📖 C — The English dictionary · page 77

coronation — Everyday, meaning 1: A coronation is the ceremony when a king or queen is crowned and officially becomes ruler.↗ Example: Crowds watched the king's coronation on TV.↗ · The coronation took place in Westminster Abbey.↗ · Our street held a party for the coronation.↗ · Grandma made coronation chicken sandwiches.↗ · The crown is placed on the king's head at the coronation.↗ · The coronation coach was covered in gold.↗

coronavirus — Everyday, meaning 1: One of a family of viruses that can cause illnesses in people and animals, from a common cold to serious illnesses.↗ Under a microscope they have spikes that look like a crown.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (everyday) The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic that spread around the world from 2020, and the illness it caused.↗ Example: The coronavirus spread around the world in 2020.↗ · Coronaviruses are named after the crown-like spikes on their surface.↗ · During the coronavirus lockdown we had school on the computer.↗ · Some colds are caused by a coronavirus.↗ · Wash your hands to stop viruses like the coronavirus spreading.↗ · Scientists made vaccines against the coronavirus.↗ · My nan stayed home a lot while the coronavirus was spreading.↗

coronet — Everyday, meaning 1: A coronet is a small crown worn by a noble, such as a count or a duke; it is less grand than a king's crown.↗ Example: The count wore a gold coronet on his head.↗ · The silver coronet sparkled in the candlelight.↗ · Only nobles were allowed to wear a coronet.↗

corporal — Everyday, meaning 1: A corporal is a soldier with a low rank, above a private, who is in charge of a small group of soldiers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Corporal (adjective) means to do with the body.↗ Example: Corporal Jones led his section across the field.↗ · A corporal is in charge of a few soldiers.↗ · In Victorian schools, corporal punishment with a cane was common.↗ · Corporal punishment is not allowed in schools in the UK.↗ · The private saluted the corporal.↗ · My great-grandad was a corporal in the war.↗

corporate — Everyday, meaning 1: Corporate means to do with a large company or business: «a corporate office», «corporate logo».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Corporate means shared by a whole group: «corporate responsibility».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, sometimes negative) Corporate describes something that feels businesslike, dull or made for profit.↗ Example: Dad works in a corporate office in the city.↗ · The match had a corporate sponsor.↗ · Companies have a corporate duty to protect the environment.↗ · The new logo looks very corporate.↗ · She wore a corporate suit to the meeting.↗ · The school got a corporate gift of laptops.↗

corporation — Everyday, meaning 1: A corporation is a large company or group of companies that is treated by law as one body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A corporation can be a group of people who run a town or city, the town council.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned, humorous) A corporation was a big round belly.↗ Example: He works for a large corporation.↗ · The BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.↗ · Some corporations have offices in many countries.↗ · The city corporation cleans the streets.↗ · The corporation made a profit last year.↗ · A corporation is owned by its shareholders.↗ · John ran as hard as he could into the town, and found the mayor and corporation.↗

corporeal — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with the body, or made of physical matter rather than spirit.↗ Example: The tongue is, as it were, the descriptive pen of all the spiritual issues, and the genital parts are the originators of the corporeal substances.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so-called because it forms every body which is formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so called because it forms every body which is, formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

corps — Everyday, meaning 1: A part of an army with a special job, like the medical corps or the Marine Corps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group of people who work together on a special task, like the press corps or a dance corps.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (ballet) The corps de ballet: the group of dancers who dance together, not the soloists.↗ Example: He joined the Army Medical Corps as a nurse.↗ · The US Marine Corps is part of the American armed forces.↗ · The Peace Corps sends volunteers to help other countries.↗ · The press corps waited outside for the prime minister.↗ · She dances in the corps de ballet.↗

corpse — Everyday, meaning 1: The dead body of a person, and sometimes of an animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, slang, theatre) To «corpse» is to burst out laughing by accident while acting, when you should be serious.↗ Example: The detective found a corpse in the library.↗ · The old story tells of a corpse that walked at night.↗ · Flies laid their eggs on the bird's corpse.↗ · Egyptians wrapped a corpse in cloth to make a mummy.↗ · He looked as pale as a corpse after the roller coaster.↗ · The actor corpsed and couldn't stop giggling on stage.↗ · They both bent over the corpse.↗ · The horseman charging, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; and a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcases; and there is no end of the corpses, and they stumble upon their corpses; (Prophets NAM.3.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.↗ (Prophets ISA.37.36, JPS 1917)↗

corpulence — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old-fashioned) Corpulence is being very fat or heavy in the body.↗ Example: The old king's corpulence made it hard for him to ride.↗ · In the story, the cook's corpulence was described in detail.↗ · Doctors once used «corpulence» for being very overweight.↗ · Corpulence can be linked to health problems.↗ · The portrait hid the duke's corpulence.↗ · He joked about his own corpulence.↗

correct — Everyday, meaning 1: Correct means right, true, or without mistakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Correct can mean proper or suitable, like the correct way to behave.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To correct means to find and fix mistakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A teacher corrects work by marking what is right and wrong.↗ Example: That is the correct answer.↗ · Please correct your spelling mistakes.↗ · The teacher corrected our tests.↗ · Is this the correct way to hold a pencil?↗ · Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it Tuesday?↗ · She got nine out of ten correct.↗ · Glasses correct poor eyesight.↗ · Now he thought his opinion was evidently correct.↗ · And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me; (Torah LEV.26.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Private Hermetic MSS. have alone the correct names and spelling.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Moses Butarel and others tell us that they had before them a correct copy of "Sepher Yezirah," where it reads: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him.↗ (Writings PRO.31.1, JPS 1917)↗ · He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? even He that teacheth man knowledge?↗ (Writings PSA.94.10, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, correct me, but in measure; not in Thine anger, lest Thou diminish me.↗ (Prophets JER.10.24, JPS 1917)↗

correction — Everyday, meaning 1: A correction is a change that makes something right that was wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Correction is the act of putting mistakes right.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Correction can mean punishment, as in old prisons.↗ Example: Do your corrections in green pen.↗ · The teacher made a correction to my spelling.↗ · There were three corrections on the board.↗ · Use correction tape to cover the mistake.↗ · The newspaper printed a correction the next day.↗ · She took the correction kindly and tried again.↗ · Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.↗ (Writings PRO.12.1, JPS 1917)↗ · A fool despiseth his father's correction; but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.↗ (Writings PRO.15.5, JPS 1917)↗ · My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917)↗

correctional — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Correctional describes places and work that deal with punishing people who broke the law and helping them change, such as prisons.↗ Example: He works as a correctional officer.↗ · The correctional facility is outside the town.↗ · Correctional services help prisoners learn skills.↗ · The judge sent him to a correctional centre.↗ · A correctional officer keeps order in the prison.↗ · The news reported on a new correctional building.↗

correctly — Everyday, meaning 1: Correctly means in the right way, without mistakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Correctly means in a proper or polite way that fits the rules or situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Correctly speaking means strictly speaking, if you want to be exact about what is true.↗ Example: She answered all the questions correctly.↗ · Spell your name correctly on the form.↗ · Wear your bike helmet correctly, with the strap done up.↗ · If I remember correctly, the bus comes at noon.↗ · He correctly guessed the number of sweets.↗ · Hold the pencil correctly.↗ · I got 18 out of 20 correctly, so I made 2 mistakes.↗ · Correctly speaking, you are but a youngster in the world.↗

correctness — Everyday, meaning 1: Correctness is the quality of being right or true, with no mistakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Correctness is also behaving in the proper, polite and accepted way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Political correctness» is the idea of avoiding words and actions that might be unfair or hurtful to groups of people; some people praise it and others mock it.↗ Example: The teacher checked the correctness of each sum.↗ · Please check the correctness of your spelling before you hand it in.↗ · The computer tested the correctness of the program.↗ · Grandad always dressed with great correctness.↗ · We argued about the correctness of the answer to question five.↗ · The judge doubted the correctness of the witness's story.↗ · Some people say political correctness has gone too far, and others say it is just being kind.↗

correlated — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) When two things are correlated, they tend to change together: when one goes up, the other usually goes up (or down) too: «Height and shoe size are correlated».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Compared or connected two things to see how they match: «The scientist correlated the temperature with ice-cream sales».↗ Example: Hours of practice and test scores were correlated.↗ · Ice-cream sales and sunny days are positively correlated.↗ · Temperature and the number of people wearing coats are negatively correlated.↗ · The researchers correlated the children's sleep with their marks.↗ · Just because two things are correlated does not mean one causes the other.↗ · Our scatter graph showed that arm span and height are strongly correlated.↗

correlation — Everyday, meaning 1: A connection or relationship between two things, where they change together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths, science) A measure of how closely two sets of numbers go up or down together, as shown on a scatter graph.↗ Example: There is a positive correlation between height and shoe size.↗ · The graph shows a negative correlation: as temperature rises, coat sales fall.↗ · There was no correlation between hair colour and test scores.↗ · Correlation does not mean one thing causes the other.↗ · Scientists found a correlation between exercise and sleep.↗

correspond — Everyday, meaning 1: To match or be the same as something, or to fit together: «The numbers correspond to the pictures.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be like or equal to something else in another system: «The British «year 6» roughly corresponds to the American «fifth grade».».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To write letters or emails to someone over time.↗ Example: Each letter corresponds to a number in this code.↗ · Your answer does not correspond with what the question asked.↗ · The dots on the map correspond to the schools in our town.↗ · I correspond with a pen pal in New Zealand.↗ · The two girls corresponded for many years.↗ · In similar triangles, the angles that correspond are equal.↗ · The tally marks should correspond to the numbers in the chart.↗ · Now it is remarkable how accurately all this corresponds to the Dark Tower of “Childe Rowland,” allowing for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator.↗ · The Hebrew language and its characters correspond mostly with the things they designate, and thus holy thoughts, Hebrew language (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · In IHV note that Yod corresponds to the Father ; Heh to Binah, the Supernal Mother ; and Vau to the Microprosopus — Son .↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Soul; the word is NPSh, which is commonly translated soul, meaning the living personality of man, animal or existing thing : it corresponds almost to the Theosophic Prana plus the stimulus of Kama.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

correspondence — Everyday, meaning 1: Correspondence is letters, emails or messages sent between people.↗ e.g. "she reads her correspondence every morning".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Correspondence is writing to each other over time.↗ e.g. "we kept up a correspondence for years".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A correspondence is a match or close link between two things.↗ e.g. "a correspondence between the two lists".↗ Example: Grandpa keeps all his correspondence in a box.↗ · The two friends kept up a correspondence while one lived in Canada.↗ · Match each child to one chair: that is one-to-one correspondence.↗ · There is a close correspondence between the two maps.↗ · The office deals with the head teacher's correspondence.↗ · She did a correspondence course by post.↗ · "It is an unheard-of thing," said Noureddin, "that a fisherman should be in correspondence with a king."↗

correspondent — Everyday, meaning 1: A reporter who sends news to a newspaper, radio or TV station from a particular place or about a particular subject, such as a war correspondent or a sports correspondent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who writes letters to someone else regularly; two people who write to each other are correspondents.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) A person or firm that deals with another, especially a bank that does business for another bank in a different country.↗ Example: The news correspondent stood in the rain and told us about the flood.↗ · Our school has a correspondent who writes for the local paper about sports day.↗ · My nan and her old school friend have been correspondents for a very long time.↗ · The BBC sent a correspondent to report on the bushfires.↗ · A sports correspondent wrote about the big match on the back page.↗ · The two pen pals were faithful correspondents and wrote every month.↗ · The foreign correspondent spoke three languages.↗ · (formal) The bank used a correspondent in another country to send the money.↗