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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amphibious vehicle in CommonParlance
- definition a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water
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amphibole in CommonParlance
- definition a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group
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amphibole group in CommonParlance
- definition a group of minerals with similar crystal structures containing a silicate chain and combinations of chiefly sodium and calcium and magnesium and iron and aluminum
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amphibolite in CommonParlance
- definition a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase
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amphibology in CommonParlance
- definition an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., ‘they are flying planes’ can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
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amphiboly in CommonParlance
- definition an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., ‘they are flying planes’ can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
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amphibrach in CommonParlance
- definition a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., ‘remember’)
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amphictyony in CommonParlance
- definition an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center
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amphidiploid in CommonParlance
- definition (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
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amphidiploidy in CommonParlance
- definition the condition of being amphidiploid
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amphigory in CommonParlance
- definition nonsensical writing (usually verse)
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amphimixis in CommonParlance
- definition reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete
- definition union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction
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amphioxus in CommonParlance
- definition small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
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amphipod in CommonParlance
- definition a kind of malacostracan crustacean
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amphiprostylar in CommonParlance
- definition marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
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amphiprostyle in CommonParlance
- definition marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
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amphiprotic in CommonParlance
- definition having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either
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amphisbaena in CommonParlance
- definition (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body
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amphistylar in CommonParlance
- definition having columns either at both ends or at both sides
- definition marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
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amphitheater in CommonParlance
- definition a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)
- definition an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held
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amphitheatre in CommonParlance
- definition a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)
- definition an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held
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amphitheatric in CommonParlance
- definition of or related to an amphitheater
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amphitheatrical in CommonParlance
- definition of or related to an amphitheater
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amphitropous in CommonParlance
- definition (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk
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amphitropous ovule in CommonParlance
- definition a partly inverted ovule turned back 90 degrees on its stalk