📖 C — The English dictionary · page 81

counterbalance — Everyday, meaning 1: A weight that balances another weight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that has an equal and opposite effect to something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To balance something by putting weight or force on the other side.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To make up for something by having an opposite effect.↗ Example: The crane uses a heavy counterbalance.↗ · On the see-saw, Dad's weight counterbalanced both of us.↗ · The lift has a counterbalance to make it easier to move.↗ · Good food counterbalanced the long walk.↗ · His calm counterbalances her excitement.↗ · Add weight to the other end to counterbalance the load.↗

counterexample — Everyday, meaning 1: (maths, logic) A counterexample is one example that shows a general statement is false.↗ Example: 2 is a counterexample to the claim that all primes are odd.↗ · Can you find a counterexample to Every square is a rectangle?↗ (There is none.)↗ · One counterexample shows the rule is false.↗ · A penguin is a counterexample to All birds can fly.↗ · She found a counterexample and won the argument.↗ · Find a counterexample: All numbers ending in 9 are prime.↗ (Answer: 9 itself.)↗

counterfeit — Everyday, meaning 1: Made to look exactly like something real in order to trick people; fake, like counterfeit money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A fake copy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To make fake money or goods illegally.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To counterfeit can also mean to pretend to be someone by copying their voice or looks.↗ Example: The shop checks for counterfeit £20 notes.↗ · Counterfeit toys may not be safety tested.↗ · Making counterfeit money is a serious crime.↗ · The watermark showed the note was counterfeit.↗ · Police seized thousands of counterfeit watches.↗ · The forger counterfeited old coins.↗ · “Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.”↗

counterpane — Everyday, meaning 1: A counterpane is a decorated cover laid over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.↗ Example: The beds were covered with white counterpanes.↗ · A rose-leaf made a counterpane for the little bed.↗ · The velvet counterpane was warm and green.↗

counterpart — Everyday, meaning 1: A counterpart is a person or thing that has the same job or place as another, but in a different group, country or situation.↗ Example: The British Prime Minister met her Canadian counterpart.↗ · Our class captain chatted with her counterpart from the visiting school.↗ · The bird's wing is the counterpart of the human arm.↗ · The e-book is the digital counterpart of the paper book.↗ · The US president spoke with his counterpart in Japan.↗ · Our school's head teacher wrote to her counterpart in Australia.↗ · As Ilya is the counterpart of Thor, so does Nicholas in some respects resemble Odin.↗

counterweight — Everyday, meaning 1: A counterweight is a heavy weight used to balance another weight, so that something heavy is easier to lift or does not tip over.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Figuratively, a counterweight is anything that balances something else, such as one idea balancing another.↗ Example: The crane has a huge counterweight to stop it tipping.↗ · A lift uses a counterweight so the motor does less work.↗ · The trebuchet's counterweight dropped and the arm flung the stone.↗ · On a seesaw, a heavier child can be a counterweight to two smaller ones.↗ · We used a bag of marbles as a counterweight in our lever experiment.↗ · Grandad's calm voice was a counterweight to all the shouting.↗

countess — Everyday, meaning 1: A countess is a noble lady, the wife of a count, or a woman who holds the rank of count.↗ Example: The countess lived in the big house on the hill.↗ · 'What will the Countess say?' asked the maid.↗ · The countess was kind to the poor mother.↗

counting — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of numbering or reckoning things.↗ Example: The word sefirot by itself is the plural action noun of סָפַר safar 'to count', thus meaning literally 'countings'.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

countless — Everyday, meaning 1: Countless means so many that they cannot be counted, or very, very many.↗ Example: There are countless stars in the night sky.↗ · I have told you countless times to tidy your room.↗ · Countless people came to see the parade.↗ · The beach has countless grains of sand.↗ · She read countless books in the holidays.↗ · Countless birds fly south for the winter.↗ · Round her came swarming countless devils, the izba was full of them!↗

country — Everyday, meaning 1: A land with its own government, borders and people.↗ e.g. "Canada is a big country."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: "The country" means the countryside — areas with farms and fields, outside towns.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The people of a nation.↗ e.g. "The whole country watched."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Country music, a kind of music from the southern USA.↗ Example: Canada is the second-biggest country in the world.↗ · Ireland is a country in Europe.↗ · We live in the country, near a farm.↗ · Which country were you born in?↗ · Each country has its own flag.↗ · The whole country cheered for the team.↗ · New Zealand is a country of two main islands.↗ · Grandpa likes country music.↗ · 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.↗ (Torah GEN.42.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917)↗ · But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh; (Prophets JOS.15.48, JPS 1917)↗ · Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.↗ (Prophets JDG.17.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; (Prophets 1KI.4.8, JPS 1917)↗

countryman — Everyday, meaning 1: A countryman is a man who lives in the country, on a farm or in a village; he is often plain and hard-working.↗ (Also a man from one's own country.).↗ Example: The countryman walked home with his cart.↗ · A countryman saw the fight from the hedge.↗ · The prince asked the aged countryman the way.↗

countryside — Everyday, meaning 1: The countryside is land outside towns and cities, with fields, farms, woods, hills and small villages.↗ Example: We went for a long walk in the countryside.↗ · My grandparents live in the countryside near a farm.↗ · The countryside is quieter than the city.↗ · Always close farm gates when you walk in the countryside.↗ · From the hill we could see miles of green countryside.↗ · Take your litter home to keep the countryside clean.↗ · There are fewer buses in the countryside.↗

