📖 C — The English dictionary · page 17

cellophane — Everyday, meaning 1: A thin, clear, shiny sheet material that is used for wrapping things such as flowers, sweets, gifts and food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coloured cellophane: thin see-through sheets in bright colours used in crafts, for example to make stained-glass windows or coloured lenses.↗ Example: The roses came wrapped in shiny cellophane.↗ · Mum tore the cellophane off the new box of crayons.↗ · We made a lantern with orange cellophane over the holes.↗ · Look through the blue cellophane and everything turns blue.↗ · Cellophane is transparent, so light can pass through it.↗ · The sweets were twisted up in little cellophane wrappers.↗ · The cellophane crackled when I squeezed the parcel.↗ · Our class made stained-glass windows from black card and coloured cellophane.↗

celtic — Everyday, meaning 1: Celtic describes the Celts, ancient peoples of Europe, and the peoples and cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany today.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Celtic is a family of languages that includes Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Celtic is the name of a famous football club in Glasgow, Scotland.↗ Example: The Celts lived in Britain long ago.↗ · We drew Celtic knots in art class.↗ · Welsh is a Celtic language.↗ · The band plays Celtic music with fiddles and pipes.↗ · A Celtic cross stood in the churchyard.↗ · My cousin supports Celtic, the Glasgow football team.↗

cement — Everyday, meaning 1: A grey powder mixed with water, sand and stones to make concrete or mortar; it becomes hard when dry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strong glue.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stick things together with cement.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To make something stronger or more certain (cement a friendship).↗ Example: The builders mixed cement for the new wall.↗ · The cement mixer turned slowly.↗ · Don't step on the wet cement!↗ · They cemented the bricks together.↗ · The trip cemented their friendship.↗ · Cement is made by heating limestone and clay.↗

cemetery — Everyday, meaning 1: A cemetery is a large area of land, often with grass and trees, where dead people are buried in graves.↗ Example: Grandpa is buried in the cemetery near the church.↗ · We put flowers on Nan's grave in the cemetery.↗ · Please walk quietly in the cemetery.↗ · The old cemetery has stones with names on them.↗ · The war cemetery has rows of white graves.↗ · Some ghost stories are set in a cemetery at night.↗ · The iron railing looks like the gate of a cemetery, and there are brass knobs upon it.↗

cenotaph — Everyday, meaning 1: A cenotaph is a monument built to remember people, especially soldiers, who died somewhere else and are buried elsewhere.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Cenotaph is the famous war memorial in Whitehall, London.↗ Example: We laid poppies at the cenotaph.↗ · The names of local soldiers are carved on the cenotaph.↗ · Everyone stood silent by the cenotaph.↗ · The King laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in London.↗ · Our town's cenotaph is in the middle of the square.↗ · Scouts marched to the cenotaph for the service.↗

censer — Everyday, meaning 1: A censer is a metal container, often hung on chains, that holds burning incense; it is swung in church to fill the air with sweet smoke.↗ Example: The priests waved the censers.↗ · She was given a golden censer.↗ · The Mass was celebrated while the censers swung.↗ · And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.↗ (Torah LEV.16.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.↗ (Torah LEV.10.1, JPS 1917)↗

censor — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A spelling variant of "censer", a pan for burning incense.↗ Today "censor" means a person who removes things that are thought improper.↗ Example: This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company; (Torah NUM.16.6, JPS 1917)↗

censure — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Censure is strong, official criticism or disapproval.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To censure someone is to criticise them strongly and officially, especially for something they did wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A vote of censure is when a parliament or group officially says it disapproves of a leader or member.↗ Example: (formal) The council faced public censure for closing the library.↗ · Parliament voted to censure the minister.↗ · The referee was censured for unfair decisions.↗ · The report censured the company for polluting the river.↗ · Cheating at the competition brought censure from the judges.↗ · The senator was formally censured by Congress.↗ · (formal) The headteacher's censure was severe but fair.↗ · If he is a true genius, he can bear the sharp voice of censure.↗

