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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cirriped in CommonParlance
- definition marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
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cirripede in CommonParlance
- definition marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
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cirrocumulus in CommonParlance
- definition a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples
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cirrocumulus cloud in CommonParlance
- definition a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples
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cirrostratus in CommonParlance
- definition a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude
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cirrostratus cloud in CommonParlance
- definition a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude
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cirrus in CommonParlance
- definition usually coiled
- definition a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- definition a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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cirrus cloud in CommonParlance
- definition a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
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cisalpine in CommonParlance
- definition on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps
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cisco in CommonParlance
- definition cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward
- definition important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
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cislunar in CommonParlance
- definition situated between the earth and the moon
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cismontane in CommonParlance
- definition on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains
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cissy in CommonParlance
- definition having unsuitable feminine qualities
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cistern in CommonParlance
- definition a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- definition a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
- definition an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
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cisterna in CommonParlance
- definition a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
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cistron in CommonParlance
- definition (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
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citadel in CommonParlance
- definition a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
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citation in CommonParlance
- definition an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
- definition (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
- definition a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- definition a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- definition a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
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citation form in CommonParlance
- definition the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
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cite in CommonParlance
- definition a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- definition make reference to
- definition commend
- definition refer to
- definition repeat a passage from
- definition refer to for illustration or proof
- definition advance evidence for
- definition call in an official matter, such as to attend court
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cither in CommonParlance
- definition a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
- definition a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
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cithern in CommonParlance
- definition a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
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citified in CommonParlance
- definition being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person
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citify in CommonParlance
- definition accustom to urban ways
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citizen in CommonParlance
- definition a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community