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abbreviation
- (context, preposition) circa
- The document was written in the Middle Ages, 1250.
- (context, noun) city
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| CAB |
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initialism
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- (UK) Citizen's advice bureau
- (Ireland) Criminal Assets Bureau. A government agency tasked with recovering the profits of criminal enterprise.
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| caliber |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, calibre)
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| caliper |
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noun
- (italbrac, usually plural only) Uncommon variant of calipers.
- (context, Automotive) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
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| capacity |
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noun (capacit, ies)
- the ability to hold, receive or absorb
- a measure of such ability; volume
- the maximum amount that can be held
- capability; the ability to perform some task
- the maximum that can be produced
- mental ability; the power to learn
- faculty; the potential for growth and development
- rí´le; the position in which one functions
- legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- electrical capacitance
adjective
- filling the allotted space
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| carucate |
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noun
- (archaic) The area of land able to be ploughed in a day by a team of eight oxen.
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| cask |
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noun
- A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
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| catty |
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noun
- A weight used in China.
adjective (cattier, cattiest)
- (colloquial) Of a person or a remark, spiteful.
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| CC |
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initialism
- carbon copy
- (context, medicine) chief complaint
- circuit court
- cirrocumulus
- City College
- closed caption
- w:Community college, Community College
- courtesy copy
- Creative Commons
- credit card
- cubic centimetre
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| centigrade |
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noun
- A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Now known as the Celsius scale.
adjective
- Of a scale, having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
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| centigram |
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noun
- A metric measurement of 1/100 of a gram (0.01 grams).
- Next: milligram
- Prev: decigram
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| centimeter |
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noun
- (context, US) (alternative spelling of, centimetre)
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| cf |
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abbreviation or cf.
- confer: compare
- see also
initialism CF
- (computing) Collaborative Filtering
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| CFD |
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initialism
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
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| CG |
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initialism - Computer Graphics
- Cover Girl
- (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of "Complete Games" thrown by a pitcher
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| chaldron |
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noun (plural chaldrons)
- An old English dry measure, containing four quarters. At London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
- Quotations
- 1882: The celdra or chaldron is employed in some places, especially at Finchale or Wearmouth. It appears to contain four quarters or thereabouts, and is perhaps the original measure of which the quarter is a fraction. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.
- ????: In the United States the chaldron is ordinarily 2,940 lbs, but at New York it is 2,500 lbs. — De Colange.
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| chiliad |
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noun
- a group of 1000 things
- a period of 1000 years; a millennium
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| clove |
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noun (plural cloves)
- A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.
- any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic
- an old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds; half a stone.
- Quotations
- 1866: By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 169.
verb
- Past participle of cleave
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| CM |
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initialism
- College of Medicine
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| Cong. |
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abbreviation - Congress
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| cord |
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noun (countable except where indicated; plural cords)
- A long, thin, flexible length of twisted strands of fibre/fiber, for example rope; (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
- The burglar tied up the householder with a cord.
- He looped some cord around his fingers.
- A small flexible conductor assembly of insulated wires, "lamp" or "sweeper" cords.
- A unit of measurement used for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 x 4 x 8 feet).
- (in plural cords) See cords.
- A cross-section measurement of an aircraft's wing.
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| cordage |
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noun
- (nautical) a set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging
- (obsolete) an amount of wood measured in cords
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| coss |
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noun - A Hindu measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
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| count |
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noun
- The male ruler of a county. Also known as an earl, especially in England. (The female equivalent is countess.)
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set.
- A countdown.
- A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
verb
- (intransitive): To enumerate the digits of one's numeral system.
- Can you to a hundred?
- (transitive): To determine the number (of objects in a group.)
- There are three apples; them.
- (intransitive) to matter
- Your views don't here
- (intransitive) to be an example of something
- Apples as a type of fruit
- (transitive) to consider something an example of something
- I apples as a type of fruit
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| crate |
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noun
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
verb (crat, es)
- To put into a crate.
- To keep in a crate.
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| CU |
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initialism
- Credit Union
- Christian Union (bodies of Christian students in UK schools, colleges and universities)
- (philately) in stamp descriptions, Commercially Used.
- (internet slang) phonetic abbreviation of see you.
- Short for cubic in a variety of English customary units (examples: cubic inch, cubic foot).
- Control Unit
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| cube |
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noun (rfc, a DIV in wikitext? Shame, shame.)
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- (geometry) A polyhedron having of six identical square faces.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- a sugar
- a stock
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
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| cubic |
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noun
- (alggeom) A cubic curve.
adjective (notcomp)
- (geometry) Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
- cubic metre, cubic foot
- (alggeom) Of a class of polynomial of the form <math> a.x^3 + b.x^2 + c.x + d </math>
- (crystallography) Having three equal axes and all angles 90°.
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| cubical |
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adjective
- of or pertaining to a cube; cubic
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| cubit |
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noun
- A unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm.
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| cupful |
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noun (pl=cupsful, pl2=cupfuls)
- The amount necessary to make a cup full
- A cupful of milk for the sauce.
- A half pint, i.e. eight ounces
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| cusec |
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noun (plural cusecs)
- a measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second
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| cwt |
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abbreviation
- hundredweight
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