📖 C — The English dictionary · page 25

cheery — Everyday, meaning 1: Happy and friendly in a bright, lively way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making you feel happy, bright and pleasant (a cheery room, a cheery colour).↗ Example: The bus driver gave us a cheery wave.↗ · She has a cheery smile every morning.↗ · Yellow curtains made the kitchen look cheery.↗ · "Good morning!" he said in a cheery voice.↗ · We sang a cheery song on the long car journey.↗ · Despite the rain, everyone stayed cheery.↗ · The card had a cheery picture of a sun.↗ · And now the old couple had plenty of money and were cheery and comfortable.↗

cheese — Everyday, meaning 1: Cheese is a food made from milk, usually yellow or white, that can be soft or hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cheese is a whole round block or a particular kind of cheese.↗ Example: I had a cheese sandwich for lunch.↗ · Cheese is made from milk.↗ · Grate the cheese on top of the pizza.↗ · Mice in cartoons love cheese.↗ · Say cheese!↗ · France makes hundreds of cheeses.↗ · Cheddar is a hard cheese.↗ · Cheese gives you calcium.↗ · I can eat my bread without cheese.↗ · Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?↗ (Writings JOB.10.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and to thy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge; (Prophets 1SA.17.18, JPS 1917)↗ · and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: 'The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.17.29, JPS 1917)↗

cheeseburger — Everyday, meaning 1: A hamburger with a slice of melted cheese on top of the meat patty, served in a bun.↗ Example: I ordered a cheeseburger and chips.↗ · A cheeseburger costs £3, so two cost £6.↗ · The cheese melted over the burger.↗ · Dad made cheeseburgers on the barbecue.↗ · Fast food like cheeseburgers is a treat, not an every-day meal.↗ · Do you want pickles on your cheeseburger?↗

cheesy — Everyday, meaning 1: Tasting or smelling of cheese, or full of cheese.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Silly, cheap or too sentimental in an embarrassing way, as in «a cheesy joke» or «a cheesy song».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A «cheesy grin» is a very big, wide smile, often a bit fake, like when you say «cheese» for a photo.↗ Example: We had cheesy pasta bake for tea.↗ · Dad tells really cheesy jokes.↗ · The film had a cheesy happy ending.↗ · He gave a big cheesy grin for the photo.↗ · These crisps are extra cheesy.↗ · That song is so cheesy, but I love it.↗ · Cheesy feet smell is caused by bacteria!↗

cheetah — Everyday, meaning 1: A cheetah is a slim, spotted big cat from Africa (and a few in Iran) and the fastest land animal, able to run as fast as a car on a main road for a short burst.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cheetahs have black «tear lines» running from their eyes to their mouth.↗ Example: The cheetah is the fastest land animal.↗ · A cheetah can only sprint for a short time before it gets tired.↗ · The cheetah chased a gazelle across the plain.↗ · Cheetahs have black tear marks on their faces.↗ · Its long tail helps the cheetah turn quickly.↗ · Cheetahs purr like house cats but cannot roar.↗ · Mum drives at about the speed a cheetah can run.↗

chef — Everyday, meaning 1: A chef is a person whose job is to cook, often the main cook in a restaurant or hotel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A head chef leads the other cooks in a kitchen.↗ Example: The chef makes 30 pizzas an hour.↗ · Each chef cooks 12 meals.↗ · The restaurant has 4 chefs.↗ · The chef used 5 eggs in each cake.↗ · The chef wears a tall white hat.↗ · My uncle is a chef in a hotel.↗ · The head chef tasted the soup.↗ · She wants to be a chef when she grows up.↗

