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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bruising in CommonParlance
- definition causing mental or emotional injury
- definition brutally forceful and compelling
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bruit in CommonParlance
- definition tell or spread rumors
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bruitism in CommonParlance
- definition The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery.
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brumal in CommonParlance
- definition characteristic of or relating to winter
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brumous in CommonParlance
- definition filled or abounding with fog or mist
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brunch in CommonParlance
- definition combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
- definition eat a meal in the late morning
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brunch coat in CommonParlance
- definition a woman's short housecoat or wrapper
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brunet in CommonParlance
- definition marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
- definition a person with dark (brown) hair
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brunette in CommonParlance
- definition marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
- definition a person with dark (brown) hair
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brunt in CommonParlance
- definition main force of a blow etc
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brush in CommonParlance
- definition a dense growth of bushes
- definition an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- definition momentary contact
- definition conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- definition a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- definition a minor short-term fight
- definition the act of brushing your teeth
- definition the act of brushing your hair
- definition contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- definition rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- definition touch lightly and briefly
- definition clean with a brush
- definition sweep across or over
- definition remove with or as if with a brush
- definition cover by brushing
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brush aside in CommonParlance
- definition bar from attention or consideration
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brush cut in CommonParlance
- definition a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush
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brush discharge in CommonParlance
- definition discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles
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brush down in CommonParlance
- definition reprimand
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brush fire in CommonParlance
- definition an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes
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brush kangaroo in CommonParlance
- definition any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored
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brush off in CommonParlance
- definition bar from attention or consideration
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brush on in CommonParlance
- definition apply with a brush
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brush turkey in CommonParlance
- definition black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
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brush up in CommonParlance
- definition refresh one's memory
- definition bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
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brush wolf in CommonParlance
- definition small wolf native to western North America
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brush-footed butterfly in CommonParlance
- definition medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast
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brush-off in CommonParlance
- definition a curt or disdainful rejection
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brush-tail porcupine in CommonParlance
- definition porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail