📖 C — The English dictionary · page 75

cope — Everyday, meaning 1: To cope means to deal well with a hard problem or situation, and to keep going.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cope with work or a job means to manage to do it.↗ Example: She coped well with moving to a new school.↗ · How do you cope with being nervous before a test?↗ · Mum couldn't cope with all the noise.↗ · The small hospital could not cope with so many patients.↗ · Talking to a friend helps me cope when I'm sad.↗ · The bridge could not cope with the heavy trucks.↗ · We are learning coping skills in class.↗

copepod — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A copepod is a tiny animal with a hard shell and many legs, a relative of crabs and shrimps, that lives in the sea and in fresh water.↗ Example: A copepod is so small you need a microscope to see its legs.↗ · Copepods eat tiny algae and are eaten by small fish.↗ · Billions of copepods drift in the ocean as plankton.↗ · We found copepods in a jar of pond water.↗ · Copepods are crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters.↗ · Without copepods, many ocean food chains would collapse.↗

copier — Everyday, meaning 1: A copier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and pictures; it is also called a photocopier.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A copier is a person who copies, especially someone who copies other people's work.↗ Example: The teacher made thirty copies on the copier.↗ · The copier ran out of paper.↗ · There is a paper jam in the copier.↗ · Dad uses the copier at work.↗ · Nobody likes a copier in a test.↗ · The library has a copier you can use.↗

copious — Everyday, meaning 1: In large amounts; more than enough: «copious notes», «copious amounts of food».↗ Example: She took copious notes during the science talk.↗ · The party had copious amounts of cake and jelly.↗ · Copious rain made the river burst its banks.↗ · He drank copious amounts of water after the race.↗ · The baby shed copious tears when the balloon popped.↗ · Plants need copious watering in a heatwave.↗

copiously — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Copiously means in very large amounts, much more than usual.↗ Example: It rained copiously all weekend, and the river flooded.↗ · She wept copiously at the end of the film.↗ · The runner sweated copiously in the heat.↗ · He took notes copiously during the science talk.↗ · Water the seedlings copiously after planting.↗ · The wound bled copiously, so they pressed a clean cloth on it.↗

copper — Everyday, meaning 1: Copper is a reddish-brown metal that conducts electricity and heat very well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Copper is also a reddish-brown colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Coppers are small brown coins (UK).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A copper is an informal British word for a police officer.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A copper can also be a large metal pot, used for heating water or brewing.↗ Example: Electric wires are often made of copper.↗ · The Statue of Liberty is green because its copper changed over time.↗ · She has copper-coloured hair.↗ · Copper is a good conductor of heat.↗ · Old pennies are made of copper.↗ · Copper pipes carry water in the house.↗ · The copper caught the thief (old British slang).↗ · The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!↗

coppersmith — Everyday, meaning 1: A coppersmith is a person who makes or mends things from copper.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A coppersmith is a bird whose call sounds like a hammer tapping on metal.↗ Example: A coppersmith made the pot from copper.↗ · The coppersmith sat in the tree and tapped all day.↗ · The old coppersmith hammered the copper pan.↗

coppery — Everyday, meaning 1: Coppery means having the colour of copper: a shiny reddish-brown or orange-brown.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coppery can also mean tasting or smelling of copper, like metal.↗ Example: The beech leaves turned coppery in autumn.↗ · She has long coppery hair.↗ · The sky glowed coppery at sunset.↗ · The old coin had a coppery shine.↗ · The water had a coppery taste from the old pipes.↗ · The fox's coppery fur shone in the sun.↗

coprolite — Everyday, meaning 1: A coprolite is fossilised poo (dung) from an animal that lived long ago, such as a dinosaur, that has slowly turned to stone.↗ Example: The museum had a coprolite from a Tyrannosaurus rex.↗ · Scientists cut open the coprolite and found tiny pieces of bone inside.↗ · A coprolite is a kind of trace fossil.↗ · Mary Anning found coprolites on the beach at Lyme Regis.↗ · The class giggled when they learned a coprolite is fossil poo.↗ · Coprolites tell us what dinosaurs had for dinner.↗ · The coprolite felt heavy and hard, just like a rock.↗

copse — Everyday, meaning 1: A small group of trees growing close together; a little wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small wood where trees are regularly cut back so they regrow (also «coppice»).↗ Example: We had our picnic in the shade of a small copse.↗ · A fox ran into the copse at the end of the field.↗ · Bluebells grow in the copse every spring.↗ · The map shows a copse beside the farm.↗ · The pheasants hid in the copse.↗ · We played hide-and-seek among the trees of the copse.↗

copy — Everyday, meaning 1: A copy is a thing made to be the same as another one, like a copy of a page or a photo.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A copy is also one of many printed books, newspapers or games of the same kind: the shop sold 150 copies.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To copy is to make a thing the same as another, or to do the same as someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To copy in a test is to take another pupil's answers, which is cheating.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A copy can also be a model of good writing or drawing that you try to follow exactly.↗ Example: The machine prints 20 copies a minute.↗ · She made 3 copies of each page.↗ · The shop sold 150 copies of the book.↗ · How many copies for 25 pupils?↗ · Copy the sentence from the board into your book.↗ · My little brother copies everything I do.↗ · Do not copy your friend's answers in the test.↗ · Select the picture, then copy and paste it.↗ · The museum shows a copy of a famous painting.↗ · "See, this is the way you should hold yourselves," said the copy.↗ · And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.↗ (Torah DEU.17.18, JPS 1917)↗ · A MSS. copy dated 1719, in the British Museum.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · [p. 11] The following copies of the "Sepher Yetzirah" in Hebrew, I have also examined:— (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote before the children of Israel.↗ (Prophets JOS.8.32, JPS 1917)↗ · this is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king — thy servants the men beyond the River — and now (Writings EZR.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king; (Writings EZR.5.6, JPS 1917)↗

copycat — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, often used by children) A person who copies what someone else does, says or wears.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Copying something that happened before, like a copycat crime.↗ Example: "Copycat!" she shouted when her brother copied her drawing.↗ · My little sister is a copycat; she copies everything I do.↗ · Police worried about copycat attacks.↗ · That shop sells copycat versions of famous trainers.↗ · Copying in a test isn't just being a copycat; it's cheating.↗

copyist — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person whose job is to copy writings by hand.↗ Example: These numbers have been a source of difference between the editors and copyists, hardly any two editors concurring.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · It is not unlikely that originally only the Sefer Yetzirah had been ascribed to Joseph ben Uziel, but as there were several other works in the same volume, some careless copyist attributed them all to him.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

copyright — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) Copyright is the legal right of the person who made a book, song, picture, film or program to decide who can copy, sell or use it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To copyright something is to get or claim this right over it.↗ Example: The author owns the copyright to her books.↗ · You can't put that song in your video without permission; it is under copyright.↗ · The © sign shows who owns the copyright.↗ · Very old stories are out of copyright, so anyone can print them.↗ · Our class asked permission to use the photo.↗ · Copying a whole website and calling it yours breaks copyright.↗ · I have only been enabled to do this by the courtesy of those who owned the copyright of these stories.↗ · Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

coracle — Everyday, meaning 1: A coracle is a small, round boat made of a frame covered with skin or cloth, used on rivers.↗ Example: He paddled his coracle across the river.↗ · The children played with their coracles on the beach.↗ · A coracle drifted slowly to the shore.↗

coral — Everyday, meaning 1: Coral is a hard, stony material made by tiny sea animals; over many years it builds up into reefs in warm, shallow seas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A coral is one of these tiny animals, or a group of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Coral is a pinkish-orange colour.↗ Example: Coral reefs are full of colourful fish.↗ · The Great Barrier Reef is made of coral.↗ · Coral is built by tiny animals called polyps.↗ · Don't touch or break the coral when you snorkel.↗ · Hot water can turn coral white, which is called bleaching.↗ · She painted her room coral pink.↗ · We saw many different corals in the aquarium.↗ · Its walls are built of coral, and the long, gothic windows are of the clearest amber.↗ · Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate.↗ (Writings PRO.24.7, JPS 1917)↗ · No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.↗ (Writings JOB.28.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Aram was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy wealth; they traded for thy wares with carbuncles, purple, and richly woven work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.16, JPS 1917)↗

cord — Everyday, meaning 1: A cord is a thin rope or a thick string.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cord is the covered wire that joins a machine to the plug, like a phone charger cord.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The spinal cord is the bundle of nerves in your backbone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A cord of wood is a big pile of firewood.↗ Example: The cord is 24 inches long.↗ · She cut the cord into 4 equal pieces.↗ · A cord of wood costs $200.↗ · He needs 3 cords that are each 2 meters long.↗ · The lamp has a long cord.↗ · Pull the cord to open the blinds.↗ · Don't trip over the cord.↗ · The spinal cord runs down your back.↗ · ‘Even that cord is not strong enough.’↗ · the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; (Torah EXO.35.18, JPS 1917)↗ · and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.↗ (Torah NUM.3.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.↗ (Torah DEU.22.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?↗ (Writings JOB.4.21, JPS 1917)↗ · The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.6, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'↗ (Writings PSA.2.3, JPS 1917)↗

cordial — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) A sweet concentrated fruit drink that you mix with water: lime cordial, elderflower cordial.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, Canada) A sweet alcoholic drink (liqueur) for adults.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, formal) Warm and friendly in a polite way: a cordial welcome.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Long ago, a cordial was also a medicine or drink that was thought to strengthen and cheer the heart.↗ Example: Mix one part cordial with five parts water.↗ · (Australia) Can I have some raspberry cordial?↗ · Elderflower cordial is lovely on a hot day.↗ · (formal) The visitors received a cordial welcome.↗ · The two countries have cordial relations.↗ · 50 ml of cordial with 250 ml of water makes 300 ml of drink.↗ · “In love he is,” Cona’n grumbled.↗ “A cordial for women, a disease for men, a state of wretchedness.”↗

cordiality — Everyday, meaning 1: Warm, friendly manners when you greet or welcome people.↗ Example: The king was received with cordiality.↗ · Their cordiality made us feel at home.↗ · The host's cordiality hid a sly plan.↗