📖 C — The English dictionary · page 88

crepuscular — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Active mainly at twilight, at dawn and dusk, rather than in the day or night: «Rabbits and deer are crepuscular».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, literary) Of or like twilight; dim and half-dark: «the crepuscular light».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Crepuscular rays: beams of sunlight shining through gaps in clouds, often seen at sunrise or sunset.↗ Example: Rabbits are crepuscular, so you often see them at dusk.↗ · Deer come out at dawn and dusk because they are crepuscular.↗ · Crepuscular rays streamed through the clouds at sunset.↗ · My cat is most playful at dawn: it's crepuscular.↗ · Bats are nocturnal, but many moths are crepuscular.↗ · The forest was full of crepuscular light.↗

crescent — Everyday, meaning 1: The curved shape of the Moon when only a thin part of it can be seen, like a slice of melon.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any shape like that, curved and thin with pointed ends.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A curved street of houses (used in many UK, Australian and NZ street names).↗ Example: There was a thin crescent moon in the sky.↗ · The croissant is shaped like a crescent.↗ · We live at 12 Oak Crescent.↗ · Draw a crescent by drawing two curves that meet at the points.↗ · The crescent moon grows a little bigger each night until it is full.↗ · The red crescent is a symbol of an aid group, like the red cross.↗ · The sun had long set, and the young moon had risen like a silver crescent in the sky.↗ · In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents; (Prophets ISA.3.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Zebah and Zalmunna said: 'Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.'↗ And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.↗ (Prophets JDG.8.21, JPS 1917)↗

cress — Everyday, meaning 1: A small plant with tiny green leaves that taste peppery, eaten in salads and sandwiches; watercress grows in water.↗ Example: We grew cress on wet cotton wool in an eggshell.↗ · The cress grew towards the window.↗ · Egg and cress sandwiches are my favourite.↗ · Cress tastes a little bit peppery.↗ · Cress in the dark cupboard grew pale and yellow.↗ · Watercress grows in clean, flowing streams.↗ · In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was adorned in summer with pretty flowers, and in winter with cress, grown upon felt.↗

crest — Everyday, meaning 1: A crest is a bunch of feathers, fur or skin on the top of an animal's head, like a cockatoo's crest or a rooster's comb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The crest of a hill or wave is its top.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A crest is a special picture or badge of a family, school, team or town.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To crest is to reach the top of a hill or wave.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «On the crest of a wave» means very successful at the moment.↗ Example: The cockatoo raised its yellow crest.↗ · We reached the crest of the hill and saw the sea.↗ · Our school crest has a lion and a book on it.↗ · The surfer rode the crest of the wave.↗ · The knight's shield showed his family crest.↗ · The river crested after days of rain.↗ · In a wave, the crest is the top and the trough is the bottom.↗ · How she lifts her crest, the ugly, spiteful creature!↗

crested — Everyday, meaning 1: A crested bird or animal has a crest: a tuft of feathers, fur or skin on top of its head.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crested describes things with a decoration or badge (a crest) on them, as in crested notepaper or a crested blazer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Crested can also mean topped with something, such as a wave crested with white foam.↗ Example: The great crested grebe dances on the lake in spring.↗ · A crested newt lives in the pond.↗ · Cockatoos are crested parrots.↗ · The crested penguin has yellow feathers above its eyes.↗ · Our school jumper is crested with an owl badge.↗ · The crested lizard raised its frill.↗ · The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide.↗

cretaceous — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The Cretaceous is the last period of the age of dinosaurs, from about 145 to 66 million years ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Cretaceous (small c) means made of chalk or like chalk.↗ Example: Tyrannosaurus rex lived in the Late Cretaceous period.↗ · The Cretaceous ended about 66 million years ago.↗ · An asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous wiped out most dinosaurs.↗ · The White Cliffs of Dover are made of Cretaceous chalk.↗ · The first flowering plants spread during the Cretaceous.↗ · We found a Cretaceous fossil shell on the beach.↗

cretin — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A person born with a serious illness that stops the body and mind growing properly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude) A foolish or stupid person; now a hurtful insult.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A person born with a serious illness that stops the body and mind growing properly.↗ Example: The poor cretin crept away to his bed.↗ · Don't call people cretins; it is cruel.↗ · The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

crevasse — Everyday, meaning 1: A deep, narrow crack in thick ice, such as on a glacier.↗ Example: The climber nearly fell into a crevasse.↗ · The ice was split by a deep crevasse.↗ · Walk carefully near a crevasse.↗

crevice — Everyday, meaning 1: A narrow crack or gap in rock, wood or a wall.↗ Example: A small tree grew from a crevice in the rock.↗ · Grass grew out of the crevice in the wall.↗ · Light came through the crevices in the shutters.↗ · To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crevices of the crags, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of His majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.21, JPS 1917)↗

crew — Everyday, meaning 1: A crew is a group of people who work together, for example on a ship, a plane or a spacecraft.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crew is any team that does a job together, like a film crew or a road crew.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crew is to work as part of the crew of a boat or plane.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Crew can also be an old past tense of crow, used for a cock calling out.↗ Example: The ship has a crew of 25.↗ · Each crew paints 3 houses a week.↗ · 4 crews work on the road.↗ · 6 of the crew are cooks.↗ · The cabin crew showed us how to wear the life jacket.↗ · The pirate captain shouted at his crew.↗ · The space station has a crew of 7 astronauts.↗ · A film crew came to our school to make a video.↗ · All of a sudden a cock crew.↗

crib — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun, US/Canada) A baby's bed with high barred sides (UK: «cot»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, UK/Ireland/Australia) A model of the stable where Jesus was born, with figures of Mary, Joseph, the baby and animals, set up at Christmas (also «nativity scene»; US «crèche»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A wooden box or rack that holds food for animals; a manger.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, informal) To copy someone else's work and pretend it is yours; to cheat.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun, informal) A sheet of answers or notes used to cheat (a «crib sheet»), or a quick summary of facts.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (noun, slang, US) Someone's house or home: «Welcome to my crib.».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (noun) Short for «cribbage», a card game.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: A crib can also be a small store or bin for holding corn.↗ Example: The baby is fast asleep in her crib.↗ · At Christmas we put the crib under the tree with little wooden sheep.↗ · The children placed baby Jesus in the crib at the crib service.↗ · The cows ate hay from the crib in the barn.↗ · Don't crib your answers from Jack — do your own work.↗ · He was caught with a crib sheet in his pencil case.↗ · "Come round to my crib after school," said my cousin (slang).↗ · Grandad taught us to play crib.↗ · The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.↗ · Or will he abide by thy crib?↗ (Writings JOB.39.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.↗ (Writings PRO.14.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.3, JPS 1917)↗

crick — Everyday, meaning 1: A sudden, stiff pain in the neck or back that makes it hard to move.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sharp cracking or snapping sound.↗ Example: I woke up with a crick in my neck.↗ · Crick! crack! went the branch.↗ · He could not turn his head because of a crick.↗

cricket — Everyday, meaning 1: Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large field with a pitch in the middle, where a bowler bowls to a batter who tries to score runs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cricket is a jumping insect, like a grasshopper, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wings.↗ Example: We play cricket in the summer holidays.↗ · The bowler took three wickets.↗ · He hit the ball for six in the cricket match.↗ · An over in cricket has six balls.↗ · The crickets chirped all night.↗ · Crickets have long back legs for jumping.↗ · Australia and England play for the Ashes.↗ · We ate sandwiches at the cricket.↗ · “Keep still, you ugly Cricket!” cried Pinocchio.↗ · even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds.↗ (Torah LEV.11.22, JPS 1917)↗

cricketer — Everyday, meaning 1: A cricketer is a person who plays cricket, a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven.↗ Example: My cousin wants to be a professional cricketer.↗ · The cricketer hit the ball for six.↗ · Women cricketers play for England and Australia in the Ashes.↗ · Every cricketer on the team wore white.↗ · The young cricketer practised bowling in the nets.↗ · A good cricketer needs patience and quick reactions.↗

crier — Everyday, meaning 1: A town crier: in olden times, a person who walked through the streets ringing a bell and shouting out news and announcements, often starting «Oyez!↗ Oyez!»↗ Some towns still have one for ceremonies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person, especially a baby or child, who cries a lot: «The baby is a real crier».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law, old) An officer in a law court who makes announcements.↗ Example: The town crier rang his bell and shouted the news.↗ · In the Middle Ages, most people learned the news from the town crier.↗ · Our town crier wears a red coat and a three-cornered hat.↗ · «Oyez!↗ Oyez!» called the crier.↗ · My baby cousin is a real crier at bedtime.↗ · I'm a bit of a crier at sad films.↗ · The town crier announced the birth of the prince.↗ · Prince Ali accepted the merchant’s obliging offer, and presently afterward the crier passed by.↗

criest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «criest» means «you cry», a form of «cry».↗ e.g. To cry is to have tears come from your eyes because you are sad, hurt, or very happy.↗ Example: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.↗ (Torah EXO.14.15, JPS 1917)

crieth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «crieth» means «cries», a form of «cry».↗ e.g. To cry is to have tears come from your eyes because you are sad, hurt, or very happy.↗ Example: And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.↗ (Torah GEN.4.10, JPS 1917) · for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.↗ (Torah EXO.22.27, JPS 1917)

crikey — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, euphemism) a cry of surprise or alarm, like «wow!» or «goodness!»; originally a soft stand-in for «Christ».↗ Example: Crikey, that's a big spider!↗ · Crikey, I forgot my homework!↗ · Crikey, look at the time!↗ · «Crikey!» said the explorer when he saw the crocodile.↗ · Crikey, it's hot today.↗ · Crikey Moses, what was that noise?↗

crime — Everyday, meaning 1: An action that is against the law and can be punished, such as stealing or hurting someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Such actions in general, in a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Something that is very wrong or a shame.↗ Example: Stealing is a crime.↗ · The detective solved the crime by finding a footprint.↗ · The police are trying to stop crime in our town.↗ · Breaking a shop window on purpose is a crime.↗ · Sherlock Holmes looked carefully at the scene of the crime.↗ · Crime went down after they put in more street lights.↗ · It's a crime to waste all this food!↗ · If you see a crime, tell an adult and stay safe.↗ · "Who committed the crime!" said Ivan.↗ · For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.↗ (Writings JOB.31.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.23, JPS 1917)↗