📖 C — The English dictionary · page 11

carpenter — Everyday, meaning 1: A carpenter is a person whose job is making and fixing wooden things such as doors, floors, roofs, shelves and furniture.↗ Example: The carpenter built new shelves in our kitchen.↗ · A carpenter cuts a 3-metre plank into 6 equal pieces; how long is each piece?↗ · Measure twice, cut once, says the carpenter.↗ · The carpenter used a saw, a hammer and nails.↗ · Carpenters wear goggles to protect their eyes.↗ · My uncle is a carpenter.↗ · “My boy, we need a carpenter here and I have never been one.”↗ · And Huram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.↗ (Writings 1CH.14.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.↗ (Prophets 2SA.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons; and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.' — (Prophets 2KI.22.6, JPS 1917)↗

carpentry — Everyday, meaning 1: Carpentry is the skill or job of making and fixing things from wood, like tables, doors and roof frames.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The woodwork itself: the carpentry in the old church.↗ Example: Uncle Ben learned carpentry at college.↗ · Carpentry needs careful measuring.↗ · We did some simple carpentry in DT.↗ · The carpentry in this house is beautiful.↗ · Jesus learned carpentry from Joseph, Christians believe.↗ · Wear goggles when you do carpentry.↗

carpet — Everyday, meaning 1: A carpet is a thick cloth that covers a floor.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A carpet of something is a thick layer on the ground: «a carpet of leaves».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To carpet a room is to cover its floor with carpet.↗ Example: The room needs a carpet 12 ft by 15 ft.↗ · Carpet costs 3 dollars a square foot.↗ · How much carpet for a 10 m by 4 m floor?↗ · The carpet covers 80 square feet.↗ · Wipe your feet before you walk on the carpet.↗ · A carpet of snow covered the yard.↗ · The stars walked the red carpet.↗ · Aladdin flew on a magic carpet.↗ · We sat on the carpet for story time.↗ · Don't sweep the problem under the carpet.↗ · Then she brought a little carpet, and spread it upon the floor.↗

carriage — Everyday, meaning 1: A carriage is one car of a train (UK); in the USA it is usually called a car.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A carriage is a vehicle with wheels pulled by horses.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A baby carriage is a pram or buggy for a baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Carriage is also the cost of carrying goods.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A wheeled vehicle pulled by horses, used to carry people.↗ Example: The train has 8 carriages.↗ · Each carriage holds 60 people.↗ · 2 carriages are empty.↗ · How many seats in all the carriages?↗ · We sat in the first carriage of the train.↗ · The queen rode in a golden carriage pulled by four horses.↗ · The pumpkin turned into a carriage.↗ · Please be quiet in the quiet carriage.↗ · The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them:↗ · The prince looked well at the carriage.↗ (The Crimson Fairy Book) · THE “SHINANSHA,” OR THE SOUTH POINTING CARRIAGE↗ (Japanese Fairy Tales) · The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them:↗ (The Red Fairy Book)

carriageway — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of a road that vehicles drive on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One side of a big road; a dual carriageway has two lanes each way with a strip in the middle.↗ Example: Never walk on the carriageway; stay on the pavement.↗ · We drove along a dual carriageway to the beach.↗ · A lorry broke down on the southbound carriageway.↗ · Cyclists should keep to the edge of the carriageway.↗ · Both carriageways were closed after the crash.↗ · The fox ran across the carriageway.↗ · A dual carriageway has a barrier down the middle.↗

carrier — Everyday, meaning 1: A carrier is a person, animal, vehicle or company that carries or delivers things or people: a mail carrier, an aircraft carrier.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A carrier is a bag, box or holder for carrying something: a pet carrier, a carrier bag.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A carrier of a disease has the germs and can pass them to others, sometimes without being ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A carrier is a company that gives mobile phone service or flies planes (an airline).↗ Example: The mail carrier brought a parcel.↗ · We took the cat to the vet in a carrier.↗ · Mosquitoes can be carriers of disease.↗ · The aircraft carrier was as long as three football fields.↗ · Can I have a carrier bag, please?↗ · Pigeons were once used as message carriers.↗ · Dad carries the baby in a baby carrier.↗ · Which carrier does your phone use?↗

