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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Bonfire Night in CommonParlance
- definition effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on this night
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Boocercus eurycerus in CommonParlance
- definition large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
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Book in CommonParlance
- definition the sacred writings of the Christian religions
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Book of Psalms in CommonParlance
- definition a collection of Psalms for liturgical use
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Boolean in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
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Boolean algebra in CommonParlance
- definition a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers
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Boolean logic in CommonParlance
- definition a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers
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Boott's goldenrod in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of goldenrod (solidago arguta var. bootii)
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Borago officinalis in CommonParlance
- definition hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
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Borassus flabellifer in CommonParlance
- definition tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
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Bordeaux in CommonParlance
- definition any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them
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Bordeaux mixture in CommonParlance
- definition antifungal agent consisting of a solution of copper sulphate and quicklime
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Bordeaux wine in CommonParlance
- definition any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them
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Border collie in CommonParlance
- definition developed in the area between Scotland and England usually having a black coat with white on the head and tip of tail used for herding both sheep and cattle
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Border terrier in CommonParlance
- definition small rough-coated terrier of British origin
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Bornean in CommonParlance
- definition a native or inhabitant of Borneo
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Bornholm disease in CommonParlance
- definition an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
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Borrelia burgdorferi in CommonParlance
- definition cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
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Bos banteng in CommonParlance
- definition wild ox of the Malay Archipelago
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Bos grunniens in CommonParlance
- definition large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated
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Bos indicus in CommonParlance
- definition any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
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Bos primigenius in CommonParlance
- definition large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
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Bos taurus in CommonParlance
- definition domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
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Bose-Einstein statistics in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)
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Boselaphus tragocamelus in CommonParlance
- definition large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns