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
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Terms in this context
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beat about in CommonParlance
- definition search anxiously
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beat around the bush in CommonParlance
- definition be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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beat back in CommonParlance
- definition cause to move back by force or influence
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beat down in CommonParlance
- definition persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- definition shine hard
- definition dislodge from a position
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beat generation in CommonParlance
- definition a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
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beat in in CommonParlance
- definition teach by drills and repetition
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beat music in CommonParlance
- definition a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.
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beat out in CommonParlance
- definition come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- definition beat out a rhythm
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beat up in CommonParlance
- definition give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- definition gather
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beat-up in CommonParlance
- definition damaged by blows or hard usage
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beatable in CommonParlance
- definition susceptible to being defeated
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beaten in CommonParlance
- definition formed or made thin by hammering
- definition much trodden and worn smooth or bare
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beaten-up in CommonParlance
- definition damaged by blows or hard usage
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beater in CommonParlance
- definition a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
- definition an implement for beating
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beatific in CommonParlance
- definition experiencing or bestowing celestial joy
- definition marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
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beatification in CommonParlance
- definition a state of supreme happiness
- definition the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy
- definition (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
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beatified in CommonParlance
- definition Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
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beatify in CommonParlance
- definition fill with sublime emotion
- definition make blessedly happy
- definition declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
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beating in CommonParlance
- definition the act of overcoming or outdoing
- definition the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
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beating-reed instrument in CommonParlance
- definition a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
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beatitude in CommonParlance
- definition a state of supreme happiness
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beatnik in CommonParlance
- definition a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
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beatniks in CommonParlance
- definition a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
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beats in CommonParlance
- definition a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
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beats per minute in CommonParlance
- definition the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds