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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ascension in CommonParlance
- definition a movement upward; rise above the ground
- definition (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
- definition the act of changing location in an upward direction
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ascensional in CommonParlance
- definition tending to rise
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ascensive in CommonParlance
- definition tending or directed upward
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ascent in CommonParlance
- definition an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- definition a movement upward; rise above the ground
- definition the act of changing location in an upward direction
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ascertain in CommonParlance
- definition establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- definition be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- definition find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- definition learn or discover with certainty
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ascertainable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being ascertained or found out
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ascertained in CommonParlance
- definition discovered or determined by scientific observation
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ascesis in CommonParlance
- definition rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
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ascetic in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
- definition practicing great self-denial
- definition someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
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ascetical in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
- definition practicing great self-denial
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ascetically in CommonParlance
- definition in an ascetic manner
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asceticism in CommonParlance
- definition the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
- definition the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
- definition rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
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ascidian in CommonParlance
- definition minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves
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ascidian tadpole in CommonParlance
- definition free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord
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ascites in CommonParlance
- definition accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity
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ascitic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity
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asclepiad in CommonParlance
- definition any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
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asclepiadaceous in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to plants of the milkweed family
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ascocarp in CommonParlance
- definition mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus
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ascocarpous in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to ascocarps
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ascolichen in CommonParlance
- definition a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete
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ascoma in CommonParlance
- definition an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle
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ascomycete in CommonParlance
- definition any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
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ascomycetous in CommonParlance
- definition related to or characteristic of fungi of the class Ascomycetes
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ascomycetous fungus in CommonParlance
- definition any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus