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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backfield in CommonParlance
- definition the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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backfire in CommonParlance
- definition the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- definition a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- definition a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path
- definition a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- definition come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
- definition emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire
- definition set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
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backflow in CommonParlance
- definition a flow that returns toward its source
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backflowing in CommonParlance
- definition a flow that returns toward its source
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backgammon in CommonParlance
- definition a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice
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backgammon board in CommonParlance
- definition the board on which backgammon is played
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background in CommonParlance
- definition a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- definition the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- definition information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
- definition extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
- definition relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
- definition the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- definition (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- definition scenery hung at back of stage
- definition understate the importance or quality of
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background knowledge in CommonParlance
- definition information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
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background level in CommonParlance
- definition the amplitude level of the undesired background noise
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background noise in CommonParlance
- definition extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
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background processing in CommonParlance
- definition the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
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background radiation in CommonParlance
- definition radiation coming from sources other than those being observed
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background signal in CommonParlance
- definition extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
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backgrounder in CommonParlance
- definition a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy
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backgrounding in CommonParlance
- definition the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
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backhand in CommonParlance
- definition (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
- definition (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward
- definition a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
- definition hit a tennis ball backhand
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backhand drive in CommonParlance
- definition a hard straight return made on the backhand side
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backhand shot in CommonParlance
- definition a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
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backhand stroke in CommonParlance
- definition a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
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backhanded in CommonParlance
- definition (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
- definition roundabout or ambiguous
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backhander in CommonParlance
- definition a backhanded blow
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backhoe in CommonParlance
- definition an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
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backing in CommonParlance
- definition the act of providing approval and support
- definition something forming a back that is added for strengthening
- definition financial resources provided to make some project possible
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backlash in CommonParlance
- definition a movement back from an impact
- definition an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
- definition come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
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backless in CommonParlance
- definition lacking a back