📖 C — The English dictionary · page 44

cocky — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Too confident and sure of yourself in an annoying or rude way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, informal) A cockatoo, the noisy crested parrot.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Australia, informal) A farmer, especially a small farmer («a cow cocky»).↗ Example: He got cocky after winning and lost the next game.↗ · Don't be so cocky — the test isn't marked yet.↗ · The cocky hare stopped for a nap and the tortoise won.↗ · A flock of cockies screeched in the gum trees.↗ (Australia)↗ · My uncle is a cocky with sheep and wheat.↗ (Australia)↗ · She gave a cocky grin as she crossed the finish line.↗ · “Yes, he is rather cocky,” Wendy admitted with regret.↗

coco — Everyday, meaning 1: The coconut palm, the tall tropical tree that grows coconuts; also short for coconut in words like «coco fibre» and «coco husk».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Coco is a first name or pet name for people and animals, for example the fashion designer Coco Chanel or a pet dog called Coco.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Part of brand and film names, such as the breakfast cereal Coco Pops and the Disney film «Coco» about the Mexican Day of the Dead.↗ Example: The coco palm grows along tropical beaches.↗ · Mum lined the hanging basket with coco fibre.↗ · Our neighbour's poodle is called Coco.↗ · We watched the film «Coco» about a boy and his family's music.↗ · Coco Chanel was a famous French fashion designer.↗ · I had a bowl of Coco Pops before school.↗

cocoa — Everyday, meaning 1: Cocoa is a brown powder made from roasted cacao beans, used to make chocolate drinks and to flavour cakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cocoa is a hot drink made from this powder with milk or water, also called hot chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cocoa beans grow in pods on the cacao tree in hot tropical countries.↗ Example: Mum made us a mug of hot cocoa.↗ · Add two spoons of cocoa powder to the cake mix.↗ · Cocoa beans grow in big pods on trees.↗ · Chocolate is made from cocoa beans.↗ · Most cocoa is grown in West Africa.↗ · Cocoa tastes bitter without sugar.↗ · Fair trade cocoa helps farmers get a fair price.↗ · We drank cocoa by the campfire.↗

coconut — Everyday, meaning 1: A coconut is the large, hard, hairy brown fruit of a palm tree, with white flesh and liquid inside.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coconut is the white flesh used in cooking and sweets.↗ Example: Coconuts grow on palm trees.↗ · We cracked open a coconut and drank the water.↗ · This cake has coconut on top.↗ · A coconut is very hard on the outside.↗ · Coconut milk makes the curry creamy.↗ · Coconuts can float across the ocean.↗ · Don't sit right under a coconut palm; a falling coconut can hurt.↗ · Tall palm trees grew in long rows on the shore and bore coconuts in their top branches.↗

cocoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A cocoon is a silky case that some insect larvae, like moths and silkworms, spin around themselves to change into adults.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cocoon is any soft, warm, safe covering that wraps around someone: «a cocoon of blankets».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cocoon someone is to wrap them up or protect them from the world.↗ Example: The caterpillar spun a cocoon on the branch.↗ · A moth came out of the cocoon.↗ · Silk is made from silkworm cocoons.↗ · I was cocooned in my sleeping bag.↗ · Inside the cocoon, the caterpillar changes completely.↗ · The baby was cocooned in a soft blanket.↗ · Butterflies make a chrysalis, not a cocoon.↗ · Don't open a cocoon; let the insect come out by itself.↗

cod — Everyday, meaning 1: A cod is a large sea fish with white flesh, eaten a lot as food, especially in fish and chips.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, informal) «Cod» before a word means fake or pretend, not real: a cod accent, cod science.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: COD (cash on delivery) means paying when goods are delivered, in some countries.↗ Example: Can I have cod and chips, please?↗ · Cod is a fish with flaky white flesh.↗ · Too much fishing made the cod disappear near Newfoundland.↗ · Grandma made us take cod liver oil in winter.↗ · The fishermen caught three huge cod.↗ · (UK, informal) He put on a cod French accent to make us laugh.↗ · Britain and Iceland once argued about cod fishing.↗ · Choose cod with a label saying it was caught sustainably.↗ · All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter.↗ · Barges''*) quotes, from the Paris Cod.↗ 7()'2 the following passage, which occurs also in the Brit.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

code — Everyday, meaning 1: A code is a system of letters, numbers or signs used to send secret messages.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Code is the instructions written for a computer, and coding is writing them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A code is a set of numbers or letters used to identify or unlock something, like a door code or postcode.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A code is a set of rules: a dress code, a code of conduct.↗ Example: We wrote a secret message in code.↗ · Can you crack my code?↗ · I learned to code a simple game.↗ · The door opens when you type the code.↗ · What is your postcode?↗ · In Morse code, SOS is three dots, three dashes, three dots.↗ · The school has a dress code.↗ · My code had a bug, so I fixed it.↗ · He was a very wise little boy, and he knew that, in Uncle Remus's eyes, he had been guilty of a flagrant violation of the family code.↗

codex — Everyday, meaning 1: An old book written by hand, with pages bound together, especially an ancient or medieval book.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A book of laws or rules (old use).↗ Example: The codex was written by monks on animal skin.↗ · The Maya painted their codices on bark paper.↗ · Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are called codices.↗ · A codex has pages you turn, but a scroll is rolled up.↗ · Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest Bibles.↗

codfish — Everyday, meaning 1: A codfish is a large sea fish that people eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) «Codfish» is an insult for a foolish, dull person, as in «only a codfish».↗ Example: We ate fried codfish for supper.↗ · The captain was furious to be called a codfish.↗ · Fishermen brought in a boat full of codfish.↗

codswallop — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK, Australia, NZ) Nonsense; something that is silly and untrue: «That's a load of codswallop!».↗ Example: «The dog ate my homework?↗ What a load of codswallop!»↗ · Grandad said the advert's promises were utter codswallop.↗ · That story about a monster in the school basement is complete codswallop.↗ · «Codswallop!» shouted the old man at the telly.↗ · Don't believe that codswallop about chocolate making you fly.↗ · The scientist showed that the claim was codswallop by doing a fair test.↗

coelacanth — Everyday, meaning 1: A coelacanth is a large, rare, deep-sea fish with thick fleshy fins, a very old kind of fish once thought to have died out with the dinosaurs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is often called a «living fossil» because it looks much like its fossil relatives from millions of years ago.↗ Example: The coelacanth was thought to be extinct for millions of years.↗ · A fisherman caught a living coelacanth.↗ · Scientists call the coelacanth a living fossil.↗ · Coelacanths live in deep, dark water near caves.↗ · Its fins move a little like legs.↗ · We saw a model coelacanth at the natural history museum.↗

coeliac — Everyday, meaning 1: Coeliac disease is an illness in which eating gluten, found in wheat, barley and rye, damages the gut.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who has coeliac disease.↗ Example: My friend is coeliac, so she eats gluten-free bread.↗ · Coeliac disease damages the gut.↗ · The café has a coeliac-friendly menu.↗ · Check the label for gluten if a coeliac is coming to the party.↗ · He was diagnosed with coeliac disease last year.↗ · Coeliacs must avoid wheat, barley and rye.↗

coercion — Everyday, meaning 1: Making someone do something by using force or threats, so they have no real choice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Pressure that is against the law, such as forcing someone to sign something or controlling someone by threats.↗ Example: He only signed the paper under coercion.↗ · Bullying can include coercion, like "Do this or else".↗ · A promise made under coercion is not a free promise.↗ · The king ruled by coercion, not by kindness.↗ · If someone online pressures you, it is coercion — tell a trusted adult.↗ · Persuasion uses reasons; coercion uses threats.↗

coeval — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Of the same age, or existing at the same time as something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, formal) A person or thing of the same age or time as another.↗ Example: The two castles are roughly coeval, both built around 1100.↗ · The fossil is coeval with the dinosaurs.↗ · Shakespeare's coevals included Christopher Marlowe.↗ · Scientists think the rock layers are coeval.↗ · These tools are coeval with the first farms in Britain.↗ · The two ancient cities were coeval but far apart.↗

coexist — Everyday, meaning 1: To live or exist together at the same time and in the same place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To live together peacefully even though you are different.↗ Example: Lions and zebras coexist on the savannah.↗ · People of many faiths coexist in our town.↗ · Can cats and dogs coexist in one house?↗ · Two ideas can coexist in your mind.↗ · The old and new buildings coexist in the city.↗ · Countries must learn to coexist peacefully.↗

coffee — Everyday, meaning 1: Coffee is a hot dark-brown drink made from the roasted and ground seeds (beans) of the coffee plant.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coffee is also the beans or powder used to make the drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A coffee is one cup of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Coffee can mean a light brown colour.↗ Example: Mum drinks a cup of coffee every morning.↗ · Coffee is too bitter for me.↗ · Can I have two coffees, please?↗ · Coffee beans grow on bushes in hot countries.↗ · Keep hot coffee away from the baby.↗ · We met Grandad in a coffee shop.↗ · Put your book on the coffee table.↗ · Coffee has caffeine, which keeps people awake.↗ · In it I read that you were in warm lands where the coffee-tree grows.↗

coffer — Everyday, meaning 1: A coffer is a large, strong chest or box with a lid, used to keep money, gold or treasure safe.↗ Example: The pirates lifted the heavy coffer onto the cart.↗ · Mum keeps the family's old letters in a wooden coffer.↗ · Don't open the coffer until you get home.↗ · And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.↗ (Prophets 1SA.6.11, JPS 1917)↗

coffin — Everyday, meaning 1: A long box in which a dead person is buried or cremated.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (idiom) A nail in the coffin: something that helps to end or ruin something.↗ Example: The coffin was carried into the church.↗ · Egyptian mummies were placed in painted coffins.↗ · In the story, the vampire climbed out of his coffin.↗ · (idiom) Losing their best player was the final nail in the coffin for the team.↗ · The family put flowers on the coffin.↗ · Grandad's coffin was made of oak.↗ · Says the father-in-law from his coffin:↗ · And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.50.26, JPS 1917)↗

cog — Everyday, meaning 1: A cog is one of the teeth around the edge of a wheel in a machine; a whole wheel with teeth is also called a cog or cogwheel (gear).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) «A cog in the machine» is a person who has a small part in a big organisation and feels unimportant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, slang) In some places, «to cog» means to copy someone's homework.↗ Example: The clock's cogs turned slowly behind the glass.↗ · When the big cog turns once, the small cog turns three times.↗ · A missing tooth on the cog jammed the machine.↗ · You could see the cogs turning in his head as he worked out the puzzle.↗ · He felt like a tiny cog in a huge company.↗ · We built a cog model from cardboard and pins.↗ · The bike's chain runs over cogs at the back wheel.↗

cogent — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Clear, logical and convincing (a cogent argument, a cogent reason).↗ Example: She gave a cogent argument for a longer lunch break.↗ · The lawyer's case was clear and cogent.↗ · Use evidence to make your essay cogent.↗ · He had no cogent reason for being late.↗ · The scientist presented cogent evidence for her theory.↗ · A cogent speech uses facts, not just feelings.↗

cognition — Everyday, meaning 1: (science, formal) The mental processes of knowing, thinking, learning, remembering and understanding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The ability to think and understand.↗ Example: Sleep is important for good cognition.↗ · Scientists study the cognition of clever animals like crows.↗ · Puzzles and reading exercise your cognition.↗ · Animal cognition experiments show dolphins recognise themselves in mirrors.↗ · The doctor checked Grandma's cognition with memory questions.↗ · Cognition includes attention, memory and reasoning.↗

cognizance — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Awareness or notice of something.↗ To "take cognizance" is to notice it and pay attention.↗ Example: And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.↗ (Torah EXO.2.25, JPS 1917)↗ · I will be glad and rejoice in Thy lovingkindness; for Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast taken cognizance of the troubles of my soul, (Writings PSA.31.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?'↗ (Writings RUT.2.10, JPS 1917)↗

cohabit — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To cohabit is to live together in the same home as a couple without being married.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To cohabit can mean to live or exist together in the same place: «Many species cohabit in the rainforest».↗ Example: Her parents cohabited for years before they married.↗ · Lions and zebras cohabit on the same plains.↗ · The form asks if you cohabit with a partner.↗ · Different birds cohabit in the old tree.↗ · Many couples now cohabit.↗ · The two cats cohabit peacefully.↗