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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chevron in CommonParlance
- definition V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- definition an inverted V-shaped charge
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chevrotain in CommonParlance
- definition very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa
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chevvy in CommonParlance
- definition annoy continually or chronically
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chevy in CommonParlance
- definition annoy continually or chronically
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chew in CommonParlance
- definition a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- definition biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- definition chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
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chew out in CommonParlance
- definition censure severely or angrily
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chew over in CommonParlance
- definition reflect deeply on a subject
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chew the fat in CommonParlance
- definition talk socially without exchanging too much information
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chew up in CommonParlance
- definition censure severely or angrily
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chewable in CommonParlance
- definition able to be chewed or cut
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chewer in CommonParlance
- definition someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco)
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chewing in CommonParlance
- definition biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
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chewing gum in CommonParlance
- definition a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
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chewing out in CommonParlance
- definition a severe scolding
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chewink in CommonParlance
- definition common towhee of eastern North America
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chewy in CommonParlance
- definition requiring much chewing
- definition (of a consistency) requiring chewing
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chi in CommonParlance
- definition the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- definition the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
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chi-square statistic in CommonParlance
- definition A measurement of how expectations compare to results, used in the common chi-squared tests for goodness of fit of an observed distribution to a theoretical one, the independence of two criteria of classification of qualitative data, and in confidence interval estimation for a population standard deviation of a normal distribution from a sample standard deviation.
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chiaroscuro in CommonParlance
- definition a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
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chiasm in CommonParlance
- definition an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
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chiasma in CommonParlance
- definition an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
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chiasma opticum in CommonParlance
- definition the crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain
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chiasmal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a chiasm
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chiasmatic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a chiasm
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chiasmic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to a chiasm