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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aoudad in CommonParlance
- definition wild sheep of northern Africa
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apace in CommonParlance
- definition (poetic, literary) quickly
- definition with speed
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apache in CommonParlance
- definition a Parisian gangster
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apache dance in CommonParlance
- definition a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld)
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apache devil dance in CommonParlance
- definition a ritual dance of the Apache
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apadana in CommonParlance
- definition the great hall in ancient Persian palaces
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apanage in CommonParlance
- definition any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
- definition a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
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apar in CommonParlance
- definition South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
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apart in CommonParlance
- definition remote and separate physically or socially
- definition having characteristics not shared by others
- definition separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- definition not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- definition away from another or others
- definition placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- definition one from the other
- definition into parts or pieces
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apartheid in CommonParlance
- definition a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
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apartment in CommonParlance
- definition a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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apartment building in CommonParlance
- definition a building that is divided into apartments
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apartment house in CommonParlance
- definition a building that is divided into apartments
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apatetic coloration in CommonParlance
- definition coloring serving as natural camouflage
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apathetic in CommonParlance
- definition showing little or no emotion or animation
- definition marked by a lack of interest
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apathetically in CommonParlance
- definition in an apathetic manner
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apathy in CommonParlance
- definition an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- definition the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
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apatite in CommonParlance
- definition a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus
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apatosaur in CommonParlance
- definition huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
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apatosaurus in CommonParlance
- definition huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
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ape in CommonParlance
- definition any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- definition someone who copies the words or behavior of another
- definition person who resembles a nonhuman primate
- definition imitate uncritically and in every aspect
- definition represent in or produce a caricature of
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ape-man in CommonParlance
- definition hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
- definition a person assumed to have been raised by apes
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apelike in CommonParlance
- definition resembling apes
- definition being or given to servile imitation
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aper in CommonParlance
- definition someone who copies the words or behavior of another
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apercu in CommonParlance
- definition a short synopsis