📖 C — The English dictionary · page 23

chaser — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or animal who chases someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drink taken straight after another, especially a weaker drink after a strong alcoholic one, or a strong one after beer (adults).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) A horse that races over fences (steeplechaser), or a player in the Harry Potter game Quidditch.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Storm chaser: a person who follows storms to study or film them.↗ Example: In tag, the chaser has to catch everyone.↗ · The storm chasers filmed the tornado.↗ · My grandad drank water as a chaser.↗ · The chaser horse jumped every fence.↗ · You be the chaser this time!↗ · Ambulance chasers are lawyers who look for accident victims.↗

chasm — Everyday, meaning 1: A chasm is a deep, wide crack or gap in the ground, rock or ice.↗ Example: A deep chasm split the mountain in two.↗ · The only bridge over the chasm was a fallen tree.↗ · The glacier had deep chasms that glittered blue.↗

chaste — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old use) Chaste means pure and faithful, especially in marriage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Chaste means plain and simple, without decoration.↗ Example: The chaste princess stayed faithful to her husband.↗ · Their marriage was chaste and happy.↗ · The tale is told in a chaste, plain style.↗

chasten — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To correct someone by punishing them so that they learn.↗ Example: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; (Torah DEU.21.18, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy wrath.↗ (Writings PSA.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath.↗ (Writings PSA.38.2, JPS 1917)↗ · He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and all his bones grow stiff; (Writings JOB.33.19, JPS 1917)↗

chastening — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Correction or punishment that is meant to teach someone.↗ Example: My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.↗ (Writings JOB.5.17, JPS 1917)↗ · LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.↗ (Prophets ISA.26.16, JPS 1917)↗

chastise — Everyday, meaning 1: To chastise someone is to punish them, often by scolding or beating them (old use).↗ Example: God hath chastised thy pride.↗ · The master grabbed the boy and chastised him.↗ · The fox chastised the greedy wolf for his lies.↗ · And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.↗ (Torah DEU.22.18, JPS 1917)↗ · then I will walk contrary unto you in fury; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.↗ (Torah LEV.26.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.↗ (Torah LEV.26.18, JPS 1917)↗ · When it is My desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are yoked to their two rings.↗ (Prophets HOS.10.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And now whereas my father did burden you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.12.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'↗ (Writings 2CH.10.11, JPS 1917)↗

chastisement — Everyday, meaning 1: A chastisement is a punishment, given for doing wrong (old use).↗ Example: It was a just chastisement for his rudeness.↗ · He faced a harsh chastisement for stealing.↗ · The dervish said the trouble was a chastisement.↗ · And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm, (Torah DEU.11.2, JPS 1917)↗ · To execute vengeance upon the nations, and chastisements upon the peoples; (Writings PSA.149.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Then He openeth the ears of men, and by their chastisement sealeth the decree, (Writings JOB.33.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not; (Writings JOB.34.31, JPS 1917)↗

chastity — Everyday, meaning 1: (church, formal) Chastity means not having a sexual relationship, or only within marriage, as a religious or moral choice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Being pure and simple in style.↗ Example: Monks and nuns make promises of poverty, chastity and obedience.↗ · In the old story, the knight was praised for his chastity.↗ · Chastity is one of the virtues many Christians try to live by.↗ · The nun spoke kindly about her vow of chastity.↗ · Some young Christians promise chastity until they marry.↗ · The poem calls chastity a white flower.↗ · The Vestales were vowed to chastity, a violation of which was visited by the frightful punishment of being buried alive.↗

chat — Everyday, meaning 1: To chat means to talk in a friendly, relaxed way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chat is a friendly, informal talk.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A chat is also writing messages to each other online, in an app or game, in real time.↗ Example: We chatted about our holidays at lunchtime.↗ · Mum and I had a long chat before bed.↗ · Grandma loves a chat on the phone.↗ · Only chat online with people you know in real life.↗ · If someone in the game chat is mean, block them and tell an adult.↗ · Stop chatting and start your work, please.↗ · Our class has a group chat for homework help.↗ · The teacher wants a quick chat with your dad.↗ · They sat down for a bit and chatted.↗

chattel — Everyday, meaning 1: A chattel is an item of personal property, a thing a person owns that can be moved (old use).↗ Chattels means all the belongings of a person.↗ Example: She brought her goods and chattels, her gold and her jewels.↗ · The farmer sold all his chattels and moved away.↗ · They packed their chattels onto the cart.↗

chatter — Everyday, meaning 1: To chatter is to talk quickly and a lot about small, unimportant things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When your teeth chatter, they knock together because you are very cold or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Birds and monkeys chatter when they make quick, repeated high sounds.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Chatter is the sound of people or animals chattering.↗ Example: The girls chattered all the way home.↗ · Stop chattering and listen, please.↗ · My teeth were chattering in the freezing sea.↗ · Monkeys chattered in the trees.↗ · The classroom was full of happy chatter.↗ · Magpies chatter loudly in the garden.↗ · There was lots of chatter about the new teacher.↗ · The nobleman was wet to the skin, and his teeth chattered.↗ · Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.↗ (Prophets ISA.38.14, JPS 1917)↗

chatterbox — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A person, often a child, who talks a lot and seems never to stop.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A folded paper game, also called a fortune teller or cootie catcher, that you open and close with your fingers.↗ Example: My little sister is a real chatterbox.↗ · «Quiet please, chatterboxes!» said the teacher.↗ · We made paper chatterboxes at break time.↗ · The parrot was a chatterbox and copied every word.↗ · Grandma calls me a chatterbox on long car journeys.↗ · The chatterbox couldn't keep a secret.↗

chattering — Everyday, meaning 1: Talking quickly and a lot about small, unimportant things: «The girls were chattering in the corridor.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of teeth) Knocking together quickly because you are cold or scared: «My teeth were chattering.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of birds, monkeys, squirrels) Making quick, high, repeated sounds.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of machines) Making quick rattling noises.↗ Example: We were chattering when the teacher walked in.↗ · My teeth were chattering after the swim in the cold sea.↗ · Monkeys were chattering in the trees.↗ · Stop chattering and listen, please.↗ · The magpies kept chattering on the roof.↗ · The old engine was chattering loudly.↗ · ‘Yes, I am so cold that my teeth are chattering,’ said another.↗

chatty — Everyday, meaning 1: A chatty person likes to talk a lot in a friendly way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chatty letter, email or message is friendly and informal and full of small news.↗ Example: My little sister is very chatty in the morning.↗ · The teacher said I was too chatty in lessons.↗ · Grandma sent me a chatty letter about her garden.↗ · The hairdresser was chatty and asked about my holiday.↗ · He's not very chatty; he's shy.↗ · We were in a chatty mood after the party.↗

chauffeur — Everyday, meaning 1: A chauffeur is a person whose job is driving someone else's car, often for a rich or important person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To chauffeur someone is to drive them around, often as a job or a favour.↗ Example: The chauffeur opened the car door for the queen.↗ · A chauffeur-driven car took the actors to the film premiere.↗ · Mum says she's our chauffeur because she drives us everywhere.↗ · Dad chauffeured us to football, then to swimming, then to Grandma's.↗ · The chauffeur wore a cap and white gloves.↗ · In old films, rich families had a chauffeur and a butler.↗ · My uncle works as a chauffeur for a hotel.↗

chaw — Everyday, meaning 1: (dialect, old use) To chaw is to chew: to bite and grind food with the teeth.↗ Example: He chaws on a stalk of grass.↗ · The old man chawed his bread slowly.↗ · Don't chaw with your mouth open.↗

cheap — Everyday, meaning 1: Cheap means it costs only a little money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cheap can mean low quality, badly made: «a cheap toy that broke».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cheap can mean not kind or not fair: «a cheap trick».↗ Example: The pen is 2 dollars cheaper than the book.↗ · Which toy is the cheapest?↗ · Apples are cheap this week at 1 dollar a kilo.↗ · How much cheaper is the red bag?↗ · Buying a big pack is often cheaper per item.↗ · The cheap umbrella broke in the wind.↗ · Tickets are cheaper for children.↗ · That was a cheap trick to win the game.↗ · Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap.↗

