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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credulousness in CommonParlance
- definition tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
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creed in CommonParlance
- definition any system of principles or beliefs
- definition the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
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creedal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a creed
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creek in CommonParlance
- definition a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
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creek bed in CommonParlance
- definition a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream
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creel in CommonParlance
- definition a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
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creep in CommonParlance
- definition someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- definition a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- definition a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- definition a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- definition move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- definition to go stealthily or furtively
- definition grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
- definition show submission or fear
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creep feed in CommonParlance
- definition feed given to young animals isolated in a creep
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creep in in CommonParlance
- definition enter surreptitiously
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creep up in CommonParlance
- definition advance stealthily or unnoticed
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creeper in CommonParlance
- definition any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
- definition a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- definition any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
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creepiness in CommonParlance
- definition an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
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creeping in CommonParlance
- definition a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
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creeping Charlie in CommonParlance
- definition a loosestrife vine
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creeping Jenny in CommonParlance
- definition a loosestrife vine
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creeping St John's wort in CommonParlance
- definition creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
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creeping bellflower in CommonParlance
- definition erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers
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creeping bent in CommonParlance
- definition common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
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creeping bentgrass in CommonParlance
- definition common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
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creeping bugle in CommonParlance
- definition low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
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creeping buttercup in CommonParlance
- definition perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
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creeping crowfoot in CommonParlance
- definition perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
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creeping fern in CommonParlance
- definition delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
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creeping juniper in CommonParlance
- definition low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States; bronzed purple in winter
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creeping lily in CommonParlance
- definition any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous