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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ad valorem tax in CommonParlance
- definition a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
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ad-lib in CommonParlance
- definition with little or no preparation or forethought
- definition said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- definition remark made spontaneously without prior preparation
- definition perform without preparation
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adactylia in CommonParlance
- definition congenital absence of fingers and/or toes
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adactylism in CommonParlance
- definition congenital absence of fingers and/or toes
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adactylous in CommonParlance
- definition without fingers and/or toes
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adactyly in CommonParlance
- definition congenital absence of fingers and/or toes
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adage in CommonParlance
- definition a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
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adagio in CommonParlance
- definition (of tempo) leisurely
- definition (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)
- definition a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
- definition slowly
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adam-and-eve in CommonParlance
- definition North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
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adamance in CommonParlance
- definition resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible
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adamant in CommonParlance
- definition impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
- definition very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
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adamantine in CommonParlance
- definition consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
- definition having the hardness of a diamond
- definition impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
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adamantly in CommonParlance
- definition inflexibly; unshakably
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adapt in CommonParlance
- definition make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- definition adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
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adaptability in CommonParlance
- definition the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
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adaptable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use
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adaptation in CommonParlance
- definition a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- definition the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- definition (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
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adaptational in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to adaptation
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adaptative in CommonParlance
- definition having a capacity for adaptation
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adapted in CommonParlance
- definition changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
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adapter in CommonParlance
- definition a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
- definition device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible
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adaption in CommonParlance
- definition the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
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adaptive in CommonParlance
- definition having a capacity for adaptation
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adaptive radiation in CommonParlance
- definition the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
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adaptor in CommonParlance
- definition device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible