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.
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detract in CommonParlance
- definition take away a part from; diminish
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detraction in CommonParlance
- definition a petty disparagement
- definition the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
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detractive in CommonParlance
- definition causing to decrease in importance or value
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detractor in CommonParlance
- definition one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
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detrain in CommonParlance
- definition leave a train
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detransitivise in CommonParlance
- definition intransitivize
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detransitivize in CommonParlance
- definition intransitivize
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detribalisation in CommonParlance
- definition the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living
- definition the decline or termination of tribal organization
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detribalise in CommonParlance
- definition cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
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detribalization in CommonParlance
- definition the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living
- definition the decline or termination of tribal organization
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detribalize in CommonParlance
- definition cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
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detriment in CommonParlance
- definition a damage or loss
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detrimental in CommonParlance
- definition (sometimes followed by ‘to’) causing harm or injury
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detrimentally in CommonParlance
- definition in a detrimental manner
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detrition in CommonParlance
- definition erosion by friction
- definition the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- definition effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure
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detritus in CommonParlance
- definition the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- definition loose material (stone fragments and silt etc.) that is worn away from rocks
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detumescence in CommonParlance
- definition diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen
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detusk in CommonParlance
- definition remove the tusks of animals
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deuce in CommonParlance
- definition a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
- definition the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
- definition a word used in exclamations of confusion
- definition one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
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deuce-ace in CommonParlance
- definition the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
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deuced in CommonParlance
- definition expletives used informally as intensifiers
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deucedly in CommonParlance
- definition (used as intensives) excessively
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deus ex machina in CommonParlance
- definition any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty
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deuteranopia in CommonParlance
- definition dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
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deuteranopic in CommonParlance
- definition inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red