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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bell deck in CommonParlance
- definition a floor under the bells of an open belfry
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bell founder in CommonParlance
- definition a person who casts metal bells
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bell foundry in CommonParlance
- definition a foundry where bells are cast
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bell gable in CommonParlance
- definition an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote
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bell glass in CommonParlance
- definition a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases
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bell heather in CommonParlance
- definition dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
- definition common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
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bell jar in CommonParlance
- definition a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases
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bell magpie in CommonParlance
- definition bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call
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bell metal in CommonParlance
- definition bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells
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bell morel in CommonParlance
- definition a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top
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bell pepper in CommonParlance
- definition plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- definition large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties
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bell push in CommonParlance
- definition a button that is pushed to ring a bell
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bell ringer in CommonParlance
- definition a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- definition someone who plays musical handbells
- definition something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
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bell ringing in CommonParlance
- definition the sound of someone playing a set of bells
- definition persuasion of voters in a political campaign
- definition playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower
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bell seat in CommonParlance
- definition a seat that has a bell shape (on some 18th century chairs)
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bell shape in CommonParlance
- definition the shape of a bell
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bell tent in CommonParlance
- definition a bell-shaped tent
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bell the cat in CommonParlance
- definition take a risk; perform a daring act
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bell toad in CommonParlance
- definition western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ
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bell tower in CommonParlance
- definition a tower that supports or shelters a bell
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bell-bottom in CommonParlance
- definition (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
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bell-bottomed in CommonParlance
- definition (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
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bell-bottoms in CommonParlance
- definition (used in the plural) trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s
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bell-like call in CommonParlance
- definition a birdcall that resembles the tone of a bell
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bell-shaped in CommonParlance
- definition having a convex shape that resembles a bell