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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.

Propose an assessment

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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    • definition a native or inhabitant of Great Britain
  • Britishism in CommonParlance
    • definition an expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English)
    • definition a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens
  • Briton in CommonParlance
    • definition characteristic of or associated with the Britons
    • definition a native or inhabitant of Great Britain
    • definition an inhabitant of southern Britain prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasions
  • Brits in CommonParlance
  • Brittanic in CommonParlance
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  • Brobdingnagian in CommonParlance
    • definition huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
    • definition unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
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    • definition the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people
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    • definition the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people
  • Broca's gyrus in CommonParlance
    • definition the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people
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  • Brodmann's area in CommonParlance
    • definition one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture
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    • definition the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision
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  • Bromus arvensis in CommonParlance
    • definition annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia
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    • definition drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia
  • Bromus japonicus in CommonParlance
    • definition grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia
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