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.
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anal stage 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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analbuminemia in CommonParlance
- definition an abnormally low level of albumin in the blood serum
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analecta in CommonParlance
- definition a collection of excerpts from a literary work
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analects in CommonParlance
- definition a collection of excerpts from a literary work
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analeptic in CommonParlance
- definition stimulating the central nervous system
- definition a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system
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analgesia in CommonParlance
- definition absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness
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analgesic in CommonParlance
- definition capable of relieving pain
- definition a medicine used to relieve pain
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analgetic in CommonParlance
- definition capable of relieving pain
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analog in CommonParlance
- definition of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
- definition something having the property of being analogous to something else
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analog clock in CommonParlance
- definition a clock that displays the time of day by the position of hands on a dial
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analog computer in CommonParlance
- definition a computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages)
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analog watch in CommonParlance
- definition a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial
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analog-digital converter in CommonParlance
- definition device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
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analog-to-digital converter in CommonParlance
- definition device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
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analogical in CommonParlance
- definition expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy
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analogise in CommonParlance
- definition make an analogy
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analogist in CommonParlance
- definition someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy
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analogize in CommonParlance
- definition make an analogy
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analogous in CommonParlance
- definition similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
- definition corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin
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analogously in CommonParlance
- definition in an analogous manner
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analogue in CommonParlance
- definition of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
- definition something having the property of being analogous to something else
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analogue computer in CommonParlance
- definition a computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages)
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analogy in CommonParlance
- definition an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
- definition drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
- definition the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
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analphabet in CommonParlance
- definition an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet
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analphabetic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic
- definition not alphabetic
- definition having little acquaintance with writing
- definition an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet