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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auxiliary verb in CommonParlance
- definition a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with
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auxin in CommonParlance
- definition a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth
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auxinic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or containing auxins
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avadavat in CommonParlance
- definition red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds
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avail in CommonParlance
- definition a means of serving
- definition take advantage of
- definition be of use to, be useful to
- definition take or use
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availability in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being at hand when needed
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available in CommonParlance
- definition obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service
- definition not busy; not otherwise committed
- definition convenient for use or disposal
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availableness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being at hand when needed
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avalanche in CommonParlance
- definition a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
- definition a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- definition gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
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avalanche lily in CommonParlance
- definition perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States
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avant-garde in CommonParlance
- definition radically new or original
- definition any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
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avaram in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
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avarice in CommonParlance
- definition reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- definition extreme greed for material wealth
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avaricious in CommonParlance
- definition immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
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avariciously in CommonParlance
- definition in a greedy manner
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avariciousness in CommonParlance
- definition extreme greed for material wealth
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avaritia in CommonParlance
- definition reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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avascular in CommonParlance
- definition without blood vessels
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avatar in CommonParlance
- definition a new personification of a familiar idea
- definition the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form
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avellan in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts
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avellane in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts
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avenge in CommonParlance
- definition take revenge for a perceived wrong
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avenged in CommonParlance
- definition for which vengeance has been taken
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avenger in CommonParlance
- definition someone who takes vengeance
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avens in CommonParlance
- definition any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers