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
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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bodyguard in CommonParlance
- definition someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- definition a group of men who escort and protect some important person
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bodyless in CommonParlance
- definition having no trunk or main part
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bodypaint in CommonParlance
- definition apply paint to a body
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bodywork in CommonParlance
- definition the exterior body of a motor vehicle
- definition the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies
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boeuf in CommonParlance
- definition meat from an adult domestic bovine
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boeuf Bourguignonne in CommonParlance
- definition beef and mushrooms and onions stewed in red wine and seasonings
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boeuf fondu bourguignon in CommonParlance
- definition cubes of beef cooked in hot oil and then dipped in various tasty sauces
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boffin in CommonParlance
- definition (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research
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boffo in CommonParlance
- definition resoundingly successful and popular
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bog in CommonParlance
- definition wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
- definition cause to slow down or get stuck
- definition get stuck while doing something
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bog asphodel in CommonParlance
- definition either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
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bog aster in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of aster (Oclemena nemoralis)
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bog bilberry in CommonParlance
- definition an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
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bog candles in CommonParlance
- definition orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
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bog down in CommonParlance
- definition get stuck while doing something
- definition cause to get stuck as if in a mire
- definition be unable to move further
- definition cause to slow down or get stuck
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bog hemp in CommonParlance
- definition any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
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bog kalmia in CommonParlance
- definition laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
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bog laurel in CommonParlance
- definition laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
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bog moss in CommonParlance
- definition any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
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bog myrtle in CommonParlance
- definition perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
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bog pimpernel in CommonParlance
- definition small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers
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bog plant in CommonParlance
- definition a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc.; possibly heath
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bog rein orchid in CommonParlance
- definition orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
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bog rhubarb in CommonParlance
- definition small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas
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bog rose in CommonParlance
- definition a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada