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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confessor in CommonParlance
- definition a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- definition someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
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confetti in CommonParlance
- definition small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)
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confidant in CommonParlance
- definition someone to whom private matters are confided
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confidante in CommonParlance
- definition a female confidant
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confide in CommonParlance
- definition reveal in private; tell confidentially
- definition confer a trust upon
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confidence in CommonParlance
- definition freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- definition a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
- definition a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
- definition a trustful relationship
- definition a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
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confidence game in CommonParlance
- definition a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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confidence man in CommonParlance
- definition a male swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
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confidence trick in CommonParlance
- definition a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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confidence woman in CommonParlance
- definition a female swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
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confident in CommonParlance
- definition having or marked by confidence or assurance
- definition persuaded of; very sure
- definition not liable to error in judgment or action
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confidential in CommonParlance
- definition entrusted with private information and the confidence of another
- definition (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- definition denoting confidence or intimacy
- definition the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified
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confidential adviser-advisee relation in CommonParlance
- definition the responsibility of a confidential adviser to act in the best interest of the advisee
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confidential information in CommonParlance
- definition an indication of potential opportunity
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confidentiality in CommonParlance
- definition the state of being secret
- definition discretion in keeping secret information
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confidentially in CommonParlance
- definition in a confidential manner
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confidently in CommonParlance
- definition with confidence; in a confident manner
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confiding in CommonParlance
- definition willing to entrust personal matters
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confidingly in CommonParlance
- definition with trust; in a trusting manner
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configuration in CommonParlance
- definition an arrangement of parts or elements
- definition any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
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configurational in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or characterized by configuration
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configurational isomer in CommonParlance
- definition a stereoisomer that can be interconverted only by breaking covalent bonds to the stereocenter.
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configurationism in CommonParlance
- definition (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
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configure in CommonParlance
- definition set up for a particular purpose
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configured in CommonParlance
- definition organized so as to give configuration to