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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anaesthetize in CommonParlance
- definition administer an anesthetic drug to
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anaglyph in CommonParlance
- definition moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed
- definition anything carved in low relief
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anaglyphic in CommonParlance
- definition related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy
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anaglyphical in CommonParlance
- definition related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy
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anaglyphy in CommonParlance
- definition the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens
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anaglyptic in CommonParlance
- definition related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy
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anaglyptical in CommonParlance
- definition related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy
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anagnost in CommonParlance
- definition a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church)
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anagoge in CommonParlance
- definition a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture)
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anagogic in CommonParlance
- definition based on or exemplifying anagoge
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anagogical in CommonParlance
- definition based on or exemplifying anagoge
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anagram in CommonParlance
- definition a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- definition read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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anagrammatic in CommonParlance
- definition related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram
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anagrammatical in CommonParlance
- definition related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram
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anagrammatise in CommonParlance
- definition read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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anagrammatize in CommonParlance
- definition read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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anagrams in CommonParlance
- definition a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters
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anal in CommonParlance
- definition of or related to the anus
- definition a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
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anal intercourse in CommonParlance
- definition intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
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anal personality in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
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anal phase in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
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anal retentive in CommonParlance
- definition a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
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anal retentive personality in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
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anal sex in CommonParlance
- definition intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
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anal sphincter in CommonParlance
- definition the sphincter muscle of the anus