CommonParlance
Seed
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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big fish in CommonParlance
- definition an important influential person
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big game in CommonParlance
- definition large animals that are hunted for sport
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big gun in CommonParlance
- definition an important influential person
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big hand in CommonParlance
- definition points to the minutes
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big league in CommonParlance
- definition the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)
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big leaguer in CommonParlance
- definition a member of a major-league baseball team
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big marigold in CommonParlance
- definition a stout branching annual with large yellow to orange flower heads; Mexico and Central America
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big money in CommonParlance
- definition a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
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big sagebrush in CommonParlance
- definition aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves
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big science in CommonParlance
- definition scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results
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big shagbark in CommonParlance
- definition hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
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big shellbark in CommonParlance
- definition hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
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big shellbark hickory in CommonParlance
- definition hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
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big shot in CommonParlance
- definition an important influential person
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big sister in CommonParlance
- definition an older sister
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big spender in CommonParlance
- definition one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment
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big stick in CommonParlance
- definition a display of force or power
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big time in CommonParlance
- definition the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment)
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big toe in CommonParlance
- definition the first largest innermost toe
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big top in CommonParlance
- definition a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
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big tree in CommonParlance
- definition extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
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big wheel in CommonParlance
- definition an important influential person
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big yus in CommonParlance
- definition a Common Slavonic nasalized back vowel in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
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big-bang theory in CommonParlance
- definition (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
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big-bellied in CommonParlance
- definition having a prominent belly