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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D4 in CommonParlance
- definition a four-sided die
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DA in CommonParlance
- definition an official prosecutor for a judicial district
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DARPA in CommonParlance
- definition the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11
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DAT in CommonParlance
- definition a digital tape recording of sound
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DBA in CommonParlance
- definition (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
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DBMS in CommonParlance
- definition a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database
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DC in CommonParlance
- definition an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
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DC motor in CommonParlance
- definition A DC motor is any of a class of electrical machines that converts direct current electrical power into mechanical power.
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DCCP in CommonParlance
- definition an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention
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DCI in CommonParlance
- definition the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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DD in CommonParlance
- definition a doctor's degree in religion
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DDC in CommonParlance
- definition an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection; a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NARTI)
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DDI in CommonParlance
- definition an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor
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DDS in CommonParlance
- definition a doctor's degree in dental surgery
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DDT in CommonParlance
- definition an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972
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DEA in CommonParlance
- definition federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations
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DEAE cellulose in CommonParlance
- definition used for chromatography
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DES in CommonParlance
- definition a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- definition synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
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DEd in CommonParlance
- definition a doctor's degree in education
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DIA in CommonParlance
- definition an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition
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DINK in CommonParlance
- definition a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
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DIP switch in CommonParlance
- definition (computer science) one of a set of small on-off switches mounted in computer hardware; used in place of jumpers to configure the machine for a user
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DISA in CommonParlance
- definition a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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DJ in CommonParlance
- definition a person who announces and plays popular recorded music
- definition comment on music to be played
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DLE in CommonParlance
- definition a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over the cheeks and bridge of the nose