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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Dominican monetary unit in CommonParlance
- definition monetary unit in the Dominican Republic
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Dominican order in CommonParlance
- definition a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century
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Dominican peso in CommonParlance
- definition the basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic; equal to 100 centavos
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Dominick in CommonParlance
- definition American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs
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Dominicus in CommonParlance
- definition first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
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Dominion in CommonParlance
- definition one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
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Dominion Day in CommonParlance
- definition a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867
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Dominique in CommonParlance
- definition American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs
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Don in CommonParlance
- definition a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
- definition a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename
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Don Juan in CommonParlance
- definition any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
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Don Quixote in CommonParlance
- definition any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)
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Dona in CommonParlance
- definition a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for a woman
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Donatism in CommonParlance
- definition a schismatic Christian religion in northern Africa from the 4th to the 7th century; held that only those who led a blameless life belonged in the church or could administer the sacraments
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Donatist in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to Donatism
- definition an adherent of Donatism
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Donnean in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or in the manner of John Donne
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Donnian in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or in the manner of John Donne
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Doomsday in CommonParlance
- definition (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
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Dopastat in CommonParlance
- definition a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (trade names Dopastat and Intropin) it is used to treat shock and hypotension
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Doppler effect in CommonParlance
- definition change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other
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Doppler radar in CommonParlance
- definition radar that uses the Doppler shift to measure velocity
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Doppler shift in CommonParlance
- definition change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other
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Dorian in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture
- definition a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea, some cities on the coasts of Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Epirus and Macedon
- definition the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC
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Dorian order in CommonParlance
- definition the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base
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Doric in CommonParlance
- definition of or pertaining to the Doric style of architecture
- definition the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris
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Doric dialect in CommonParlance
- definition the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris