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.
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cross-check in CommonParlance
- definition check out conflicting sources; crosscheck facts, for example
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cross-classification in CommonParlance
- definition classification according to more than one attribute at the same time
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cross-country in CommonParlance
- definition not following tracks or roads
- definition across the countryside
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cross-country jumping in CommonParlance
- definition riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship
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cross-country riding in CommonParlance
- definition riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship
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cross-country skiing in CommonParlance
- definition the sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill)
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cross-cultural in CommonParlance
- definition dealing with or comparing two or more cultures
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cross-division in CommonParlance
- definition classification according to more than one attribute at the same time
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cross-dress in CommonParlance
- definition dress in the clothes of the other sex
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cross-dresser in CommonParlance
- definition someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
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cross-examination in CommonParlance
- definition (law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination
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cross-examiner in CommonParlance
- definition someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)
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cross-eye in CommonParlance
- definition strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose
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cross-eyed in CommonParlance
- definition having convergent strabismus
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cross-fertilisation in CommonParlance
- definition fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
- definition interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
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cross-fertilise in CommonParlance
- definition undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile
- definition cause to undergo cross-fertilization
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cross-fertilization in CommonParlance
- definition fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
- definition interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
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cross-fertilize in CommonParlance
- definition undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile
- definition cause to undergo cross-fertilization
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cross-file in CommonParlance
- definition have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
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cross-grained in CommonParlance
- definition characterized by self-willed opposition
- definition of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
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cross-index in CommonParlance
- definition a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work
- definition make an index that refers from one point to the next
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cross-leaved heath in CommonParlance
- definition dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
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cross-legged in CommonParlance
- definition with the legs crossed
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cross-linguistic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to different languages
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cross-linguistically in CommonParlance
- definition by comparing languages