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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chabazite in CommonParlance
- definition a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum
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chachalaca in CommonParlance
- definition slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds
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chachka in CommonParlance
- definition (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman
- definition (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket
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chacma in CommonParlance
- definition greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa
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chacma baboon in CommonParlance
- definition greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa
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chad in CommonParlance
- definition a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape
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chadar in CommonParlance
- definition a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women
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chaddar in CommonParlance
- definition a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women
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chadlock in CommonParlance
- definition weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields
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chador in CommonParlance
- definition a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women
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chaenactis in CommonParlance
- definition any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers
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chaeta in CommonParlance
- definition a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm
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chaetal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles)
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chaetodon in CommonParlance
- definition any fish of the genus Chaetodon
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chaetognath in CommonParlance
- definition any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth
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chaetognathan in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to arrowworms
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chaetognathous in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to arrowworms
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chafe in CommonParlance
- definition soreness and warmth caused by friction
- definition anger produced by some annoying irritation
- definition become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- definition feel extreme irritation or anger
- definition cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- definition tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
- definition cause friction
- definition warm by rubbing, as with the hands
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chafed in CommonParlance
- definition painful from having the skin abraded
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chafeweed in CommonParlance
- definition weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
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chaff in CommonParlance
- definition material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- definition foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- definition be silly or tease one another
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chaffer in CommonParlance
- definition wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- definition talk socially without exchanging too much information
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chaffinch in CommonParlance
- definition small European finch with a cheerful song
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chafflike in CommonParlance
- definition abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
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chaffweed in CommonParlance
- definition weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves