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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butternut squash in CommonParlance
- definition plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
- definition buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh
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butternut tree in CommonParlance
- definition North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
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butterscotch in CommonParlance
- definition a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
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butterweed in CommonParlance
- definition American ragwort with yellow flowers
- definition any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio
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butterwort in CommonParlance
- definition any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects
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buttery in CommonParlance
- definition unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
- definition resembling or containing or spread with butter
- definition a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
- definition a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
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buttinsky in CommonParlance
- definition a meddler who tends to butt in
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buttock in CommonParlance
- definition either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
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buttocks in CommonParlance
- definition the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
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button in CommonParlance
- definition a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
- definition an electrical switch operated by pressing
- definition any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- definition a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- definition a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- definition a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- definition any artifact that resembles a button
- definition a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- definition provide with buttons
- definition fasten with buttons
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button accordion in CommonParlance
- definition an accordion with buttons rather than keys
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button ad in CommonParlance
- definition small circular, rectangular, or square advertisement appearing usually at the bottom of a webpage.
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button fern in CommonParlance
- definition fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
- definition Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils
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button hole in CommonParlance
- definition a hole through which buttons are pushed
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button mangrove in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
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button pink in CommonParlance
- definition much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William
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button quail in CommonParlance
- definition small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
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button snakeroot in CommonParlance
- definition coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
- definition coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master
- definition any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
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button tree in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
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button up in CommonParlance
- definition refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
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button-down in CommonParlance
- definition unimaginatively conventional
- definition of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
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button-quail in CommonParlance
- definition small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
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button-shaped in CommonParlance
- definition shaped like a button
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buttoned in CommonParlance
- definition furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
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buttoned-down in CommonParlance
- definition unimaginatively conventional