📖 C — The English dictionary · page 48

colossal — Everyday, meaning 1: Colossal means extremely large, huge, enormous.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Colossal also means very great in amount or degree («a colossal mistake», «a colossal waste»).↗ Example: A colossal wave crashed over the harbour.↗ · The blue whale is a colossal animal.↗ · The pyramids are colossal stone buildings.↗ · We ate a colossal pizza.↗ · Losing the key was a colossal mistake.↗ · The storm did colossal damage.↗ · The giant took colossal steps across the hills.↗ · This colossal statue was 39 feet high, and was composed of ivory and gold; its majestic beauty formed the chief attraction of the temple.↗ · He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

colossus — Everyday, meaning 1: A huge statue, much bigger than life size.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person, company or thing that is enormously big, powerful or important («a colossus of science»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) The Colossus of Rhodes: a giant bronze statue of the sun god Helios in ancient Greece, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Colossus: one of the first electronic computers, built in Britain during the Second World War to help break German codes at Bletchley Park.↗ Example: The Colossus of Rhodes stood over thirty metres tall.↗ · An earthquake toppled the Colossus.↗ · The Colossus computer helped break secret codes in the war.↗ · The goalkeeper was a colossus in defence.↗ · The giant statue was a true colossus.↗ · Some people call that company a colossus of technology.↗ · The famous Colossus of Rhodes, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, was erected in honour of Helios.↗

colour — Everyday, meaning 1: Colour is what you see as red, blue, green, yellow and so on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To colour is to fill in a picture with crayons, pencils or paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Colour is the British way to spell color.↗ Example: The bag has beads of 3 colours.↗ · Colour 2 of the 5 squares.↗ · How many of each colour?↗ · She has 6 colours of paint.↗ · The rainbow has 7 colours.↗ · Red and yellow mixed make orange.↗ · My favourite colour is green.↗ · Wear bright colours when you cycle.↗ · He caught four, one of each colour.↗ · and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found.↗ (Torah GEN.37.32, JPS 1917)↗ · and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the weaver in colours; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah EXO.39.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.↗ (Torah GEN.37.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly; (Writings PRO.23.31, JPS 1917)↗ · O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.↗ (Prophets ISA.54.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible ice, stretched forth over their heads above.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.22, JPS 1917)↗

colouration — Everyday, meaning 1: Colouration is the pattern and mix of colours on an animal or plant, such as the stripes of a tiger or the spots on a ladybird.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Colouration can mean the way something is coloured in general, including a slight colour or tint.↗ Example: The snake's bright colouration warns birds to stay away.↗ · The moth's colouration matches the tree bark.↗ · Male birds often have brighter colouration than females.↗ · The frog's colouration changes as it grows.↗ · Warning colouration is common in poisonous animals.↗ · The leaf's colouration turned red and gold in autumn.↗ · Scientists studied the colouration of the butterflies' wings.↗ · The fish's colouration helps it hide among the coral.↗

colourful — Everyday, meaning 1: Colourful means having many bright colours.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Colourful means interesting, lively and exciting, like a colourful character or story.↗ Example: The parrot has colourful feathers.↗ · We painted a colourful rainbow.↗ · The market was busy and colourful.↗ · Coral reefs are full of colourful fish.↗ · Her room is very colourful.↗ · Grandpa is a colourful character who tells funny stories.↗ · Some colourful animals use bright colours to warn they are poisonous.↗

colouring — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) The colour or colours of something, especially of a person's skin, hair and eyes or an animal's fur or feathers: «a fox's red colouring».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A substance added to food or drink to give it colour: «food colouring».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The activity of filling in pictures with crayons, pencils or pens: «a colouring book».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb form) Giving colour to something now: «I am colouring the sky blue».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun, formal) The way something is presented that changes how people feel about it: «political colouring».↗ Example: My little sister loves her dinosaur colouring book.↗ · We added green food colouring to the icing for St Patrick's Day.↗ · The tiger's striped colouring helps it hide in long grass.↗ · I am colouring the sea in two shades of blue.↗ · She has her dad's colouring: red hair and freckles.↗ · Some sweets use colouring made from beetroot.↗ · Bright warning colouring tells birds that the frog is poisonous.↗ · Finish your colouring in and then put the pencils away.↗

colourless — Everyday, meaning 1: Colourless means having no colour at all, like clear water or air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Colourless can mean pale and grey: «a colourless face».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Colourless can mean dull and boring, with nothing interesting: «a colourless town».↗ Example: Water is a colourless liquid.↗ · Oxygen is a colourless gas with no smell.↗ · After the shock, her face was colourless.↗ · The old town felt grey and colourless.↗ · Carbon monoxide is colourless and deadly, so homes need alarms.↗ · Mix the colourless solution with the indicator and watch it turn pink.↗

colt — Everyday, meaning 1: A colt is a young male horse, especially one under four years old.↗ Example: The colt ran across the field.↗ · The farmer's colt kicked up its heels.↗ · We watched the colts gallop through the meadow.↗ · thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.↗ (Torah GEN.32.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917)↗ · But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.↗ (Writings JOB.11.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years.↗ (Prophets JDG.12.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.↗ (Prophets JDG.10.4, JPS 1917)↗

columbian — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with Christopher Columbus (as in pre-Columbian, before Columbus reached the Americas).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To do with places called Columbia, such as British Columbia in Canada, the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) or the Columbia River.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Often a misspelling of Colombian, which means from Colombia, the country in South America.↗ Example: The museum shows pre-Columbian gold from Peru.↗ · The Columbian Exposition was a world fair in Chicago.↗ · People from British Columbia are sometimes called British Columbians.↗ · Colombian coffee is from Colombia, spelled with an o.↗ · Pre-Columbian peoples grew maize and potatoes.↗ · The Columbian salmon swim up the Columbia River.↗

column — Everyday, meaning 1: A column is a line of things going straight up and down, one under another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a table, a column runs up and down and a row runs across.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A column is a tall stone post that holds up a roof.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A column is also a regular article in a newspaper, or a long line of marching people.↗ Example: The chairs are in 6 columns with 5 chairs in each.↗ · Each column of the table has 8 numbers.↗ · Mia puts 4 stickers in each column.↗ · How many columns of 3 can she make with 21 cards?↗ · Write the tens in the tens column.↗ · The old temple has tall stone columns.↗ · Add the numbers in the column.↗ · A column of soldiers marched past.↗ · Then he saw the statue on the tall column.↗ · He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · ')) Some Pythagoreans used the strokes with the principle of |iosi- tion without a zero in the columns of an abacus i Ur.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

comanche — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Comanche are a Native American people of the southern Great Plains (today mainly Oklahoma, USA), famous in history as expert horse riders.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) The Comanche language, spoken by that people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) A name used for some places, vehicles and other things named after the Comanche.↗ Example: The Comanche were among the finest horse riders of the Great Plains.↗ · Today the Comanche Nation has its headquarters in Oklahoma.↗ · Comanche code talkers sent secret radio messages in the Second World War.↗ · We read about the Comanche leader Quanah Parker.↗ · The Comanche language is being taught to young people again.↗ · The map showed the lands where the Comanche once lived.↗

comb — Everyday, meaning 1: A comb is a flat strip with a row of thin teeth used to tidy your hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To comb your hair is to make it neat with a comb.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To comb a place is to search it very carefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A comb is the red crest on a rooster's head; a honeycomb is the wax cells bees make.↗ Example: Comb your hair before school.↗ · I lost my comb.↗ · Mum used a nit comb to check for lice.↗ · The police combed the park for clues.↗ · We combed the beach for shells.↗ · A rooster has a red comb on its head.↗ · Bees keep honey in a honeycomb.↗ · He gave Wendy one of their combs.↗ · Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.9, JPS 1917)↗

combat — Everyday, meaning 1: Combat is fighting, especially between soldiers in war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To combat something means to try hard to stop or reduce it: combat litter, combat disease.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To combat is also to fight in a battle against an enemy.↗ Example: Soldiers trained for combat.↗ · The town is working to combat litter.↗ · Washing hands helps combat the spread of germs.↗ · He was injured in combat.↗ · Combat boots are strong and heavy.↗ · Scientists combat diseases with new medicines.↗ · Did the old heroes combat there?↗

combatant — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, army or country that takes part in fighting in a war or battle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who takes part in a fight, argument or contest.↗ Example: Both combatants were tired after the long battle.↗ · The rules of war protect people who are not combatants.↗ · Nurses were non-combatants in the war.↗ · The two combatants shook hands after the boxing match.↗ · The countries that were combatants signed a peace treaty.↗ · Each combatant had a shield.↗ · Even women and children were to be found among the combatants.↗

combative — Everyday, meaning 1: Combative means ready and eager to fight or argue.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sport, combative means playing hard and strongly against the other side.↗ Example: The combative goat butted everyone who came near.↗ · He was in a combative mood and argued with everyone.↗ · She is a combative tennis player who never gives up.↗ · The debate became combative and loud.↗ · Our dog is friendly, not combative.↗ · Try not to be combative when someone disagrees with you.↗

combination — Everyday, meaning 1: A combination is two or more things joined or mixed together, like a combination of colours or flavours.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A combination is the set of numbers you need to open a combination lock or safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) A combination is one way of choosing items from a group, where the order does not matter.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Combination is the act of combining things.↗ Example: Red and yellow is a bright combination.↗ · I forgot the combination for my bike lock.↗ · How many combinations can you make with 3 shirts and 4 pairs of trousers?↗ · Hard work and luck were a winning combination.↗ · Salt and vinegar is my favourite crisp combination.↗ · Exercise in combination with good food keeps you healthy.↗ · There are 10 combinations of two different fruits from a bowl of five.↗ · This story is evidently a combination of two widely differing tales.↗ · 31 That is to say a different combination of the elements.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 21) The combination of the twenty-two letters without permutation is represented in the following table: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 22) The number of combinations of twenty-two letters two and two without any permutation is according to the mathematical formula (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

combine — Everyday, meaning 1: To combine is to join or mix two or more things together to make one: «Combine the flour and sugar.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To combine is to do two things at the same time or have two qualities together: «She combines school with swim training.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A combine (combine harvester, said «COM-bine») is a big farm machine that cuts crops and separates the grain.↗ Example: Combine the eggs and milk in a bowl.↗ · If you combine blue and yellow, you get green.↗ · Their combined score was 150.↗ · The two classes combined for the trip.↗ · Hydrogen and oxygen combine to make water.↗ · She combines football with piano lessons.↗ · The combine harvester cut the wheat field.↗ · Combine your ideas into one poster.↗ · Ares is represented as a man of youthful appearance; his tall muscular form combines great strength with wonderful agility.↗ · This has been shown by the example of combining the letter א with (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Thus in combining all together in pairs are produced these two hundred and thirty-one gates of knowledge.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · This has been shown by the example of combining the letter א with all the other letters, and all the other letters with Aleph (א).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