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
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Terms in this context
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deckle edge in CommonParlance
- definition rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
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deckle-edged in CommonParlance
- definition having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade
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deckled in CommonParlance
- definition having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade
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declaim in CommonParlance
- definition recite in elocution
- definition speak against in an impassioned manner
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declamation in CommonParlance
- definition vehement oratory
- definition recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
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declamatory in CommonParlance
- definition ostentatiously lofty in style
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declarable in CommonParlance
- definition that must be declared
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declaration in CommonParlance
- definition a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
- definition (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction
- definition a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
- definition (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- definition a formal public statement
- definition a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
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declaration of estimated tax in CommonParlance
- definition return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year
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declarative in CommonParlance
- definition relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
- definition relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
- definition a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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declarative memory in CommonParlance
- definition memories that can be consciously recalled such as facts and knowledge.
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declarative mood in CommonParlance
- definition a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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declarative sentence in CommonParlance
- definition a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration
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declaratory in CommonParlance
- definition relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
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declaratory sentence in CommonParlance
- definition a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration
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declare in CommonParlance
- definition state emphatically and authoritatively
- definition announce publicly or officially
- definition state firmly
- definition declare to be
- definition authorize payments of
- definition designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- definition make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
- definition proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
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declare oneself in CommonParlance
- definition ask (someone) to marry you
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declared in CommonParlance
- definition made known or openly avowed
- definition declared as fact; explicitly stated
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declarer in CommonParlance
- definition the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- definition someone who claims to speak the truth
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declassification in CommonParlance
- definition reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon
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declassified in CommonParlance
- definition having had security classification removed
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declassify in CommonParlance
- definition lift the restriction on and make available again
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declaw in CommonParlance
- definition remove the claws from
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declension in CommonParlance
- definition the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- definition process of changing to an inferior state
- definition a downward slope or bend
- definition a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
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declination in CommonParlance
- definition a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- definition a downward slope or bend
- definition (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- definition a polite refusal of an invitation