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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.

Propose an assessment

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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  • accent mark in CommonParlance
    • definition a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
  • accented in CommonParlance
    • definition (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch
    • definition bearing a stress or accent
  • accenting in CommonParlance
    • definition the act of giving special importance or significance to something
  • accentor in CommonParlance
    • definition small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia
  • accentual in CommonParlance
    • definition of or pertaining to accent or stress
    • definition (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity
  • accentual system in CommonParlance
    • definition the system of accentuation used in a particular language
  • accentuate in CommonParlance
  • accentuation in CommonParlance
    • definition the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
    • definition the act of giving special importance or significance to something
  • accept in CommonParlance
    • definition consider or hold as true
    • definition receive willingly something given or offered
    • definition give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
    • definition react favorably to; consider right and proper
    • definition admit into a group or community
    • definition take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
    • definition tolerate or accommodate oneself to
    • definition be designed to hold or take
    • definition receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
    • definition make use of or accept for some purpose
    • definition be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
  • acceptability in CommonParlance
    • definition satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
  • acceptable in CommonParlance
  • acceptableness in CommonParlance
    • definition satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
  • acceptably in CommonParlance
    • definition in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner
  • acceptance in CommonParlance
    • definition the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
    • definition the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
    • definition the state of being acceptable and accepted
    • definition (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
    • definition a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
    • definition a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
    • definition the act of taking something that is offered
  • acceptance sampling in CommonParlance
    • definition a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected
  • acceptant in CommonParlance
  • acceptation in CommonParlance
  • accepted in CommonParlance
    • definition generally approved or compelling recognition
  • accepting in CommonParlance
  • acceptive in CommonParlance
  • acceptor in CommonParlance
    • definition (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
    • definition the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
  • acceptor RNA in CommonParlance
    • definition RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA)
  • access in CommonParlance
    • definition the right to enter
    • definition the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
    • definition a way of entering or leaving
    • definition a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
    • definition (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
    • definition the act of approaching or entering
    • definition obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
    • definition reach or gain access to
  • access code in CommonParlance
    • definition a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
  • access road in CommonParlance
    • definition a short road giving access to an expressway