📖 C — The English dictionary · page 41

clove — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, dried, nail-shaped flower bud used as a strong-smelling spice, for example in cooking, mulled drinks and Christmas oranges.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One small section of a bulb of garlic: «a clove of garlic».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Past tense of «cleave» (to split): «He clove the log in two.».↗ Example: Add two cloves of garlic to the sauce.↗ · We pushed cloves into an orange to make a pomander.↗ · Cloves smell warm and spicy.↗ · Grandma rubbed clove oil on her sore tooth.↗ · Ships sailed far to buy cloves and nutmeg.↗ · One bulb of garlic has about ten cloves.↗ · I took them gratefully, and as we went from one island to another I laid in stores of cloves, cinnamon, and other spices.↗

cloven — Everyday, meaning 1: Split into two parts, especially a hoof divided into two toes («cloven hoof»), as on cows, sheep, goats, pigs and deer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, literary) Split or cut apart by a strong blow.↗ Example: Deer have cloven hooves.↗ · The pig's cloven hoof left a two-part print in the mud.↗ · Horses do not have cloven hooves; their hooves are solid.↗ · In the story, the stranger's boots hid cloven hooves.↗ · Sheep and goats are cloven-hoofed animals.↗ · The Bible's food laws speak of animals with a divided hoof that chew the cud.↗ · The sea washes away the blood that has flowed from the cloven skulls.↗ · 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)↗ · And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof wholly cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye may eat.↗ (Torah DEU.14.6, JPS 1917)↗

clover — Everyday, meaning 1: Clover is a small wild plant with leaves made of three round parts, and small white, pink or purple flower heads.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A four-leaf clover is a rare clover leaf with four parts, said to bring good luck.↗ Example: Bees were buzzing over the clover.↗ · I found a four-leaf clover in the playground!↗ · The cows grazed in a field of clover.↗ · Clover leaves usually have three parts.↗ · We made a chain from clover flowers.↗ · Some people believe a four-leaf clover brings luck.↗ · After winning the prize, they were living in clover.↗

clown — Everyday, meaning 1: A clown is a performer in a circus or at a party who wears funny clothes, big shoes and face paint and does silly things to make people laugh.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A clown is a person who often acts silly or makes jokes, like the class clown.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude) Calling someone a clown can be an insult meaning they are stupid or useless.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To clown or clown around is to behave in a silly way to make people laugh.↗ Example: The clown had a red nose and enormous floppy shoes.↗ · We hired a clown for my little brother's birthday party.↗ · Jake is the class clown and always makes us giggle.↗ · Stop clowning around and finish your work!↗ · That driver cut in front of us — what a clown!↗ · Some children are scared of clowns.↗ · Three clowns climbed out of one tiny car.↗ · The clown juggled four balls and dropped every one.↗

club — Everyday, meaning 1: A club is a group of people who meet to do something they like, such as reading, chess or a sport.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A club is a heavy stick used to hit, or a golf club used to hit a golf ball.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clubs is one of the four suits in a pack of cards, with a black clover shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To club together means to put money together to buy something.↗ Example: The chess club has 18 members.↗ · 5 new children joined the club.↗ · The club fee is 10 dollars a month.↗ · 12 pupils are in both clubs.↗ · I go to the after-school art club on Tuesdays.↗ · The giant waved his club.↗ · She hit the golf ball with her club.↗ · We clubbed together to buy our teacher a present.↗ · You will hear our glee-club this evening.↗

clubhouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A clubhouse is a building used by a sports club or other club, with changing rooms, a meeting room or a café.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clubhouse is also a den or small hut that children use as a secret club place, like a treehouse.↗ Example: We had lunch at the tennis clubhouse.↗ · Our team changes in the clubhouse before the match.↗ · We built a clubhouse in the garden from old boards.↗ · You need the password to enter our clubhouse.↗ · The cricket clubhouse has photos of old teams.↗ · Dad waited in the clubhouse while I played golf.↗ · The clubhouse was full of muddy boots.↗ · Our clubhouse has a sign that says «Members Only».↗

cluck — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) When a hen clucks, she makes her short, low, repeated sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) That sound a hen makes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To make a clicking sound with your tongue to show you disapprove, are sorry or are worried: «Mum clucked her tongue».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To fuss over someone in a worried, caring way, like a mother hen: «cluck over the baby».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun, slang, US, old) A silly or stupid person: «You dumb cluck!».↗ Example: The hens clucked happily in the farmyard.↗ · We heard a cluck from inside the henhouse.↗ · Gran clucked her tongue when she saw my muddy shoes.↗ · The aunties clucked over the new baby all afternoon.↗ · Cluck, cluck, went the chicken as it pecked the corn.↗ · The teacher clucked sympathetically when I told her about my lost dog.↗ · In the old cartoon, the sailor called his friend a dumb cluck.↗ · “No, no!” clucked the elder bird.↗

clue — Everyday, meaning 1: A clue is a piece of information that helps you solve a mystery, puzzle or problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clue is a hint given in a puzzle or crossword.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Not have a clue» means not to know anything about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An old word for a ball of thread or string, which can be thrown or unwound to find your way.↗ Example: The detective found a clue under the window.↗ · Here's a clue: it is yellow and you can eat it.↗ · Use clues in the picture to guess the word.↗ · I haven't got a clue where my shoe is.↗ · We followed the clues on the treasure hunt.↗ · Muddy footprints were the main clue.↗ · Read the crossword clue again.↗

clump — Everyday, meaning 1: A clump is a small group of plants or trees growing close together: «a clump of daisies».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clump is a lump or mass of something stuck together: «a clump of hair», «clumps of mud».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To clump, or clump together, means to stick together in lumps or gather in a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To clump means to walk with slow, heavy, noisy steps: «He clumped up the stairs in his boots».↗ Example: A clump of bluebells grew under the tree.↗ · The cat left a clump of fur on the sofa.↗ · Stir the porridge so it doesn't clump.↗ · The children clumped together to keep warm.↗ · We heard Dad clumping upstairs in his wellies.↗ · Clumps of mud fell off my football boots.↗ · The rabbits hid in a clump of long grass.↗ · But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the Wolf!↗

clumping — Everyday, meaning 1: Walking with slow, heavy, noisy steps (clumping up the stairs).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gathering together into a tight group or lumps (wet flour clumping, trees clumping together).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun «clump») A group of plants growing close together, or a lump of something.↗ Example: He came clumping down the stairs in his big boots.↗ · The giant went clumping through the woods.↗ · The wet sand kept clumping together.↗ · Stir the flour well to stop it clumping.↗ · Daffodils were growing in a clump by the gate.↗ · The horses went clumping along the lane.↗ · The cattle stood clumping together for warmth.↗ · The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a multitude that adored him and hailed him with tears.↗

clumsily — Everyday, meaning 1: Clumsily means in an awkward, careless way, so that you knock things over, drop things or move badly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clumsily means said or done without skill or tact, so that it sounds awkward or rude.↗ Example: He clumsily knocked over the paint pot.↗ · The puppy ran clumsily across the slippery floor.↗ · She clumsily tried to say sorry.↗ · This sentence is clumsily written; try making it shorter.↗ · The baby walked clumsily on her first steps.↗ · He clumsily spilled juice all over his homework.↗ · He baited his hook and then threw it into the sea clumsily.↗

clumsiness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being clumsy: moving in an awkward, careless way so that you drop, bump into or break things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Saying or doing things in an awkward, unskilful way that can upset people.↗ Example: Through clumsiness, I knocked my juice over.↗ · His clumsiness made him trip on the stairs.↗ · Carrying too much at once often leads to clumsiness.↗ · She laughed at her own clumsiness.↗ · Puppies are full of clumsiness when they are young.↗ · Tiredness can cause clumsiness, so be careful with knives.↗ · The new boy's clumsiness with words made him shy.↗

clumsy — Everyday, meaning 1: A clumsy person moves in an awkward, careless way, and often drops, bumps or breaks things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clumsy thing is big, heavy and hard to use or move.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clumsy words or actions are not done well or sensitively: «a clumsy apology».↗ Example: I'm so clumsy — I knocked over my drink again.↗ · The clumsy puppy tripped over its own paws.↗ · My fingers felt clumsy in the thick gloves.↗ · The giant was big and clumsy.↗ · That's a clumsy sentence; try to make it shorter.↗ · He made a clumsy attempt to say sorry.↗ · The old wardrobe was too clumsy to carry upstairs.↗ · Be careful, don't be clumsy with the glass bowl.↗ · “‘I wonder if that farmer thought to fool me in this clumsy manner.↗

clunky — Everyday, meaning 1: Big, heavy and awkward, not smooth or neat to use, like clunky old shoes or a clunky machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of writing, computer programs) Awkward and not well put together.↗ Example: Grandad's old phone is clunky and heavy.↗ · She wore clunky boots to the party.↗ · This sentence is clunky; try making it shorter.↗ · The website is clunky and hard to use.↗ · The robot moved in a clunky way.↗ · The clunky old lift rattled up the shaft.↗

cluster — Everyday, meaning 1: A cluster is a group of similar things close together, like a cluster of grapes or stars.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cluster means to gather or stay close together in a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (language) A consonant cluster is a group of consonant letters together in a word, like «str» in «string».↗ Example: A cluster of grapes hung from the vine.↗ · The Pleiades is a famous star cluster.↗ · Children clustered around the teacher's desk.↗ · The dots on the graph form a cluster.↗ · «Spl» in «splash» is a consonant cluster.↗ · Mushrooms grew in clusters on the log.↗ · A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.↗ · That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. — (Torah NUM.13.24, JPS 1917)↗ · and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, (Torah GEN.40.10, JPS 1917)↗ · For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter; (Torah DEU.32.32, JPS 1917)↗ · My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna in the vineyards of En-gedi.↗ (Writings SNG.1.14, JPS 1917)↗ · This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.↗ (Writings SNG.7.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth.↗ (Prophets MIC.7.1, JPS 1917)↗

clutch — Everyday, meaning 1: To hold something tightly, often because you are afraid, in pain or don't want to lose it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To try to grab something quickly («clutch at the rope»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A pedal in a car (and a lever on a motorbike) used to change gears.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A group of eggs laid at one time by a bird, or a group of chicks; also a small group of things.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun) In «in someone's clutches»: in someone's power or control.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (slang, especially US) Very good at doing well in a tense, important moment («a clutch shot»).↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (noun) A small handbag with no handle, held in the hand.↗ Example: She clutched her mum's hand in the dark corridor.↗ · He was clutching a crumpled five-pound note.↗ · The duck sat on a clutch of eight eggs.↗ · Press the clutch before you change gear.↗ · The princess was in the witch's clutches.↗ · That last-second basket was so clutch!↗ · He clutched his stomach and groaned.↗ · Don't clutch at straws — just admit you forgot.↗ · But he stretched out his arm and clutched wildly at the mane and pulled himself into the saddle.↗