carriest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «carriest» means «you carry», a form of «carry».↗ e.g. To carry is to hold something and take it with you.↗ Example: When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,↗ (Torah DEU.21.10, JPS 1917)

carrieth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «carrieth» means «carries», a form of «carry».↗ e.g. To carry is to hold something and take it with you.↗ Example: Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers?↗ (Torah NUM.11.12, JPS 1917)

carrion — Everyday, meaning 1: Carrion is the dead and rotting flesh of animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective use) Carrion animals, such as a carrion crow, eat dead animals.↗ Example: Vultures circled over the carrion in the desert.↗ · Carrion crows eat dead animals by the roadside.↗ · Hyenas feed on carrion as well as hunting.↗ · The giant flower smelled like carrion and attracted flies.↗ · Burying beetles bury carrion to feed their young.↗ · Tasmanian devils clean up carrion in the bush.↗ · The battlefield was full of carrion birds.↗ · Greedy for carrion, and sure that this must be a fresh corpse, the bird swooped down upon the boy.↗ · and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant; (Torah DEU.14.17, JPS 1917)↗ · and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture; (Torah LEV.11.18, JPS 1917)↗

carrot — Everyday, meaning 1: A carrot is a long orange vegetable; it is the root of a plant that grows under the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A carrot is a reward used to make someone do something: «the carrot and the stick».↗ Example: The rabbit eats 3 carrots a day.↗ · She planted 5 rows of 10 carrots.↗ · A bag has 12 carrots.↗ · He sold carrots for 1 dollar each.↗ · We pulled carrots from the garden.↗ · Carrot sticks make a healthy snack.↗ · The snowman has a carrot for a nose.↗ · Grandma bakes carrot cake.↗ · Carrots grow under the soil.↗ · The extra playtime was a carrot to finish work.↗ · The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips.↗

carry — Everyday, meaning 1: To carry is to hold something and take it with you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To carry is to be able to hold or take a load: «The bus carries 40 people».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In adding, to carry is to move a ten to the next place.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To carry on is to keep going.↗ Example: Each truck can carry 2 tons.↗ · She carries 4 bags.↗ · How many trips to carry 30 boxes, 5 at a time?↗ · In 28 + 15 you carry 1 ten.↗ · Can you help me carry the shopping?↗ · Carry on reading quietly.↗ · The wind carried the kite away.↗ · Blood carries oxygen around your body.↗ · We carried out the experiment.↗ · Don't get carried away with the glitter!↗ · Asshur shall carry thee away captive.↗ (Torah NUM.24.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.↗ (Torah EXO.33.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.↗ (Torah DEU.28.38, JPS 1917)↗ · Why doth thy heart carry thee away?↗ (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.21.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.↗ (Prophets EZK.12.5, JPS 1917)↗

carsick — Everyday, meaning 1: Carsick means feeling sick, dizzy or wanting to vomit when travelling in a car or bus.↗ Example: I feel carsick when I read in the car.↗ · Open the window if you feel carsick.↗ · My sister gets carsick on twisty mountain roads.↗ · Looking at the horizon helps stop you getting carsick.↗ · We stopped the car because Leo was carsick.↗ · Carsickness is common in children.↗

cart — Everyday, meaning 1: A cart is a vehicle with two or four wheels, pulled by a horse or other animal or pushed by hand, used to carry things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the USA and Canada, a cart is a shopping trolley in a supermarket.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An online cart is the list of things you plan to buy on a website.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To cart is to carry something heavy or awkward, often a long way.↗ Example: The farmer loaded hay onto the cart.↗ · The horse pulled the cart up the lane.↗ · Mum pushed the shopping cart around the store.↗ · I put the game in my online cart but asked Dad first.↗ · We carted our bags up to the top floor.↗ · In the experiment, we rolled a cart down a ramp.↗ · Don't put the cart before the horse.↗ · A golf cart drove across the grass.↗ · There were men with carts full of roasted meats.↗ · Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.↗ (Prophets AMO.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope, (Prophets ISA.5.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.↗ (Prophets 1SA.6.10, JPS 1917)↗

