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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de-energise in CommonParlance
- definition deprive of energy
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de-energize in CommonParlance
- definition deprive of energy
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de-escalate in CommonParlance
- definition diminish in size, scope, or intensity
- definition reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
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de-escalation in CommonParlance
- definition (war) a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)
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de-ice in CommonParlance
- definition make or become free of frost or ice
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de-icer in CommonParlance
- definition a substance used to melt ice; it can take a form of liquid or solid crystals.
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de-iodinase in CommonParlance
- definition an enzyme that removes the iodine radical
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de-iodinate in CommonParlance
- definition remove iodine from
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de-iodinating in CommonParlance
- definition removing iodine from
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de-iodination in CommonParlance
- definition the removal of iodine atoms from organic compounds
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deaccession in CommonParlance
- definition sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
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deacon in CommonParlance
- definition a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- definition a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
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deaconess in CommonParlance
- definition a woman deacon
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deactivate in CommonParlance
- definition remove from active military status or reassign
- definition make inactive
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deactivation in CommonParlance
- definition breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)
- definition the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)
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dead in CommonParlance
- definition no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- definition not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- definition very tired
- definition unerringly accurate
- definition physically inactive
- definition (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- definition devoid of physical sensation; numb
- definition lacking acoustic resonance
- definition not yielding a return
- definition not circulating or flowing
- definition not surviving in active use
- definition lacking resilience or bounce
- definition out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- definition no longer having force or relevance
- definition the complete stoppage of an action
- definition drained of electric charge; discharged
- definition devoid of activity
- definition people who are no longer living
- definition a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- definition completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- definition quickly and without warning
- definition happening unexpectedly
- definition on impulse; without premeditation
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dead ahead in CommonParlance
- definition exactly ahead or in front
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dead air in CommonParlance
- definition an inadvertent interruption in a broadcast during which there is no sound
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dead axle in CommonParlance
- definition an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it
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dead body in CommonParlance
- definition a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
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dead center in CommonParlance
- definition the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque
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dead centre in CommonParlance
- definition the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque
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dead drop in CommonParlance
- definition a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information
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dead duck in CommonParlance
- definition something doomed to failure
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dead end in CommonParlance
- definition a passage with access only at one end
- definition a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible