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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diarrhetic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to diarrhea
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diarrhoea in CommonParlance
- definition frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
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diarrhoeal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to diarrhea
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diarrhoeic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to diarrhea
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diarrhoetic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to diarrhea
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diarthrosis in CommonParlance
- definition a joint so articulated as to move freely
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diary in CommonParlance
- definition a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
- definition a personal journal (as a physical object)
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diary keeper in CommonParlance
- definition someone who keeps a diary or journal
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diaspora in CommonParlance
- definition the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
- definition the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
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diastasis in CommonParlance
- definition separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
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diastema in CommonParlance
- definition a gap or vacant space between two teeth
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diastole in CommonParlance
- definition the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
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diastolic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole
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diastolic pressure in CommonParlance
- definition the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood
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diastrophism in CommonParlance
- definition the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust
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diathermy in CommonParlance
- definition a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents
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diathermy machine in CommonParlance
- definition a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes
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diathesis in CommonParlance
- definition constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality
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diatom in CommonParlance
- definition microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
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diatomaceous earth in CommonParlance
- definition a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material
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diatomic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms
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diatomite in CommonParlance
- definition a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material
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diatonic in CommonParlance
- definition based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals
- definition based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music
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diatonic scale in CommonParlance
- definition a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
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diatribe in CommonParlance
- definition thunderous verbal attack