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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decently in CommonParlance
- definition in a decent manner
- definition in the right manner; correctly; suitably
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decentralisation in CommonParlance
- definition the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
- definition the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
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decentralise in CommonParlance
- definition make less central
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decentralised in CommonParlance
- definition withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities
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decentralising in CommonParlance
- definition tending away from a central point
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decentralization in CommonParlance
- definition the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
- definition the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
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decentralize in CommonParlance
- definition make less central
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decentralized in CommonParlance
- definition withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities
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decentralizing in CommonParlance
- definition tending away from a central point
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decentration 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.
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deception in CommonParlance
- definition a misleading falsehood
- definition the act of deceiving
- definition an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
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deceptive in CommonParlance
- definition causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
- definition designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
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deceptively in CommonParlance
- definition in a misleading way
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deceptiveness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being deceptive
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decerebrate in CommonParlance
- definition remove the cerebrum from (a human body)
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decertify in CommonParlance
- definition cause to be no longer approved or accepted
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dechlorinate in CommonParlance
- definition remove chlorine from (water)
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deciban in CommonParlance
- definition a unit of information, one tenth of a ban.
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decibel in CommonParlance
- definition a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity
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decide in CommonParlance
- definition reach, make, or come to a decision about something
- definition bring to an end; settle conclusively
- definition cause to decide
- definition influence or determine
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decideable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system
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decided in CommonParlance
- definition recognizable; marked
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decidedly in CommonParlance
- definition without question and beyond doubt
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deciding in CommonParlance
- definition having the power or quality of deciding
- definition the cognitive process of reaching a decision
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decidua in CommonParlance
- definition the epithelial tissue of the endometrium