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
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Terms in this context
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Bermuda grass in CommonParlance
- definition trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
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Bermuda lily in CommonParlance
- definition tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring
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Bermuda maidenhair in CommonParlance
- definition delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock
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Bermuda maidenhair fern in CommonParlance
- definition delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock
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Bermuda onion in CommonParlance
- definition mild flat onion grown in warm areas
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Bermuda plan in CommonParlance
- definition a hotel plan that provides a full breakfast daily
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Bermuda rig in CommonParlance
- definition a rig of triangular sails for a yacht
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Bermuda shorts in CommonParlance
- definition (used in the plural) short pants that end at the knee
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Bermudan in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or characteristic of Bermuda or its inhabitants
- definition a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
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Bermudan option in CommonParlance
- definition an option where the buyer has the right to exercise at a set (always discretely spaced) number of times.
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Bermudan rig in CommonParlance
- definition a rig of triangular sails for a yacht
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Bermudian in CommonParlance
- definition a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
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Bermudian rig in CommonParlance
- definition a rig of triangular sails for a yacht
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Bernese mountain dog in CommonParlance
- definition large powerful long-haired black-coated Swiss dog with deep tan or russet markings on legs and white blaze and feet and chest marking; formerly used for draft
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Bernoulli distribution in CommonParlance
- definition a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
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Bernoulli's law in CommonParlance
- definition (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics
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Berteroa incana in CommonParlance
- definition tall European annual with downy grey-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods; naturalized in North America; sometimes a troublesome weed
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Bertholletia excelsa in CommonParlance
- definition tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts
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Bertillon system in CommonParlance
- definition a system or procedure for identifying persons
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Bessemer converter in CommonParlance
- definition a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
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Bessemer process in CommonParlance
- definition an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
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Bessera elegans in CommonParlance
- definition half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers
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Besseya alpina in CommonParlance
- definition small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico
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Bessy cerca in CommonParlance
- definition tropical Atlantic fish
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Beta vulgaris in CommonParlance
- definition biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop