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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corporeal in CommonParlance
- definition having material or physical form or substance
- definition affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
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corporeality in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being physical; consisting of matter
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corposant in CommonParlance
- definition an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
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corps in CommonParlance
- definition an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support
- definition a body of people associated together
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corps de ballet in CommonParlance
- definition the chorus of a ballet company
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corps diplomatique in CommonParlance
- definition the body of diplomatic personnel
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corpse in CommonParlance
- definition the dead body of a human being
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corpulence in CommonParlance
- definition the property of excessive fatness
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corpulency in CommonParlance
- definition more than average fatness
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corpulent in CommonParlance
- definition excessively fat
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corpus in CommonParlance
- definition capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- definition a collection of writings
- definition the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
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corpus amygdaloideum in CommonParlance
- definition an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus; as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior
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corpus callosum in CommonParlance
- definition a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres
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corpus delicti in CommonParlance
- definition the body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)
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corpus geniculatum laterale in CommonParlance
- definition a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
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corpus geniculatum mediale in CommonParlance
- definition a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex
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corpus luteum in CommonParlance
- definition yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun
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corpus mamillare in CommonParlance
- definition one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
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corpus sternum in CommonParlance
- definition the large central part of the breastbone
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corpus striatum in CommonParlance
- definition a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus
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corpuscle in CommonParlance
- definition (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- definition either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
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corpuscular in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to corpuscles
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corpuscular radiation in CommonParlance
- definition a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)
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corpuscular theory in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles
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corpuscular theory of light in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles