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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bouillon in CommonParlance
- definition a clear seasoned broth
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bouillon cube in CommonParlance
- definition a cube of evaporated seasoned meat extract
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boulder in CommonParlance
- definition a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
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boulder clay in CommonParlance
- definition unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
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boulder fern in CommonParlance
- definition fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
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bouldered in CommonParlance
- definition abounding in rocks or stones
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bouldery in CommonParlance
- definition abounding in rocks or stones
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boule in CommonParlance
- definition an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
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boulevard in CommonParlance
- definition a wide street or thoroughfare
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boulevardier in CommonParlance
- definition a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)
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boulle in CommonParlance
- definition an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
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bounce in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
- definition a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- definition rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- definition spring back; spring away from an impact
- definition hit something so that it bounces
- definition move up and down repeatedly
- definition come back after being refused
- definition leap suddenly
- definition refuse to accept and send back
- definition eject from the premises
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bounce back in CommonParlance
- definition improve in health
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bounce out in CommonParlance
- definition bounce a ball so that it becomes an out
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bouncer in CommonParlance
- definition a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting
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bounciness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
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bouncing in CommonParlance
- definition vigorously healthy
- definition marked by lively action
- definition rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
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bouncing Bess in CommonParlance
- definition plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
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bouncing Bet in CommonParlance
- definition plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
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bouncing betty in CommonParlance
- definition an antipersonnel land mine
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bouncing putty in CommonParlance
- definition a soft elastic silicone polymer that increases in elasticity with the application of force; used in the center of golf balls and as shock-absorbent padding
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bouncy in CommonParlance
- definition elastic; rebounds readily
- definition marked by lively action
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bound in CommonParlance
- definition confined by bonds
- definition held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- definition secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- definition (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
- definition covered or wrapped with a bandage
- definition headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- definition bound by an oath
- definition bound by contract
- definition confined in the bowels
- definition a line determining the limits of an area
- definition the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- definition the greatest possible degree of something
- definition a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- definition move forward by leaps and bounds
- definition form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- definition place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- definition spring back; spring away from an impact
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bound form in CommonParlance
- definition a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns
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bound morpheme in CommonParlance
- definition a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns