CommonParlance
Seed
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.
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death knell in CommonParlance
- definition an omen of death or destruction
- definition a bell rung to announce a death
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death mask in CommonParlance
- definition a cast taken from the face of a dead person
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death penalty in CommonParlance
- definition putting a condemned person to death
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death rate in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
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death row in CommonParlance
- definition the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution
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death seat in CommonParlance
- definition the car seat beside the driver of an automobile; believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident
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death squad in CommonParlance
- definition a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)
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death tax in CommonParlance
- definition a tax on the estate of the deceased person
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death toll in CommonParlance
- definition the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster
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death warrant in CommonParlance
- definition a warrant to execute the death sentence
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death wish in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
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death's head in CommonParlance
- definition a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death
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death's-head moth in CommonParlance
- definition European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull
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death-roll in CommonParlance
- definition a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster
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deathbed in CommonParlance
- definition the last few hours before death
- definition the bed on which a person dies
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deathblow in CommonParlance
- definition the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
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deathless in CommonParlance
- definition never dying
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deathlike in CommonParlance
- definition having the physical appearance of death
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deathly in CommonParlance
- definition having the physical appearance of death
- definition causing or capable of causing death
- definition to a degree resembling death
- definition to an extreme degree
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deathrate in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
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deathtrap in CommonParlance
- definition any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
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deathwatch in CommonParlance
- definition minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
- definition bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
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deathwatch beetle in CommonParlance
- definition bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
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deb in CommonParlance
- definition a young woman making her debut into society
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debacle in CommonParlance
- definition a sudden and violent collapse
- definition flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- definition a sound defeat