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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bishop's pine in CommonParlance
- definition two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast
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bishop's purple in CommonParlance
- definition A moderate reddish purple that is bluer, stronger, and slightly lighter than heliotrope see heliotrope and bluer and duller than eupatorium purple.
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bishop's throne in CommonParlance
- definition a throne that is the official chair of a bishop
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bishop's violet in CommonParlance
- definition A moderate reddish purple that is bluer, stronger, and slightly lighter than heliotrope see heliotrope and bluer and duller than eupatorium purple.
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bishopric in CommonParlance
- definition the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
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bishopry in CommonParlance
- definition the office and dignity of a bishop
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bismark in CommonParlance
- definition a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam
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bismuth in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
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bismuthal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to bismuth
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bismuthic in CommonParlance
- definition containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state)
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bison in CommonParlance
- definition any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
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bisontine in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or characteristic of bison
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bispak in CommonParlance
- definition A sexually promiscuous Indonesian woman
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bisque in CommonParlance
- definition a thick cream soup made from shellfish
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bissextile day in CommonParlance
- definition the name of the day that is added during a leap year
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bissextile year in CommonParlance
- definition a calendar year with an extra day added in February
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bistable relay in CommonParlance
- definition a relay that maintains either contact position indefinitely without power applied to the coil.
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bister in CommonParlance
- definition a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
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bistered in CommonParlance
- definition colored with or as if with bister
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bistre in CommonParlance
- definition a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
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bistred in CommonParlance
- definition colored with or as if with bister
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bistro in CommonParlance
- definition a small informal restaurant; serves wine
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bistroic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or resembling a bistro
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bisulcate in CommonParlance
- definition (used of hooves) split, divided
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bisulfate in CommonParlance
- definition a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-.