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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changeability in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change
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changeable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
- definition such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
- definition subject to change
- definition varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
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changeableness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change
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changed in CommonParlance
- definition made or become different in nature or form
- definition made or become different in some respect
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changeful in CommonParlance
- definition such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
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changefulness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being changeable and variable
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changeless in CommonParlance
- definition not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature
- definition unvarying in nature
- definition remaining the same for indefinitely long times
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changelessness in CommonParlance
- definition the property of remaining unchanged
- definition the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
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changeling in CommonParlance
- definition a person of subnormal intelligence
- definition a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
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changeover in CommonParlance
- definition an event that results in a transformation
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changer in CommonParlance
- definition a person who changes something
- definition an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention
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changing in CommonParlance
- definition marked by continuous change or effective action
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channel in CommonParlance
- definition a path over which electrical signals can pass
- definition a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- definition a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- definition a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- definition (often plural) a means of communication or access
- definition a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- definition a television station and its programs
- definition a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- definition transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- definition direct the flow of
- definition send from one person or place to another
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channel bass in CommonParlance
- definition large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
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channel capacity in CommonParlance
- definition the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel
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channel cat in CommonParlance
- definition freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
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channel catfish in CommonParlance
- definition freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
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channel-surf in CommonParlance
- definition switch channels, on television
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channelisation in CommonParlance
- definition management through specified channels of communication
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channelise in CommonParlance
- definition direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- definition make a channel for; provide with a channel
- definition send from one person or place to another
- definition cause to form a channel
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channelization in CommonParlance
- definition management through specified channels of communication
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channelize in CommonParlance
- definition direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- definition make a channel for; provide with a channel
- definition send from one person or place to another
- definition cause to form a channel
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channels in CommonParlance
- definition official routes of communication
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chanoyu in CommonParlance
- definition an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea
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chanson de geste in CommonParlance
- definition Old French epic poems