cartilage — Everyday, meaning 1: Cartilage is a strong, bendy material in the body, softer than bone, found in the ears, the end of the nose and between bones in joints.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cartilage is a piece of this material, especially in the knee.↗ Example: Feel your ear: it bends because it is made of cartilage.↗ · Cartilage protects the ends of bones in your joints.↗ · Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, not bone.↗ · The footballer tore a cartilage in his knee.↗ · The tip of your nose is cartilage.↗ · A baby's bones have lots of cartilage that turns into bone.↗

cartilaginous — Everyday, meaning 1: Made of cartilage, the tough, bendy tissue found in your ears, nose and the ends of bones.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of fish) Having a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone, like sharks and rays.↗ Example: Sharks are cartilaginous fish.↗ · Your ears are cartilaginous, so they bend.↗ · Rays and skates have cartilaginous skeletons.↗ · The tip of your nose is cartilaginous.↗ · Cartilaginous fish have no swim bladder.↗ · We compared cartilaginous fish with bony fish in class.↗

cartload — Everyday, meaning 1: A cartload is as much as a cart can carry, so a large heap of something.↗ Example: The farmer brought a cartload of hay to the barn.↗ · Grandad has cartloads of old books in his attic.↗ · He was given a cartload of apples.↗

carton — Everyday, meaning 1: A carton is a box made of cardboard or plastic, like an egg carton or a milk carton.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A carton is the amount it holds: «a carton of juice».↗ Example: A carton has 12 eggs.↗ · She bought 3 cartons of milk.↗ · How many cartons for 60 eggs?↗ · Each carton of juice holds 1 liter.↗ · Put the empty carton in the recycling bin.↗ · We made a boat from a milk carton.↗ · Check the eggs in the carton for cracks.↗ · A half carton holds 6 eggs.↗ · The carton of yogurt is in the fridge.↗ · Squash the carton before you recycle it.↗

cartoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A film or TV show made from drawings or computer pictures that move, usually funny.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine, often about the news.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A short story told in drawn pictures, like a comic strip.↗ Example: We watch cartoons on Saturday morning.↗ · My favourite cartoon character is a talking dog.↗ · She drew a cartoon of our teacher as a superhero.↗ · The newspaper cartoon made fun of the mayor.↗ · In cartoons, people fall from cliffs and get up, but real falls really hurt.↗ · We made a cartoon strip with six boxes.↗ · Old cartoons were drawn by hand.↗

cartoonist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who draws cartoons: funny or simple drawings, comic strips, or animated films.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who draws cartoons for newspapers that make a point about news or politics.↗ Example: I want to be a cartoonist when I grow up.↗ · The cartoonist drew the prime minister with a giant nose.↗ · Charles Schulz was the cartoonist who drew Snoopy.↗ · A cartoonist visited our school and taught us to draw faces.↗ · The newspaper cartoonist made a joke about the weather.↗ · Cartoonists often work with a pencil first and then ink.↗

cartridge — Everyday, meaning 1: A cartridge is a small container that holds something and fits into a machine or tool, like an ink cartridge for a pen or printer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cartridge is the case holding a bullet and gunpowder for a gun.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A game cartridge is a plastic case with a game inside, plugged into a games console.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A cartridge can also be a tube or packet of stiff paper that wraps coins or other things.↗ Example: My pen ran out, so I put in a new ink cartridge.↗ · The printer needs a black cartridge.↗ · Grandad still has his old game cartridges.↗ · Change the cartridge in the water filter every month.↗ · Hunters carry cartridges for their guns.↗ · Push the cartridge in until it clicks.↗ · I heard all about them this morning from a brown-paper cartridge, who happened to be staying in the same drawer as myself, and knew the latest Court news.”↗