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.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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colligation in CommonParlance
- definition the state of being joined together
- definition the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
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collimate in CommonParlance
- definition make or place parallel to something
- definition adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
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collimation in CommonParlance
- definition the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
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collimator in CommonParlance
- definition a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one
- definition optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
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collinear in CommonParlance
- definition lying on the same line
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collins in CommonParlance
- definition tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice
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collision in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- definition an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object
- definition a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
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collision course in CommonParlance
- definition a course of a moving object that will lead to a collision if it continues unchanged
- definition a course of action (following a given idea) that will lead to conflict if it continues unabated
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collocate in CommonParlance
- definition have a strong tendency to occur side by side
- definition group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
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collocate with in CommonParlance
- definition go or occur together
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collocation in CommonParlance
- definition a grouping of words in a sentence
- definition the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
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collodion in CommonParlance
- definition a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films
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collogue in CommonParlance
- definition confer secretly
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colloid in CommonParlance
- definition a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension
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colloidal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid
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colloidal gel in CommonParlance
- definition a colloid in a more solid form than a sol
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colloidal solution in CommonParlance
- definition a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
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colloidal suspension in CommonParlance
- definition a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
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colloidally in CommonParlance
- definition in a colloidal manner
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colloquial in CommonParlance
- definition characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
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colloquialism in CommonParlance
- definition a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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colloquially in CommonParlance
- definition with the use of colloquial expressions
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colloquium in CommonParlance
- definition an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
- definition an address to an academic meeting or seminar
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colloquy in CommonParlance
- definition a conversation especially a formal one
- definition formal conversation
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collotype in CommonParlance
- definition a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors