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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action in CommonParlance
- definition something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- definition the state of being active
- definition a military engagement
- definition a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- definition the series of events that form a plot
- definition the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- definition the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- definition a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- definition an act by a government body or supranational organization
- definition the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- definition In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- definition institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- definition put in effect
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action at law in CommonParlance
- definition a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
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action mechanism in CommonParlance
- definition the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
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action officer in CommonParlance
- definition the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area)
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action painting in CommonParlance
- definition a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
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action plant in CommonParlance
- definition prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
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action potential in CommonParlance
- definition the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
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action replay in CommonParlance
- definition the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape
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action spectrum in CommonParlance
- definition the efficiency with which electromagnetic radiation produces a photochemical reaction plotted as a function of the wavelength of the radiation
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actionable in CommonParlance
- definition affording grounds for legal action
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activate in CommonParlance
- definition put in motion or move to act
- definition make active or more active
- definition make more adsorptive
- definition aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- definition make (substances) radioactive
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activated in CommonParlance
- definition (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition
- definition (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
- definition rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive
- definition (military) set up and placed on active assignment
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activated carbon in CommonParlance
- definition powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons
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activated charcoal in CommonParlance
- definition powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons
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activating in CommonParlance
- definition causing motion or action or change
- definition the activity of causing to have energy and be active
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activating agent in CommonParlance
- definition (mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral
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activation in CommonParlance
- definition stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical
- definition the activity of causing to have energy and be active
- definition making active and effective (as a bomb)
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activation energy in CommonParlance
- definition the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur
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activator in CommonParlance
- definition (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription
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active in CommonParlance
- definition tending to become more severe or wider in scope
- definition engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
- definition disposed to take action or effectuate change
- definition taking part in an activity
- definition characterized by energetic activity
- definition exerting influence or producing a change or effect
- definition full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
- definition in operation
- definition (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
- definition expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:
- definition (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
- definition (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting
- definition (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt
- definition engaged in full-time work
- definition chemical agent capable of activity
- definition the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
- definition a person who is a participating member of an organization
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active agent in CommonParlance
- definition chemical agent capable of activity
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active air defense in CommonParlance
- definition air defense by the use of aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures
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active application in CommonParlance
- definition an application that is currently running and in the foreground
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active birth in CommonParlance
- definition childbirth during which the mother is encouraged to be an active participant
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active capital in CommonParlance
- definition money, or property that may readily be converted into money.