📖 C — The English dictionary · page 87

credence — Everyday, meaning 1: Belief or trust that something is true.↗ «Give credence to» means believe it.↗ Example: Nobody gave credence to his wild story.↗ · The king gave credence to the messenger's words.↗ · Her warnings found no credence with the villagers.↗

credentials — Everyday, meaning 1: Qualifications, training and experience that show someone is suitable or trustworthy for a job or role: «Her credentials as a doctor are excellent».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Documents that prove who you are or what you are allowed to do, like an ID badge or press pass: «The guard checked his credentials».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing) Your username and password used to log in: «Never share your login credentials».↗ Example: Never share your login credentials with anyone online.↗ · The police officer showed her credentials before coming in.↗ · The new coach has great credentials: he played for England.↗ · The company boasts about its green credentials.↗ · Check the author's credentials before you trust a website.↗ · Reporters wear their press credentials around their necks.↗ · A scam email may ask for your credentials, so don't reply.↗

credibility — Everyday, meaning 1: Credibility is the quality of being believed and trusted.↗ Example: The website had no author or date, so its credibility was low.↗ · After lying twice, he lost all credibility.↗ · The scientist's careful work gave her great credibility.↗ · Spelling mistakes can hurt the credibility of a letter.↗ · The witness's credibility was questioned in court.↗ · Check the credibility of a source before you use it in your project.↗

credible — Everyday, meaning 1: Credible means believable, able to be trusted as true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A credible person, plan or threat is serious and likely to be real or to succeed.↗ Example: The scientist gave a credible explanation for the strange lights.↗ · Is that website a credible source?↗ · His excuse about the dog eating his homework was not very credible.↗ · The team made a credible effort to win.↗ · Police said the threat was credible and closed the road.↗ · Make your characters credible so the reader believes in them.↗

credit — Everyday, meaning 1: Credit is praise or recognition for something good you have done.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Credit is a way of buying something now and paying for it later.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Credit is money in an account or on a phone or card.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The credits are the list of names at the end of a film or show.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To credit means to believe, or to say someone did something good.↗ Example: She deserves credit for her hard work.↗ · Don't take credit for someone else's idea.↗ · Mum paid with a credit card.↗ · I have 5 pounds of credit on my phone.↗ · We stayed to watch the credits at the end of the film.↗ · It's to his credit that he told the truth.↗ · Buying on credit means you borrow money and must pay it back, often with extra.↗ · The dishonest get no credit, even if they act honestly.↗

creditable — Everyday, meaning 1: Creditable means deserving praise, good enough to be respected, though often not the very best.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money, rare) Able to be added to an account as credit.↗ Example: The team finished a creditable third in the league.↗ · She gave a creditable performance in her first concert.↗ · Getting 70 per cent in a hard test is a creditable result.↗ · Helping the new pupil was a creditable thing to do.↗ · The small school made a creditable effort against the champions.↗ · His creditable behaviour earned him a merit certificate.↗

creditor — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back.↗ Example: The creditor asked for his money.↗ · The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer.↗ · Every creditor wanted to be paid that day.↗ · If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.↗ (Torah EXO.22.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.↗ (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?↗ (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.↗ (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917)↗

creditworthiness — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) Creditworthiness is how safe a bank or shop thinks it is to lend money to a person or company, based on whether they usually pay back what they owe.↗ Example: The bank checked Dad's creditworthiness before giving the mortgage.↗ · Paying bills on time improves your creditworthiness.↗ · A company's creditworthiness affects how much it can borrow.↗ · Missing loan payments harmed her creditworthiness.↗ · Lenders use a credit score to judge creditworthiness.↗ · Good creditworthiness can mean lower interest on a loan.↗

creditworthy — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A creditworthy person or company is thought safe to lend money to, because they are likely to pay it back.↗ Example: The bank decided the family was creditworthy and gave them a loan.↗ · You become creditworthy by paying debts on time.↗ · Shops only offer «buy now, pay later» to creditworthy customers.↗ · The company was no longer creditworthy after it lost money.↗ · Being creditworthy helps adults rent a flat.↗ · Lenders check whether a business is creditworthy.↗

cree — Everyday, meaning 1: The Cree are a group of First Nations (Indigenous) peoples of Canada, and some live in the northern United States.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cree is the language, or group of related languages, spoken by Cree people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is a name of a people, written with a capital C.↗ Example: The Cree are one of the largest First Nations in Canada.↗ · My classmate's grandmother speaks Cree.↗ · Cree is written with special symbols called syllabics.↗ · Many Cree families live in northern Canada.↗ · We learned some Cree words for animals.↗ · Cree storytellers pass on stories from elders to children.↗

creed — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A creed is a short statement of the main things a religion believes, said together in a service; the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are said in many churches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A creed is any set of beliefs or principles someone lives by.↗ Example: We said the Apostles' Creed at the start of assembly.↗ · The Creed begins "I believe in God".↗ · Our club welcomes people of every race and creed.↗ · Kindness to animals is her creed.↗ · The congregation stood for the Creed.↗ · The Nicene Creed is said in many churches.↗ · This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed.↗

creek — Everyday, meaning 1: (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A creek is a small stream or narrow river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A creek is a narrow inlet where the sea or a river comes into the land.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (idiom, slang) Up the creek means in trouble.↗ Example: We caught tadpoles in the creek behind the house.↗ · The creek dries up in summer.↗ (Australia)↗ · Boats were moored in the creek at high tide.↗ (UK)↗ · Don't cross the creek after heavy rain.↗ · If we miss this bus, we're up the creek!↗ (slang)↗ · The creek joins the big river near town.↗ · Clapping together their little hands, they chased one another along the edge of the creek.↗

creel — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried on the back.↗ Example: The fisherman put the fish in his creel.↗ · The brother climbed into the creel.↗ · He carried the creel on his back up the hill.↗

creep — Everyday, meaning 1: To creep means to move slowly and quietly so no one notices you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To creep means to move slowly along the ground, like an insect or a plant growing up a wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something creeps in when it slowly appears, like a mistake.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A creep is an unpleasant person, especially one who makes others feel uneasy.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The creeps is a feeling of fear or disgust.↗ Example: The cat crept towards the bird.↗ · We crept downstairs so we wouldn't wake the baby.↗ · Ivy crept up the old wall.↗ · A spider crept across the floor.↗ · Mistakes can creep into your work if you rush.↗ · That dark house gives me the creeps.↗ · He crept up behind me and said boo!↗ · Long shadows came creeping over the ground.↗ · every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.↗ (Torah GEN.8.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.'↗ And it was so.↗ (Torah GEN.1.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.↗ (Torah GEN.6.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl; (Writings PSA.148.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great.↗ (Writings PSA.104.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.↗ (Writings PSA.104.20, JPS 1917)↗

creeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A plant that grows along the ground or climbs up walls, fences and trees, such as ivy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small bird that creeps up tree trunks looking for insects (a treecreeper).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A person who behaves in a creepy way, for example by watching people secretly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old-fashioned, plural) Soft shoes or a baby's one-piece suit (US, «creepers»).↗ Example: Ivy is a creeper that climbs up walls.↗ · The old house was covered in green creepers.↗ · Monkeys swung on the creepers in the jungle.↗ · A treecreeper ran up the oak trunk.↗ · The creeper had tiny tendrils that gripped the fence.↗ · «Don't be a creeper and read my diary!» said my sister.↗ · In the evening he went as usual to the creeper-covered house.↗

creepy — Everyday, meaning 1: Strange and frightening in a way that makes you uneasy (a creepy house).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a person) Making you feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of how they act.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Crawling, like insects (creepy-crawlies).↗ Example: The old house looked creepy in the dark.↗ · That creepy noise is just the wind.↗ · Tell an adult if someone online is creepy.↗ · We found creepy-crawlies under the log.↗ · The film was a bit too creepy for my brother.↗ · His smile was kind of creepy.↗ · What he saw was creepier than creepy, and surpassed all he had ever dreamt of.↗

cremate — Everyday, meaning 1: To burn the body of a person who has died, until only ashes are left, as a way of saying goodbye instead of burying them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, joking) To burn food very badly: «You've cremated the toast!».↗ Example: Grandpa was cremated, and we scattered his ashes by the sea.↗ · Some families choose to bury, and some to cremate.↗ · Hindus usually cremate their dead.↗ · Her ashes are in a small box after she was cremated.↗ · Dad cremated the sausages on the barbecue!↗ · The funeral was followed by a short service at the crematorium.↗

cremation — Everyday, meaning 1: Cremation is burning a dead person's body to ashes, as a respectful way of saying goodbye instead of burying it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cremation is the ceremony or event when this happens, often at a crematorium after a funeral service.↗ Example: Grandpa wanted a cremation, so his ashes are by the sea.↗ · The cremation took place at the crematorium after the church service.↗ · We scattered Nan's ashes in her favourite garden.↗ · In Hinduism, cremation is the usual custom.↗ · The family talked gently about whether to choose burial or cremation.↗ · After the cremation, people shared stories over tea.↗ · But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians.↗

crematorium — Everyday, meaning 1: A crematorium is a building where the body of a person who has died is burned to ashes, often with a funeral service in a small chapel there.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (euphemism, family) «Going to the crematorium» is a gentle way adults speak of attending a cremation service for someone who has died.↗ Example: Grandad's funeral service was held at the crematorium.↗ · We sat quietly in the crematorium chapel.↗ · After the crematorium, everyone went back to Auntie's house.↗ · The ashes were collected from the crematorium a week later.↗ · The crematorium had a peaceful garden with roses.↗ · Some people choose burial, and others choose cremation at a crematorium.↗

creole — Everyday, meaning 1: A language that grew from a mix of two or more languages and became the first language of a group of people, such as Haitian Creole or Jamaican Patois.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person of mixed European and African or local descent in the Caribbean or Louisiana.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Creole cooking: spicy food from Louisiana in the USA, with rice, peppers and seafood.↗ Example: Haitian Creole is spoken by millions of people.↗ · A creole is a real language with its own rules.↗ · Jamaican Patois is an English-based creole.↗ · We ate Creole jambalaya in New Orleans.↗ · Many creoles grew up in the Caribbean.↗ · Tok Pisin, a creole, is spoken in Papua New Guinea.↗