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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contractual in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or part of a binding legal agreement
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contractually in CommonParlance
- definition by virtue of a contract
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contracture in CommonParlance
- definition an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle
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contradance in CommonParlance
- definition a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
- definition perform a contradance
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contradict in CommonParlance
- definition be in contradiction with
- definition deny the truth of
- definition be resistant to
- definition prove negative; show to be false
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contradiction in CommonParlance
- definition opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- definition (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- definition the speech act of contradicting someone
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contradiction in terms in CommonParlance
- definition (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
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contradictorily in CommonParlance
- definition in a contradictory manner
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contradictoriness in CommonParlance
- definition the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist
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contradictory in CommonParlance
- definition of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
- definition that confounds or contradicts or confuses
- definition in disagreement
- definition unable for both to exist or be true at the same time
- definition two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
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contradistinction in CommonParlance
- definition a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast
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contradistinguish in CommonParlance
- definition distinguish by contrasting qualities
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contrafagotto in CommonParlance
- definition the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family
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contrail in CommonParlance
- definition an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust
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contraindicate in CommonParlance
- definition make a treatment inadvisable
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contraindication in CommonParlance
- definition (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment
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contralateral in CommonParlance
- definition on or relating to the opposite side (of the body)
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contralto in CommonParlance
- definition of or being the lowest female voice
- definition a woman singer having a contralto voice
- definition the lowest female singing voice
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contraption in CommonParlance
- definition a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
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contrapuntal in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint
- definition having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
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contrapuntist in CommonParlance
- definition a composer who specializes in counterpoint
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contrarian in CommonParlance
- definition an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
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contrariety in CommonParlance
- definition the relation between contraries
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contrarily in CommonParlance
- definition in a contrary disobedient manner
- definition contrary to expectations
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contrariness in CommonParlance
- definition deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- definition a fussy and eccentric disposition