonly called pinking.
▪ Here are the arguments made by supporters and opponents of medical savings accounts, commonly called MSAs.
employ
▪ The receipts and payments method is commonly employed for shorter time periods, say up to one month.
▪ The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
▪ The use of acids or alkalis is most commonly employed with the colorimetric procedures.
▪ The use of the enzyme lipase is most commonly employed with the kinetic procedures.
▪ Short-term loans are commonly employed to finance inventory and accounts receivable.
encounter
▪ Walrus were quite commonly encountered in the Shetland Isles and the Scandinavian coasts until quite recently.
▪ Failed peristalsis was commonly encountered in patients as well as controls.
find
▪ Astrochele is commonly found clinging to gorgonians, corals, etc.
▪ They are commonly found in forests and brushy areas.
▪ Psychiatric hospital units for the treatment of anorexia commonly find that weight loss recurs after the patient is discharged from hospital.
▪ Meat stocks are essential to the intense sauces commonly found in game cooking.
▪ They are most commonly found in women's graves of the sixth century accompanied by a relatively large quantity of grave-goods.
▪ Temperatures high enough to melt silicates and make droplets of glass are commonly found near surface bursts.
▪ He believes that one component is bacteria commonly found in soil and water.
▪ It is commonly found among California live oak trees.
hold
▪ Particular substances were commonly held to possess magical and even medical potential.
▪ The most commonly held explanation of the paroxysmal depolarization shift proposes that it is a network phenomenon { 2 }.
▪ But it is commonly held that Mind and Matter both have existence, separately, one from the other.
▪ It was the commonly held belief then that never again would this communal beast be allowed to rear its head.
▪ Thus it is commonly held that services are economic activities whose output is not a physical product.
▪ Scarman identified two views that were commonly held as to the causation of the disorders.
know
▪ These forms of power are commonly known as reward and coercive power respectively.
▪ The combination is commonly known as a protease cocktail.
▪ This method, which is commonly known as staged search, does affect the admissibility of the algorithm.
▪ This traveling wave of altered electrical potential is called an action potential, more commonly known as a nerve impulse.
▪ I am what is commonly known as a loner.
▪ Or give a new slant to commonly known facts.
▪ Extended Response Commonly known as an essay, this form of assessment is the most open-ended type of written test.
▪ The golden chanterelle, as it is commonly known, is a favorite among mushroom connoisseurs.
occur
▪ The first instance most commonly occurs when a group of students complete training at the same time.
▪ As commonly occurs with solo harpsichord and guitar recordings, a reduced volume setting is needed to give the correct aural loudness.
▪ Probably several eddies commonly occur simultaneously, as shown in the figure, with an approximately but not exactly even spacing.
▪ However, it commonly occurs as a natural alloy with silver, and methods were therefore developed to purify the gold.
▪ Whitby jet was widely used in Roman Britain, and jet beads occur commonly in Anglian cemeteries of the Anglo-Saxon period.
▪ This commonly occurs at high tide.
▪ All the changes and symptoms that arise are noted and studied to detect patterns and trends that are characteristic and commonly occur.
▪ Such defects commonly occur in Bénard convection experiments, as may be understood in the following way.
referred
▪ Those capable of being sponsored are, in marketing terms, commonly referred to as' properties'.
▪ The technique is also commonly referred to as cost-volume-profit analysis.
▪ The region of the Galaxy commonly referred to as the bulge is thus synonymous with the bar.
▪ In computer lingo, a million bytes is commonly referred to as one megabyte.
▪ Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
regard
▪ Women's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband.
▪ The resulting seizures are commonly regarded as a successful experimental approximation of focal epilepsy.
▪ The theory of plate tectonics explains these phenomena and is commonly regarded as one of the cornerstones of modern geophysics.
report
▪ This is commonly reported by the cursed survivors of Auschwitz.
▪ Incidents such as this one were commonly reported by military intelligence as evidence of black ties with radical groups.
see
▪ Most of these species of wrasse are commonly seen by divers in shallow coastal waters.
▪ This fish grows to a length of eight inches, but specimens four to five inches are most commonly seen.
▪ Suffering, commonly seen as ugly and distorting, stirred emotions in him that brought the word beauty to his lips.
▪ Bone destruction is commonly seen in this disorder with the plasma cells forming densely packed groups in the lytic areas.
▪ Nairobi commonly saw Hollywood films before they reached Britain.
▪ I recognized one species that I had seen commonly on lily pads in the summer.
▪ These scientists commonly see themselves as on the side of the public, perhaps against state agencies or commercial enterprises.
▪ It reaches a length of about a foot, but is commonly seen at five to six inches.
suppose
▪ In particular, they are much more substantial at ages 10-15 than is commonly supposed.
▪ These changes in female employment are commonly supposed to have influenced rates of family formation and dissolution.
think
▪ Hemifacial spasm is not psychogenic as was commonly thought in the past, although it may be aggravated by emotional stress.
▪ Program evaluation is commonly thought of as a dry, fruitless endeavor, extolled in theory but ignored in practice.
use
▪ It is commonly used in racing and flat water sailing.
▪ Lease financing is commonly used as an alternative to purchasing an asset with the proceeds of a debt issue.
▪ It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists.
▪ The chilies most commonly used in this book are described here.
▪ Palimpsest is a metaphor commonly used by deconstructionists, particularly Jacques Derrida.
▪ A number of transfer functions are commonly used.
▪ The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950.
▪ Simple statistical weighting schemes commonly used in previous methods are related to the simplest neural net approaches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Durum wheat is commonly used for making pasta.
▪ This bird is commonly found in Malaysia.
▪ Wilkins' column answers some of the most commonly asked questions about personal finance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In tribal societies lineages commonly subordinate their material to their symbolic interests.
▪ Isotopic compositions of continental intraplate mantle-derived magmas commonly vary as a function of lithospheric age.
▪ Last year, its statistics division found that commonly accepted estimates of gun injuries may be too high.
▪ Stamps are now commonly sold at grocery stores and all Wells Fargo ATMs.
▪ Suffering, commonly seen as ugly and distorting, stirred emotions in him that brought the word beauty to his lips.
▪ That opposition is a neat one, and neatness in verbal formulations commonly arouses suspicion.
▪ The goals commonly attributed to management, in no particular order, are status, power, salary, and security.
▪ The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commonly

