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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bondsman in CommonParlance
- definition a male slave
- definition a male bound to serve without wages
- definition a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else
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bondsperson in CommonParlance
- definition someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
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bondswoman in CommonParlance
- definition a female bound to serve without wages
- definition a female slave
- definition a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else
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bonduc in CommonParlance
- definition handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute
- definition tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
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bonduc nut in CommonParlance
- definition hard shiny grey seed of a bonduc tree; used for making e.g. jewelry
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bonduc tree in CommonParlance
- definition tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
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bondwoman in CommonParlance
- definition a female bound to serve without wages
- definition a female slave
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bone in CommonParlance
- definition consisting of or made up of bone
- definition rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- definition the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- definition a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- definition study intensively, as before an exam
- definition remove the bones from
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bone age in CommonParlance
- definition a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age
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bone ash in CommonParlance
- definition ash left when bones burn; high in calcium phosphate; used as fertilizer and in bone china
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bone black in CommonParlance
- definition black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
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bone cell in CommonParlance
- definition a cell that is part of a bone
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bone char in CommonParlance
- definition black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
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bone china in CommonParlance
- definition fine porcelain that contains bone ash
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bone dry in CommonParlance
- definition without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
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bone fat in CommonParlance
- definition fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases
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bone marrow in CommonParlance
- definition the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
- definition very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
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bone of contention in CommonParlance
- definition the subject of a dispute
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bone oil in CommonParlance
- definition the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
- definition dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
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bone spavin in CommonParlance
- definition spavin caused by a bony growth
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bone up in CommonParlance
- definition study intensively, as before an exam
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bone-ash cup in CommonParlance
- definition a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
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bone-covered in CommonParlance
- definition (of animals) armored with bone
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bone-dry in CommonParlance
- definition without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
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bone-forming cell in CommonParlance
- definition a cell from which bone develops