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.
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container vessel in CommonParlance
- definition a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes
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containerful in CommonParlance
- definition the quantity that a container will hold
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containerise in CommonParlance
- definition package in a container
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containerize in CommonParlance
- definition package in a container
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containership in CommonParlance
- definition a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes
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containment in CommonParlance
- definition a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
- definition (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- definition the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
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contaminant in CommonParlance
- definition a substance that contaminates
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contaminate in CommonParlance
- definition make impure
- definition make radioactive by adding radioactive material
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contaminated in CommonParlance
- definition corrupted by contact or association
- definition rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution
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contaminating in CommonParlance
- definition spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- definition that infects or taints
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contamination in CommonParlance
- definition the state of being contaminated
- definition a substance that contaminates
- definition the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
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contaminative in CommonParlance
- definition making impure by contact or mixing
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contemn in CommonParlance
- definition look down on with disdain
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contemplate in CommonParlance
- definition look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
- definition consider as a possibility
- definition think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
- definition reflect deeply on a subject
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contemplation in CommonParlance
- definition a long and thoughtful observation
- definition a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
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contemplative in CommonParlance
- definition deeply or seriously thoughtful
- definition a person devoted to the contemplative life
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contemplativeness in CommonParlance
- definition deep serious thoughtfulness
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contemporaneity in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being current or of the present
- definition the quality of belonging to the same period of time
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contemporaneous in CommonParlance
- definition occurring in the same period of time
- definition of the same period
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contemporaneously in CommonParlance
- definition during the same period of time
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contemporaneousness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being current or of the present
- definition the quality of belonging to the same period of time
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contemporaries in CommonParlance
- definition all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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contemporariness in CommonParlance
- definition The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age.
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contemporary in CommonParlance
- definition characteristic of the present
- definition belonging to the present time
- definition occurring in the same period of time
- definition a person of nearly the same age as another
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contemporary world in CommonParlance
- definition the circumstances and ideas of the present age