Commonly \Com"mon*ly\, adv.

  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.

  2. In common; familiarly. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commonly

c.1300, "in a way common to all," also "common to all;" also "usually," from common (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
commonly

adv. 1 as a rule; frequently; usually 2 (context obsolete English) in common; familiarly

WordNet
commonly

adv. under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, ordinarily] [ant: unusually]

Usage examples of "commonly".

But it is striking in how high degree the authors have created their own universes, with highly specific natural laws, and how this has been done as a sort of intellectual game: creating worlds as frameworks to the narrative and molding them into shape with complete disregard for commonly accepted logic, much in the same way as the absurdists, Ionesco and Alfred Jarry and others, later did.

Further, in what he had written to Madison, and in what he had said in his note to the printer, Jefferson had tagged Adams with being both mentally unsound and a monarchist, the two charges most commonly and unjustly made against him for the rest of his life.

It used to be thought that these letters must be referred to 496, the year of the celebrated victory of Clovis over the Alamanni, commonly, but incorrectly, called the battle of Tulbiacum.

But the most commonly occurring and possibly most severe attacks of amenorrhea, however, usually come on suddenly.

In real life, real bears of course commonly came into camp to rummage through supplies, but they were looking for other food than human flesh.

Besides these primitive races there are the dark-skinned negroids of Bantu stock, commonly known in their tribal groups as Kaffirs, Zulu, Bechuana and Damara, which are again subdivided into many lesser groups.

It was commonly believed that the last Beothuk on earth had left it in the 1820s.

It must be remembered that the Koran is the work of Muhammad alone, while the Biblos, or Book, commonly called the Bible, is the work of many men.

While it surely derives more of its excellence than is commonly remarked from the art of Boswell, its greatness after all is ultimately that of its subject.

One of the base chemicals is bromobenzene, a motor oil additive more commonly used to make plastics, pcp is as dangerous to make as it is to ingest.

The eyes and nose are most commonly involved, the bronchi frequently, when the disease is called hay-asthma.

A clerk was immediately sent to the criminal lieutenant, praying him to command the advocate to bring before him, in three days, the plea of one Anami, alias Pogomas, alias Possano, the said plea being against Jacques Casanova, commonly called the Chevalier de Seingalt.

New Orleans, or eaten himself ill, as we nearly did ourselves, on a generous mixture of clam-chowder, terrapin, soft-shelled crabs, Jersey peaches, canvas-backed ducks, Catawba wine, winter cherries, brandy cocktails, strawberry-shortcake, ice-creams, corn-dodger, and a judicious brew commonly known as a Colorado corpse-reviver.

The expedient of walling up the front of a shallow cavity, commonly practiced in the San Juan region, while comparatively rare in this vicinity, was known to the dwellers in these cavate lodges.

It is commonly called the creeping snowberry, but I like better its official title of chiogenes,--the snow-born.