chemical — Everyday, meaning 1: A chemical is a substance, especially one made or used in science or industry, such as bleach, salt or oxygen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chemical as an adjective means to do with chemistry or with how substances change: a chemical reaction.↗ Example: Bleach is a strong chemical, so don't touch it.↗ · Never mix cleaning chemicals; they can make poisonous gas.↗ · Rust is caused by a chemical reaction between iron, water and air.↗ · Water is a chemical made of hydrogen and oxygen.↗ · Keep chemicals in their own bottles with labels.↗ · Baking a cake causes chemical changes in the mixture.↗ · The scientist wore goggles when she used the chemicals.↗ · Some farmers spray chemicals on crops to kill pests.↗ · Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical that he sneaked from the school laboratory.↗

chemically — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that involves chemistry or chemicals: chemically treated wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In terms of what something is made of at the level of atoms and molecules.↗ e.g. "Chemically, water is H2O."↗ Example: Iron changes chemically when it rusts.↗ · Diamond and coal are chemically very similar — both are carbon.↗ · The wood has been chemically treated to stop it rotting.↗ · Chemically, salt is sodium chloride.↗ · Burning paper changes it chemically into ash and smoke.↗ · Melting ice is not changed chemically; it is still water.↗

chemise — Everyday, meaning 1: A loose, simple dress or a woman's undergarment like a long shirt, worn in the past under other clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) «Chemise» means «shirt» in French.↗ Example: In Tudor times, women wore a linen chemise under their dress.↗ · The chemise kept the outer clothes clean.↗ · In French, «chemise» means shirt.↗ · The museum showed a white chemise from 1800.↗ · She wore a simple chemise dress.↗ · Washing the chemise was easier than washing the gown.↗

chemist — Everyday, meaning 1: A chemist is a scientist who studies chemistry: what substances are made of and how they change.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English a chemist is a person who prepares and sells medicines, and «the chemist's» is the shop where you buy them.↗ Example: A chemist studies how substances react with each other.↗ · Marie Curie was a famous chemist and physicist.↗ · Mum went to the chemist's to buy cough medicine.↗ · The chemist told us how many spoonfuls to take.↗ · The chemist wore goggles and gloves in the lab.↗ · Is there a chemist near the station?↗ · When I grow up, I want to be a chemist.↗ · But then this wonderful ointment could not be bought at a chemist's.↗

chemistry — Everyday, meaning 1: Chemistry is the science of substances: what they are made of, how they behave and how they change into new substances.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The chemistry of something is the way its substances act together (the chemistry of the soil).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chemistry between people is the feeling that they get on very well together.↗ Example: Chemistry explains why iron goes rusty.↗ · We did a chemistry experiment with vinegar and baking soda.↗ · My cousin got a chemistry set for his birthday.↗ · Always wear goggles in the chemistry lab.↗ · The two players have great chemistry on the pitch.↗ · Cooking is a kind of everyday chemistry.↗ · She likes chemistry more than biology.↗

chemotherapy — Everyday, meaning 1: Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer that uses strong medicines to kill the sick cells.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can make people tired and sometimes lose their hair for a while.↗ Example: Grandma is having chemotherapy for her cancer.↗ · Chemotherapy made Mr Hall very tired.↗ · His hair grew back after chemo.↗ · The nurse explained how chemotherapy works.↗ · Our class made cards for a teacher during her chemo.↗ · Some people have chemotherapy in hospital, some at a clinic.↗

cheque — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, NZ) A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to pay money from your account to someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US spelling: check) The same thing.↗ Example: Grandma sent me a cheque for my birthday.↗ · You write the amount in words and numbers on a cheque.↗ · Dad paid in the cheque at the bank.↗ · Hardly any shops take cheques now.↗ · The charity got a giant cheque for £1,000.↗ · Don't sign a blank cheque — anyone could fill in the amount.↗

chequebook — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A small book of printed forms (cheques) that a bank gives to a customer; you write on a cheque to pay someone from your bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Used to mean paying money to solve a problem, as in «chequebook journalism».↗ Example: Grandma took out her chequebook to pay the plumber.↗ · A chequebook has cheques you tear out along the dotted line.↗ · We practised writing a cheque in words and numbers.↗ · Dad hardly ever uses his chequebook now; he pays by phone.↗ · In the USA it is spelled "checkbook".↗ · She keeps her chequebook in a safe drawer.↗ · My birthday cheque came from Grandpa's chequebook.↗

