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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cable's length in CommonParlance
- definition a nautical unit of depth
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cablegram in CommonParlance
- definition a telegram sent abroad
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cabman in CommonParlance
- definition someone who drives a taxi for a living
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cabochon in CommonParlance
- definition a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets
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caboodle in CommonParlance
- definition any collection in its entirety
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caboose in CommonParlance
- definition the area for food preparation on a ship
- definition a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train
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cabotage in CommonParlance
- definition the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
- definition navigation in coastal waters
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cabriolet in CommonParlance
- definition small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
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cabstand in CommonParlance
- definition a place where taxis park while awaiting customers
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cacao in CommonParlance
- definition tropical American tree producing cacao beans
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cacao bean in CommonParlance
- definition seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate
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cacao moth in CommonParlance
- definition small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products
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cacao tree in CommonParlance
- definition tropical American tree producing cacao beans
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cachalot in CommonParlance
- definition large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
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cache in CommonParlance
- definition a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- definition a secret store of valuables or money
- definition (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- definition save up as for future use
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cachectic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia
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cachet in CommonParlance
- definition an indication of approved or superior status
- definition a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal
- definition a seal on a letter
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cachexia in CommonParlance
- definition any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
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cachexy in CommonParlance
- definition any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
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cachinnate in CommonParlance
- definition laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way
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cachinnation in CommonParlance
- definition loud convulsive laughter
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cachou in CommonParlance
- definition a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)
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cacique in CommonParlance
- definition black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics
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cackle in CommonParlance
- definition the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
- definition noisy talk
- definition a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
- definition talk or utter in a cackling manner
- definition squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
- definition make a noise characteristic of a goose
- definition emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
- definition make a cackling sound
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cackler in CommonParlance
- definition a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk
- definition any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae