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.
Child contexts
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Terms in this context
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descant in CommonParlance
- definition a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- definition sing in descant
- definition sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
- definition talk at great length about something of one's interest
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descant on in CommonParlance
- definition sing a descant on a main tune or melody
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descend in CommonParlance
- definition move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- definition come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- definition do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- definition come as if by falling
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descendant in CommonParlance
- definition going or coming down
- definition proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- definition a person considered as descended from some ancestor
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descendants in CommonParlance
- definition all of the offspring of a given progenitor
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descendent in CommonParlance
- definition going or coming down
- definition proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- definition a person considered as descended from some ancestor
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descender in CommonParlance
- definition someone who descends
- definition a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
- definition (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
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descending in CommonParlance
- definition coming down or downward
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descending aorta in CommonParlance
- definition the descending part of the aorta that branches into the thoracic and abdominal aortae
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descending colon in CommonParlance
- definition the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon
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descending node in CommonParlance
- definition the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane going south
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descensus in CommonParlance
- definition the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)
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descensus uteri in CommonParlance
- definition prolapse of the uterus
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descent in CommonParlance
- definition a movement downward
- definition properties attributable to your ancestry
- definition the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- definition the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- definition a downward slope or bend
- definition the hereditary derivation of an individual
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describable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being described
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describe in CommonParlance
- definition give a description of
- definition to give an account or representation of in words
- definition make a mark or lines on a surface
- definition identify as in botany or biology, for example
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described in CommonParlance
- definition represented in words especially with sharpness and detail
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description in CommonParlance
- definition a statement that represents something in words
- definition the act of describing something
- definition sort or variety
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descriptive in CommonParlance
- definition serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
- definition of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
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descriptive adjective in CommonParlance
- definition an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., ‘a nervous person’ or ‘a musical speaking voice’)
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descriptive anthropology in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
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descriptive clause in CommonParlance
- definition a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies
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descriptive geometry in CommonParlance
- definition the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection
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descriptive grammar in CommonParlance
- definition a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
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descriptive linguistics in CommonParlance
- definition a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments