📖 C — The English dictionary · page 72

controlled — Everyday, meaning 1: Controlled is the past form of «control»: made something or someone do what you want, or kept it in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, controlled means kept steady, calm or within limits, not wild.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, a controlled test is one where you change only one thing and keep the rest the same.↗ Example: She controlled the ball with her left foot.↗ · The robot is controlled by a computer.↗ · He took a deep breath and controlled his anger.↗ · We did a controlled experiment and changed only the amount of water.↗ · The firefighters controlled the fire before it reached the houses.↗ · My brother has a remote-controlled car.↗ · The traffic is controlled by lights at the crossing.↗ · Her breathing was slow and controlled.↗ · But he controlled himself and said: “Let me be, wife; what ails you?↗

controller — Everyday, meaning 1: A hand-held device with buttons and sticks used to play video games or work a machine such as a toy car or drone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person whose job is to control or manage something, such as an air traffic controller.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A part of a machine that controls how it works.↗ Example: Pass me the second controller so we can play together.↗ · The controller's batteries are flat.↗ · My drone has a small controller.↗ · Air traffic controllers tell pilots when to land.↗ · Press the A button on the controller to jump.↗ · Put the controller away when screen time is over.↗

controlling — Everyday, meaning 1: As a verb form, controlling means being in charge of something or making it do what you want: «He is controlling the drone».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A controlling person tries too hard to control other people and what they do, which is unkind and unfair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A controlling share or interest means enough to have power over a company.↗ Example: She is controlling the robot with a tablet.↗ · In a fair test we are controlling all the variables but one.↗ · Her friend was very controlling and wouldn't let her play with others.↗ · Controlling your temper takes practice.↗ · The company bought a controlling share.↗ · Controlling the ball well is key in football.↗

controversy — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A controversy is a long, heated argument in which people strongly disagree about something.↗ Example: If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them, by justifying the righteous, and condemning the wicked, (Torah DEU.25.1, JPS 1917)↗ · then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.↗ (Torah DEU.19.17, JPS 1917)↗ · For the LORD hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.↗ (Prophets ISA.34.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him.↗ (Prophets HOS.12.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies.↗ (Writings 2CH.19.8, JPS 1917)↗ · There was a controversy in the class about who won the race.↗ · The animals had a controversy over who was the bravest.↗

contumely — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: insulting, rude and scornful treatment.↗ Example: And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.↗ (Prophets 2KI.19.3, JPS 1917)↗

contusion — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) A contusion is a bruise: an injury where the skin is not broken but blood leaks under it, making a dark mark.↗ Example: The doctor said the dark mark on my knee was only a contusion.↗ · The footballer suffered a contusion after the hard tackle.↗ · The X-ray showed no broken bone, just a contusion.↗ · She had a few cuts and contusions after falling off her bike.↗ · Put ice on a contusion to stop it swelling.↗ · A contusion turns purple, then green, then yellow as it heals.↗

convalescence — Everyday, meaning 1: Convalescence is the time when someone slowly gets their strength back after an illness or operation.↗ Example: After the operation, Grandpa needed six weeks of convalescence.↗ · During her convalescence she read every book in the house.↗ · The doctor said a quiet convalescence by the sea would help.↗ · In the old story, the soldier spent his convalescence in a country hospital.↗ · Convalescence after flu can take a week or two.↗ · His convalescence was slow, but he was back at school by spring.↗

convection — Everyday, meaning 1: Convection is the way heat moves through a liquid or a gas: the warm part rises and the cooler part sinks, making a current that goes round.↗ Example: Convection carries warm air up to the ceiling.↗ · Hot water rises by convection in a pan.↗ · A radiator heats a room by convection.↗ · Draw arrows to show the convection current.↗ · A convection oven has a fan to blow hot air around.↗ · Sea breezes are caused by convection.↗

convene — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To come together for a meeting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To call people together for a meeting.↗ Example: The class council convened after lunch.↗ · The judges convened to choose the winner.↗ · The head teacher convened a meeting of parents.↗ · World leaders convened to discuss the climate.↗ · The committee will convene again next week.↗ · The team convened in the hall.↗ · An assembly was therefore convened at Mecone in order to settle these points.↗

convenience — Everyday, meaning 1: Convenience is being easy, useful or quick for you, so it saves time or trouble.↗ e.g. "for convenience, we eat at school".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A convenience is a thing that makes life easier, like a microwave.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: At your convenience means at a time that suits you.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK, euphemism, formal) A public convenience is a public toilet.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Convenience food is ready-made food that is quick to prepare.↗ Example: We shop at the convenience store on the corner.↗ · For convenience, we packed sandwiches.↗ · Please reply at your earliest convenience.↗ · The public conveniences are next to the car park.↗ · A dishwasher is a great convenience.↗ · Convenience food is quick but can be full of salt.↗ · Living near school is a real convenience.↗ · Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must go early to bed, and a manager must also consult the convenience of the public.↗ · For convenience of study I have placed the Notes in a separate form at the end of the work, and I have made a short definition of the subject-matter of each chapter.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

convenient — Everyday, meaning 1: Easy to use, reach or do; saving time and trouble.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Suitable for someone's plans or time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Near and easy to get to.↗ Example: The shop is convenient because it's next to school.↗ · Is Saturday convenient for you?↗ · Microwave meals are convenient but not always healthy.↗ · He conveniently forgot to do the washing-up.↗ · It's convenient to have a bus stop outside our house.↗ · A convenience store is open late.↗ · And the griffin does the housework--his wings are so convenient and feathery for sweeping and dusting.↗ · Because it regulates the motions of the Sun and Moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · A decimal system of notation without the principle of position was in ancient times considered more convenient than a decimal system of notation based upon the principle of position.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

conveniently — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is easy, useful or suitable for someone: «The shop is conveniently close.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (said with doubt) At a time that suits someone a little too well, as if on purpose: «He conveniently forgot his homework.».↗ Example: Our house is conveniently close to the school.↗ · The bus stop is conveniently placed outside the library.↗ · He conveniently forgot to tidy his room.↗ · The plug was conveniently near the desk.↗ · The answer was conveniently written on the back of the book.↗ · My sister conveniently disappeared when it was time to wash up.↗ · At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep and with his tail conveniently spread out.↗

convent — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A building where nuns live, pray and work together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) A community of nuns.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A school run by nuns, often called a convent school.↗ Example: The nuns of the convent rise early to pray.↗ · My grandma went to a convent school in Cork.↗ · The old convent is now a museum.↗ · Visitors could buy jam made by the sisters of the convent.↗ · The convent garden had high stone walls.↗ · In the story the girl was sent away to a convent.↗ · On this mountain of sand is a lofty old building--the convent of Borglum.↗

convention — Everyday, meaning 1: The usual or accepted way of doing something; a custom or rule people follow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A large meeting of people with the same interest or job (a comic convention).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An official agreement between countries (the Geneva Convention).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths, writing) A standard rule everyone agrees to use, such as writing numbers left to right.↗ Example: By convention, we write the x-axis across the page.↗ · Spelling and punctuation are writing conventions.↗ · We dressed up for the comic convention.↗ · Shaking hands is a convention in many countries.↗ · The Geneva Convention protects prisoners of war.↗ · The writer broke with convention and used no capital letters.↗ · The possibility of the introduction of an archaic formula which had become a convention of folk-telling cannot be left out of account.↗

conventional — Everyday, meaning 1: Conventional means usual, ordinary and done the way most people have done it for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A conventional person follows the normal ways and rules and does not like to be different.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Conventional weapons, power or farming are the ordinary kinds, not nuclear, new or special ones.↗ Example: We cooked the pizza in a conventional oven.↗ · Her parents are quite conventional and wear smart clothes to church.↗ · The artist didn't like conventional paintings and painted with her feet.↗ · Electric cars are quieter than conventional cars.↗ · The conventional way to greet someone is to shake hands.↗ · Our maths teacher showed a quicker method than the conventional one.↗ · Conventional farming uses chemical sprays.↗ · Majnun and Laili are conventional names for lovers, the Romeo and Juliet of Hindostan.↗

conventionally — Everyday, meaning 1: Conventionally means in the usual, normal, accepted way that most people do things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, maths) Done by a usual agreed rule, a convention, such as writing numbers in a certain way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (farming) Conventionally grown food is grown with the usual modern methods, often with chemicals, not organically.↗ Example: He was dressed conventionally in a suit and tie.↗ · Conventionally, we write the x-axis across the page.↗ · Conventionally, a story has a beginning, a middle and an end.↗ · These apples were grown conventionally, not organically.↗ · She chose not to live conventionally and travelled the world in a van.↗ · Electric current is conventionally shown flowing from positive to negative.↗ · In maths, angles are conventionally measured anticlockwise.↗

converge — Everyday, meaning 1: When lines, roads or rivers converge, they move towards each other and meet at one point.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When people converge on a place, they come to it from different directions.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: When ideas or opinions converge, they become more alike.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) A series or sequence converges when it gets closer and closer to one fixed number.↗ Example: The two roads converge just before the bridge.↗ · Railway lines seem to converge in the distance.↗ · Fans converged on the stadium from all over the city.↗ · A magnifying glass makes rays of sunlight converge on one spot.↗ · Police cars converged on the bank after the alarm rang.↗ · Our ideas converged, and we agreed on one plan.↗ · The sums 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... converge on 1.↗

convergence — Everyday, meaning 1: Convergence is when lines, roads, paths or things come together and meet at one point.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Convergence is when ideas, opinions or groups become more and more alike.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) Convergence is when a list of numbers gets closer and closer to one fixed number.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) In geography, a convergence is where two plates of the Earth's crust or two ocean currents push towards each other.↗ Example: The convergence of the two rivers makes one big river.↗ · Follow the paths to their point of convergence.↗ · Mountains like the Himalayas formed at a convergence of two plates.↗ · There was a convergence of opinions after the long debate.↗ · The sum 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + … shows convergence towards 1.↗ · In the drawing, railway tracks show convergence in the distance.↗ · The convergence of phones and cameras means one device now does both.↗

conversation — Everyday, meaning 1: A conversation is a talk between two or more people in which they share ideas, news or feelings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: "Making conversation" means talking politely to someone, often just to be friendly.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Talk between two or more people.↗ Example: I had a long conversation with my grandma on the phone.↗ · Please do not interrupt our conversation.↗ · The two girls were deep in conversation.↗ · We wrote a conversation between a fox and a crow.↗ · At the party he tried to make conversation with the new boy.↗ · Our class had a conversation about kindness.↗ · The conversation turned to football.↗ · They had a long conversation together about different things.↗ · This was the end of their conversation.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · They had a long conversation together about different things.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · Just then, the conversation was interrupted by approaching footsteps.↗ (The Adventures of Pinocchio)