📖 C — The English dictionary · page 39

clinic — Everyday, meaning 1: A clinic is a place where people go to see a doctor, nurse or other health worker, usually without staying overnight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clinic is a session where experts give advice or teach skills, as in a football clinic or homework clinic.↗ Example: I had my injection at the clinic.↗ · The vet's clinic is open until seven.↗ · Mum took the baby to the health clinic.↗ · The clinic sees 12 patients an hour; how many in 5 hours?↗ · Our club runs a free tennis clinic.↗ · The dental clinic sent a reminder about my check-up.↗

clinical — Everyday, meaning 1: Clinical means to do with treating patients in hospitals or clinics: «a clinical trial».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clinical means cold, very clean and plain, without warmth: «The room looked clinical».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clinical means calm, efficient and without feeling: «a clinical finish» in football.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (medical) Clinical depression is a serious illness diagnosed by a doctor.↗ Example: The medicine is being tested in clinical trials.↗ · The striker gave a clinical finish to win the game.↗ · The white room looked cold and clinical.↗ · Doctors and nurses do clinical work.↗ · He spoke in a clinical voice with no feeling.↗ · This cream is clinically proven to help dry skin.↗

clinically — Everyday, meaning 1: Clinically means in a medical way, as judged by doctors examining patients: «clinically tested», «clinically proven».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clinically can mean in a cold, calm, unemotional way, like a hospital.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport, informal) Clinically means very efficiently and accurately: «He finished clinically.».↗ Example: The cream has been clinically tested on sensitive skin.↗ · Doctors said the boy was clinically well and could go home.↗ · The advert said the toothpaste was «clinically proven», but we wanted to see the evidence.↗ · The room was clinically clean and white.↗ · She explained the facts clinically, without any emotion.↗ · The striker finished clinically into the corner of the net.↗ · Clinically depressed means a doctor has diagnosed depression.↗

clink — Everyday, meaning 1: A clink is a short, light ringing sound, like glasses touching or coins falling.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To clink is to make that sound, or to touch glasses together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «The clink» is an old slang word for prison.↗ Example: The coins clink in the jar.↗ · We heard 5 clinks.↗ · The glasses clinked.↗ · Each coin made a clink.↗ · The ice clinked in her glass of lemonade.↗ · Everyone clinked glasses to wish Grandad a happy birthday.↗ · I heard the clink of keys at the door.↗ · The thief ended up in the clink.↗ · Donald held his peace, but after a while he heard the glasses clink, and Hudden singing away at the top of his voice.↗

clip — Everyday, meaning 1: A clip is a small object that holds things together or in place: a paper clip, a hair clip.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To clip means to fasten with a clip: clip the badge onto your coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To clip means to cut small bits off with scissors or clippers: clip the hedge, clip your nails.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A clip is a short piece of a film or video.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To clip means to hit lightly at the edge: the car clipped the kerb.↗ Example: Hold the pages together with a paper clip.↗ · She wore a butterfly clip in her hair.↗ · We watched a short clip of a volcano erupting.↗ · Clip the wires to the battery with crocodile clips.↗ · Dad clipped the hedge in the garden.↗ · Make sure your helmet strap is clipped under your chin.↗ · The bike clipped the edge of the pavement.↗ · Was it not enough to clip off the end of my beard?↗

clipboard — Everyday, meaning 1: A flat board with a metal clip at the top that holds sheets of paper, so you can write while standing or walking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computers) The hidden place in a computer or phone that stores what you have copied or cut until you paste it.↗ Example: Each group took a clipboard on the minibeast hunt.↗ · We did a traffic survey with tally marks on our clipboards.↗ · The coach held a clipboard with the team list.↗ · Press Ctrl and C to copy the text to the clipboard.↗ · The clipboard keeps only the last thing you copied.↗ · A woman with a clipboard asked us questions about the park.↗

