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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brace in CommonParlance
- definition a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- definition two items of the same kind
- definition a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- definition either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- definition a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- definition elastic straps that hold trousers up
- definition an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- definition a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- definition a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- definition prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- definition support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- definition support by bracing
- definition cause to be alert and energetic
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brace and bit in CommonParlance
- definition a drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn it
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brace oneself for in CommonParlance
- definition prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
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brace up in CommonParlance
- definition make secure underneath
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brace wrench in CommonParlance
- definition a wrench shaped like a brace (has a handle shaped like a crank) and a socket head
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braced in CommonParlance
- definition positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger
- definition held up by braces or buttresses
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bracelet in CommonParlance
- definition a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist
- definition jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
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bracelet wood in CommonParlance
- definition small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets
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bracer in CommonParlance
- definition a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports
- definition a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)
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bracero in CommonParlance
- definition a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
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braces in CommonParlance
- definition an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
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brachial in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to an arm
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brachial artery in CommonParlance
- definition the main artery of the upper arm; a continuation of the axillary artery; bifurcates into the radial and ulnar arteries at the elbow
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brachial plexus in CommonParlance
- definition a network of nerves formed by cervical and thoracic spinal nerves and supplying the arm and parts of the shoulder
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brachial vein in CommonParlance
- definition two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein
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brachiate in CommonParlance
- definition having widely spreading paired branches
- definition having arms or armlike appendages
- definition swing from one hold to the next
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brachiation in CommonParlance
- definition swinging by the arms from branch to branch
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brachiocephalic vein in CommonParlance
- definition veins formed by the union of the internal jugular and subclavian veins
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brachiopod in CommonParlance
- definition of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda
- definition marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide
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brachiopodous in CommonParlance
- definition of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda
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brachistochrone in CommonParlance
- definition a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve.
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brachium in CommonParlance
- definition (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal
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brachycephalic in CommonParlance
- definition having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80
- definition an adult with a short broad head
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brachycephalism in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being brachycephalic
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brachycephaly in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being brachycephalic