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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balaclava in CommonParlance
- definition a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face
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balaclava helmet in CommonParlance
- definition a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face
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balagan in CommonParlance
- definition a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
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balalaika in CommonParlance
- definition a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings
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balance in CommonParlance
- definition a state of equilibrium
- definition equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- definition harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- definition equality of distribution
- definition something left after other parts have been taken away
- definition the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- definition (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- definition a weight that balances another weight
- definition a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- definition a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- definition bring into balance or equilibrium
- definition compute credits and debits of an account
- definition hold or carry in equilibrium
- definition be in equilibrium
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balance beam in CommonParlance
- definition a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts
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balance of international payments in CommonParlance
- definition a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year
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balance of payments in CommonParlance
- definition a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year
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balance of power in CommonParlance
- definition an equilibrium of power between nations
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balance of trade in CommonParlance
- definition the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise
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balance sheet in CommonParlance
- definition a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets
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balance sheet analysis in CommonParlance
- definition An analysis of a company's assets, liabilities and equity usually conducted at set intervals, such as quarterly or annually.
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balance wheel in CommonParlance
- definition a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
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balance-of-payments problem in CommonParlance
- definition an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports
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balanced in CommonParlance
- definition being in a state of proper equilibrium
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balanced budget in CommonParlance
- definition a budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts
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balanced diet in CommonParlance
- definition a diet that contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity
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balancer in CommonParlance
- definition an acrobat who balances themself in difficult positions
- definition either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
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balancing in CommonParlance
- definition getting two things to correspond
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balanitis in CommonParlance
- definition inflammation of the head of the penis
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balanoposthitis in CommonParlance
- definition inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin
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balas in CommonParlance
- definition a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel
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balas ruby in CommonParlance
- definition a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel
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balata in CommonParlance
- definition when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
- definition a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
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balata tree in CommonParlance
- definition a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber