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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all-purpose in CommonParlance
- definition not limited in use or function
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all-round in CommonParlance
- definition many-sided
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all-rounder in CommonParlance
- definition a versatile person who is expert at many things
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all-terrain bike in CommonParlance
- definition a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country
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all-time in CommonParlance
- definition unsurpassed in some respect up to the present
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all-victorious in CommonParlance
- definition never having lost
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all-weather in CommonParlance
- definition usable or operative or practiced in all kinds of weather
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alla breve in CommonParlance
- definition a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure
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allamanda in CommonParlance
- definition a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes
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allantoic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or characterized by an allantois
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allantoid in CommonParlance
- definition shaped like a sausage
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allantois in CommonParlance
- definition the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
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allargando in CommonParlance
- definition (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner
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allay in CommonParlance
- definition lessen the intensity of or calm
- definition satisfy (thirst)
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allayer in CommonParlance
- definition a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
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allegation in CommonParlance
- definition (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)
- definition statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove
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allege in CommonParlance
- definition report or maintain
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alleged in CommonParlance
- definition declared but not proved
- definition doubtful or suspect
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allegedly in CommonParlance
- definition according to what has been alleged
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allegement in CommonParlance
- definition statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove
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allegiance in CommonParlance
- definition the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- definition the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
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allegiant in CommonParlance
- definition steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government)
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allegoresis in CommonParlance
- definition the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory.
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allegoric in CommonParlance
- definition used in or characteristic of or containing allegory
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allegorical in CommonParlance
- definition used in or characteristic of or containing allegory