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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circumambulate in CommonParlance
- definition walk around something
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circumboreal in CommonParlance
- definition comprising or throughout far northern regions
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circumcise in CommonParlance
- definition cut the skin over the clitoris
- definition cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys
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circumcision in CommonParlance
- definition the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite
- definition the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males
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circumduction in CommonParlance
- definition a circular movement of a limb or eye
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circumference in CommonParlance
- definition the size of something as given by the distance around it
- definition the boundary line encompassing an area or object
- definition the length of the closed curve of a circle
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circumferent in CommonParlance
- definition closely encircling
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circumferential in CommonParlance
- definition lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts
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circumflex in CommonParlance
- definition a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
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circumflex artery in CommonParlance
- definition any of several paired curving arteries
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circumflex artery of the thigh in CommonParlance
- definition an artery that supplies the hip joint and thigh muscles
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circumflex femoral vein in CommonParlance
- definition either of two veins that accompany arteries of the same name serving the hip and thigh
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circumflex humeral artery in CommonParlance
- definition an artery that supplies the shoulder joint and shoulder muscles
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circumflex iliac artery in CommonParlance
- definition an artery that supplies the lower abdominal walls and skin and the sartorius muscle
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circumflex iliac vein in CommonParlance
- definition accompanies the artery of the same name
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circumflex scapular artery in CommonParlance
- definition an artery that serves the muscles of the shoulder and scapular area
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circumflex vein in CommonParlance
- definition any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name
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circumfuse in CommonParlance
- definition spread something around something
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circumlocution in CommonParlance
- definition a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- definition an indirect way of expressing something
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circumlocutious in CommonParlance
- definition roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
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circumlocutory in CommonParlance
- definition roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
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circumnavigate in CommonParlance
- definition travel around, either by plane or ship
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circumnavigation in CommonParlance
- definition traveling around something (by ship or plane)
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circumpolar in CommonParlance
- definition (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel
- definition located or found throughout a polar region
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circumscribe in CommonParlance
- definition draw a line around
- definition restrict or confine within limits
- definition to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect