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Common-Room
- - a room, usually at a school or university, set aside for the common use of everyone. It usually has comfortable chairs for reading or conversation, and some provision for obtaining refreshments.
Commonition
- - Advice; warning; instruction.
Commoration
- - The act of staying or residing in a place.
Commutation
- noun - (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
- a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
- the travel of a commuter
Comparation
- - A making ready; provision.
Compensator
- - One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
Competition
- noun - a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
- the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
Compilation
- noun - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
- the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"
Composition
- noun -
- a mixture of ingredients
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment);
- art and technique of printing with movable type
- musical creation
- something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole;
- the act of creating written works;
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole;
- the way in which someone or something is composed
Compotation
- - The act of drinking or tippling together.