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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colonize in CommonParlance
- definition settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
- definition settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
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colonized in CommonParlance
- definition inhabited by colonists
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colonizer in CommonParlance
- definition someone who helps to found a colony
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colonnade in CommonParlance
- definition structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
- definition a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns
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colonnaded in CommonParlance
- definition having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals
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colonoscope in CommonParlance
- definition an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum
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colonoscopy in CommonParlance
- definition visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation
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colony in CommonParlance
- definition a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- definition a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
- definition a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
- definition a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- definition (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
- definition one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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colophon in CommonParlance
- definition a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page)
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colophony in CommonParlance
- definition translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments
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color in CommonParlance
- definition having or capable of producing colors
- definition a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- definition interest and variety and intensity
- definition the timbre of a musical sound
- definition an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- definition any material used for its color
- definition (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- definition the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- definition add color to
- definition affect as in thought or feeling
- definition modify or bias
- definition decorate with colors
- definition give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- definition change color, often in an undesired manner
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color TV in CommonParlance
- definition a television that transmits images in color
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color TV tube in CommonParlance
- definition a television tube that displays images in full color
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color bar in CommonParlance
- definition barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
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color barrier in CommonParlance
- definition the barrier preventing Blacks from participating in various activities with whites
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color bearer in CommonParlance
- definition the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle
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color blindness in CommonParlance
- definition genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
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color chart in CommonParlance
- definition a chart displaying colors
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color circle in CommonParlance
- definition a chart in which complementary colors (or their names) are arranged on opposite sides of a circle
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color code in CommonParlance
- definition system using colors to designate classifications
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color constancy in CommonParlance
- definition the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
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color force in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons
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color guard in CommonParlance
- definition a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors
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color in in CommonParlance
- definition add color to
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color line in CommonParlance
- definition barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites