IN COMMON WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in common with mean? 

• IN COMMON WITH (adverb)
  The adverb IN COMMON WITH has 1 sense:

1. in the same way as; like

  Familiarity information: IN COMMON WITH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN COMMON WITH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the same way as; like

Context example:

in common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller

 Context examples 

Unlike other materialists I had met and with whom I had something in common to start on, I had nothing in common with him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Cell line established from a rat pheochromocytoma; has many properties in common with primary sympathetic neurons and chromaffin cell cultures; used primarily as a neuron model.

(PC-12, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

I had not been long in Hertfordshire, before I saw, in common with others, that Bingley preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A donor who has only one haplotype in common with the recipient.

(Haploidentical, NCI Thesaurus)

The bacteria used in this research, Cyanothece, is able to fix nitrogen because of something it has in common with people.

(Bacteria Used to Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Rats are a useful model as their biology and physiology have a number of important characteristics in common with those of humans.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

Lord John Roxton has some points in common with Professor Summerlee, and others in which they are the very antithesis to each other.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The vicar, being a bachelor, was glad to come to such an arrangement, though he had little in common with his lodger, who was a thin, dark, spectacled man, with a stoop which gave the impression of actual, physical deformity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To produce these effects IL-6 signals through a receptor composed of two different subunits, an alpha subunit that produces ligand specificity and gp130, a receptor subunit shared in common with other cytokines in the IL-6 family.

(IL6 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)