📖 C — The English dictionary · page 26

chessboard — Everyday, meaning 1: A square board with 64 squares in eight rows of eight, coloured light and dark in turn, used for playing chess or draughts.↗ Example: Set up the pieces on the chessboard.↗ · A chessboard has 64 squares.↗ · The chessboard squares are black and white.↗ · We used the chessboard to play draughts.↗ · There are 32 dark squares on a chessboard.↗ · The cat knocked over the chessboard.↗ · “Who are you at all?” he cried, starting back from the chessboard and staring on Fionn.↗

chest — Everyday, meaning 1: Your chest is the front of your body between your neck and your tummy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chest is a large strong box with a lid, used for keeping things in, like a treasure chest or toy chest.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A chest of drawers is a piece of furniture with drawers for clothes.↗ Example: Your heart is inside your chest.↗ · Put your hand on your chest and feel it move as you breathe.↗ · The pirates found a chest full of gold.↗ · Put your toys back in the toy chest.↗ · My clothes are in the chest of drawers.↗ · He has a bad chest cold.↗ · Talk to someone and get it off your chest.↗ · His chest heaved hard and fast.↗ · He caused the letter Aleph to reign in Air and crowned it, and combining it with the others He sealed it, as Air in the World, as the temperate (climate) of the Year, and as the chest (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · These three mothers again represent in the Microcosm or Human form, male and female; the Head, the Belly, and the Chest; the bead from the fire, the belly from water, and the chest from the air lieth between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.10, JPS 1917)↗ · These were thy traffickers in gorgeous fabrics, in wrappings of blue and richly woven work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and cedar-lined, among thy merchandise.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.24, JPS 1917)↗

chestnut — Everyday, meaning 1: A chestnut is a shiny reddish-brown nut that grows inside a prickly case on a chestnut tree; sweet chestnuts can be roasted and eaten.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chestnut is also the tree itself.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chestnut is a reddish-brown colour, often of hair or a horse.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «An old chestnut» is a joke or story that has been told too many times.↗ Example: We collected shiny chestnuts in the park.↗ · The chestnut case was covered in sharp spikes.↗ · Roasted chestnuts smell wonderful in winter.↗ · She has long chestnut hair.↗ · The farmer rode a chestnut horse.↗ · A huge chestnut tree shades the playground.↗ · Don't eat horse chestnuts; they can make you sick.↗ · Grandpa told that old chestnut about the talking dog again.↗ · It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees.↗

chesty — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, informal) Having a lot of mucus in the chest from a cold, with a deep, wet cough, as in "a chesty cough".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude, slang) a rude word about a woman's body; not for school.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Having a big, broad chest; proud and showy.↗ Example: I've got a chesty cough and I can't stop coughing.↗ · Mum bought medicine for chesty coughs.↗ · Grandad sounds chesty this morning.↗ · The doctor said my chesty cold should clear in a week.↗ · If a chesty cough lasts for weeks, see a doctor.↗

chew — Everyday, meaning 1: To chew is to break up food in your mouth with your teeth before you swallow it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To chew on something is to bite it again and again, like a dog with a bone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A chew is a chewy sweet or a treat for a dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To chew something over is to think about it carefully.↗ Example: Chew your food properly before you swallow.↗ · Please chew with your mouth closed.↗ · The puppy chewed my slipper.↗ · Cows chew grass for hours.↗ · Put your chewing gum in the bin.↗ · Let me chew it over and tell you tomorrow.↗ · Don't bite off more than you can chew.↗ · After tasting it, he chewed it well, closed his eyes, and swallowed it.↗ · While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.↗ (Torah NUM.11.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.4, JPS 1917)↗

cheweth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «cheweth» means «chews», a form of «chew».↗ e.g. To chew is to break up food in your mouth with your teeth before you swallow it.↗ Example: And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.5, JPS 1917) · And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.6, JPS 1917) · Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.↗ (Torah LEV.11.3, JPS 1917)

chewing — Everyday, meaning 1: Chewing means crushing food with your teeth to make it soft enough to swallow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chewing also means biting on something again and again, like a dog chewing a bone or a child chewing a pencil.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chewing can also mean chewing something such as tobacco or gum that you do not swallow.↗ Example: Keep chewing until the food is soft.↗ · Please stop chewing with your mouth open.↗ · The puppy is chewing my slipper!↗ · Chewing your food well helps digestion.↗ · No chewing gum in class.↗ · He was chewing his pencil while he thought.↗ · Cows spend hours chewing grass.↗ · Chew carefully so you don't choke.↗ · He lay on the grass chewing tobacco, when the gazelle trotted up.↗

chewy — Everyday, meaning 1: Needing a lot of chewing because it is soft but tough or sticky, as in «chewy sweets» or «chewy meat».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, NZ, informal) «Chewy» is slang for chewing gum.↗ Example: These toffees are very chewy.↗ · The steak was too chewy to eat.↗ · I like chewy cookies more than crunchy ones.↗ · Got any chewy?↗ (Australia, informal)↗ · Chewy sweets can stick to your teeth.↗ · The bagel was warm and chewy.↗ · Gummy bears are soft and chewy.↗

chi — Everyday, meaning 1: The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, written χ, said "kye" (rhymes with "sky").↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Chinese tradition) Also spelled qi: in Chinese belief, a life energy said to flow through the body and nature, used in tai chi, kung fu and traditional medicine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Mandarin, pinyin) chī means "to eat", as in chī fàn, "eat a meal".↗ It sounds like "chir" to an English ear and is not an English word.↗ Example: Grandma does tai chi in the park every morning.↗ · Chi is the Greek letter that looks like an x.↗ · Some people believe chi flows through the body.↗ · In Mandarin, chī means "to eat".↗ · My friend said "chī fàn le ma?" to his grandad.↗ · Scientists say there is no proof that chi exists as a real energy.↗ · Chiim, is the plural of Chi — living, or life.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · AL ChI H OULMIM; ''the Living God of Ages," here the word God really is in the singular.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

chicago — Everyday, meaning 1: Chicago is a big city in the United States, in the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the third-largest city in the USA.↗ Example: The train goes from Chicago to Detroit, 280 miles.↗ · 300 people flew to Chicago.↗ · It is 20 degrees in Chicago.↗ · The bus to Chicago leaves at 9:00.↗ · Chicago is next to Lake Michigan.↗ · Chicago is often windy in winter.↗ · We saw tall buildings in Chicago.↗

chick — Everyday, meaning 1: A baby bird, especially a baby chicken that has just hatched from its egg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informal and old-fashioned slang for a young woman; many people find it rude.↗ Example: The chick pecked its way out of the egg.↗ · The mother hen kept her chicks warm under her wings.↗ · Our class watched chicks hatch in an incubator.↗ · A fluffy yellow chick cheeped in the straw.↗ · The blackbird fed worms to her chicks.↗ · Wash your hands after holding the chicks.↗ · Egg, chick, hen: that is the life cycle of a chicken.↗ · Ten eggs hatched, so we had ten chicks.↗ · The latter has neither hens nor chicks, and only thinks of himself and perspires verdigris.↗

chicken — Everyday, meaning 1: A chicken is a farm bird that lays eggs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chicken is also the meat of this bird, which people eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In slang, «chicken» means scared, and to «chicken out» is to be too scared to do something.↗ Example: A farmer has 12 chickens and 5 cows.↗ · Each chicken lays 1 egg a day.↗ · Chickens and rabbits have 40 legs in all.↗ · Mum buys 2 kg of chicken.↗ · A chicken has 2 legs and 2 wings.↗ · The chicks hatched from their eggs today.↗ · We had roast chicken for Sunday lunch.↗ · He wanted to jump but chickened out.↗ · ‘I’ll eat one of these chickens.’↗

chickenpox — Everyday, meaning 1: A common illness, mostly of children, caused by a virus, that gives a fever and very itchy red spots that turn into blisters and then scabs.↗ Example: My little brother has chickenpox, so he can't go to school.↗ · Chickenpox spots are very itchy.↗ · Try not to scratch chickenpox, or it can leave scars.↗ · Calamine lotion helps the itching.↗ · Half the class caught chickenpox in one month.↗ · You stay home until the spots have crusted over.↗ · I had chickenpox when I was four.↗ · Some children get a vaccine against chickenpox.↗

