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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abidance in CommonParlance
- definition acting according to certain accepted standards
- definition the act of dwelling in a place
- definition the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
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abide in CommonParlance
- definition dwell
- definition put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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abide by in CommonParlance
- definition act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- definition show respect towards
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abiding in CommonParlance
- definition lasting a long time
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abience in CommonParlance
- definition (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
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abient in CommonParlance
- definition characterized by avoidance or withdrawal
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ability in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
- definition possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
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abiogenesis in CommonParlance
- definition a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
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abiogenetic in CommonParlance
- definition originating by abiogenesis
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abiogenist in CommonParlance
- definition a believer in abiogenesis
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abiotrophy in CommonParlance
- definition a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury
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abject in CommonParlance
- definition of the most contemptible kind
- definition most unfortunate or miserable
- definition showing utter resignation or hopelessness
- definition showing humiliation or submissiveness
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abjection in CommonParlance
- definition a low or downcast state
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abjectly in CommonParlance
- definition in a hopeless resigned manner
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abjuration in CommonParlance
- definition a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
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abjure in CommonParlance
- definition formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
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abjurer in CommonParlance
- definition a person who abjures
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ablactate in CommonParlance
- definition gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
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ablactation in CommonParlance
- definition the cessation of lactation
- definition the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
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ablate in CommonParlance
- definition wear away through erosion or vaporization
- definition remove an organ or bodily structure
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ablated in CommonParlance
- definition made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization
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ablation in CommonParlance
- definition surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- definition the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
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ablation moraine in CommonParlance
- definition a layer of rock particles overlying ice in the ablation of a glacier.
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ablative in CommonParlance
- definition relating to the ablative case
- definition tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
- definition the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
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ablative absolute in CommonParlance
- definition a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier