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
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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caterwaul in CommonParlance
- definition the yowling sound made by a cat in heat
- definition utter shrieks, as of cats
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catfish in CommonParlance
- definition flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
- definition large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- definition any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- definition To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity
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catgut in CommonParlance
- definition perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
- definition a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
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catharsis in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- definition purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
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cathartic in CommonParlance
- definition emotionally purging
- definition emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
- definition strongly laxative
- definition a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
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cathartid in CommonParlance
- definition large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
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cathect in CommonParlance
- definition inject with libidinal energy
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cathectic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to cathexis
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cathedra in CommonParlance
- definition a throne that is the official chair of a bishop
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cathedral in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne
- definition any large and important church
- definition the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
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catherine wheel in CommonParlance
- definition a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
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catheter in CommonParlance
- definition a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open
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catheterisation in CommonParlance
- definition the operation of introducing a catheter into the body
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catheterise in CommonParlance
- definition insert a catheter into (a body part)
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catheterization in CommonParlance
- definition the operation of introducing a catheter into the body
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catheterize in CommonParlance
- definition insert a catheter into (a body part)
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cathexis in CommonParlance
- definition (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
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cathode in CommonParlance
- definition a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device
- definition the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current
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cathode ray in CommonParlance
- definition a beam of electrons emitted by the cathode of an electrical discharge tube
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cathode-ray oscilloscope in CommonParlance
- definition electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
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cathode-ray tube in CommonParlance
- definition a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen
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cathodic in CommonParlance
- definition of or at or pertaining to a cathode
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catholic in CommonParlance
- definition free from provincial prejudices or attachments
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catholic meter in CommonParlance
- definition a unit of length equivalent to the length of a free seconds pendulum; differs from the modern metre by half a centimetre, introduced by Tito Livio Burattini in 1675.
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catholic metre in CommonParlance
- definition a unit of length equivalent to the length of a free seconds pendulum; differs from the modern metre by half a centimetre, introduced by Tito Livio Burattini in 1675.