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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bos'n in CommonParlance
- definition a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
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bosc in CommonParlance
- definition greenish-yellow pear
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bosh in CommonParlance
- definition pretentious or silly talk or writing
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bosie in CommonParlance
- definition a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
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bosie ball in CommonParlance
- definition a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
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bosk in CommonParlance
- definition a small wooded area
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boskopoid in CommonParlance
- definition belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man
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bosky in CommonParlance
- definition covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets
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bosom in CommonParlance
- definition the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- definition a person's breast or chest
- definition cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- definition a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- definition the locus of feelings and intuitions
- definition either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- definition hide in one's bosom
- definition hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
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bosom of Abraham in CommonParlance
- definition the place where the just enjoy the peace of heaven after death
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bosomed in CommonParlance
- definition having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds
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bosomy in CommonParlance
- definition (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
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boson in CommonParlance
- definition any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons
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bosonic string theory in CommonParlance
- definition the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.
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boss in CommonParlance
- definition exceptionally good
- definition a person who exercises control over workers
- definition a person responsible for hiring workers
- definition a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- definition a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- definition a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- definition raise in a relief
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boss around in CommonParlance
- definition be bossy towards
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boss-eyed in CommonParlance
- definition (British informal) cross-eyed
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bossism in CommonParlance
- definition domination of a political organization by a party boss
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bossy in CommonParlance
- definition offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
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bosun in CommonParlance
- definition a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
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bosun's chair in CommonParlance
- definition a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship
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bot in CommonParlance
- definition botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
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bota in CommonParlance
- definition a wine bottle made of leather
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botanic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to plants or botany
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botanical in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to plants or botany
- definition a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)