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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decreasing monotonic in CommonParlance
- definition consistently decreasing
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decree in CommonParlance
- definition a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- definition issue a decree
- definition decide with authority
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decree nisi in CommonParlance
- definition a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date
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decreed in CommonParlance
- definition fixed or established especially by order or command
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decrement in CommonParlance
- definition the amount by which something decreases
- definition a process of becoming smaller or shorter
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decrementation in CommonParlance
- definition the operation of subtracting one from the operand.
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decrepit in CommonParlance
- definition worn and broken down by hard use
- definition lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
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decrepitate in CommonParlance
- definition undergo decrepitation and crackle
- definition to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops
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decrepitation in CommonParlance
- definition the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated
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decrepitude in CommonParlance
- definition a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
- definition The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age.
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decrescendo in CommonParlance
- definition (music) gradually decreasing in volume
- definition (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
- definition grow quieter
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decriminalisation in CommonParlance
- definition legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal
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decriminalise in CommonParlance
- definition make legal
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decriminalization in CommonParlance
- definition legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal
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decriminalize in CommonParlance
- definition make legal
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decry in CommonParlance
- definition express strong disapproval of
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decrypt in CommonParlance
- definition convert code into ordinary language
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decryption in CommonParlance
- definition the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text
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decubitus in CommonParlance
- definition a reclining position (as in a bed)
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decubitus ulcer in CommonParlance
- definition a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients)
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decumary in CommonParlance
- definition woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters
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decumbent in CommonParlance
- definition lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
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decurved in CommonParlance
- definition bent down or curved downward
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decussate in CommonParlance
- definition crossed or intersected in the form of an X
- definition cross or intersect so as to form a cross
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decussation in CommonParlance
- definition an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X