📖 C — The English dictionary · page 49

combined — Everyday, meaning 1: Combined means put together into one: «their combined score».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To combine is to join or mix two or more things together.↗ Example: How many balloons do Zoe and Lily have combined?↗ · Combined, the two boxes hold 25 crayons.↗ · Tom and Max combined their marbles.↗ · Combine the flour and the sugar in a bowl.↗ · Hydrogen and oxygen combine to make water.↗ · Our two classes combined for the school play.↗ · Their combined age is 17.↗ · Blue and yellow combined make green.↗ · The incensed deities now combined to punish the offender.↗ · He combined them, this one with that one.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Tau, predominant in beauty, crowned, combined and formed Jupiter in the Universe, the seventh day in the week, and the mouth of man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

combo — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A combination of things that go together, like a meal deal of burger, chips and drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (games) A series of moves or hits done quickly one after another for extra points.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A small band of musicians, often playing jazz.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) The code of a combination lock.↗ Example: I'll have the burger combo with a milkshake.↗ · He pulled off a ten-hit combo in the game.↗ · Strawberries and cream are a classic combo.↗ · A jazz combo played at the school fair.↗ · What's the combo for your bike lock?↗ · Sun and wind are a good combo for drying washing.↗

combust — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) To burn, or to catch fire, especially through a chemical reaction with oxygen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, joking) To get very angry or excited, as if about to burst into flames.↗ Example: Petrol combusts inside a car engine.↗ · Wood combusts when it gets hot enough and has oxygen.↗ · Piles of damp hay can combust on their own.↗ · Never leave oily rags in a heap; they can combust.↗ · If I have to wait any longer, I'll combust!↗ · The match combusted with a bright flash.↗

combustion — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Combustion is burning: a chemical reaction when a fuel joins with oxygen and gives out heat and light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An engine that burns fuel inside it is an internal combustion engine, like a car engine.↗ Example: Combustion needs fuel, heat and oxygen.↗ · A candle flame is an example of combustion.↗ · Car engines use internal combustion.↗ · Combustion of wood gives off smoke and ash.↗ · We learned about the fire triangle and combustion.↗ · Spontaneous combustion of a pile of oily rags can start a fire.↗

come — Everyday, meaning 1: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking.↗ e.g. Come here!↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To come is to arrive or join a place.↗ e.g. The bus is coming.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To come is to happen or be in an order.↗ e.g. Spring comes after winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To come from is to have a place as home or start.↗ e.g. She comes from Ireland.↗ Example: Coming together: add.↗ Going away: subtract.↗ · 5 children were playing and 4 more came.↗ How many children are playing now?↗ · Then 3 ducks come to the pond.↗ · Come here, please.↗ · Which number comes after 19?↗ · My cousin comes from New Zealand.↗ · Can you come to my party?↗ · Summer comes after spring.↗ · Come back before dark.↗ · Presently he heard steps coming upstairs.↗ · And Laban came up with Jacob.↗ (Torah GEN.31.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And he came near, and kissed him.↗ (Torah GEN.27.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.↗ (Torah EXO.17.8, JPS 1917)↗ · No evil shall come upon us'?↗ (Prophets MIC.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he returned, and came to Achish.↗ (Prophets 1SA.27.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore they came back, and told him.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.36, JPS 1917)↗

comeback — Everyday, meaning 1: A comeback is when someone or something becomes successful or popular again after a bad time: the team made a great comeback.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A comeback is a quick, clever reply to an insult or a joke.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (written as two words, verb) To come back means to return.↗ Example: Our team was 3–0 down but made an amazing comeback.↗ · Flared jeans are making a comeback.↗ · The singer's comeback concert sold out.↗ · He had no comeback when she proved him wrong.↗ · Her funny comeback made everyone laugh.↗ · Come back home before dark!↗

comedian — Everyday, meaning 1: A comedian is a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or doing funny things, on stage, on TV or in films.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A comedian is also anyone who is always being funny (a class comedian).↗ Example: The comedian told a joke and everyone laughed.↗ · My uncle wants to be a stand-up comedian.↗ · Charlie Chaplin was a famous comedian in silent films.↗ · Tom is a bit of a comedian in our class.↗ · The comedian made funny faces on TV.↗ · A good comedian knows when to pause.↗

comedy — Everyday, meaning 1: Films, plays, shows or stories meant to make people laugh.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A single funny film, play or show (a comedy).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The funny side of something (the comedy of the situation).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (literature) A play with a happy ending, as in Shakespeare's comedies.↗ Example: We watched a comedy and laughed all night.↗ · Stand-up comedy is one person telling jokes on stage.↗ · The school play was a comedy about a lost goat.↗ · Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies.↗ · The trip was a comedy of errors.↗ · There's a lot of comedy in the book.↗ · "In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another."↗

comeliness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: (old use) Comeliness is the state of being pleasant or pretty to look at.↗ Example: Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war; they hanged the shield and helmet in thee, they set forth thy comeliness.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.10, JPS 1917)↗ · So that I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.↗ (Writings DAN.10.8, JPS 1917)↗ · For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.↗ (Prophets ISA.53.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The painter admired the comeliness of the young girls.↗ · Her comeliness made everyone smile.↗ · The villagers were proud of the comeliness of their children.↗

comely — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome.↗ Example: A comely maiden came to the well.↗ · The old king had a comely son.↗ · The cottage was small and comely.↗ · Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.↗ (Writings SNG.1.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous, praise is comely for the upright.↗ (Writings PSA.33.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.↗ (Prophets JER.6.2, JPS 1917)↗

comer — Everyday, meaning 1: A comer is a person who comes to a place, a newcomer or arrival.↗ Example: The animals stared at the new comer.↗ · Every comer was given a seat by the fire.↗ · Welcome, comer, and sit down.↗

comest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «comest» means «you come», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking.↗ e.g. Come here!↗ Example: Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.↗ (Torah DEU.28.6, JPS 1917) · "Whence comest thou, maiden?" said Connla.↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales) · Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.↗ (Torah DEU.28.19, JPS 1917)

comestible — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal or humorous) Comestibles are things to eat, food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Comestible means fit to be eaten: «comestible plants».↗ Example: The butler laid out a table of comestibles.↗ · Are these mushrooms comestible?↗ · «Any comestibles in the fridge?» asked Dad in a posh voice.↗ · The shop sold comestibles and drinks.↗ · Not all wild berries are comestible.↗ · The picnic basket was full of comestibles.↗

comet — Everyday, meaning 1: A comet is a ball of ice, dust and rock that travels around the Sun. When it comes close to the Sun, it heats up and makes a glowing cloud and a long bright tail that we can sometimes see in the night sky.↗ Example: A comet has a long glowing tail.↗ · Halley's Comet comes near Earth about every 76 years.↗ · The comet's tail points away from the Sun.↗ · We saw a comet through binoculars.↗ · Comets are made of ice, dust and rock.↗ · A comet is sometimes called a «dirty snowball».↗ · The comet will not be back for many years.↗ · Scientists landed a probe on a comet.↗

cometary — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the Sun and grow glowing tails when they come near it.↗ Example: Meteor showers come from cometary dust.↗ · The probe studied cometary ice up close.↗ · A cometary orbit can be very long and stretched.↗ · Scientists think cometary water may have reached the young Earth.↗ · The telescope showed a faint cometary tail.↗ · Halley's Comet has a cometary orbit of about 76 years.↗

cometh — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «cometh» means «comes», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking.↗ e.g. Come here!↗ Example: And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh.↗ (Torah GEN.37.19, JPS 1917) · At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'↗ (Torah GEN.18.14, JPS 1917) · And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.↗ (Torah EXO.4.14, JPS 1917)

comfit — Everyday, meaning 1: (old) A small sweet made of a seed or nut, such as aniseed, caraway or an almond, coated in hard sugar.↗ Example: Alice found a box of comfits in her pocket.↗ · Each animal got one comfit as a prize.↗ · The comfits were a little wet from the salt water.↗ · A comfit is a seed or nut covered in sugar.↗ · Sugared almonds are a kind of comfit.↗ · The big birds complained they could not taste their comfits.↗

comfort — Everyday, meaning 1: Comfort is a pleasant feeling of being relaxed, warm and free from pain or worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To comfort someone means to make them feel less sad or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A comfort is a person or thing that makes you feel better.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Comforts are things that make life easy and pleasant, like a warm bed.↗ Example: I comforted my little brother when he fell over.↗ · The cat was a great comfort to Grandma.↗ · These shoes are made for comfort, not speed.↗ · She took comfort in her friends' kind words.↗ · We sat in comfort by the fire.↗ · Trying a new sport takes you out of your comfort zone.↗ · Soup is my favourite comfort food.↗ · The storm came too close for comfort.↗ · And Isaac was comforted for his mother.↗ (Torah GEN.24.67, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.'↗ And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.↗ (Torah GEN.50.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.↗ (Torah GEN.38.12, JPS 1917)↗ · How then comfort ye me in vain?↗ (Writings JOB.21.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou wilt increase my greatness, and turn and comfort me.↗ (Writings PSA.71.21, JPS 1917)↗

comfortable — Everyday, meaning 1: Pleasant to use, sit in, wear or be in, without pain or being too hot, cold or tight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feeling relaxed, calm and at ease, not worried or shy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Having enough money to live well without worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Of a win or lead: big enough to be safe.↗ Example: This sofa is really comfortable.↗ · Wear comfortable shoes for the school trip.↗ · Make yourself comfortable while I get some drinks.↗ · I don't feel comfortable talking in front of the whole class.↗ · If a secret makes you feel uncomfortable, tell a trusted adult.↗ · Our team had a comfortable lead of ten points.↗ · The cat looked comfortable curled up by the fire.↗ · The hospital said Grandpa was comfortable after the operation.↗ · The inside of the house was comfortable and roomy.↗

comfortably — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that feels relaxed and free from pain or worry: «sitting comfortably».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Easily, with plenty to spare: «They won comfortably».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: With enough money to live well: «They live comfortably».↗ Example: Are you sitting comfortably?↗ Then I'll begin.↗ · The cat curled up comfortably on the sofa.↗ · Our team won comfortably, five goals to one.↗ · Twenty children fit comfortably in the minibus.↗ · My grandparents are comfortably off since they retired.↗ · The patient was resting comfortably after the operation.↗ · The box comfortably holds all our books with room to spare.↗ · So said, so done, and both slept very comfortably.↗