chyliferous (medicine) and community (iou)

chyliferous (medicine)

chyliferous

Conveying chyle.

Synonym: chylophoric.

Origin: chyl-+ L. Fero, to carry

community noun. LME.
[Old French communete (mod. communite), assim. to its source Latin communitas, from communis COMMON adjective: see -ITY. Cf. COMMONTY.]
I. A body of individuals.
The commons as opp. to peers etc.; the common people. LME-E18.
An organized political, municipal, or social body; a body of people living in the same locality; a body of people having Religion, profession, etc., in common; a body of nations unified by common interests (freq., with cap. initial, in the title of an international organization). LME.
European Defence Community, European Economic Community, etc. satellite community: see SATELLITE noun 3b.
C. G. Seligman They live in small communities or hunting bands. J. Braine The Thespians gave me..the sense of belonging, of being part of a community. Day Lewis We were an ordered little unit.., a Protestant enclave in a Catholic community.
b. The members of such a body collectively. L18.
A monastic, socialistic, etc., body of people living together and holding goods in common. E18.
A group of animals etc. living or acting together; Ecology a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together in natural conditions or inhabiting a specified locality. M18.
open community: see OPEN adjective.
II. A quality or state.
The state of being shared or held in common; joint ownership or liability. M16.
H. G. Wells Our community of blood with all mankind. H. J. Laski Wallace traces these evils to private property and..sees no remedy save community of possessions.
(A) common character; (an) agreement; (an) identity. L16.
Wordsworth The points of community in their Nature. A. Storr Men who form a close association based upon a community of ideas cannot avoid passionate controversy.
Social intercourse; communion; fellowship, sense of common identity. L16.
M. Shelley There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. P. Goodman During depression..there is more community.
Commonness, ordinary occurrence. L16-M17.
Life in association with others; society; the social state. M17.
Steele [Marriage] is the foundation of community, and the chief band of society. S. Naipaul The decaying cities where the sense of community, of human belongingness, had been destroyed.
Comb.: community architect: working in consultation with the local community in designing housing and Other amenities; community architecture: as practised by community architects; community care long-term care for the mentally ill, the elderly, and people with disabilities which is provided within the community rather than in hospitals or institutions, esp. as implemented in the UK under the National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990; community centre (a part of) a building providing social, recreational, and educational facilities for a neighbourhood; community charge a community tax; spec. (Hist.) in Britain, a tax levied 1990-93 (1989-93 in Scotland) by local authorities on every adult (cf. poll tax s.v. POLL noun1); community chest US a fund for charity and welfare work in a community; community college (a) N. Amer. a college providing further and higher Education esp. for members of the local community; (b) Brit. a secondary school whose educational and recreational facilities are available to adults in the local community; community Home an institution for young offenders and Other juveniles in need of custodial care; community hospital US a local General hospital esp. for short-term patients; community leader a prominent and active member or office-holder within a particular community; community medicine the branch of medicine that deals with matters of Health and disease as they affect communities as a whole; community policeman, community police officer, etc.: involved in community policing; community policing: by officers intended to have personal knowledge of and involvement in the community which they police; community service order: for a convicted offender to perform a stipulated period of unpaid work helping the community or a member of it; community singing: in chorus by a large gathering of people; community spirit a feeling of membership of a community; community tax (a) local tax on members of a community; community worker a person who works in a community to promote its welfare.

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