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
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Terms in this context
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capelet in CommonParlance
- definition a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women.
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capelin in CommonParlance
- definition very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
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capeline bandage in CommonParlance
- definition bandage that covers the head or an amputation stump like a cap
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caper in CommonParlance
- definition any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- definition pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces
- definition a crime (especially a robbery)
- definition a playful leap or hop
- definition gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- definition a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- definition jump about playfully
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caper sauce in CommonParlance
- definition allemande sauce with capers
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caper spurge in CommonParlance
- definition poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
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caper tree in CommonParlance
- definition shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America
- definition shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
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capercaillie in CommonParlance
- definition large black Old World grouse
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capercailzie in CommonParlance
- definition large black Old World grouse
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capeweed in CommonParlance
- definition European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears
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capful in CommonParlance
- definition the quantity that a cap will hold
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capibara in CommonParlance
- definition pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
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capillarity in CommonParlance
- definition a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
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capillary in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to hair
- definition long and slender with a very small internal diameter
- definition a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
- definition any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
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capillary action in CommonParlance
- definition a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
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capillary artery in CommonParlance
- definition one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries
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capillary bed in CommonParlance
- definition a layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries
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capillary fracture in CommonParlance
- definition a fracture without separation of the fragments and the line of the break being very thin
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capillary tube in CommonParlance
- definition a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
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capillary tubing in CommonParlance
- definition a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
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capillary vein in CommonParlance
- definition a minute vein continuous with a capillary
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capillary vessel in CommonParlance
- definition any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
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capillary water in CommonParlance
- definition water that remains in the soil after gravitational water is drained out, that is subject to the laws of capillary movement, and that is in the form of a film around the soil grains.
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capital in CommonParlance
- definition first-rate
- definition of principal importance
- definition uppercase
- definition assets available for use in the production of further assets
- definition wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- definition a seat of government
- definition one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- definition a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- definition the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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capital account in CommonParlance
- definition (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
- definition (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date