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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cloture in CommonParlance
- definition a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- definition terminate debate by calling for a vote
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cloud in CommonParlance
- definition any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- definition a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- definition out of touch with reality
- definition a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- definition suspicion affecting your reputation
- definition a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- definition make overcast or cloudy
- definition make less visible or unclear
- definition billow up in the form of a cloud
- definition make gloomy or depressed
- definition place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- definition make less clear
- definition colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- definition make milky or dull
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cloud bank in CommonParlance
- definition a layer of clouds seen from a distance
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cloud chamber in CommonParlance
- definition apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
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cloud cover in CommonParlance
- definition the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
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cloud grass in CommonParlance
- definition Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets
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cloud nine in CommonParlance
- definition a state of extreme happiness
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cloud over in CommonParlance
- definition become covered with clouds
- definition become overcast
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cloud seeder in CommonParlance
- definition a person who seeds clouds
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cloud up in CommonParlance
- definition become covered with clouds
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cloud-covered in CommonParlance
- definition filled or abounding with clouds
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cloud-cuckoo-land in CommonParlance
- definition an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
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cloudberry in CommonParlance
- definition creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
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cloudburst in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy rain
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clouded in CommonParlance
- definition made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
- definition filled or abounding with clouds
- definition mentally disordered
- definition unclear in form or expression
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cloudiness in CommonParlance
- definition the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
- definition gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
- definition the quality of being cloudy
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clouding in CommonParlance
- definition the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky
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clouding up in CommonParlance
- definition the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky
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cloudless in CommonParlance
- definition free from clouds
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cloudlessness in CommonParlance
- definition the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky
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cloudlike in CommonParlance
- definition resembling a cloud
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cloudy in CommonParlance
- definition lacking definite form or limits
- definition full of or covered with clouds
- definition (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
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clout in CommonParlance
- definition a target used in archery
- definition special advantage or influence
- definition a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood
- definition (boxing) a blow with the fist
- definition strike hard, especially with the fist
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clout nail in CommonParlance
- definition a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood
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clove in CommonParlance
- definition aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- definition moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves
- definition one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
- definition spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground