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.
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behavior in CommonParlance
- definition manner of acting or controlling yourself
- definition the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- definition (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- definition (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
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behavior modification in CommonParlance
- definition psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
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behavior therapy in CommonParlance
- definition psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
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behavioral in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behavior
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behaviorism in CommonParlance
- definition an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
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behaviorist in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behaviorism
- definition a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism
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behavioristic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behaviorism
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behavioristic psychology in CommonParlance
- definition an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
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behaviour in CommonParlance
- definition the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- definition (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- definition (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
- definition manner of acting or controlling yourself
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behavioural in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behavior
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behaviourism in CommonParlance
- definition an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
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behaviourist in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behaviorism
- definition a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism
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behaviouristic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to behaviorism
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behaviouristic psychology in CommonParlance
- definition an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
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behead in CommonParlance
- definition cut the head of
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beheaded in CommonParlance
- definition having had the head cut off
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beheading in CommonParlance
- definition execution by cutting off the victim's head
- definition killing by cutting off the head
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behemoth in CommonParlance
- definition someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- definition a person of exceptional importance and reputation
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behest in CommonParlance
- definition an authoritative command or request
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behind in CommonParlance
- definition having the lower score or lagging position in a contest
- definition the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- definition in or to or toward the rear
- definition remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from
- definition showing a time that is earlier than the actual time
- definition in or into an inferior position
- definition in debt
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behind-the-scenes in CommonParlance
- definition designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
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behindhand in CommonParlance
- definition behind schedule
- definition in debt
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behold in CommonParlance
- definition see with attention
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beholden in CommonParlance
- definition under a moral obligation to someone
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beholder in CommonParlance
- definition a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses