CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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common measure in CommonParlance
- definition a time signature indicating four beats to the bar
- definition an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
- definition the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
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common meter in CommonParlance
- definition the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
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common milkwort in CommonParlance
- definition small European perennial with numerous branches having racemes of blue, pink or white flowers; formerly reputed to promote human lactation
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common mood in CommonParlance
- definition a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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common moonseed in CommonParlance
- definition a woody vine of eastern North America having large oval leaves and small white flowers and purple to blue-black fruits
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common moonwort in CommonParlance
- definition of America and Eurasia and Australia
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common morel in CommonParlance
- definition an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges
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common morning glory in CommonParlance
- definition annual or perennial climbing herb of Central America having sky-blue flowers; most commonly cultivated morning glory
- definition pantropical annual climbing herb with funnel-shaped blue, purple, pink or white flowers
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common mosquito in CommonParlance
- definition common house mosquito
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common mugwort in CommonParlance
- definition European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets
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common mullein in CommonParlance
- definition tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
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common multiple in CommonParlance
- definition an integer that is a multiple of two or more other integers
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common murre in CommonParlance
- definition the most frequent variety of murre
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common myrtle in CommonParlance
- definition European shrub with white or rosy flowers followed by black berries
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common nardoo in CommonParlance
- definition Australian clover fern
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common newt in CommonParlance
- definition small semiaquatic salamander
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common nightshade in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
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common noun in CommonParlance
- definition a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
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common nuisance in CommonParlance
- definition a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public
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common nutcracker in CommonParlance
- definition Old World nutcracker
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common oak in CommonParlance
- definition medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood
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common opossum in CommonParlance
- definition omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States; noted for feigning death when in danger; esteemed as food in some areas; considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America
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common osier in CommonParlance
- definition willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry
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common pea in CommonParlance
- definition plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
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common people in CommonParlance
- definition people in general (often used in the plural)