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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aventail in CommonParlance
- definition a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
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aventurine in CommonParlance
- definition a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
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avenue in CommonParlance
- definition a line of approach
- definition a wide street or thoroughfare
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aver in CommonParlance
- definition report or maintain
- definition to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
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average in CommonParlance
- definition approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- definition lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- definition lacking exceptional quality or ability
- definition around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- definition relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- definition relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
- definition a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- definition (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- definition an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- definition amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- definition achieve or reach on average
- definition compute the average of
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average absolute deviation in CommonParlance
- definition the average of the absolute deviations from a central point and a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability.
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average cost in CommonParlance
- definition total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units
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average deviation in CommonParlance
- definition the average of the absolute deviations from a central point and a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability.
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average out in CommonParlance
- definition compute the average of
- definition amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
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average revenue in CommonParlance
- definition the total revenue a company or project collects from sales divided by the number of units sold over a period of time.
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averageness in CommonParlance
- definition the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity
- definition ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
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averment in CommonParlance
- definition a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
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averse in CommonParlance
- definition (usually followed by ‘to’) strongly opposed
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aversion in CommonParlance
- definition a feeling of intense dislike
- definition the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
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aversion therapy in CommonParlance
- definition any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
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aversive in CommonParlance
- definition tending to repel or dissuade
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aversive conditioning in CommonParlance
- definition conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus
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aversive stimulus in CommonParlance
- definition any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it
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avert in CommonParlance
- definition prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- definition turn away or aside
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avertable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being avoided or warded off
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avertible in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being avoided or warded off
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averting in CommonParlance
- definition the act of preventing something from occurring
- definition the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
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avian in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to or characteristic of birds
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avianise in CommonParlance
- definition to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo
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avianize in CommonParlance
- definition to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo