Common vs. Average
Difference Between Common and Average
Commonadjective
Mutual; shared by more than one.
The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.Averagenoun
(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.Commonadjective
Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
It is common to find sharks off this coast.Averagenoun
(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
Commonadjective
Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.
Sharks are common in these waters.Averagenoun
Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
Commonadjective
Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
Averagenoun
Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
Commonadjective
(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.
Averagenoun
Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
Commonadjective
(grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
Averagenoun
(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
batting averageCommonadjective
Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.
Averagenoun
In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
Commonadjective
(obsolete) Profane; polluted.
Averagenoun
The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
Commonadjective
(obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
Averageadjective
(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
The average age of the participants was 18.5.Commonnoun
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
Averageadjective
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
I soon found I was only an average chess player.Commonnoun
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
Averageadjective
Typical.
The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.Commonnoun
The people; the community.
Averageadjective
(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
Commonnoun
(legal) 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.
Averageverb
(transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.Commonverb
(obsolete) To communicate (something).
Averageverb
(transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.Commonverb
(obsolete) To converse, talk.
Averageverb
(transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
to average a lossCommonverb
(obsolete) To have sex.
Averageverb
(intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
Commonverb
(obsolete) To participate.
Averagenoun
a statistic describing the location of a distribution;
it set the norm for American homesCommonverb
(obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
Averageverb
amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain;
The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40Commonverb
(obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Averageverb
achieve or reach on average;
He averaged a CCommonnoun
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
they went for a walk in the parkAverageverb
compute the average of
Commonadjective
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public;
for the common goodcommon lands are set aside for use by all members of a communityAverageadjective
approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value;
the average income in New England is below that of the nationof average height for his agethe mean annual rainfallCommonadjective
of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual;
the common mana common sailorthe common colda common nuisancefollowed common procedureit is common knowledge that she lives alonethe common houseflya common brand of soapAverageadjective
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered;
average peoplethe ordinary (or common) man in the streetCommonadjective
common to or shared by two or more parties;
a common friendthe mutual interests of management and laborAverageadjective
of no exceptional quality or ability;
a novel of average meritonly a fair performance of the sonatain fair healththe caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above averagethe performance was middling at bestCommonadjective
commonly encountered;
a common (or familiar) complaintthe usual greetingAverageadjective
around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;
an orange of average sizeintermediate capacitya plane with intermediate rangemedium bombersCommonadjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
common parlancea vernacular termvernacular speakersthe vulgar tongue of the massesthe technical and vulgar names for an animal speciesAverageadjective
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution;
the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30Commonadjective
of or associated with the great masses of people;
the common people in those days suffered greatlybehavior that branded him as commonhis square plebeian nosea vulgar and objectionable personthe unwashed massesAverageadjective
relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set);
the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20the median income for the year was $15,000Commonadjective
of low or inferior quality or value;
of what coarse metal ye are moldedproduced...the common cloths used by the poorer populationCommonadjective
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
he had coarse manners but a first-rate mindbehavior that branded him as commonan untutored and uncouth human beingan uncouth soldier--a real tough guyappealing to the vulgar taste for violencethe vulgar display of the newly richCommonadjective
to be expected; standard;
common decency
