📖 C — The English dictionary · page 3

caller — Everyday, meaning 1: A caller is a person who makes a telephone call.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A caller is someone who visits a house for a short time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In some games and dances, the caller is the person who calls out numbers or steps, as in bingo or a barn dance.↗ Example: The caller asked to speak to my dad.↗ · Caller ID showed it was Grandma.↗ · Don't give your address to an unknown caller.↗ · We had a caller at the door selling cleaning products.↗ · The bingo caller shouted «two little ducks, twenty-two».↗ · The caller at the barn dance told us when to swing our partners.↗

callous — Everyday, meaning 1: Cruel and not caring at all about other people's feelings or pain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing no pity: «a callous remark».↗ Example: It was callous to laugh when she fell over.↗ · The callous man kicked the stray dog.↗ · The villain made a callous joke about the people he had cheated.↗ · Ignoring someone who needs help can be callous.↗ · The judge called the crime cold and callous.↗ · She was shocked by his callous words.↗ · So great indeed was their faith in a mother’s love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer.↗

callus — Everyday, meaning 1: A callus is a patch of hard, thick skin on your hands or feet, made by rubbing or pressing again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A callus is also the hard lump that forms around a broken bone as it heals.↗ Example: Playing guitar gives you calluses on your fingertips.↗ · The gymnast had calluses on her hands.↗ · Walking barefoot can make calluses on your feet.↗ · The farmer's hands were rough with calluses.↗ · A callus forms around a broken bone as it heals.↗

calm — Everyday, meaning 1: Not worried, angry or excited; peaceful.↗ e.g. "Stay calm."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Still, without wind or waves.↗ e.g. "a calm sea".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to make someone or something calm.↗ e.g. "calm down".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a noun, a peaceful, quiet time.↗ e.g. "the calm before the storm".↗ Example: Stay calm and call for help.↗ · Take deep breaths to calm down.↗ · The sea was calm this morning.↗ · She spoke in a calm voice.↗ · Keep calm during the fire drill.↗ · The music calmed the baby.↗ · It was a calm, sunny day.↗ · After the storm came the calm.↗ · He tried to calm the Dragon King.↗ · He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.↗ (Writings PSA.107.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.↗ (Prophets JON.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto them: 'Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.'↗ (Prophets JON.1.12, JPS 1917)↗

calmly — Everyday, meaning 1: Calmly means in a quiet, peaceful way, without getting angry, upset, excited or frightened.↗ Example: Walk calmly to the door during the fire drill.↗ · She calmly explained what happened.↗ · Speak calmly and clearly on the phone in an emergency.↗ · He waited calmly for his turn.↗ · Breathe slowly and talk calmly.↗ · The teacher calmly stopped the argument.↗ · The lifeguard calmly helped the swimmer.↗ · Try to solve problems calmly, not with fists.↗ · “There it is,” said Peter calmly.↗

calmness — Everyday, meaning 1: Calmness is the state of being quiet, peaceful and not worried, angry or excited.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Calmness is stillness in weather or water: «the calmness of the sea».↗ Example: She answered the hard question with calmness.↗ · The calmness of the lake was beautiful.↗ · Breathing slowly helps bring calmness.↗ · The pilot's calmness helped the passengers.↗ · His calmness in the emergency saved lives.↗ · After the storm came a strange calmness.↗ · At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and father, do not let yourself be deceived by this man.↗

caloric — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old word for heat thought of as a kind of invisible fluid.↗ Example: 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

calorie — Everyday, meaning 1: A calorie is a unit used to measure how much energy food gives your body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a calorie is a small unit of heat energy.↗ Example: A banana has about 100 calories.↗ · Running burns more calories than walking.↗ · Look at the label to see how many calories are in a serving.↗ · Growing children need plenty of calories.↗ · Fizzy drinks have lots of calories but few vitamins.↗ · If one biscuit has 50 calories, three have 150.↗

calque — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A word or phrase made by translating each part of a word from another language.↗ Example: It might best be calqued as 'whatlessness', meaning 'having no essence', and thus the ‘Ten Sefirot Belimah’ would be the ‘Ten Essenceless/Whatless Numbers'.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

calve — Everyday, meaning 1: (of a cow, whale, elephant and some other animals) To give birth to a calf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a glacier or iceberg) To have a big piece of ice break off and fall into the sea.↗ Example: The cow is due to calve next week.↗ · Most of the cows calved in March.↗ · The glacier calved a huge iceberg into the sea.↗ · We watched a video of ice calving into the ocean.↗ · Elephants calve about every four or five years.↗ · The farmer stayed up all night while the cow calved.↗ · As soon as they have calved, I shall sell the calves.↗ · Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?↗ (Writings JOB.39.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare; and in His temple all say: 'Glory.'↗ (Writings PSA.29.9, JPS 1917)↗

calving — Everyday, meaning 1: The birth of a calf, especially on a farm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The breaking off of ice from the edge of a glacier or ice sheet into the sea, making icebergs.↗ Example: It is calving season on the dairy farm.↗ · The vet came to help with a difficult calving.↗ · Calving at the glacier made a huge splash.↗ · Scientists measure calving to see how fast ice sheets shrink.↗ · During calving, the farmer checks the cows at night.↗ · The noise of calving ice sounded like thunder.↗

calyx — Everyday, meaning 1: The ring of green leaves (sepals) that wraps around the bud of a flower.↗ Example: The green calyx protects the bud.↗ · Pull off the calyx of the thistle.↗ · The petals rise up from the calyx.↗

cambrian — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The Cambrian was a period of Earth's history about 540 to 485 million years ago, when many kinds of animals with hard shells first appeared in the sea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cambrian means to do with Wales, as in the Cambrian Mountains, from Cambria, the Latin name for Wales.↗ Example: Trilobites lived in Cambrian seas.↗ · Many animal groups appeared in the Cambrian explosion.↗ · There were no animals on land in the Cambrian.↗ · The Cambrian period is named after Wales.↗ · We hiked in the Cambrian Mountains.↗ · Cambrian rocks contain early fossils.↗

camel — Everyday, meaning 1: A camel is a large animal with a long neck and one or two humps on its back, which lives in deserts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Camel is a light brown colour.↗ Example: A camel can walk for days in the desert.↗ · The camel has two humps.↗ · We rode a camel on holiday.↗ · A camel's hump stores fat.↗ · Camels have long eyelashes to keep out sand.↗ · Thousands of wild camels live in Australia.↗ · She wore a camel coat.↗ · “The proper way,” said the camel.↗ “We all sat down--”↗ · So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.↗ (Torah GEN.24.46, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; (Torah GEN.31.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man.↗ (Torah GEN.24.61, JPS 1917)↗ · their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.↗ (Writings EZR.2.67, JPS 1917)↗ · and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; (Writings 1CH.27.30, JPS 1917)↗ · They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.↗ (Writings 2CH.14.14, JPS 1917)↗

camellia — Everyday, meaning 1: A bush with shiny dark green leaves and large flowers like roses, usually pink, red or white, that bloom in late winter or spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tea plant is a kind of camellia (Camellia sinensis).↗ Example: The camellia bush is covered in pink flowers.↗ · Tea is made from the leaves of a camellia plant.↗ · Camellias bloom in late winter.↗ · Grandma's camellia has white flowers.↗ · Frost turned the camellia petals brown.↗ · The camellia's leaves are shiny and dark green.↗ · Perhaps the Story might have hidden itself in the red tulips, with the golden yellow edges, or in the fresh rose, or in the beaming camellia.↗

camera — Everyday, meaning 1: A camera is a device for taking photographs or making videos.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A camera can be part of a phone, tablet or computer, or fixed to watch an area, like a security camera.↗ Example: Smile for the camera!↗ · I took a photo with my camera.↗ · My tablet has two cameras.↗ · The security camera filmed the thief.↗ · Ask before you take someone's picture.↗ · The film crew had three cameras.↗ · Light enters the camera through the lens.↗ · Turn off your camera when you finish the video call.↗

cameraman — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to operate a camera for films or television.↗ Example: The cameraman filmed the football match.↗ · The reporter and her cameraman went to the flood.↗ · The cameraman ran backwards to keep the runner in the shot.↗ · Wave to the cameraman!↗ · My aunt works as a camera operator on wildlife films.↗

camest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «camest» means «you came», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking.↗ e.g. Come here!↗ Example: And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?'↗ And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.'↗ (Torah GEN.16.8, JPS 1917) · Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!↗ (The Jungle Book) · Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.↗ (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917)

camion — Everyday, meaning 1: (rare in English) A low, strong truck or cart used to carry heavy things, especially in the army.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French and Spanish) «camion» (French) and «camión» (Spanish) mean a lorry or truck; French says it ka-mee-ON with a nasal end.↗ Example: (French) Le camion est rouge – the lorry is red.↗ · A camion carried the cannons to the front.↗ · In Mexico, people say «camión» for a bus.↗ · The soldiers loaded the camion with supplies.↗ · "Camion" is the French word for a truck.↗

camo — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Short for camouflage: clothes or patterns in greens and browns that help you blend into the background.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Having that pattern: camo trousers, camo jacket.↗ Example: He wore camo trousers to the paintball party.↗ · I got a camo backpack for school.↗ · The soldiers were in full camo.↗ · Chameleons are masters of camo.↗ · My camo skin in the game is gold.↗

camomile — Everyday, meaning 1: A small plant with flowers like tiny daisies, white petals around a yellow middle, which has a sweet apple-like smell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drink (camomile tea) made from the dried flowers, often drunk to feel calm or sleepy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old times, a bitter medicine made from the plant.↗ Example: Gran drinks a cup of camomile tea before bed.↗ · Camomile flowers look like tiny daisies.↗ · The garden smelled of camomile and mint.↗ · Peter Rabbit was put to bed with camomile tea.↗ · Alice said that camomile makes people bitter.↗ · We dried camomile flowers for a science project.↗ · Some people say camomile helps them relax.↗ · The lawn was made of camomile instead of grass.↗ · His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!↗

camouflage — Everyday, meaning 1: Camouflage is colours, patterns or shapes that help an animal or thing blend into its surroundings so it is hard to see.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To camouflage means to hide something by making it look like what is around it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Camouflage is the green and brown patterned clothing soldiers wear.↗ Example: The stick insect uses camouflage to look like a twig.↗ · A polar bear's white fur is camouflage in the snow.↗ · The chameleon changed colour to camouflage itself.↗ · The moth was camouflaged against the tree bark.↗ · Soldiers wear camouflage in the jungle.↗ · Can you spot the camouflaged frog in the picture?↗ · Zebras' stripes may confuse predators.↗