cheapen — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To make something less valuable, or to treat it as of little worth.↗ Example: How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way?↗ (Prophets JER.2.36, JPS 1917)↗

cheaply — Everyday, meaning 1: Cheaply means for a low price, without spending much money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cheaply also means in a poor-quality way, made without care: «cheaply made toys».↗ Example: We bought the books cheaply at the school fair.↗ · You can travel cheaply by bus.↗ · This toy was cheaply made and broke on the first day.↗ · Which shop sells apples most cheaply?↗ · We ate cheaply at a picnic instead of a café.↗ · Second-hand clothes can be bought cheaply.↗ · It is not always wise to buy things too cheaply.↗ · Grow your own herbs to get them cheaply.↗ · "Do you know any one here with whom I could lodge cheaply?"↗ Holberg asked the captain.↗

cheapskate — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, insulting) A person who does not like spending money, even when they should; a mean or stingy person.↗ Example: Don't be a cheapskate; buy your sister a card!↗ · He's such a cheapskate that he never shares his sweets.↗ · The cheapskate left a tiny tip.↗ · Grandad calls himself a cheapskate as a joke.↗ · Only a cheapskate would split a biscuit in half to share.↗ · Being careful with money doesn't make you a cheapskate.↗

cheat — Everyday, meaning 1: To cheat means to break the rules to win or get an advantage, or to do something dishonest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cheat someone means to trick them, often to get their money or things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cheat is a person who cheats.↗ Example: It's wrong to cheat in a test.↗ · He cheated by peeking at the cards.↗ · Nobody wants to play with a cheat.↗ · The shopkeeper cheated them out of their change.↗ · If you cheat, you only cheat yourself.↗ · She was caught cheating in the race.↗ · Cheating spoils the game for everyone.↗ · "You would not cheat the poor man, would you?"↗

cheater — Everyday, meaning 1: A cheater is a person who cheats: who breaks the rules secretly to win or to get something they should not have.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cheater is also someone who is not faithful or honest with a partner or friend.↗ Example: Nobody wanted to play cards with him because he was a cheater.↗ · The cheater was sent off the field.↗ · «Cheaters never win,» said the coach.↗ · She was called a cheater after she looked at her neighbour's test.↗ · Don't be a cheater, wait your turn.↗ · The game kicked out the cheater who used a hack.↗ · In the story, the cheater lost the race in the end.↗

cheating — Everyday, meaning 1: Cheating is acting dishonestly to win or get an advantage: breaking the rules of a game or test.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cheating someone is tricking them to take something from them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cheating on a partner means being unfaithful.↗ Example: No cheating — close your eyes while I hide!↗ · Copying answers is cheating.↗ · He was caught cheating at cards.↗ · Cheating is unfair to the other players.↗ · She lost because she wouldn't cheat.↗ · Looking at someone's paper during a test is cheating.↗ · The shopkeeper was cheating customers.↗ · Cheating at a game spoils it for everyone.↗ · "But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheating."↗

check — Everyday, meaning 1: To check is to look at something to see if it is right, safe or ready.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A check is a look to make sure.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A check is a paper you sign that pays money from a bank (British «cheque»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In the USA, the check is the bill in a restaurant.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A check is a mark like ✓ that shows something is right or done.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Checks are a pattern of squares, like on a chessboard.↗ Example: Check your answer by adding.↗ · She wrote a check for 45 dollars.↗ · The check for dinner was 60 dollars.↗ · He checks 12 books out of the library.↗ · Always check left and right before crossing the road.↗ · Put a check next to each word you can spell.↗ · The nurse checked my height and weight.↗ · We checked in at the hotel at 3 o'clock.↗ · His shirt has red and white checks.↗ · ‘Here it is,’ said the Witch, ‘and here is my blue-check apron.’↗ · Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.↗ (Prophets 1SA.24.8, JPS 1917)↗ · I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.↗ (Writings PSA.39.3, JPS 1917)↗ · I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.↗ (Prophets ISA.50.6, JPS 1917)↗