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
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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aged in CommonParlance
- definition advanced in years; (‘aged’ is pronounced as two syllables)
- definition at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
- definition having attained a specific age; (‘aged’ is pronounced as one syllable)
- definition of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (‘aged’ pronounced as one syllable)
- definition (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process
- definition people who are old collectively
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agedness in CommonParlance
- definition the property characteristic of old age
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ageing in CommonParlance
- definition growing old
- definition acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time
- definition the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
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ageism in CommonParlance
- definition discrimination on the basis of a person's age
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ageless in CommonParlance
- definition continuing forever or indefinitely
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agelessness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being timeless and eternal
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agelong in CommonParlance
- definition lasting through all time
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agency in CommonParlance
- definition an administrative unit of government
- definition a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties
- definition the state of being in action or exerting power
- definition the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- definition to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
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agency security in CommonParlance
- definition a security issued by United States government agencies or the Farm Credit System
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agenda in CommonParlance
- definition a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- definition a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
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agenda item in CommonParlance
- definition one of the items to be considered
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agendum in CommonParlance
- definition a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
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agenesia in CommonParlance
- definition imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
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agenesis in CommonParlance
- definition imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
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agent in CommonParlance
- definition an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
- definition a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
- definition a substance that exerts some force or effect
- definition a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- definition any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
- definition the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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agent bank in CommonParlance
- definition a bank named by a lending syndicate of several banks to protect their interests
- definition a bank that acts as an agent for a foreign bank
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agent provocateur in CommonParlance
- definition a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
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agent-based model in CommonParlance
- definition one of a class of computational models for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole.
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agent-in-place in CommonParlance
- definition an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target
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agential in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to an agent or agency
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agentive role in CommonParlance
- definition the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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agerasia in CommonParlance
- definition youthful appearance in an old person
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ageratum in CommonParlance
- definition rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium
- definition any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers
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agglomerate in CommonParlance
- definition clustered together but not coherent
- definition volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together
- definition a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- definition form into one cluster
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agglomerated in CommonParlance
- definition clustered together but not coherent