CommonParlance
Seed
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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contraception in CommonParlance
- definition birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery
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contraceptive in CommonParlance
- definition capable of preventing conception or impregnation
- definition an agent or device intended to prevent conception
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contraceptive device in CommonParlance
- definition an agent or device intended to prevent conception
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contraceptive diaphragm in CommonParlance
- definition a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
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contraceptive method in CommonParlance
- definition birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery
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contraceptive pill in CommonParlance
- definition a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
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contraclockwise in CommonParlance
- definition in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock
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contract in CommonParlance
- definition a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- definition (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- definition a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks they bid
- definition enter into a contractual arrangement
- definition engage by written agreement
- definition squeeze or press together
- definition be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- definition become smaller or draw together
- definition cause to be smaller
- definition compress or concentrate
- definition make or become more narrow or restricted
- definition reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
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contract bridge in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks they bid
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contract in in CommonParlance
- definition consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use
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contract killing in CommonParlance
- definition a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer
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contract law in CommonParlance
- definition that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts
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contract of adhesion in CommonParlance
- definition a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power
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contract of hazard in CommonParlance
- definition a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage
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contract offer in CommonParlance
- definition offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate
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contract out in CommonParlance
- definition assign a job to someone outside one's own business
- definition refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use
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contract under seal in CommonParlance
- definition a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached
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contractable in CommonParlance
- definition (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
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contracted in CommonParlance
- definition reduced in size or pulled together
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contractile in CommonParlance
- definition capable of contracting or being contracted
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contractile organ in CommonParlance
- definition a bodily organ that contracts
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contractility in CommonParlance
- definition the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
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contracting in CommonParlance
- definition becoming infected
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contraction in CommonParlance
- definition (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
- definition the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- definition a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- definition the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
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contractor in CommonParlance
- definition someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- definition the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- definition (law) a party to a contract
- definition a bodily organ that contracts