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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abrogation in CommonParlance
- definition the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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abrogator in CommonParlance
- definition an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal
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abrupt in CommonParlance
- definition marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- definition exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- definition dangerously steep
- definition surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
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abruptio placentae in CommonParlance
- definition a disorder of pregnancy in which the placenta prematurely separates from the wall of the uterus
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abruption in CommonParlance
- definition an instance of sudden interruption
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abruptly in CommonParlance
- definition quickly and without warning
- definition happening unexpectedly
- definition on impulse; without premeditation
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abruptly-pinnate in CommonParlance
- definition (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex
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abruptly-pinnate leaf in CommonParlance
- definition a pinnate leaf with a pair of leaflets at the apex
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abruptness in CommonParlance
- definition an abrupt discourteous manner
- definition the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
- definition the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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abscess in CommonParlance
- definition symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
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abscessed in CommonParlance
- definition infected and filled with pus
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abscessed tooth in CommonParlance
- definition an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth
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abscise in CommonParlance
- definition shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue
- definition remove or separate by abscission
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abscissa in CommonParlance
- definition the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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abscission in CommonParlance
- definition shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- definition the act of cutting something off
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abscond in CommonParlance
- definition run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
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absconder in CommonParlance
- definition a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
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abscondment in CommonParlance
- definition the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest)
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abseil in CommonParlance
- definition (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- definition descend by means of a rappel
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abseiler in CommonParlance
- definition a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point
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absence in CommonParlance
- definition the state of being absent
- definition failure to be present
- definition the time interval during which something or somebody is away
- definition the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
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absence seizure in CommonParlance
- definition the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
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absence without leave in CommonParlance
- definition unauthorized military absence
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absent in CommonParlance
- definition not being in a specified place
- definition nonexistent
- definition lost in thought; showing preoccupation
- definition stay away or leave
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absentee in CommonParlance
- definition one that is absent or not in residence