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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blackmail in CommonParlance
- definition extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- definition exert pressure on someone through threats
- definition obtain through threats
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blackmailer in CommonParlance
- definition a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
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blackmouth bass in CommonParlance
- definition small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
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blackness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- definition total absence of light
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blackout in CommonParlance
- definition a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- definition darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
- definition the failure of electric power for a general region
- definition a momentary loss of consciousness
- definition partial or total loss of memory
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blackpoll in CommonParlance
- definition North American warbler having a black-and-white head
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blackseed in CommonParlance
- definition grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus
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blacksmith in CommonParlance
- definition a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
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blacksnake in CommonParlance
- definition large harmless shiny black North American snake
- definition blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
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blacktail in CommonParlance
- definition mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
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blacktail deer in CommonParlance
- definition mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
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blacktail jackrabbit in CommonParlance
- definition the common jackrabbit of grasslands and open areas of western United States; has large black-tipped ears and black streak on the tail
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blacktail prairie dog in CommonParlance
- definition tail is black tipped
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blackthorn in CommonParlance
- definition a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
- definition erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
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blackthorn liqueur in CommonParlance
- definition any of a variety of strong alcoholic drinks made from blackthorn fruit.
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blacktip shark in CommonParlance
- definition widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink
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blacktop in CommonParlance
- definition a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock
- definition coat with blacktop
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blacktopping in CommonParlance
- definition a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock
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blackwash in CommonParlance
- definition an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- definition a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- definition a wash that colors a surface black
- definition bring (information) out of concealment
- definition color with blackwash
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blackwater in CommonParlance
- definition any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells
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blackwater fever in CommonParlance
- definition severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
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blackwood in CommonParlance
- definition very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
- definition any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
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blackwood tree in CommonParlance
- definition any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
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bladder in CommonParlance
- definition a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
- definition a bag that fills with air
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bladder campion in CommonParlance
- definition perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx
- definition bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis