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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arroba in CommonParlance
- definition a unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries
- definition a liquid measure (with different values) used in some Spanish speaking countries
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arrogance in CommonParlance
- definition overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
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arrogant in CommonParlance
- definition having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
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arrogantly in CommonParlance
- definition in an arrogant manner
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arrogate in CommonParlance
- definition demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- definition make undue claims to having
- definition seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
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arrogation in CommonParlance
- definition seizure by the government
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arrogator in CommonParlance
- definition a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess
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arrow in CommonParlance
- definition a mark to indicate a direction or relation
- definition a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow
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arrow arum in CommonParlance
- definition an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America
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arrow grass in CommonParlance
- definition tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock
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arrow leaved aster in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of aster (Aster sagittifolius)
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arrow wood in CommonParlance
- definition closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
- definition deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
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arrow-shaped in CommonParlance
- definition (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
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arrowhead in CommonParlance
- definition the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow
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arrowleaf groundsel in CommonParlance
- definition perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads; moist places in mountains of western North America
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arrowroot in CommonParlance
- definition a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
- definition white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
- definition canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
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arrowsmith in CommonParlance
- definition a maker of arrows
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arrowworm in CommonParlance
- definition any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth
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arroyo in CommonParlance
- definition a stream or brook
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arroyo willow in CommonParlance
- definition shrubby willow of the western United States
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arroz con pollo in CommonParlance
- definition rice and chicken cooked together Spanish style; highly seasoned especially with saffron
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arse in CommonParlance
- definition the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- definition vulgar slang for anus
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arse about in CommonParlance
- definition be lazy or idle
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arse around in CommonParlance
- definition be lazy or idle
- definition indulge in horseplay
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arsehole in CommonParlance
- definition vulgar slang for anus