clipped — Everyday, meaning 1: Clipped is the past form of «clip»: cut something short or neat with scissors or clippers (clipped the hedge, clipped his nails).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clipped also means fastened with a clip (clipped the papers together).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clipped means hit something lightly or quickly on the edge.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A clipped voice or way of speaking is short, quick and rather unfriendly.↗ Example: Dad clipped the hedge in the front garden.↗ · The vet clipped the dog's nails.↗ · She clipped her name badge onto her jumper.↗ · The papers were clipped together.↗ · The ball clipped the top of the bar and went over.↗ · «Fine,» she said in a clipped voice.↗ · The bird's wings had been clipped so it could not fly away.↗ · Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings.↗ · For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.↗ (Prophets JER.48.37, JPS 1917)↗

clipper — Everyday, meaning 1: Clippers are a tool for cutting hair, nails or hedges.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clipper was a fast sailing ship in the 1800s.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A clipper can be anything that clips or holds things.↗ Example: The barber used clippers to cut my hair.↗ · Mum trimmed my nails with nail clippers.↗ · Dad cut the hedge with clippers.↗ · The clipper ship sailed fast across the ocean.↗ · The Cutty Sark is a famous clipper.↗ · Be careful, the clippers are sharp.↗

clipping — Everyday, meaning 1: A clipping is an article or picture cut out of a newspaper or magazine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clippings are small pieces cut off something, such as grass, hair or nails.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clipping is the -ing form of «clip»: cutting something short, or fastening with a clip.↗ Example: Mum kept a newspaper clipping about my football team.↗ · We glued magazine clippings onto our poster.↗ · Put the grass clippings in the compost bin.↗ · Dad is clipping the hedge.↗ · There were hair clippings all over the barber's floor.↗ · She is clipping the pages together.↗

cloak — Everyday, meaning 1: A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the shoulders and is fastened at the neck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that covers or hides: «under a cloak of darkness».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To cover or hide something: «The hills were cloaked in mist.».↗ Example: The wizard swirled his long black cloak.↗ · The thieves escaped under cloak of darkness.↗ · The mountains were cloaked in fog.↗ · Little Red Riding Hood wore a red cloak with a hood.↗ · Hang your coats in the cloakroom.↗ · It was a cloak-and-dagger mission.↗ · He wore a bearskin dress and cloak.↗ · the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917)↗ · For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, and their robes, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.↗ (Writings DAN.3.21, JPS 1917)↗

cloakroom — Everyday, meaning 1: A cloakroom is a room where you can leave coats, bags and umbrellas, for example in a school or theatre.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, polite euphemism) A cloakroom can mean a toilet: «the ladies' cloakroom».↗ Example: Hang your coat in the cloakroom.↗ · My PE bag is in the cloakroom.↗ · We left our umbrellas at the theatre cloakroom.↗ · The cloakroom ticket was number 42.↗ · Excuse me, where is the cloakroom?↗ · The cloakroom was full of wet wellies.↗

cloche — Everyday, meaning 1: (gardening) A glass or plastic cover shaped like a bell or a small tunnel, put over young plants to protect them from cold and pests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A close-fitting, bell-shaped woman's hat, popular in the 1920s.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (cooking) A dome-shaped cover put over a plate of food to keep it warm.↗ Example: We put a cloche over the lettuce seedlings to keep the frost off.↗ · A plastic bottle cut in half makes a good cloche.↗ · The waiter lifted the silver cloche with a flourish.↗ · In the 1920s photo, she wore a little cloche hat.↗ · The cloche traps heat like a tiny greenhouse.↗ · Slugs couldn't get to the plants under the cloche.↗

clock — Everyday, meaning 1: A clock is a machine that shows the time, on a wall or a table.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: O'clock names an exact hour: «three o'clock».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To clock is to measure a time or a speed: «She clocked 12 seconds».↗ Example: A film starts at 3 o'clock and lasts 2 hours.↗ · The shop opens at 9 o'clock and closes at 5 o'clock.↗ · It is 11 o'clock.↗ What time will it be in 3 hours?↗ · My alarm clock rings at 7.↗ · The clock on the wall is 5 minutes slow.↗ · Turn the lid clockwise to close it.↗ · Nurses work around the clock.↗ · We raced against the clock to finish.↗ · It was two o'clock in the morning.↗

