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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antagonize in CommonParlance
- definition provoke the hostility of
- definition act in opposition to
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antapex in CommonParlance
- definition the point opposite in direction from the solar apex; the point the solar system is moving away from
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antbird in CommonParlance
- definition any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms
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ante in CommonParlance
- definition (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- definition place one's stake
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ante meridiem in CommonParlance
- definition before 12 noon
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ante up in CommonParlance
- definition cancel or discharge a debt
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anteater in CommonParlance
- definition toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
- definition any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- definition nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- definition small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
- definition a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
- definition a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
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antebellum in CommonParlance
- definition belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
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antecede in CommonParlance
- definition be earlier in time; go back further
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antecedence in CommonParlance
- definition preceding in time
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antecedency in CommonParlance
- definition preceding in time
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antecedent in CommonParlance
- definition preceding in time or order
- definition someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- definition a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- definition anything that precedes something similar in time
- definition the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
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antecedently in CommonParlance
- definition at an earlier time or formerly
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antechamber in CommonParlance
- definition a large entrance or reception room or area
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antecubital in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow
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antedate in CommonParlance
- definition be earlier in time; go back further
- definition establish something as being earlier relative to something else
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antediluvial in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
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antediluvian in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
- definition so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- definition any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- definition a very old person
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antediluvian patriarch in CommonParlance
- definition any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
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antefix in CommonParlance
- definition carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles
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antelope in CommonParlance
- definition graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks
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antelope chipmunk in CommonParlance
- definition small ground squirrel of western United States
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antelope squirrel in CommonParlance
- definition small ground squirrel of western United States
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antemeridian in CommonParlance
- definition before noon
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antemortem in CommonParlance
- definition preceding death