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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apologetics in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines
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apologia in CommonParlance
- definition a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
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apologise in CommonParlance
- definition defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- definition acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
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apologist in CommonParlance
- definition a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
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apologize in CommonParlance
- definition acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- definition defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
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apologue in CommonParlance
- definition a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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apology in CommonParlance
- definition an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
- definition a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
- definition a poor example
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apolune in CommonParlance
- definition apoapsis in orbit around the moon
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apomict in CommonParlance
- definition a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis
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apomictic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis
- definition (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
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apomictical in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis
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apomixis in CommonParlance
- definition any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization
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apomorphine in CommonParlance
- definition a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative
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aponeurosis in CommonParlance
- definition any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons
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aponeurotic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to an aponeurosis
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apopemptic in CommonParlance
- definition addressed to one who is departing
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apophasis in CommonParlance
- definition mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
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apophatic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as ‘God is unknowable’)
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apophatism in CommonParlance
- definition the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely ‘other’ and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
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apophthegm in CommonParlance
- definition a short pithy instructive saying
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apophyseal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to an apophysis
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apophysis in CommonParlance
- definition (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers
- definition (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra
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apoplectic in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy
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apoplectiform in CommonParlance
- definition resembling apoplexy
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apoplectoid in CommonParlance
- definition resembling apoplexy