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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cantankerously in CommonParlance
- definition in a bad mood
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cantata in CommonParlance
- definition a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
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canted in CommonParlance
- definition departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
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canteen in CommonParlance
- definition a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- definition sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
- definition a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
- definition a recreation room in an institution
- definition restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
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canter in CommonParlance
- definition a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
- definition ride at a canter
- definition go at a canter, of horses
- definition cause to ride at a cantering pace
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cantering in CommonParlance
- definition riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop
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cantering rhythm in CommonParlance
- definition cardiac rhythm characterized by the presence of an extra sound; can indicate a heart abnormality
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canthus in CommonParlance
- definition either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet
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canticle in CommonParlance
- definition a hymn derived from the Bible
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cantilever in CommonParlance
- definition projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
- definition project as a cantilever
- definition construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed
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cantilever bridge in CommonParlance
- definition bridge constructed of two cantilevers that meet in the middle
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cantillate in CommonParlance
- definition recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
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cantillation in CommonParlance
- definition liturgical chanting
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cantle in CommonParlance
- definition the back of a saddle seat
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canto in CommonParlance
- definition the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
- definition a major division of a long poem
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canton in CommonParlance
- definition a small administrative division of a country
- definition provide housing for (military personnel)
- definition divide into cantons, of a country
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cantonal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a canton
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cantonment in CommonParlance
- definition temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
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cantor in CommonParlance
- definition the musical director of a choir
- definition the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
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cantus firmus in CommonParlance
- definition a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
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canty in CommonParlance
- definition lively and brisk
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canulate in CommonParlance
- definition introduce a cannula or tube into
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canulation in CommonParlance
- definition the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
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canulisation in CommonParlance
- definition the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
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canulization in CommonParlance
- definition the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