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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carriage in CommonParlance
- definition a railcar where passengers ride
- definition a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- definition characteristic way of bearing one's body
- definition a machine part that carries something else
- definition a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
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carriage bolt in CommonParlance
- definition a roundheaded bolt for timber; threaded along part of the shank; inserted into holes already drilled
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carriage dog in CommonParlance
- definition a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia
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carriage house in CommonParlance
- definition a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles
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carriage return in CommonParlance
- definition the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line
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carriage trade in CommonParlance
- definition trade from upper-class customers
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carriage wrench in CommonParlance
- definition a wrench designed for use with carriage bolts
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carriageway in CommonParlance
- definition one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes
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carrick bend in CommonParlance
- definition a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers
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carrick bitt in CommonParlance
- definition either of a pair of strong posts that support a windlass on a ship's deck
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carrier in CommonParlance
- definition someone whose employment involves carrying something
- definition a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
- definition a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
- definition an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction
- definition a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- definition a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
- definition a person who delivers the mail
- definition a boy who delivers newspapers
- definition (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others
- definition a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- definition (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring
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carrier bag in CommonParlance
- definition a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
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carrier electrophoresis in CommonParlance
- definition electrophoresis carried out on filter paper
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carrier pigeon in CommonParlance
- definition a homing pigeon used to carry messages
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carrier wave in CommonParlance
- definition a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
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carrion in CommonParlance
- definition the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
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carrion crow in CommonParlance
- definition American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
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carrion flower in CommonParlance
- definition any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
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carrion fungus in CommonParlance
- definition any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
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carrizo in CommonParlance
- definition tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts
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carron oil in CommonParlance
- definition an ointment formerly used to treat burns
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carrot in CommonParlance
- definition deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
- definition perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
- definition orange root; important source of carotene
- definition promise of reward as in ‘carrot and stick’
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carrot juice in CommonParlance
- definition usually freshly squeezed juice of carrots
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carrot pudding in CommonParlance
- definition pudding made with grated carrots
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carrot soup in CommonParlance
- definition soup made from carrots and other ingredients.