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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Buxus sempervirens in CommonParlance
- definition large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures
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Buyi in CommonParlance
- definition a branch of the Tai languages, spoken in South and southwest Guizhou Province, Guizhou-Yunnan plateau, mainly Buyi-Miao and Miao-Dong autonomous prefectures, Zhenning and Guanling counties; Yunnan Province, Luoping county, Sichuan Province, Ningnan and Huidong counties
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Byelorussian in CommonParlance
- definition a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia
- definition the Slavic language spoken in Belarus
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Byelorussian language in CommonParlance
- definition the Slavic language spoken in Belarus
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Byronism in CommonParlance
- definition Admiration or emulation of the poet Lord Byron.
- definition the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.
- definition imitation of or belief in the ideals and lifestyle of Byron.
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Byzantine in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
- definition of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
- definition highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- definition a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Church in CommonParlance
- definition the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Greek in CommonParlance
- definition the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD
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Byzantine Greek language in CommonParlance
- definition the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD
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Byzantine architecture in CommonParlance
- definition the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the 5th century; massive domes with square bases and round arches and spires and much use of mosaics
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Byzantinism in CommonParlance
- definition the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters
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b in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
- definition the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
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b-meson in CommonParlance
- definition exceedingly short-lived meson
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baa in CommonParlance
- definition the cry made by sheep
- definition cry plaintively
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baa-lamb in CommonParlance
- definition child's word for a sheep or lamb
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baas in CommonParlance
- definition South African term for ‘boss’
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baba in CommonParlance
- definition a small cake leavened with yeast
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baba au rhum in CommonParlance
- definition a baba soaked in rum
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babacu oil in CommonParlance
- definition fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil
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babassu in CommonParlance
- definition tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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babassu nut in CommonParlance
- definition hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm
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babassu oil in CommonParlance
- definition fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil
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babassu palm in CommonParlance
- definition tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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babbitt in CommonParlance
- definition an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction
- definition line with a Babbitt metal
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babbitting in CommonParlance
- definition lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal