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
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Terms in this context
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Department of Education in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
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Department of Energy in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
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Department of Energy Intelligence in CommonParlance
- definition an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community
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Department of Health Education and Welfare in CommonParlance
- definition a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979
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Department of Health and Human Services in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
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Department of Homeland Security in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
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Department of Housing and Urban Development in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965
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Department of Justice in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870
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Department of Justice Canada in CommonParlance
- definition an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government
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Department of Labor in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
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Department of State in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
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Department of Transportation in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
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Department of Veterans Affairs in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989
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Department of the Interior in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
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Department of the Treasury in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
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Depokene in CommonParlance
- definition anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures
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Dermacentor variabilis in CommonParlance
- definition common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
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Dermatobia hominis in CommonParlance
- definition large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals
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Dermochelys coriacea in CommonParlance
- definition wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle
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Derris elliptica in CommonParlance
- definition woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone
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Descurainia pinnata in CommonParlance
- definition North American herb with bitter-tasting pinnate leaves resembling those of tansy
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Desmanthus illinoensis in CommonParlance
- definition perennial herb of North American prairies having dense heads of small white flowers
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Desmodium gyrans in CommonParlance
- definition erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine
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Desmodium motorium in CommonParlance
- definition erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine
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Desmodium purpureum in CommonParlance
- definition West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil