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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bypass in CommonParlance
- definition a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- definition a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- definition a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- definition avoid something unpleasant or laborious
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bypass capacitor in CommonParlance
- definition a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies
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bypass condenser in CommonParlance
- definition a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies
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bypast in CommonParlance
- definition well in the past; former
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bypath in CommonParlance
- definition a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
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byplay in CommonParlance
- definition incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
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byproduct in CommonParlance
- definition a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
- definition a product made during the manufacture of something else
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byre in CommonParlance
- definition a barn for cows
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byrnie in CommonParlance
- definition a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor
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byroad in CommonParlance
- definition a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
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byssus in CommonParlance
- definition tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
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bystander in CommonParlance
- definition a nonparticipant spectator
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byte in CommonParlance
- definition a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
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byway in CommonParlance
- definition a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
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byword in CommonParlance
- definition a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
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byzant in CommonParlance
- definition a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages
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C in CommonParlance
- definition a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- definition a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
- definition nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- definition a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
- definition an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- definition ten 10s
- definition a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
- definition a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
- definition (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
- definition the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
- definition street names for cocaine
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C and W in CommonParlance
- definition a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
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C battery in CommonParlance
- definition battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube
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C clef in CommonParlance
- definition a movable clef that puts middle C on one of the lines of a staff
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C compiler in CommonParlance
- definition a compiler for programs written in C
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C flute in CommonParlance
- definition The Western concert flute (also called transverse flute, C flute or Boehm flute) is a side-blown woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.
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C major in CommonParlance
- definition (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats
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C major scale in CommonParlance
- definition (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats
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C program in CommonParlance
- definition a program written in C