📖 C — The English dictionary · page 31

chronicle — Everyday, meaning 1: A chronicle is a written record of events in the order they happened.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To chronicle means to record events in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Chronicle» is a common name for newspapers and story series (The Chronicles of Narnia).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Bible) Chronicles (1 and 2 Chronicles) are books of the Old Testament that tell the history of the kings of Israel and Judah.↗ Example: The monks kept a chronicle of every battle.↗ · Her diary chronicles a year at sea.↗ · I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia.↗ · The book of Chronicles is in the Old Testament.↗ · The film chronicles the life of a famous footballer.↗ · The town newspaper is called the Chronicle.↗ · Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?↗ (Prophets 2KI.14.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.↗ (Prophets 2KI.15.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?↗ (Prophets 2KI.1.18, JPS 1917)↗

chronological — Everyday, meaning 1: Chronological means arranged in the order in which things happened, from earliest to latest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Chronological order» is putting events, dates or steps in time order.↗ Example: Put these pictures in chronological order to tell the story.↗ · Our history timeline is chronological, from the Stone Age to today.↗ · A diary is written in chronological order.↗ · The photos on my phone are arranged chronologically.↗ · The teacher asked us to list the kings in chronological order.↗ · Reverse chronological order puts the newest first.↗ · A recount should be chronological so the reader can follow it.↗

chronometer — Everyday, meaning 1: A very exact clock, used at sea to find the ship's position by knowing the exact time.↗ Example: The captain checked the chronometer before he marked the map.↗ · A chronometer keeps very exact time, even on a rocking ship.↗

chrysalis — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard case a caterpillar makes around itself while it changes into a butterfly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The stage in a butterfly's life cycle when it is inside this case (the pupa stage).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A time of quiet change before something new appears (figurative).↗ Example: The caterpillar hung upside down and made a chrysalis.↗ · Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar turns into a butterfly.↗ · After two weeks the butterfly came out of its chrysalis.↗ · A butterfly's life cycle is egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly.↗ · Don't touch the chrysalis — it is very delicate.↗ · The chrysalis looked like a little green jewel on the leaf.↗

chrysanthemum — Everyday, meaning 1: A garden flower with many layered petals, which blooms in autumn in many colours.↗ Example: The chrysanthemums were in bloom in the garden.↗ · She picked three yellow chrysanthemums for the table.↗

chubby — Everyday, meaning 1: Slightly fat and round in a soft, often cute way, as in «chubby cheeks» or «a chubby baby».↗ Example: The baby had chubby little hands.↗ · Our puppy is round and chubby.↗ · Grandma pinched my chubby cheeks.↗ · The chubby hamster stuffed seeds into its cheeks.↗ · It is unkind to tease someone for being chubby.↗ · The cartoon bear had a chubby tummy.↗ · This kept mother badger very busy, and the baby badgers very chubby.↗

chuck — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) To chuck something is to throw it, often casually.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To chuck something out or away is to throw it in the bin.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To chuck something in or chuck it is to give it up or quit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, UK) To chuck a boyfriend or girlfriend is to end the relationship with them.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Australia, slang) To chuck a sickie is to stay off work pretending to be ill; to chuck a U-ey is to do a U-turn.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A chuck is the part of a drill that holds the bit tight.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (northern England, informal) "Chuck" is a friendly word for a person, like "love" or "dear".↗ Example: Chuck me the ball!↗ · Don't chuck your rubbish on the ground.↗ · Mum chucked out the old shoes.↗ · It's chucking it down, so take a coat.↗ · He chucked in his paper round after a week.↗ · My brother chucked a wobbly when the TV went off.↗ · She chucked 5 stones into the pond and then 3 more, so she chucked 8 in all.↗ · Tighten the chuck before you start drilling.↗ · "Ta, chuck," said the lady at the bus stop.↗ · “But I shouldn't have minded all that if it hadn't been for that little fellow on top of the house, who kept a-hollering, 'Chuck him up to me-e!↗

chuckle — Everyday, meaning 1: To laugh quietly, often with your mouth closed, because something is amusing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A soft, quiet laugh.↗ Example: Grandpa chuckled at his own joke.↗ · She gave a little chuckle as she read the comic.↗ · The audience chuckled at the funny line.↗ · «Very clever,» he chuckled.↗ · We had a good chuckle about the muddy football match.↗ · The sly fox chuckled to himself.↗ · “Hah!” said Kaa with a chuckle, “he has friends everywhere, this manling.↗

chuff — Everyday, meaning 1: verb To make the puffing sound of a steam train: chuff-chuff.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: chuffed (UK, informal): very pleased.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, rude slang) Bottom; «chuffing» and «chuff me» are mild swear words like «flipping».↗ Example: The little steam train chuffed up the hill.↗ · Chuff, chuff, chuff went the engine.↗ · I'm well chuffed with my new bike.↗ (UK)↗ · Mum was chuffed to bits with her present.↗ · «Chuffing heck, it's raining again!» said Uncle Dave.↗ (rude)↗ · The kettle chuffed out steam.↗

chuffed — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, informal) Chuffed means very pleased and proud, as in I'm chuffed to bits.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chuffed is also the past form of chuff: to make a puffing sound like a steam train.↗ Example: I was chuffed to bits with my certificate.↗ (UK informal)↗ · Dad's dead chuffed with his new bike.↗ (UK slang)↗ · She was chuffed that her team won.↗ · Gran was chuffed with her birthday card.↗ · The little engine chuffed up the hill.↗ · I'm well chuffed!↗ (UK slang)↗

chunder — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang, Australia/NZ, UK) to vomit, be sick.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) vomit.↗ Example: He chundered on the boat all the way to the island.↗ · Don't eat that, you'll chunder.↗ · There was chunder all over the bus seat.↗ · Chat: «Feel like I'm gonna chunder.»↗ · The rollercoaster made three kids chunder.↗ · Mum said, «Chunder in the bucket, not on the carpet!»↗

chunk — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick, solid piece of something (a chunk of cheese).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A large part or amount of something (a chunk of time).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To break something into chunks or smaller parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In maths, chunking is a way of dividing by taking away groups.↗ Example: He broke off a chunk of chocolate.↗ · We spent a big chunk of the day at the beach.↗ · Chop the carrots into chunks.↗ · Chunk long words into syllables to read them.↗ · Use chunking to divide 96 by 8.↗ · A chunk of ice fell from the roof.↗ · Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of choice meat.↗

chunky — Everyday, meaning 1: Thick, solid and heavy-looking: a chunky jumper, chunky boots.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Containing thick pieces: chunky soup, chunky peanut butter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of a person or animal, informal) Short and broad, with a solid body.↗ Example: Grandma knitted me a chunky woolly jumper.↗ · I like chunky peanut butter with bits of nut.↗ · She wore chunky boots in the snow.↗ · The soup was chunky with carrots and potatoes.↗ · The toddler held a chunky crayon.↗ · The cat is a bit chunky after the holidays.↗

church — Everyday, meaning 1: A church is a building where Christians go to pray and worship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A church is a group of Christians with the same beliefs, like the Catholic Church.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Church can mean the service held there: «We go to church on Sunday.».↗ Example: We walked past the old stone church.↗ · My cousin got married in a church.↗ · They go to church every Sunday.↗ · The church bells rang at noon.↗ · The school concert was in the church hall.↗ · Turn right after the church.↗ · The church has beautiful coloured windows.↗ · There are graves in the churchyard.↗ · "Why, she never goes to church."↗

churchwarden — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A churchwarden is a volunteer in a parish (especially Church of England and Anglican churches) who helps look after the church building, its money and services.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) A long clay pipe for smoking.↗ Example: The churchwarden unlocked the church for the choir.↗ · Mrs Patel is a churchwarden at St Mary's.↗ · The churchwardens counted the collection after the service.↗ · Each parish chooses two churchwardens.↗ · The churchwarden helped fix the leaking roof.↗ · Our churchwarden rings the bell on Sunday mornings.↗

churchyard — Everyday, meaning 1: The land around a church, often with a graveyard where people are buried.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in stories) A quiet, sometimes spooky place with gravestones, trees and old walls.↗ Example: The old yew tree stands in the churchyard.↗ · We read the names on the gravestones in the churchyard.↗ · My great-grandparents are buried in the village churchyard.↗ · The children walked past the dark churchyard at night.↗ · The churchyard wall is covered in moss.↗ · Snowdrops grow in the churchyard in winter.↗ · Now we are in the churchyard.↗

churl — Everyday, meaning 1: A rude, mean, rough man who is unkind and will not do what is fair or good.↗ Example: The churl would not pay the workers what he owed.↗ · "Now, Jack," said the Gray Churl, "you must lose a month's wages."↗ · Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.↗ (Writings PRO.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.33, JPS 1917)↗ · For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food; (Writings PRO.30.22, JPS 1917)↗

churlish — Everyday, meaning 1: Rude, grumpy and unkind in the way one behaves or speaks.↗ Example: It was churlish of him not to say thank you.↗ · Only a churlish farmer would refuse to help.↗

churn — Everyday, meaning 1: A churn is a container in which cream or milk is shaken or stirred to make butter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To churn is to stir or shake milk or cream to make butter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To churn is to move or stir water, mud or earth around violently: «The boat churned up the water.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: If your stomach churns, you feel sick, often from worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To churn out is to make lots of something quickly, often without care.↗ Example: In the old days, people made butter in a wooden churn.↗ · We shook cream in a jar to churn our own butter.↗ · The tractor churned up the muddy field.↗ · The boat's engine churned the water white.↗ · My stomach churned before my turn on stage.↗ · The waves churned around the rocks.↗ · The factory churns out thousands of toys a day.↗ · Farmers carried milk in metal churns.↗ · "This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn.↗ · For the churning of milk bringeth forth curd, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.↗ (Writings PRO.30.33, JPS 1917)↗

churr — Everyday, meaning 1: To churr is to make a low, long, trilling or whirring sound, like a nightjar, a grasshopper or a partridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A churr is that sound.↗ Example: The nightjar churred on the heath at dusk.↗ · We heard the churr of a grasshopper.↗ · A partridge churred in the field.↗ · The insects churred in the warm evening.↗ · The churring went on all night.↗ · Listen for the nightjar's long churr.↗

ci — Everyday, meaning 1: (abbreviation) CI often means «Chief Inspector», a senior police officer in the UK.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (abbreviation, science and maths) CI means «confidence interval», a range of numbers that probably contains the true value.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (abbreviation) The Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey and others) are sometimes written CI; CI is also the code for Côte d'Ivoire.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Mandarin, pinyin) «Cì» means «time» as in «once, twice» (yí cì = once), and «cí» means «word»; it sounds like «tsuh».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Italian) «Ci» means «us» or «there».↗ It is not an English word.↗ Example: The CI arrived at the crime scene.↗ · DCI Smith led the detectives.↗ · The scientists gave a 95% CI for the average height.↗ · In Mandarin, «yí cì» means «once».↗ · We went on holiday to the Channel Islands, written CI on the map.↗ · «Ci vediamo» means «see you» in Italian.↗ · It is worthy ot note that Philo attributes the tirst inven- tion of letters to Abraham iRees, Ci,clopediii, art.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

cicada — Everyday, meaning 1: A cicada is a large insect with clear wings and big eyes that lives in warm places; male cicadas make a very loud buzzing or clicking song in summer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Young cicadas (nymphs) live underground for years, then climb out, shed their skin and become adults.↗ Example: The cicadas sang loudly all through the hot afternoon.↗ · We found an empty cicada shell stuck to the tree.↗ · Periodical cicadas come out every 17 years in some parts of the USA.↗ · Male cicadas make sound with drum-like parts on their bodies.↗ · In Australia, the Green Grocer cicada is bright green.↗ · Cicadas suck sap from trees.↗ · The cicada nymph lived underground for years.↗

cider — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) An alcoholic drink made from the juice of crushed apples, a bit like beer in strength.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA, Canada) Cloudy apple juice that has not been filtered, often drunk hot in autumn; it has no alcohol unless called «hard cider».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A glass or bottle of this drink: «two ciders».↗ Example: We drank hot apple cider at the pumpkin patch.↗ · In Canada, cider at the farm stand is just thick apple juice.↗ · My uncle ordered a pint of cider at the pub.↗ · Cider is for grown-ups in England because it contains alcohol.↗ · The farmer put the apples into the cider press.↗ · Yeast turns the sugar in apple juice into alcohol, and that is how cider is made.↗ · Mum puts a splash of apple cider vinegar in the salad dressing.↗ · The orchard smelt of apples and cider.↗ · Which do you like, canary, St. Julien, champagne, hermitage sack, raisin, or cider?’↗