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.
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decasyllable in CommonParlance
- definition a verse line having ten syllables
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decathlon in CommonParlance
- definition an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
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decay in CommonParlance
- definition the process of gradually becoming inferior
- definition a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- definition the organic phenomenon of rotting
- definition an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
- definition the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- definition lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- definition fall into decay or ruin
- definition undergo decay or decomposition
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decayable in CommonParlance
- definition liable to decay or spoil or become putrid
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decayed in CommonParlance
- definition damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
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deccan hemp in CommonParlance
- definition fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus
- definition valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation
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decease in CommonParlance
- definition the event of dying or departure from life
- definition pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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deceased in CommonParlance
- definition dead
- definition someone who is no longer alive
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deceased person in CommonParlance
- definition someone who is no longer alive
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decedent in CommonParlance
- definition someone who is no longer alive
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deceit in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being fraudulent
- definition a misleading falsehood
- definition the act of deceiving
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deceitful in CommonParlance
- definition involving deception
- definition marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
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deceitfully in CommonParlance
- definition in a corrupt and deceitful manner
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deceitfulness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being deceitful
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deceive in CommonParlance
- definition be false to; be dishonest with
- definition cause someone to believe an untruth
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deceiver in CommonParlance
- definition someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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deceivingly in CommonParlance
- definition in a misleading way
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decelerate in CommonParlance
- definition lose velocity; move more slowly
- definition reduce the speed of
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decelerated motion in CommonParlance
- definition (mechanics) Motion with a continually decreasing velocity.
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deceleration in CommonParlance
- definition a decrease in rate of change
- definition (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity
- definition the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed
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decency in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
- definition the quality of being polite and respectable
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decennary in CommonParlance
- definition a period of 10 years
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decennium in CommonParlance
- definition a period of 10 years
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decent in CommonParlance
- definition socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
- definition in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
- definition conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
- definition sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public
- definition observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
- definition meeting requirements
- definition in the right manner; correctly; suitably
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decentering in CommonParlance
- definition Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.