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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catabolise in CommonParlance
- definition subject to catabolism
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catabolism in CommonParlance
- definition breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
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catabolize in CommonParlance
- definition subject to catabolism
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catacaustic in CommonParlance
- definition a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface.
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catachresis in CommonParlance
- definition strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
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catachrestic in CommonParlance
- definition constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis
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catachrestical in CommonParlance
- definition constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis
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cataclinal in CommonParlance
- definition of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata
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cataclysm in CommonParlance
- definition a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
- definition an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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cataclysmal in CommonParlance
- definition severely destructive
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cataclysmic in CommonParlance
- definition severely destructive
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catacomb in CommonParlance
- definition an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)
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catacorner in CommonParlance
- definition slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
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catadromous in CommonParlance
- definition migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn
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catafalque in CommonParlance
- definition a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
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catalase in CommonParlance
- definition enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water
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catalatic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the enzyme catalase
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catalectic in CommonParlance
- definition (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
- definition (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
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catalepsy in CommonParlance
- definition a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli
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cataleptic in CommonParlance
- definition of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy
- definition a person suffering from catalepsy
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catalexis in CommonParlance
- definition the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse
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catalog in CommonParlance
- definition a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things
- definition a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically
- definition make a catalogue, compile a catalogue
- definition make an itemized list or catalog of; classify
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catalog buying in CommonParlance
- definition buying goods to be shipped through the mail
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cataloged procedure in CommonParlance
- definition a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name
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cataloger in CommonParlance
- definition a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system