chicle — Everyday, meaning 1: A natural gum made from the milky sap of the sapodilla tree of Central America, used in the past to make chewing gum.↗ Example: Chicle comes from the sap of the sapodilla tree.↗ · The ancient Maya chewed chicle.↗ · Workers called chicleros collected chicle in the forest.↗ · Early chewing gum was made from chicle.↗ · Most gum today is not made from chicle.↗ · We saw a photo of chicle being tapped from a tree.↗

chide — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To scold or quarrel with someone angrily.↗ Example: And the men of Ephraim said unto him: 'Why hast thou served us thus, that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Midian?'↗ And they did chide with him sharply.↗ (Prophets JDG.8.1, JPS 1917)↗

chief — Everyday, meaning 1: The leader or head of a group, such as a tribe, organisation or police force (the fire chief).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Most important; main (the chief reason).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Highest in rank (chief executive, chief inspector).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A friendly word for a man, like «mate» or «boss» (Alright, chief?).↗ Example: The chief of the village welcomed us.↗ · The fire chief told everyone to leave the building.↗ · Our chief worry is the weather.↗ · She is the chief executive of a big company.↗ · Rain was the chief reason we stayed inside.↗ · Cheers, chief!↗ (informal)↗ · “Stay with us, Chief,” Caelte begged.↗ · the chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram.↗ (Torah GEN.36.43, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.↗ (Torah GEN.40.23, JPS 1917)↗ · the chief of Korah, the chief of Gatam, the chief of Amalek.↗ (Torah GEN.36.16, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the chiefs of Edom.↗ (Writings 1CH.1.54, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.↗ (Writings 1CH.23.16, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.↗ (Writings 1CH.23.18, JPS 1917)↗

chiefly — Everyday, meaning 1: Chiefly means mainly or mostly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chiefly means above all, more than anything else.↗ Example: Pandas eat chiefly bamboo.↗ · The class was chiefly worried about the test.↗ · Rainforests are found chiefly near the equator.↗ · The cake is made chiefly of chocolate.↗ · Our town is known chiefly for its beach.↗ · The trip was chiefly for fun.↗ · In making my selection I have chiefly tried to make the stories characteristic.↗ · are chiefly based on this commentary and not on the original Safer Yet/.irah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The invention of such an alphabet as the Libyan must have con- sisted, chiefly of symbols for consonants, because vowel sym- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

chieftain — Everyday, meaning 1: A chieftain is the leader of a tribe or clan.↗ Example: The chieftain called his people together.↗ · The chieftain's daughter sat in her father's tent.↗ · Every tribe had its own chieftain.↗

chihuahua — Everyday, meaning 1: A chihuahua is a very small breed of dog with big ears and big eyes, the smallest dog breed in the world.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Chihuahua is a large state in northern Mexico and a city there, after which the dog is named.↗ Example: A chihuahua is small enough to fit in a handbag.↗ · Our neighbour's chihuahua barks at the postman.↗ · The chihuahua shivered, so they put a little coat on it.↗ · Chihuahuas are named after a place in Mexico.↗ · Even though it is tiny, the chihuahua acts like a guard dog.↗ · The chihuahua weighed less than two bags of sugar.↗ · Chihuahua is the biggest state in Mexico.↗ · My aunt's chihuahua sleeps on a cushion by the fire.↗

chilblains — Everyday, meaning 1: Painful, itchy red or purple swellings on the toes, fingers, ears or nose, caused when skin gets very cold and then warms up too fast.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A common winter complaint in old times, when houses were cold.↗ Example: In the cold farmhouse, the children had chilblains on their toes.↗ · Wear thick socks so you don't get chilblains.↗ · Gran's chilblains itch every winter.↗ · Don't warm cold feet too quickly by the fire, or you may get chilblains.↗ · My fingers were swollen with chilblains after building the snowman.↗ · Chilblains were common when houses had no heating.↗