county — Everyday, meaning 1: A county is a part of a state or country with its own name, towns and local government.↗ Example: The county fair has 30 rides.↗ · 5,000 people live in the county.↗ · There are 12 schools in the county.↗ · They drove 40 miles across the county.↗ · Ireland has 32 counties.↗ · We went to the county fair.↗ · The county library has a big children's section.↗ · There was once a boy in the County Mayo; Guleesh was his name.↗

coup — Everyday, meaning 1: A sudden, often violent, illegal taking of power in a country, usually by the army; also called a coup d'état.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clever, successful action that wins something hard to get.↗ Example: The army took power in a coup.↗ · The coup failed, and the president stayed in power.↗ · Getting the famous author to visit our school was a real coup.↗ · After the coup, there were protests in the streets.↗ · A coup d'état is French for "a blow against the state".↗

couple — Everyday, meaning 1: A couple is 2 people who are together, like a married pair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A couple of things means two of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In everyday talk, «a couple of» can mean a few.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To couple is to join two things, like train cars.↗ Example: A couple bought 2 tickets each.↗ · There are 8 couples at the dance, so 16 people.↗ · She ate a couple of cookies.↗ · Each couple brought a dish.↗ · I'll be ready in a couple of minutes.↗ · An old couple lives next door.↗ · The couple danced together.↗ · The train cars are coupled together.↗ · The couple had one boy called Jem.↗ · And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.↗ (Torah EXO.36.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.↗ (Torah EXO.36.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And he coupled five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.↗ (Torah EXO.36.10, JPS 1917)↗ · But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus — the same is Jerusalem; and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also was with him.↗ (Prophets JDG.19.10, JPS 1917)↗

couplet — Everyday, meaning 1: A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that go together, usually rhyming and with the same rhythm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) A couplet can mean a pair of anything.↗ Example: «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are» is a couplet.↗ · Write a rhyming couplet about your pet.↗ · The poem is made of six couplets.↗ · A sonnet by Shakespeare ends with a couplet.↗ · The last couplet made everyone laugh.↗ · Can you find the couplet that does not rhyme?↗ · My birthday card had a funny couplet inside.↗

coupling — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: a part that joins things together.↗ Example: And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; (Writings 1CH.22.3, JPS 1917)↗ · even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.↗ (Writings 2CH.34.11, JPS 1917)↗

coupon — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of paper or a code that lets you get money off or something free when you buy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A form cut from a newspaper or magazine to order or enter something.↗ Example: Use this coupon to get 10% off.↗ · Mum cut coupons from the newspaper.↗ · The coupon gives a free drink with every burger.↗ · The coupon code didn't work.↗ · With the coupon, the 20-dollar toy cost 15 dollars.↗ · Be careful of coupons that ask for your password.↗

courage — Everyday, meaning 1: Courage is the ability to do something that frightens you or is difficult, even when you feel afraid: bravery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The courage of your convictions» means being brave enough to do what you believe is right.↗ Example: It took courage to tell the teacher the truth.↗ · She plucked up the courage to jump off the diving board.↗ · The firefighter was praised for his courage.↗ · Courage is not having no fear — it's doing the right thing anyway.↗ · The cowardly lion went to find courage from the Wizard of Oz.↗ · Standing up for a friend takes courage.↗ · Well, have you lost your courage?↗ · And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — (Torah NUM.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.'↗ (Torah DEU.31.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'↗ (Torah DEU.31.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that wait for the LORD.↗ (Writings PSA.31.25, JPS 1917)↗ · They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother: 'Be of good courage.'↗ (Prophets ISA.41.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.↗ (Writings PSA.27.14, JPS 1917)↗

courageous — Everyday, meaning 1: Courageous means brave: willing to do something frightening, difficult or dangerous because it is right.↗ Example: The courageous firefighter ran into the burning house.↗ · It was courageous of Lily to tell the truth.↗ · Standing up for the new girl was a courageous thing to do.↗ · The courageous little dog barked at the bear.↗ · She made a courageous decision to try again after falling off her bike.↗ · Being courageous doesn't mean you aren't scared.↗ · Good fortune gives courage, and Rudy was always courageous.↗ · And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.↗ (Prophets AMO.2.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; (Prophets JOS.23.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Absalom commanded his servants, saying: 'Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you: Smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.28, JPS 1917)↗

courageously — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a brave way, without giving in to fear.↗ Example: Deal courageously, and the LORD be with the good.'↗ (Writings 2CH.19.11, JPS 1917)↗

courier — Everyday, meaning 1: A courier is a person or company that delivers parcels, letters or documents quickly to people's homes or businesses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A courier is also someone who looks after a group of tourists on a trip.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To courier something means to send it by courier.↗ Example: The courier left the parcel on our doorstep.↗ · The documents were sent by courier.↗ · A bike courier raced through the city traffic.↗ · Mum got a text saying the courier would come at noon.↗ · The courier asked me to sign for the package.↗ · Beware of fake messages from couriers asking for money.↗ · They couriered the tickets to our house.↗ · Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself.↗