CommonParlance
Seed
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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close-knit in CommonParlance
- definition held together as by social or cultural ties
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close-minded in CommonParlance
- definition not ready to receive to new ideas
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close-order drill in CommonParlance
- definition (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder)
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close-packed in CommonParlance
- definition packed especially tightly
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close-quarter fighting in CommonParlance
- definition hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters
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close-set in CommonParlance
- definition set close together
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close-up in CommonParlance
- definition A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame
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closed in CommonParlance
- definition not open or affording passage or access
- definition (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints
- definition not open
- definition used especially of mouth or eyes
- definition requiring union membership
- definition with shutters closed
- definition not open to the general public
- definition not having an open mind
- definition blocked against entry
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closed book in CommonParlance
- definition something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
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closed chain in CommonParlance
- definition (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
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closed circuit in CommonParlance
- definition a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
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closed corporation in CommonParlance
- definition a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
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closed couplet in CommonParlance
- definition a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
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closed curve in CommonParlance
- definition a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints
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closed fracture in CommonParlance
- definition an uncomplicated fracture in which the broken bones to not pierce the skin
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closed gentian in CommonParlance
- definition similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
- definition gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
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closed in in CommonParlance
- definition blocked against entry
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closed interval in CommonParlance
- definition an interval that includes its endpoints
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closed loop in CommonParlance
- definition a control system with a feedback loop that is active
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closed primary in CommonParlance
- definition a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote
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closed session in CommonParlance
- definition a session (usually of a legislative body) that is closed to the public
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closed shop in CommonParlance
- definition a company that hires only union members
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closed syllable in CommonParlance
- definition a syllable that ends with a consonant.
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closed universe in CommonParlance
- definition (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter
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closed-angle glaucoma in CommonParlance
- definition glaucoma in which the iris blocks the outflow of aqueous humor