📖 C — The English dictionary · page 45

cohabitation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Cohabitation is living together as a couple without being married.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Cohabitation is living together in the same place: «the cohabitation of different species».↗ Example: Cohabitation has become more common.↗ · The report looked at marriage and cohabitation.↗ · The cohabitation of cats and dogs in our house is peaceful.↗ · Laws about cohabitation are different in each country.↗ · The zoo studied the cohabitation of the animals.↗ · Their cohabitation lasted ten years.↗

cohere — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To stick together or form a whole that fits together.↗

cohesion — Everyday, meaning 1: Cohesion is how well the parts of something stick or hold together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Cohesion is the pull between particles of the same kind, such as water molecules sticking to each other.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (writing) Cohesion is how well sentences and paragraphs link together so the writing flows.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Social cohesion is when people in a group or country get on and work together.↗ Example: Water drops form because of cohesion between water molecules.↗ · Use linking words to give your writing cohesion.↗ · The team's cohesion helped them win.↗ · Pond skaters walk on water thanks to cohesion.↗ · The essay lacks cohesion; the ideas jump around.↗ · Festivals can build community cohesion.↗

cohesive — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Sticking together well and forming a united whole.↗

cohort — Everyday, meaning 1: A cohort is a group of people who have something in common, such as the same age or starting school together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A cohort is a group of people studied together in research.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) A cohort was a unit of soldiers in the Roman army, of about 480 men.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A cohort can mean a supporter or companion of someone.↗ Example: This year's cohort of pupils did well in the tests.↗ (formal)↗ · A Roman cohort had six centuries of soldiers.↗ · The study followed a cohort of 800 children.↗ · The new cohort of nurses started training today.↗ · The cohort has 90 pupils in 3 classes, so 30 in each.↗ · The villain arrived with his cohorts.↗ (informal)↗

coil — Everyday, meaning 1: A series of rings or loops made by winding something long (a coil of rope).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One ring of such a series.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A wire wound in rings that carries electricity, as in a heater or electromagnet.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To wind something into rings, or to lie in rings (The snake coiled up).↗ Example: The snake lay in a coil on the rock.↗ · Wind the rope into a neat coil.↗ · More coils of wire make the electromagnet stronger.↗ · The kettle has a heating coil inside.↗ · The cat's tail coiled around its paws.↗ · A spring is a metal coil.↗ · And the boy could reef a sail and coil a rope and keep the ship's nose steady before the wind.↗

coiled — Everyday, meaning 1: Coiled means wound into rings or circles, one on top of another, like a spring or a rope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coiled is the past form of «coil»: wound something into loops.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Coiled can describe a body or muscle held tight, ready to move suddenly.↗ Example: The snake lay coiled on a warm rock.↗ · Dad coiled the garden hose after watering the plants.↗ · The rope was coiled neatly on the deck.↗ · A coiled wire makes the electromagnet stronger.↗ · Her hair was coiled into a bun.↗ · The cat was coiled, ready to pounce.↗ · The vine coiled around the fence.↗ · Thereupon he rushed at the Prince, brandishing an immense serpent which was coiled about his wrist.↗

coin — Everyday, meaning 1: A coin is a small, flat, round piece of metal used as money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To toss a coin is to throw it up and see if it lands on heads or tails.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To coin a word is to make up a new word.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To be paid in your own coin means to be treated back in the same way that you treated others.↗ Example: She has 8 coins worth 5 cents each.↗ · He has 3 quarters and 2 dimes.↗ How many coins?↗ · Toss a coin 10 times.↗ · The jar holds 120 coins.↗ · She put a coin in her piggy bank.↗ · We tossed a coin to see who goes first.↗ · A pound coin is gold-coloured.↗ · Old Roman coins were found in the field.↗ · Those who try to deceive may expect to be paid in their own coin.↗ · The root ספ״ר is also utilized to coin the novel metaphysical term סְפִירוֹת Sefirot, on which see SY 1:2 below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

coinage — Everyday, meaning 1: The coins used in a country; its system of money (decimal coinage).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making coins.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A new word or phrase that someone has invented, or inventing new words.↗ Example: The museum shows old Roman coinage.↗ · Decimal coinage uses 100 pennies to a pound or 100 cents to a dollar.↗ · «Brunch» is a coinage from «breakfast» and «lunch».↗ · The king controlled the coinage.↗ · Gold was once used in coinage.↗ · The writer was famous for her clever coinages.↗

coincide — Everyday, meaning 1: To happen at the same time as something else (My birthday coincides with the holiday).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be the same or agree (Our ideas coincide).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To be in the same place or cover the same space; in maths, shapes or lines that coincide lie exactly on top of each other.↗ Example: The match coincided with my piano lesson.↗ · Our views on the trip coincide.↗ · Fold the paper so the corners coincide.↗ · The two lines coincide, so they have every point in common.↗ · The festival coincides with the full moon.↗ · Her arrival coincided with the rain.↗

coincidence — Everyday, meaning 1: When two things happen at the same time or in a surprising way by chance, without being planned (What a coincidence!).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths, formal) The fact of two things being in the same place or the same.↗ Example: What a coincidence — we have the same birthday!↗ · By coincidence, we were on the same train.↗ · It was pure coincidence that we wore the same shirt.↗ · It's no coincidence that he's tired; he stayed up late.↗ · A pattern in three numbers might be a coincidence.↗ · Scientists test many times to rule out coincidence.↗

coition — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.↗ Example: walking, seeing, hearing, working, coition, smelling, sleep, anger, swallowing and laughing.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

coke — Everyday, meaning 1: Coke (with a capital C) is short for Coca-Cola, a fizzy drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coke is a solid fuel made from coal by heating it without air; it burns very hot and is used in steel-making.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang) Coke is a short name for cocaine, an illegal and dangerous drug.↗ Example: Can I have a Coke with my burger?↗ · A can of Coke has a lot of sugar.↗ · In the old ironworks, coke was burned in huge furnaces.↗ · Coke is made by heating coal without air.↗ · The police found drugs, including coke, in the car.↗ (slang)↗ · We bought 6 cans of Coke at 80p each, which cost £4.80.↗

col — Everyday, meaning 1: (geography) The lowest point on a ridge between two mountain peaks, often used as a pass to cross the mountains.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (abbreviation) Col. is short for Colonel, an army officer's rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (abbreviation) col. is short for column, in tables and newspapers.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In some dialect writing, col' is a spelling of cold.↗ Example: We climbed up to the col between the two peaks.↗ · The road crosses the mountains at a high col.↗ · The cyclists raced over the Col du Tourmalet.↗ · Col. Smith commanded the regiment.↗ · Look at col. 3 in the table for the totals.↗ · Snow often lies in the col until summer.↗

cola — Everyday, meaning 1: A sweet, fizzy, brown soft drink, flavoured partly with the kola nut and usually containing caffeine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The cola tree, a tropical tree whose nuts were first used for the flavour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cola can also be a first name for a boy or a man.↗ Example: Cola has lots of sugar and caffeine.↗ · We dropped mints into the cola and it fizzed out.↗ · Water is a better drink than cola.↗ · Two colas and a lemonade, please.↗ · The bubbles in cola are carbon dioxide gas.↗ · A can of cola can have 9 teaspoons of sugar.↗ · Leave a tooth in cola, and the acid slowly softens it.↗ · Grandpa likes a glass of cola with ice.↗ · When the King heard this, he told Cola-Mattheo to bring the snake to the palace, and said that he was prepared to receive the creature as his son-in-law.↗

colander — Everyday, meaning 1: A colander is a kitchen bowl full of small holes, used for draining water from food such as pasta or for washing vegetables.↗ Example: Mum drained the spaghetti in a colander.↗ · I washed the strawberries in the colander.↗ · Water ran out through the holes of the colander.↗ · We used a colander to separate the peas from the water.↗ · Grandma's colander is made of metal.↗ · Put the colander in the sink before you pour.↗

cold — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a low temperature; not warm.↗ e.g. "cold water".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feeling that your body is not warm enough.↗ e.g. "I'm cold."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An illness that gives you a runny nose, sneezes and a sore throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Not friendly or kind.↗ e.g. "a cold look".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: "The cold" means cold weather.↗ Example: It is cold outside, so wear a coat.↗ · I caught a cold and stayed home.↗ · The milk is in the cold fridge.↗ · Cold air sinks and warm air rises.↗ · Cover your mouth when you sneeze with a cold.↗ · Water turns to ice when it gets very cold.↗ · She gave me a cold look.↗ · Snakes are cold-blooded animals.↗ · Oh, how cold the water is!↗ · While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'↗ (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Heat was created from Fire, and cold from Water, and satiation from Wind deciding between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · He caused Mem to predominate in Water, and crowned it, and combined it with others, and formed Earth on the world, cold in the year, and the fruit of the womb in mankind, being carried in the belly.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.↗ (Writings JOB.37.9, JPS 1917)↗ · He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?↗ (Writings PSA.147.17, JPS 1917)↗ · They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.↗ (Writings JOB.24.7, JPS 1917)↗

coldly — Everyday, meaning 1: In an unfriendly way, without warmth or kindness.↗ Example: "I don't need your help," she said coldly.↗ · The guard stared coldly at the visitors.↗ · He coldly ignored my wave.↗ · The queen smiled coldly.↗ · The shopkeeper answered coldly and turned away.↗ · “Father, I am waiting,” said Michael coldly.↗

coldness — Everyday, meaning 1: Coldness is the state of being cold, having a low temperature («the coldness of the water»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coldness is unfriendly behaviour: not showing warmth, kindness or interest towards someone.↗ Example: The coldness of the sea took my breath away.↗ · I could feel the coldness of the stone floor.↗ · Her coldness hurt his feelings.↗ · He spoke with coldness after the argument.↗ · The coldness of the wind made our ears ache.↗ · The new girl's coldness was really shyness.↗ · After the fight there was a coldness between the friends.↗ · As the sun set, an icy coldness filled all nature, not however of long duration.↗ · The three mothers א״מ״ש produce in the year [27]: heat, coldness [28] and moistness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Heat was created from fire, coldness from water, and moistness from air which equalizes them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 28) In ancient times coldness was considered to be a substance.↗ [See Psalm 147, 17.]↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

cole — Everyday, meaning 1: Cole is an old word for cabbage and the plants in the cabbage family, such as kale.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the first part of the word «coleslaw», a salad of shredded raw cabbage and carrot with mayonnaise.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cole is also a first name and a surname.↗ Example: We had coleslaw with our burgers.↗ · Farmers once grew cole to feed cattle.↗ · Cole is my best friend's name.↗ · Coleslaw is made from shredded cabbage.↗ · Kale belongs to the cole family.↗ · Cole sat next to me in maths.↗

colic — Everyday, meaning 1: Colic is bad pain in the tummy, especially when a young baby cries for a long time for no clear reason, often in the evenings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In horses, colic is a serious tummy pain that needs a vet quickly.↗ Example: Our baby brother cried for hours with colic.↗ · Mum walked up and down with the colicky baby.↗ · The doctor said colic usually stops after a few months.↗ · The vet came at night because the pony had colic.↗ · Colic is not the parents' fault.↗ · Rocking and quiet help some babies with colic.↗

collaborate — Everyday, meaning 1: To work together with other people to make something or reach a shared goal: «We collaborated on the poster».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history, negative) To help an enemy who has taken over your country, especially in a war: «Some people collaborated with the invaders».↗ Example: Our class collaborated with another school to make a newspaper.↗ · The two authors collaborated on a book about dinosaurs.↗ · Scientists from many countries collaborated to build the space station.↗ · In maths we collaborated to solve the puzzle in pairs.↗ · Musicians collaborate when they write a song together.↗ · In the war, some people were punished for collaborating with the enemy.↗ · Let's collaborate instead of arguing about whose idea is best.↗