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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as yet in CommonParlance
- definition used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
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asa dulcis in CommonParlance
- definition gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation
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asafetida in CommonParlance
- definition the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic
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asafoetida in CommonParlance
- definition the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic
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asana in CommonParlance
- definition (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
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asarabacca in CommonParlance
- definition thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe
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asbestos in CommonParlance
- definition a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
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asbestos abatement in CommonParlance
- definition the removal of asbestos from a public building
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asbestosis in CommonParlance
- definition lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles
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ascariasis in CommonParlance
- definition infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms
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ascend in CommonParlance
- definition travel up
- definition go back in order of genealogical succession
- definition become king or queen
- definition go along towards (a river's) source
- definition slope upwards
- definition come up, of celestial bodies
- definition move to a better position in life or to a better job
- definition go upward with gradual or continuous progress
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ascendable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being ascended
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ascendance in CommonParlance
- definition the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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ascendancy in CommonParlance
- definition the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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ascendant in CommonParlance
- definition tending or directed upward
- definition most powerful or important or influential
- definition position or state of being dominant or in control
- definition someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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ascendence in CommonParlance
- definition the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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ascendency in CommonParlance
- definition the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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ascendent in CommonParlance
- definition tending or directed upward
- definition most powerful or important or influential
- definition position or state of being dominant or in control
- definition someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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ascender in CommonParlance
- definition someone who ascends
- definition a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters
- definition (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters
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ascendible in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being ascended
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ascending in CommonParlance
- definition moving or going or growing upward
- definition the act of changing location in an upward direction
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ascending aorta in CommonParlance
- definition the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left ventricle
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ascending artery in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the ascending colon
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ascending colon in CommonParlance
- definition the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon
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ascending node in CommonParlance
- definition the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane going north