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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charmed in CommonParlance
- definition strongly attracted
- definition filled with wonder and delight
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charmer in CommonParlance
- definition someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
- definition a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)
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charming in CommonParlance
- definition pleasing or delighting
- definition possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
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charmingly in CommonParlance
- definition in a charming manner
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charnel in CommonParlance
- definition gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
- definition a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
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charnel house in CommonParlance
- definition a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
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charr in CommonParlance
- definition any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
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charred pancake cup in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of Sarcosomataceae (Sarcosoma globosum)
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chart in CommonParlance
- definition a visual display of information
- definition a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
- definition (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music
- definition make a chart of
- definition plan in detail
- definition represent by means of a graph
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chartaceous in CommonParlance
- definition of or like paper
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charter in CommonParlance
- definition a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
- definition a contract to hire or lease transportation
- definition hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- definition grant a charter to
- definition engage for service under a term of contract
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charter member in CommonParlance
- definition one of the original members when an organization was founded
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charter school in CommonParlance
- definition an experimental public school for kindergarten through grade 12; created and organized by teachers and parents and community leaders; operates independently of other schools
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chartered in CommonParlance
- definition hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
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chartered accountant in CommonParlance
- definition a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter
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charterhouse in CommonParlance
- definition a Carthusian monastery
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chartist in CommonParlance
- definition a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities
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chartless in CommonParlance
- definition (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated
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chartreuse in CommonParlance
- definition of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur
- definition a shade of green tinged with yellow
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charwoman in CommonParlance
- definition a human female employed to do housework
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chary in CommonParlance
- definition characterized by great caution and wariness
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chase in CommonParlance
- definition the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- definition a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- definition go after with the intent to catch
- definition pursue someone sexually or romantically
- definition cut a groove into
- definition cut a furrow into a column
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chase after in CommonParlance
- definition pursue someone sexually or romantically
- definition go after with the intent to catch
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chase away in CommonParlance
- definition force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
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chased in CommonParlance
- definition a person who is being chased