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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confine in CommonParlance
- definition place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- definition prevent from leaving or from being removed
- definition close in
- definition deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- definition to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
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confine to in CommonParlance
- definition restrict or confine within limits
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confined in CommonParlance
- definition not invading healthy tissue
- definition not free to move about
- definition being in captivity
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confinement in CommonParlance
- definition concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- definition the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- definition the state of being confined
- definition the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
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confines in CommonParlance
- definition a bounded scope
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confining in CommonParlance
- definition restricting the scope or freedom of action
- definition crowded
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confirm in CommonParlance
- definition establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- definition strengthen or make more firm
- definition make more firm
- definition support a person for a position
- definition administer the rite of confirmation to
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confirmable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
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confirmation in CommonParlance
- definition additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- definition information that confirms or verifies
- definition making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
- definition a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
- definition a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
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confirmation hearing in CommonParlance
- definition a hearing held by the US Senate to gather information on whether to approve or reject candidates for high federal office who are nominated by the president
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confirmative in CommonParlance
- definition serving to support or corroborate
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confirmatory in CommonParlance
- definition serving to support or corroborate
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confirmed in CommonParlance
- definition of persons; not subject to change
- definition having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation
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confirming in CommonParlance
- definition indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- definition serving to support or corroborate
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confiscate in CommonParlance
- definition surrendered as a penalty
- definition take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
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confiscation in CommonParlance
- definition seizure by the government
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confit in CommonParlance
- definition a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat
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confiture in CommonParlance
- definition preserved or candied fruit
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conflagrate in CommonParlance
- definition cause to start burning
- definition start to burn or burst into flames
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conflagration in CommonParlance
- definition a very intense and uncontrolled fire
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conflate in CommonParlance
- definition mix together different elements
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conflict in CommonParlance
- definition an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- definition opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- definition a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- definition a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- definition an incompatibility of dates or events
- definition opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- definition a disagreement or argument about something important
- definition be in conflict
- definition go against, as of rules and laws
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conflict of interest in CommonParlance
- definition a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests
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conflicting in CommonParlance
- definition in disagreement
- definition on bad terms
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confluence in CommonParlance
- definition a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- definition a flowing together
- definition a coming together of people