chequer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A pattern of squares, or a work woven in such a pattern.↗ Example: And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the weaver in colours.↗ (Torah EXO.28.39, JPS 1917)↗ · All glorious is the king's daughter within the palace; her raiment is of chequer work inwrought with gold.↗ (Writings PSA.45.14, JPS 1917)↗

cherish — Everyday, meaning 1: To cherish someone or something is to love it and take great care of it.↗ Example: I will cherish this gift forever.↗ · She cherishes her old teddy bear.↗ · We cherish our good friends.↗ · Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and cherish faithfulness.↗ (Writings PSA.37.3, JPS 1917)↗

cherished — Everyday, meaning 1: Loved, protected and cared for very much (a cherished toy).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kept carefully in your mind and heart (a cherished memory, a cherished hope).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Past form of «cherish»: loved and looked after something precious.↗ Example: The teddy bear was her most cherished toy.↗ · We have cherished memories of our holidays with Grandad.↗ · He cherished the letter his father sent him.↗ · The old photo is a cherished family treasure.↗ · Freedom is a cherished right in many countries.↗ · She cherished every moment with her new baby brother.↗ · Our class cherished the oak tree in the playground.↗ · As for the good old couple, they were given riches and honour, and were loved and cherished to the end of their lives.↗

cherokee — Everyday, meaning 1: The Cherokee are a Native American people, originally from the south-east of what is now the USA, many of whom now live in Oklahoma and North Carolina.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Cherokee language, which has its own writing system created by Sequoyah.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Cherokee is also the name of a car model and of places.↗ Example: The Cherokee are a Native American nation.↗ · Sequoyah created a way to write the Cherokee language.↗ · Thousands of Cherokee people were forced to walk the Trail of Tears.↗ · Today many Cherokee live in Oklahoma.↗ · My friend is learning a few Cherokee words.↗ · The Cherokee Nation has its own government.↗

cherry — Everyday, meaning 1: A cherry is a small round red or dark red fruit with a hard stone in the middle and a long thin stalk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cherry tree is the tree these fruits grow on; its blossom is pink or white in spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cherry is a bright red colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Cherry is also the reddish wood of the cherry tree.↗ Example: Cherries have a hard stone in the middle.↗ · We picked cherries from the tree in the garden.↗ · Spit out the cherry stone; don't swallow it.↗ · There's a cherry on top of the cake.↗ · The cherry trees are covered in pink blossom.↗ · Her cheeks were cherry red from the cold.↗ · Cherry tomatoes are small and sweet.↗ · Winning the trip was the cherry on top of a great week.↗ · He cracked it, and there lay a cherry-stone.↗

cherub — Everyday, meaning 1: A cherub is a kind of angel, often shown as a chubby child with small wings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cherub can also mean a sweet, rosy-cheeked young child.↗ Example: The painting shows a cherub on a cloud.↗ · Little cherubs peeped out from the clouds.↗ · My baby cousin is a chubby cherub.↗ · one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.37.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover shall ye make the cherubim of the two ends thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.25.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And the other cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.25, JPS 1917)↗ · The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He was seen upon the wings of the wind.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.11, JPS 1917)↗

chess — Everyday, meaning 1: Chess is a board game for two players with pieces like kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns on a board of 64 squares.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The aim is to trap the other player's king, which is called checkmate.↗ Example: The chessboard has 64 squares.↗ · 6 children play chess, each plays each other once.↗ · The chess club has 12 members.↗ · She won 5 chess games.↗ · My grandad taught me to play chess.↗ · A knight in chess moves in an L shape.↗ · Each player starts with 16 chess pieces.↗ · It's checkmate, I win!↗ · One day Mongan and Duv Laca were playing chess in their palace.↗