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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cladogram in CommonParlance
- definition a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships
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cladophyll in CommonParlance
- definition a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf
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claim in CommonParlance
- definition an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- definition an assertion that something is true or factual
- definition demand for something as rightful or due
- definition an informal right to something
- definition an established or recognized right
- definition a demand
- definition assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- definition demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- definition ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- definition lay claim to; as of an idea
- definition take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
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claim agent in CommonParlance
- definition one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
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claim form in CommonParlance
- definition a form to use when filing a claim
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claim jumper in CommonParlance
- definition one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim
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claimant in CommonParlance
- definition someone who claims a benefit or right or title
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claiming race in CommonParlance
- definition a horse race in which each owner declares before the race at what price their horse will be offered for sale after the race
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claims adjuster in CommonParlance
- definition one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
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claims adjustor in CommonParlance
- definition one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
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clairvoyance in CommonParlance
- definition apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
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clairvoyant in CommonParlance
- definition perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- definition foreseeing the future
- definition someone who has the power of clairvoyance
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clam in CommonParlance
- definition burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- definition a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- definition flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
- definition gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
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clam chowder in CommonParlance
- definition chowder containing clams
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clam dip in CommonParlance
- definition a dip made of clams and soft cream cheese
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clam up in CommonParlance
- definition refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
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clamant in CommonParlance
- definition conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- definition demanding attention
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clamatorial in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to Clamatores
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clambake in CommonParlance
- definition a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked — usually on heated stones covered with seaweed
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clamber in CommonParlance
- definition an awkward climb
- definition climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
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clammily in CommonParlance
- definition in a clammy manner
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clamminess in CommonParlance
- definition unpleasant wetness
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clammy in CommonParlance
- definition unpleasantly cool and humid
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clammy chickweed in CommonParlance
- definition any of various plants related to the common chickweed
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clammy locust in CommonParlance
- definition small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds