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
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Terms in this context
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bronzing powder in CommonParlance
- definition A cosmetic powder that comes in various shades of brown, meant to create an impression of tanned skin.
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bronzy in CommonParlance
- definition of the color of bronze
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brooch in CommonParlance
- definition a decorative pin worn by women
- definition fasten with or as if with a brooch
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brood in CommonParlance
- definition the young of an animal cared for at one time
- definition think moodily or anxiously about something
- definition hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- definition be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- definition be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- definition sit on (eggs)
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brood bitch in CommonParlance
- definition a bitch used for breeding
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brood hen in CommonParlance
- definition a domestic hen ready to brood
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brooder in CommonParlance
- definition apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants
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brooder pneumonia in CommonParlance
- definition severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys
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brooding in CommonParlance
- definition deeply or seriously thoughtful
- definition sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
- definition persistent morbid meditation on a problem
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broodmare in CommonParlance
- definition a female horse used for breeding
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broody in CommonParlance
- definition physiologically ready to incubate eggs
- definition deeply or seriously thoughtful
- definition a domestic hen ready to brood
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broody hen in CommonParlance
- definition a domestic hen ready to brood
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brook in CommonParlance
- definition a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
- definition put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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brook thistle in CommonParlance
- definition of central and southwestern Europe
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brook trout in CommonParlance
- definition a delicious freshwater food fish
- definition North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
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brooklet in CommonParlance
- definition a small brook
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brooklime in CommonParlance
- definition European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America
- definition plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
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brookweed in CommonParlance
- definition American water pimpernel
- definition water pimpernel of Europe to China
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broom in CommonParlance
- definition a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- definition any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- definition common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- definition sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- definition finish with a broom
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broom beard grass in CommonParlance
- definition handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
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broom closet in CommonParlance
- definition a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment
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broom grass in CommonParlance
- definition any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making
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broom handle in CommonParlance
- definition the handle of a broom
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broom palm in CommonParlance
- definition small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
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broom sedge in CommonParlance
- definition tall tufted grass of southeastern United States