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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bulghur in CommonParlance
- definition parched crushed wheat
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bulginess in CommonParlance
- definition the property possessed by a rounded convexity
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bulging in CommonParlance
- definition curving or bulging outward
- definition curving outward
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bulgur in CommonParlance
- definition parched crushed wheat
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bulgur pilaf in CommonParlance
- definition pilaf made with bulgur wheat instead of rice and usually without meat
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bulgur wheat in CommonParlance
- definition parched crushed wheat
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bulgy in CommonParlance
- definition curving outward
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bulimarexia in CommonParlance
- definition a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting
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bulimia in CommonParlance
- definition a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
- definition pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)
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bulimia nervosa in CommonParlance
- definition a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting
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bulimic in CommonParlance
- definition suffering from bulimia
- definition a person suffering from bulimia
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bulk in CommonParlance
- definition the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- definition the property of something that is great in magnitude
- definition the property possessed by a large mass
- definition stick out or up
- definition cause to bulge or swell outwards
- definition to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
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bulk large in CommonParlance
- definition hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
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bulk mail in CommonParlance
- definition mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than 1st-class rates and paid for in one lot
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bulk modulus in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume
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bulkhead in CommonParlance
- definition a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
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bulkiness in CommonParlance
- definition an unwieldy largeness
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bulky in CommonParlance
- definition of large size for its weight
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bull in CommonParlance
- definition uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
- definition a large and strong and heavyset man
- definition Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
- definition a serious and ludicrous blunder
- definition uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- definition an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- definition the center of a target
- definition a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- definition mature male of various mammals of which the female is called ‘cow’; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
- definition push or force
- definition try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- definition speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- definition advance in price
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bull bay in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
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bull fiddle in CommonParlance
- definition largest and lowest member of the violin family
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bull market in CommonParlance
- definition a market characterized by rising prices for securities
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bull mastiff in CommonParlance
- definition large powerful breed developed by crossing the bulldog and the mastiff
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bull neck in CommonParlance
- definition a thick short powerful neck
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bull nettle in CommonParlance
- definition coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States