census — Everyday, meaning 1: An official count of all the people in a country, with facts such as their ages and jobs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any official count, for example of animals or birds (a bird census).↗ Example: The government takes a census every ten years.↗ · The census showed the town had grown.↗ · We made a graph of census data in maths.↗ · Volunteers took a census of the frogs in the pond.↗ · The census counts everyone living in the country.↗ · Our class did a census of pets: 12 dogs and 9 cats.↗

cent — Everyday, meaning 1: A cent is a small coin or amount of money; a hundred cents make a dollar or a euro.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Per cent» means out of a hundred: 50 per cent is half.↗ Example: A pencil costs 3 cents.↗ · Anna has 50 cents and spends 20 cents.↗ · How many cents does Tom have left?↗ · A dollar is 100 cents.↗ · I found a 5-cent coin under the sofa.↗ · Gum costs 75¢.↗ · 50 per cent of 10 is 5.↗ · I don't have a cent left!↗ · And I paid four cents for you.↗

centaur — Everyday, meaning 1: A centaur is a creature in Greek myths with the top half of a man and the body and legs of a horse.↗ Example: Chiron the Centaur lived in a cave.↗ · For ten years Jason stayed with the Centaur.↗ · The dying Centaur was thirsting for revenge.↗

centenarian — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who is 100 years old or older.↗ Example: My great-grandma is a centenarian; she is 101.↗ · The centenarian got a birthday card from the King.↗ · Japan has many centenarians.↗ · A centenarian has lived for at least a century.↗ · The village threw a party for its first centenarian.↗

centilitre — Everyday, meaning 1: A centilitre is a small unit for measuring liquid.↗ A litre has 100 centilitres, and a centilitre is 10 millilitres.↗ It is written cl.↗ Example: A cup holds 20 centilitres.↗ · The jug has 150 centilitres of milk.↗ · How many centilitres are in 2 litres?↗ · Each glass takes 25 centilitres.↗ · A small bottle of water holds 50 centilitres.↗ · The nurse gave him 1 centilitre of medicine.↗ · Half a litre is 50 centilitres.↗ · Pour 30 centilitres of juice into the bowl.↗

centime — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A small coin and unit of money worth one hundredth of a franc, used in France before the euro, and still used in Switzerland (one hundredth of a Swiss franc) and some African countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) In France people still say «centime» for a euro cent.↗ Example: In Switzerland, one franc is a hundred centimes.↗ · The bread cost two euros and fifty centimes.↗ · A centime is like a cent or a penny.↗ · Grandpa has old French centime coins from his trip.↗ · In maths: 250 centimes make 2.50 francs.↗ · «Ça coûte cinquante centimes» means «It costs fifty cents.»↗

centimeter — Everyday, meaning 1: A centimeter is a small unit of length in the metric system, about the width of a fingernail.↗ 100 centimeters make 1 meter.↗ A meter is 100 centimeters.↗ A centimeter is 10 millimeters.↗ Example: The pencil is 15 centimeters long.↗ · A square has sides of 4 centimeters.↗ · 2 meters is 200 centimeters.↗ · Cut 30 centimeters off the ribbon.↗ · Measure the leaf in centimeters.↗ · A ruler is often 30 centimeters long.↗ · The snail moved 5 centimeters in a minute.↗ · She grew 6 centimeters this year.↗ · The ant is less than 1 centimeter long.↗ · The area of the card is 20 square centimeters.↗

centimetre — Everyday, meaning 1: Centimetre is the British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian way to spell centimeter, a small unit of length about the width of a fingernail.↗ 100 centimetres make 1 metre.↗ A metre is 100 centimetres.↗ A centimetre is 10 millimetres.↗ Example: The worm is 6 centimetres long.↗ · A rectangle is 8 centimetres by 3 centimetres.↗ · 1 metre is 100 centimetres.↗ · The tower is 25 centimetres tall.↗ · Draw a line 12 centimetres long.↗ · My hand is about 15 centimetres long.↗ · The seedling grew 2 centimetres in a week.↗ · Rain: 3 centimetres fell overnight.↗ · The shoebox is 30 centimetres long.↗ · Each square on the grid is one square centimetre.↗

centipede — Everyday, meaning 1: A centipede is a small long thin creature with a flat body divided into many parts, each with one pair of legs.↗ It is fast, lives in dark damp places and hunts insects.↗ Example: A centipede ran out from under the log.↗ · Centipedes hunt insects and spiders.↗ · A centipede has one pair of legs on each body part.↗ · «Centi» means a hundred, but most centipedes don't have exactly 100 legs.↗ · We found a centipede during our minibeast hunt.↗ · Big centipedes can bite, so don't pick them up.↗ · Centipedes like dark, damp places.↗ · Is it a centipede or a millipede?↗ Count the legs on each section.↗ · The centipede was invulnerable to weapons!↗

central — Everyday, meaning 1: Central means in the middle or centre of something: central London, the central square.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Central means most important, main: the central idea of a story.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Central means controlled from one main place: central heating, a central computer.↗ Example: Our hotel was in central Paris.↗ · The central idea of the story is friendship.↗ · We put the plant on the central table.↗ · The house has central heating.↗ · Mexico is north of Central America.↗ · The library is central to our school.↗ · The heart has a central role in the body.↗ · Central Australia is very hot and dry.↗ · This led into a central chamber 15 feet square and open to the sky.↗ · Elsewhere in the SY, the ‘tongue’ (or ‘wedge’) appears as the symbol of a central balance between two extremities, e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · ' It is the "central fire" (fiery angels the throne of glory) that is associated in the Sefer Yetzira (above p. 61 para. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

centre — Everyday, meaning 1: The centre is the middle point or part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A centre is a building or place used for a special activity, like a sports centre or shopping centre.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The centre of attention is the person everyone is looking at.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To centre something means to put it in the middle.↗ Example: Draw a circle and mark its centre.↗ · We went swimming at the sports centre.↗ · The Sun is at the centre of our solar system.↗ · The bakery is in the centre of town.↗ · She loves being the centre of attention.↗ · Centre the title at the top of the page.↗ · The radius goes from the centre to the edge.↗ · "Let those in the centre carry you," said the birds.↗ · 11) As the infinite series of numbers starts from one unit, so was the whole Universe formed a unity, that centres in the Godhead.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · It teaches that a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The seven double consonants are analogous to the six dimensions: height and depth, East and West, North and South, and the holy temple that stands in the centre, which carries them all.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

centurion — Everyday, meaning 1: An officer in the army of ancient Rome, in charge of about 80 to 100 soldiers (a century).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) Centurions appear in the New Testament, such as the centurion at Capernaum whose servant Jesus healed, and the centurion at the cross.↗ Example: The centurion shouted orders to his soldiers.↗ · A centurion led about eighty legionaries.↗ · Our class built a model of a centurion's helmet.↗ · In the Bible, a centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant.↗ · The centurion's helmet had a crest from side to side.↗ · Roman centurions guarded Hadrian's Wall.↗

century — Everyday, meaning 1: A century is a period of one hundred years.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A century also means one of the hundred-year periods counted in history, such as «the twenty-first century» (the one we live in now).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cricket a century is a score of one hundred runs by one player.↗ Example: A century is one hundred years.↗ · This old oak tree has stood here for more than a century.↗ · Castles were built many centuries ago.↗ · Half a century is fifty years.↗ · People have played football for centuries.↗ · The batter scored a century in the cricket match.↗ · In which century were trains invented?↗ · A turtle can live for about a century.↗ · But that century passed, and no one freed me.↗ · Commentaries by Judah Halevi, and by Eben Ezra, of the 12th century, are also known.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Hence this book was known already in the second or at the beginning of the third century of the Christian Era.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