📖 C — The English dictionary · page 29

chlorine — Everyday, meaning 1: Chlorine is a yellow-green poisonous gas with a strong smell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chlorine is a chemical put into swimming pools and drinking water to kill germs.↗ Example: The pool smells of chlorine.↗ · Chlorine kills germs in the water.↗ · My eyes sting from the chlorine.↗ · Wear goggles to protect your eyes from chlorine.↗ · Table salt is made of sodium and chlorine.↗ · Never mix bleach with other cleaners.↗

chlorophyll — Everyday, meaning 1: Chlorophyll is the green substance in plants that soaks up sunlight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Plants use chlorophyll to make their own food from light, water and carbon dioxide.↗ Example: Leaves are green because they contain chlorophyll.↗ · Chlorophyll helps plants catch sunlight.↗ · Without chlorophyll a plant cannot make its food.↗ · In autumn the chlorophyll fades and leaves turn orange.↗ · Chlorophyll is found inside tiny parts called chloroplasts.↗ · Seaweed also has chlorophyll.↗ · A plant kept in the dark loses its green colour.↗ · We tested leaves for chlorophyll in science.↗

chloroplast — Everyday, meaning 1: A tiny green part inside plant cells where photosynthesis happens: it uses sunlight to make food (sugar) from water and carbon dioxide, giving off oxygen.↗ Example: Chloroplasts make food for the plant using sunlight.↗ · Plant cells have chloroplasts, but animal cells do not.↗ · Chloroplasts contain green chlorophyll.↗ · Under the microscope, we saw green chloroplasts in the leaf cells.↗ · Photosynthesis happens inside the chloroplasts.↗ · Label the chloroplast on your cell diagram.↗

choc — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Chocolate, or a single chocolate sweet: a box of chocs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in compounds) choc ice: an ice cream bar covered in chocolate; choc chip: small pieces of chocolate in cookies or ice cream; choc-top (Australia, New Zealand): an ice-cream cone dipped in chocolate.↗ Example: Can I have a choc chip cookie?↗ · Grandma brought a big box of chocs.↗ · (Australia) We bought choc-tops at the cinema.↗ · (UK) A choc ice melts fast on a hot day.↗ · There are 24 chocs in the box; shared between 4 of us, that's 6 each.↗ · Too many chocs are bad for your teeth.↗

chock — Everyday, meaning 1: Chock means completely: «chock full» means crammed full to the top.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) «Chock-a-block» means packed tight with no room left.↗ Example: The box was chock full of sweets.↗ · The pit was chock full of gold.↗ · The shop was chock-a-block on Saturday.↗

chocolate — Everyday, meaning 1: Chocolate is a sweet brown food made from cocoa beans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chocolate is one sweet made of or covered in chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chocolate as an adjective means made with chocolate or brown like it: chocolate cake, chocolate brown.↗ Example: She bought 6 bars of chocolate.↗ · A box holds 24 chocolates.↗ · He ate 5 chocolates.↗ · Each chocolate bar costs 2 dollars.↗ · I drink hot chocolate on cold days.↗ · The chocolate melted in the hot car.↗ · Cocoa beans grow on trees in warm countries.↗ · Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, so never give it to them.↗ · Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him, and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness.↗

choice — Everyday, meaning 1: A choice is a decision to pick one thing or action from several.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A choice is the chance or right to choose: «You have a choice».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Choice means the range of things you can choose from: «a big choice of books».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Your choice is the thing you chose.↗ Example: You have a choice: apples or bananas.↗ · That was a good choice.↗ · Make the safe choice and wear your helmet.↗ · The shop has a big choice of games.↗ · I had no choice but to walk.↗ · Pick one answer in the multiple-choice test.↗ · It's your choice what you read.↗ · Being kind is always a good choice.↗ · Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'↗ (Torah GEN.23.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.]↗ [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.↗ (Writings PRO.8.10, JPS 1917)↗ · My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my produce than choice silver.↗ (Writings PRO.8.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.↗ (Writings PRO.10.20, JPS 1917)↗

choir — Everyday, meaning 1: A choir is a group of people who sing together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The choir is also the part of a church where the singers sit.↗ Example: The choir has 24 singers.↗ · 9 of the choir are boys.↗ · They stand in 4 equal rows.↗ · 3 new children join the choir.↗ · The school choir sang at the winter concert.↗ · Choir practice is on Tuesday after lunch.↗ · Mia joined the church choir when she was eight.↗ · The choir sang in two parts, high and low.↗ · When he went into the church the choir was singing, and one voice was so clear and beautiful, that he asked who it belonged to.↗

choirboy — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A boy who sings in a church or cathedral choir, usually wearing robes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A person who looks very innocent and well-behaved, often said jokingly («he's no choirboy»).↗ Example: The choirboys sang carols at the cathedral on Christmas Eve.↗ · My cousin became a choirboy at eight and practises every week.↗ · The choirboy's voice rose high above the organ.↗ · Choirboys often wear white robes over red cassocks.↗ · He may look like a choirboy, but he's the cheekiest kid in class.↗ · When his voice broke, he stopped being a choirboy.↗

choke — Everyday, meaning 1: To choke means to be unable to breathe because something is stuck in your throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To choke can mean to have trouble breathing because of smoke or dust.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To choke up means to have trouble speaking because of strong feelings.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To choke in sport means to fail at an important moment because of nerves.↗ Example: He choked on a piece of apple.↗ · Small toys are a choking hazard for babies.↗ · Cut grapes in half for little children so they don't choke.↗ · The smoke made us choke and cough.↗ · Don't run with food in your mouth; you could choke.↗ · She choked back tears at the goodbye.↗ · If someone is choking and can't talk, get an adult fast.↗ · The player choked and missed the penalty.↗ · Iktomi almost choked to death before he could get it out.↗

chokepoint — Everyday, meaning 1: A chokepoint is a narrow place, such as a strait, mountain pass or narrow road, where movement is squeezed together and can easily be blocked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) A chokepoint is any point in a system where things slow down or get stuck.↗ Example: The Suez Canal is a chokepoint for ships between Europe and Asia.↗ · When a huge ship blocked the canal, the chokepoint stopped trade for days.↗ · The Spartans held the narrow chokepoint at Thermopylae.↗ · The school gate becomes a chokepoint at home time.↗ · Oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint.↗ · The narrow bridge was a chokepoint for traffic.↗ · Fire exits should never become chokepoints.↗

choler — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Anger or bad temper, from an old idea that a body fluid called bile caused rage.↗

cholera — Everyday, meaning 1: Cholera is a serious illness caused by germs (bacteria) in dirty water or food, which gives very bad diarrhoea and makes the body lose water quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Without treatment cholera can kill, but drinking clean water with salts and sugar (rehydration) and medicine save most people.↗ Example: Cholera spreads through dirty drinking water.↗ · John Snow traced cholera to one water pump.↗ · Clean water and toilets stopped cholera in many cities.↗ · Aid workers rushed to stop a cholera outbreak after the flood.↗ · People with cholera need lots of clean fluids.↗ · There is a vaccine that helps protect against cholera.↗ · In Victorian times, cholera killed thousands in crowded towns.↗

chomp — Everyday, meaning 1: To bite and chew food noisily and with big mouthfuls.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A big, noisy bite.↗ Example: The horse chomped on an apple.↗ · He chomped through three sandwiches.↗ · The crocodile's jaws went chomp!↗ · Don't chomp with your mouth open.↗ · We were chomping at the bit to start the race.↗ · The dog chomped the biscuit in one bite.↗ · "Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf.↗

chomping — Everyday, meaning 1: Chewing or biting noisily and with big movements of the jaw.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In «chomping at the bit»: very eager and impatient to start something (from a horse biting on the metal bit in its mouth).↗ Example: The horse was chomping on a carrot.↗ · My brother sat chomping crisps through the whole film.↗ · The dog was chomping happily on its bone.↗ · We were chomping at the bit to get into the swimming pool.↗ · Stop chomping with your mouth open!↗ · The caterpillar kept chomping through the leaves.↗ · The team was chomping at the bit before kick-off.↗

chon — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Chon is a surname and given name, for example a Korean surname (also written Jeon or Chun) and a name used in some other Asian and Hispanic families.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not a common English word: it may be a fragment of a longer word cut off in a text.↗ Example: Mr Chon is our new music teacher.↗ · The book was written by a Korean author called Chon.↗ · "Chon" on the list was the start of a longer word cut off by the page.↗ · Ji-ho Chon won the spelling bee.↗ · We learned that Korean names put the family name first, as in Chon Ji-ho.↗ · Ask the person how they like their name said.↗

choose — Everyday, meaning 1: To choose is to pick one from several: choose a book.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To choose is to decide to do something.↗ e.g. She chose to walk home.↗ Example: Read the whole problem first, then choose.↗ · Choose add, subtract, multiply or divide.↗ · Mia chooses 3 of the 10 cakes.↗ · You can choose any colour you like.↗ · We chose a puppy from the shelter.↗ · Choose the correct answer: A, B or C.↗ · Which game will you choose?↗ · Sam chose to stay inside because it was cold.↗ · Choose quickly; you are wasting time."↗ · Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose; (Torah DEU.12.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.↗ (Torah DEU.15.20, JPS 1917)↗ · then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.↗ (Torah DEU.14.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Envy thou not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.↗ (Writings PRO.3.31, JPS 1917)↗ · How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?↗ (Writings JOB.9.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD; (Writings PRO.1.29, JPS 1917)↗

chooser — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who chooses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Beggars can't be choosers: a saying meaning when you need help, you must accept what you are given.↗ Example: Beggars can't be choosers, so I ate the cold pizza.↗ · The chooser picks the first player for the team.↗ · I'm the chooser today; we'll watch a cartoon.↗ · We only had blue paint left, but beggars can't be choosers.↗ · Each chooser gets one sticker.↗ · Who is the chooser for the next game?↗ · The chooser of the winning name gets a prize.↗

choosy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Very careful about what you choose, and hard to please, especially about food, clothes or friends.↗ Example: My little brother is choosy about his food.↗ · Cats can be very choosy eaters.↗ · She is choosy about which books she reads.↗ · Don't be so choosy, just pick a sweet!↗ · The female bird is choosy about her mate.↗ · You can't be choosy when you are starving.↗

chop — Everyday, meaning 1: To chop means to cut something into pieces with a knife or an axe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To chop down a tree means to cut it so it falls.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A chop is a thick slice of meat with a bone, such as a pork or lamb chop.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A chop is a quick hard hit or cut, like a karate chop.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To chop something up at a mouthful means to swallow it in one big bite.↗ Example: Dad chopped the carrots into small pieces.↗ · Please chop the onions for the soup.↗ · They chopped down the dead tree.↗ · We had lamb chops for dinner.↗ · Use a chopping board, not the table.↗ · He broke the board with a karate chop.↗ · Keep your fingers away when you chop.↗ · The logs were chopped for the campfire.↗ · He'll certainly chop us up at a mouthful.↗ · Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.↗ (Prophets MIC.3.3, JPS 1917)↗

chopped — Everyday, meaning 1: Chopped means cut into pieces with a knife or axe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Chopped food is cut into small pieces: chopped onions.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Chopped can mean cut or removed suddenly: the scene was chopped from the film.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang, US) «Chopped» can mean ugly or very bad.↗ Example: Dad chopped the carrots for the soup.↗ · Add two chopped tomatoes.↗ · The woodcutter chopped down the old tree.↗ · Finely chopped herbs go on top.↗ · She chopped the apple into eight pieces.↗ · The scene was chopped from the film.↗ · Be careful: he chopped too fast and nearly cut his finger.↗ · I chopped the tree down with my hatchet."↗