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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black-and-white in CommonParlance
- definition lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
- definition not having or not capable of producing colors
- definition of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
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black-backed gull in CommonParlance
- definition white gull having a black back and wings
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black-backed jackal in CommonParlance
- definition a jackal native to Africa with a black back
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black-barred in CommonParlance
- definition having a pattern consisting of black bars
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black-billed cuckoo in CommonParlance
- definition North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young
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black-body radiation in CommonParlance
- definition the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law
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black-capped chickadee in CommonParlance
- definition chickadee having a dark crown
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black-coated in CommonParlance
- definition coated with black
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black-crowned night heron in CommonParlance
- definition night heron of both Old and New Worlds
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black-eyed Susan in CommonParlance
- definition tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center
- definition annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
- definition the state flower of Maryland; of central and southeastern United States; having daisylike flowers with dark centers and yellow to orange rays
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black-eyed Susan vine in CommonParlance
- definition tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center
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black-eyed pea in CommonParlance
- definition fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
- definition sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
- definition eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
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black-footed albatross in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of albatross with black feet
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black-footed ferret in CommonParlance
- definition musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
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black-fronted bush shrike in CommonParlance
- definition a kind of bush shrike
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black-gray in CommonParlance
- definition of dark grey
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black-grey in CommonParlance
- definition of dark grey
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black-haired in CommonParlance
- definition having hair of a dark color
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black-headed snake in CommonParlance
- definition small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
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black-legged tick in CommonParlance
- definition parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
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black-marked in CommonParlance
- definition having black marks
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black-market in CommonParlance
- definition distributed or sold illicitly
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black-necked cobra in CommonParlance
- definition aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness
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black-necked grebe in CommonParlance
- definition small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States
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black-necked stilt in CommonParlance
- definition stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck