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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anchylosis in CommonParlance
- definition abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint
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ancien regime in CommonParlance
- definition a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)
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ancient in CommonParlance
- definition belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- definition very old
- definition a very old person
- definition a person who lived in ancient times
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ancient astronaut hypothesis in CommonParlance
- definition a pseudo-scientific hypothesis that posits that intelligent extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistory.
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ancient history in CommonParlance
- definition a history of the ancient world
- definition knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
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ancient pine in CommonParlance
- definition small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops
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anciently in CommonParlance
- definition in ancient times; long ago
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ancientness in CommonParlance
- definition extreme oldness
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ancients in CommonParlance
- definition people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
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ancillary in CommonParlance
- definition furnishing added support
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anconeous muscle in CommonParlance
- definition the muscle that extends the forearm and abducts the ulna in pronation of the wrist
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ancylose in CommonParlance
- definition produce ankylosis by surgery
- definition undergo ankylosis
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and how in CommonParlance
- definition an expression of emphatic agreement
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and so in CommonParlance
- definition subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
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and so forth in CommonParlance
- definition continuing in the same way
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and so on in CommonParlance
- definition continuing in the same way
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and then some in CommonParlance
- definition and considerably more in addition
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andante in CommonParlance
- definition (of tempo) moderately slow
- definition a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace)
- definition a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow
- definition at a moderately slow tempo
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andantino in CommonParlance
- definition (of tempo) moderately fast
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andelmin in CommonParlance
- definition any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira
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andesite in CommonParlance
- definition a dark grey volcanic rock
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andiron in CommonParlance
- definition metal supports for logs in a fireplace
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andradite in CommonParlance
- definition a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone
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andrena in CommonParlance
- definition a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena
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andrenid in CommonParlance
- definition a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena