📖 C — The English dictionary · page 85

craggy — Everyday, meaning 1: Rough and steep, with many sharp rocks sticking out; a craggy hill or cliff.↗ Example: They climbed the craggy mountain.↗ · A craggy cliff overlooked the sea.↗ · The giant's craggy face was lined with rock.↗

cram — Everyday, meaning 1: To cram is to push too many things or people into a small space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cram is to study a lot in a short time just before a test.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cram food is to eat it very fast, stuffing your mouth.↗ Example: He crammed all his clothes into one small bag.↗ · Twenty people crammed into the tiny lift.↗ · Don't cram for the test the night before; revise a bit each day.↗ · The cupboard was crammed with old toys.↗ · She crammed the whole sandwich into her mouth.↗ · We crammed into the car for the trip.↗ · The shelves were crammed full of books.↗ · Hansel bent down and filled his pocket with as many of them as he could cram in.↗

cramp — Everyday, meaning 1: A cramp is a sudden, painful tightening of a muscle, often in the leg or foot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cramps are pains in the stomach.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cramp means to stop someone moving or acting freely: cramp your style.↗ Example: I got cramp in my leg during the race.↗ · Stretch your leg to ease the cramp.↗ · My hand had a cramp after writing so much.↗ · She had stomach cramps after eating too fast.↗ · A cramp in the water can be dangerous, so swim near the shore.↗ · The small car felt cramped with five people in it.↗ · Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.↗

cranberry — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, round, red, very sour berry that grows on low bushes in wet, boggy ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The deep red colour of these berries.↗ Example: We had turkey with cranberry sauce for dinner.↗ · Cranberries taste very sour on their own.↗ · Farmers flood the bog so the cranberries float to the top.↗ · Mum put dried cranberries in the muffins.↗ · She drank a glass of cranberry juice.↗ · The recipe needs 200 grams of cranberries.↗ · My new jumper is a dark cranberry red.↗ · So the bear promised to lie very still; but the moment the cranberries touched her eyes she sprang up with a roar.↗

crane — Everyday, meaning 1: A crane is a very tall machine with a long arm used to lift and move heavy things, especially on building sites and at ports.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crane is also a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long beak.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crane your neck is to stretch your neck to see something better.↗ Example: A huge crane lifted the steel beams to the top floor.↗ · The crane unloaded the containers from the ship.↗ · A crane stood in the marsh on one leg.↗ · We folded paper cranes in art class.↗ · I craned my neck to see over the crowd.↗ · The crane driver sits in a little cab high in the air.↗ · Cranes fly in big flocks when they migrate.↗ · ‘Take this sack,’ said the crane.↗ · Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.↗ (Prophets ISA.38.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.8.7, JPS 1917)↗

crank — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A handle or bar bent at a right angle that you turn round and round to make a machine work, like on an old car engine, a pencil sharpener or a jack-in-the-box.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, informal) A person with strange, fixed ideas who will not listen to evidence: «a crank who thinks the Earth is flat».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, US, informal) A grumpy, bad-tempered person.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To turn a crank to start or move something: «crank the handle».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb, informal) Crank up: to turn up the volume, heat or power: «crank up the music».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (slang, US) Crank: a slang name for an illegal drug (methamphetamine) — dangerous and against the law.↗ Example: In the old days, drivers had to crank the engine by hand.↗ · The pedals of a bike are attached to cranks.↗ · Turn the crank and the music box plays.↗ · Can you crank up the heating?↗ It's freezing.↗ · Some cranks still claim the Earth is flat.↗ · Grandpa is a bit of a crank before his morning coffee.↗ · The factory cranks out thousands of toys a day.↗ · Don't make crank calls; it is mean and can be illegal.↗

crankshaft — Everyday, meaning 1: A crankshaft is a long metal rod in an engine that turns the up-and-down movement of the pistons into turning (spinning) movement that drives the wheels.↗ Example: The pistons push the crankshaft round.↗ · A broken crankshaft means the engine cannot work.↗ · A bicycle's pedals turn a crank, a little like a crankshaft.↗ · The mechanic showed us the crankshaft inside the old engine.↗ · In D&T we built a model with a crankshaft that made a toy bird flap.↗ · Steam engines used a crankshaft to turn their wheels.↗

cranky — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, US/Canada/Australia) Bad-tempered or easily annoyed, often because you are tired or hungry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) Strange or odd (cranky ideas).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of a machine) Not working well; unreliable.↗ Example: The baby gets cranky when she's tired.↗ · Don't be cranky; we'll eat soon.↗ · Grandad is a bit cranky in the mornings.↗ · The cranky old car wouldn't start.↗ · I'm always cranky when I'm hungry.↗ · The cranky shopkeeper shouted at the kids.↗

cranny — Everyday, meaning 1: A small crack, gap or hole in a wall or rock where something tiny can hide or shelter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Any tiny hidden corner or secret place.↗ Example: The crab hid in a cranny between the rocks.↗ · She felt into every cranny for the lost button.↗ · The mouse squeezed through a cranny in the wall.↗

crap — Everyday, meaning 1: (rude) Nonsense or untrue things: «That's a load of crap.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude, UK, Australia) Very bad or of poor quality: «a crap film».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude) Rubbish or junk: «clear all that crap off the table».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rude) Solid waste from the body; or to empty the bowels.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (rude) «Crap!» said when something goes wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: «Craps» (US): a game played with two dice for money.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: In some old dialect speech, crap means a crop grown on a farm.↗ Example: (rude) «Crap!↗ I forgot my homework.»↗ · (rude) «That film was crap,» said my cousin.↗ · (rude) «I'm crap at football,» he sighed.↗ · (rude) «Stop talking crap.»↗ · (rude) «Get your crap off my bed!»↗ · (rude) «Cut the crap and tell me the truth.»↗ · They played craps in the casino.↗

crape — Everyday, meaning 1: A thin, crinkly black cloth, worn to show mourning for someone who has died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A thin crinkled cloth of other colours, used for dresses and wrappers.↗ Example: She wore a black crape band on her sleeve for her grandfather.↗ · The box was wrapped in crape.↗ · The table was covered with crape for the funeral.↗

crash — Everyday, meaning 1: A crash is an accident when a vehicle hits something hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crash is a sudden loud noise of something falling or breaking.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crash is to hit something hard, or to fall with a loud noise.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When a computer crashes, it suddenly stops working.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To crash can mean to fall asleep very quickly because you are tired (informal).↗ Example: The car crashed into a tree.↗ · We heard a crash from the kitchen.↗ · The waves crashed against the rocks.↗ · My computer crashed and I lost my work.↗ · Wear a helmet in case you crash your bike.↗ · The plane made a crash landing.↗ · After the trip I crashed on the sofa.↗

crashing — Everyday, meaning 1: A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sound of heavy bodies bursting through things, such as trees or branches.↗ Example: We heard a crashing in the bushes.↗ · The falling tree made a loud crashing.↗ · Through the crashings of the branches, the horse ran on.↗ · Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?↗ (Writings JOB.36.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And in that day, saith the LORD, Hark! a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.↗ (Prophets ZEP.1.10, JPS 1917)↗

crate — Everyday, meaning 1: A crate is a big strong box, often made of wood or plastic slats, used to carry or store things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dog crate is a box-like cage where a dog sleeps or travels.↗ Example: Each crate holds 24 apples.↗ · They loaded 15 crates onto the truck.↗ · How many crates are needed for 96 bottles?↗ · A crate of oranges weighs 20 kg.↗ · The puppy sleeps in a crate at night.↗ · The farmer stacked the crates in the barn.↗ · We used an old crate as a step.↗ · The ship carried hundreds of crates.↗

crater — Everyday, meaning 1: A crater is a large bowl-shaped hole in the ground made when something hits it, like a meteorite or a bomb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crater is the hollow at the top of a volcano.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A crater can also be any small hollow or dip, like a dent in a soft surface.↗ Example: The Moon's surface is covered in craters.↗ · We dropped stones into a tray of flour to make craters.↗ · Smoke rose from the crater of the volcano.↗ · A meteorite made a huge crater in the desert.↗ · Bigger stones made deeper craters in our experiment.↗ · The bomb left a crater in the road.↗ · Some craters fill with water and become lakes.↗ · Does the crater of the volcano know that the glowing lava is pouring from it?↗

craunch — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old word meaning to crunch or chew noisily.↗ Example: Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917)↗

crave — Everyday, meaning 1: To crave something is to want it very strongly, so that it is hard to think about anything else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, formal) To crave something is to ask for it humbly: «I crave your pardon».↗ Example: After the long walk, I craved a cold drink.↗ · Toad craved excitement and fast cars.↗ · Babies crave attention and comfort.↗ · «I crave your pardon, my lord.»↗ · She craved a quiet moment alone.↗ · Some people crave chocolate when they are tired.↗ · At last Hook had got the boon for which he craved.↗ · So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.↗ (Writings PSA.78.29, JPS 1917)↗

craving — Everyday, meaning 1: A craving is a very strong wish for something, especially a food or drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strong need for an addictive thing, like a smoker's craving for a cigarette.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Craving is also the -ing form of «crave», to want something very strongly.↗ Example: I have a craving for ice cream.↗ · Mum had cravings for pickles when she was expecting the baby.↗ · Smokers feel cravings when they try to stop.↗ · He is craving attention from his friends.↗ · Buddhists teach that craving leads to suffering.↗ · After the run I was craving water.↗ · A glass of milk stopped my craving for something sweet.↗ · He sold all his possessions in order to satisfy his cravings, and was forced at last to devour his own limbs.↗ · And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.↗ (Writings PSA.78.18, JPS 1917)↗ · They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths, (Writings PSA.78.30, JPS 1917)↗

craw — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The first stomach pouch of a bird, where food is stored.↗ In some texts it is the throat or the crop.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: The first stomach of a bird, where food is stored; in one sentence it is the sound of crows calling.↗ Example: And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw.↗ [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · "Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw.↗ [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)

crawl — Everyday, meaning 1: To crawl is to move on your hands and knees, as babies do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To crawl is how insects, worms and snakes move along the ground slowly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crawl means to go very slowly, like traffic in a jam.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To be crawling with something means to be full of crawling creatures or people.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The crawl, or front crawl, is a fast swimming stroke with arms going over the head one at a time.↗ Example: The baby is learning to crawl.↗ · If there's smoke, crawl low under it to get out.↗ · A caterpillar crawled across the leaf.↗ · Traffic crawled along the motorway.↗ · The kitchen was crawling with ants.↗ · I can swim fifty metres of front crawl.↗ · We crawled through the tunnel in the playground.↗ · The last lesson before the holidays crawled by.↗ · The place is crawling with them,” said he.↗ · The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.↗ (Torah DEU.32.24, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear unto the LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of Thee.↗ (Prophets MIC.7.17, JPS 1917)↗