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.