clockmaker — Everyday, meaning 1: A clockmaker is a person who makes and repairs clocks.↗ Example: The clockmaker fixed Grandad's old clock.↗ · In the story, the clockmaker built a mechanical bird.↗ · A clockmaker uses tiny tools and gears.↗ · The village clockmaker had a shop full of ticking.↗ · She dreamed of becoming a clockmaker.↗ · The clockmaker set the pendulum swinging.↗

clockwise — Everyday, meaning 1: Clockwise means moving round in the same direction as the hands of a clock: from the top to the right, down, to the left and back up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The opposite is anticlockwise (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) or counterclockwise (US, Canada).↗ Example: Turn the shape a quarter turn clockwise.↗ · The children walked clockwise round the circle.↗ · Turn the lid clockwise to close the jar.↗ · If you face north and turn 90° clockwise, you face east.↗ · The hands of a clock always move clockwise.↗ · Stir the mixture clockwise, then the other way.↗

clockwork — Everyday, meaning 1: Clockwork is the set of springs and wheels inside a clock or toy that makes it move when wound up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clockwork means a toy that runs on such springs, not on batteries: a clockwork mouse.↗ Example: The clockwork mouse ran across the floor.↗ · Wind the clockwork toy to start it.↗ · The clockwork bird sang waltzes.↗

clod — Everyday, meaning 1: A lump of earth or soil, often large and hard: a clod of earth.↗ Example: The boy threw a clod at the bird.↗ · The field was full of clods of earth.↗ · He hit the big fellow so hard that he kissed the clod.↗ · When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?↗ (Writings JOB.38.38, JPS 1917)↗ · My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.↗ (Writings JOB.7.5, JPS 1917)↗ · The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.↗ (Writings JOB.21.33, JPS 1917)↗

clog — Everyday, meaning 1: A clog is a heavy shoe with a thick wooden sole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To clog something is to block it so things cannot pass through.↗ e.g. Hair clogged the drain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To clog up means to become blocked.↗ Example: The sink is clogged with food.↗ · Leaves clogged the gutter.↗ · Traffic clogged the roads to the beach.↗ · Dutch dancers wore wooden clogs.↗ · Don't pour fat down the drain or it will clog.↗ · My nose is all clogged up with a cold.↗ · He slipped off his clogs and entered the cottage.↗

cloister — Everyday, meaning 1: A cloister is a covered walk with arches around an open square inside a church or monastery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A cloister is a place where monks or nuns live apart from the world.↗ Example: This was the cloister of the nuns.↗ · The arched cloisters were covered with sand.↗ · He went into the cloister to pray and study.↗ · Some monks walked slowly round the cloister.↗

clomb — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Went up something, using hands and feet.↗ Example: [Illustration: THE GLASSY HILL I CLOMB FOR THEE]↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · “I cleaned the stable, I laved the lake, and I clomb the tree, And all for the love of thee, And thou wilt not waken and speak to me.”↗ (English Fairy Tales)

clon — Everyday, meaning 1: «Clon» is not an English word on its own.↗ It is usually a piece of a longer word such as «clone», «cyclone» or «colon», cut off in the middle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In Irish place names «Clon-» (from Irish «cluain», a meadow) begins names such as Clonmel and Clontarf.↗ Example: «Clon» is the start of «clone».↗ · A cyclone is a giant spinning storm.↗ · Clonmel is a town in County Tipperary.↗ · Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.↗ · The game lets you clone your character.↗ · We drove through Clontarf on the way to Dublin.↗

clone — Everyday, meaning 1: A living thing that is an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made naturally or by scientists.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make such a copy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Something or someone that is very like another: a cheap clone of a famous game.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computing) To make an exact copy of a disk, phone or code project.↗ Example: Dolly the sheep was a clone.↗ · A cutting from a plant grows into a clone of the parent.↗ · Identical twins are a bit like natural clones.↗ · Scientists cloned a mouse in a laboratory.↗ · This game is a clone of a famous one.↗ · We cloned the code from the website.↗ · Criminals cloned his bank card, so he called the bank.↗