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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cyclopropane in CommonParlance
- definition a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic
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cyclops in CommonParlance
- definition minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
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cyclorama in CommonParlance
- definition a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
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cycloserine in CommonParlance
- definition an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus
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cyclosis in CommonParlance
- definition the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
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cyclostome in CommonParlance
- definition primitive aquatic vertebrate
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cyclostyle in CommonParlance
- definition a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil
- definition print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
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cyclothymia in CommonParlance
- definition a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time
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cyclothymic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or exhibiting cyclothymia
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cyclothymic disorder in CommonParlance
- definition a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time
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cyclotron in CommonParlance
- definition an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
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cyder in CommonParlance
- definition a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
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cygnet in CommonParlance
- definition a young swan
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cylinder in CommonParlance
- definition a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
- definition a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
- definition a chamber within which piston moves
- definition a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
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cylinder block in CommonParlance
- definition a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
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cylinder head in CommonParlance
- definition a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump
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cylinder lock in CommonParlance
- definition a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt; tumblers are pins; inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate
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cylinder press in CommonParlance
- definition a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type
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cylinder separator in CommonParlance
- definition a machine for separating grain by kernel length.
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cylindric in CommonParlance
- definition having the form of a cylinder
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cylindrical in CommonParlance
- definition having the form of a cylinder
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cylindrical lining in CommonParlance
- definition a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction
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cylindrical-stemmed in CommonParlance
- definition having a cylindrical stem
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cylindricality in CommonParlance
- definition the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder
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cylindricalness in CommonParlance
- definition the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder