📖 C — The English dictionary · page 93

crushingly — Everyday, meaning 1: Crushingly means very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you feel defeated or flattened.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crushingly is used before adjectives like «boring», «disappointing» or «obvious» to mean «extremely».↗ Example: Our team was crushingly defeated, 9–0.↗ · The ending of the film was crushingly sad.↗ · The long speech was crushingly boring.↗ · It was crushingly obvious that he had eaten the cake.↗ · The news was crushingly disappointing for the fans.↗ · The heat was crushingly heavy in the afternoon.↗

crust — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard outer part of a loaf or slice of bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The pastry base or top of a pie or pizza.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hard layer on top of something soft, like frozen snow or dried mud.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The thin, rocky outer layer of the Earth.↗ Example: I don't like the crusts on my sandwiches.↗ · This pizza has a thin, crispy crust.↗ · The pie crust was golden brown.↗ · The Earth's crust is thinner under the oceans.↗ · A crust of ice formed on the puddle.↗ · Earthquakes happen when parts of the crust move.↗ · Eat your crusts; they are just bread.↗ · Then she gave her a hard crust of bread, saying:↗

crustacean — Everyday, meaning 1: A crustacean is an animal with a hard outer shell, jointed legs and no backbone, which usually lives in water, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, prawn or crayfish.↗ Example: A crab is a crustacean.↗ · Lobsters, shrimps and prawns are all crustaceans.↗ · Woodlice are crustaceans that live on land.↗ · A crustacean has a hard shell and jointed legs.↗ · Crustaceans grow by shedding their old shells.↗ · We found small crustaceans in the rock pool.↗ · Some people are allergic to crustaceans.↗

crusty — Everyday, meaning 1: Crusty means having a hard, crisp outside, like fresh bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crusty means covered with a hard dry layer (a crusty scab, crusty mud).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A crusty person is grumpy and easily annoyed, often an old one.↗ Example: I love warm crusty bread with butter.↗ · The baker sold crusty rolls.↗ · My knee had a crusty scab.↗ · His boots were crusty with dried mud.↗ · The crusty old captain shouted at the sailors.↗ · The cheese had a crusty rind.↗

crutch — Everyday, meaning 1: A crutch is a long stick with a support for under the arm or a handle, used to help someone walk when a leg or foot is injured.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crutch is something you depend on too much for support or comfort.↗ Example: She walked on crutches after breaking her ankle.↗ · He needed a pair of crutches for six weeks.↗ · The doctor showed me how to use the crutches.↗ · It's hard to carry a tray when you're on crutches.↗ · The calculator should not become a crutch; learn your times tables too.↗ · Hold the door for people on crutches.↗ · Outside the church door stood an old beggar, leaning on his crutch.↗

crux — Everyday, meaning 1: The most important or difficult part of a problem, question or argument: «The crux of the matter is that we don't have enough money».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (climbing) The hardest move or section on a climbing route.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (astronomy) Crux, the Southern Cross: a small, bright group of stars seen in the southern sky, shown on the flags of Australia and New Zealand.↗ Example: The crux of the problem is that the bridge is too short.↗ · Let's get to the crux of the argument.↗ · The crux of the story is whether the dragon will forgive the knight.↗ · The crux of the climb was a tricky overhang.↗ · On the flags of Australia and New Zealand you can see the Southern Cross, called Crux.↗ · Working out what the question asks is the crux of most maths problems.↗

cry — Everyday, meaning 1: To cry is to have tears come from your eyes because you are sad, hurt, or very happy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cry (out) is to shout or call loudly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cry is a loud sound of pain, fear or calling, or the sound of an animal or bird.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A cry for help is a sign that someone needs help.↗ Example: The baby cried all night.↗ · It's okay to cry when you are sad.↗ · "Help!" he cried.↗ · We heard the cry of a seagull.↗ · She cried with happiness at the wedding.↗ · If you cry wolf, nobody will believe you.↗ · There's no use crying over spilt milk.↗ · I heard a cry for help from the river.↗ · "Where are you going?" cries Yegory.↗ · And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.↗ (Torah GEN.18.20, JPS 1917)↗ · If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry — (Torah EXO.22.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'↗ (Torah NUM.16.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Now why dost thou cry out aloud?↗ (Prophets MIC.4.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.↗ (Writings PSA.61.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!↗ (Prophets JER.48.3, JPS 1917)↗

crybaby — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, unkind) A crybaby is someone, especially a child, who cries or complains easily over small things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) An adult who moans when things do not go their way.↗ Example: The older boys called him a crybaby, which was mean.↗ · «Stop being a crybaby,» said his sister, but he really was hurt.↗ · The footballer acted like a crybaby when the referee gave a foul.↗ · It's okay to cry; it doesn't make you a crybaby.↗ · The toddler is not a crybaby; she's just tired.↗ · Calling someone a crybaby is a kind of teasing.↗

crying — Everyday, meaning 1: Crying means having tears coming from your eyes, usually because you are sad, hurt or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: People sometimes cry because they are very happy or laughing hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Crying can also mean shouting loudly, as in «crying for help» or «crying out».↗ Example: The baby was crying because she was hungry.↗ · He was crying after he fell off his bike and hurt his knee.↗ · It is okay to cry when you feel sad.↗ · She was crying with happiness when she won the race.↗ · We heard someone crying for help near the river.↗ · Onions can make your eyes water as if you were crying.↗ · Tom stopped crying when his friend gave him a hug.↗ · The puppy was crying at the door because it wanted to go out.↗ · "What are you crying about, Prince?"↗ · I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.↗ (Writings PSA.69.4, JPS 1917)↗ · There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.↗ (Prophets ISA.24.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said: 'What meaneth the noise of this tumult?'↗ And the man made haste, and came and told Eli.↗ (Prophets 1SA.4.14, JPS 1917)↗

cryptocurrency — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A kind of digital money that exists only on computers, uses special codes to keep it secure, and is not issued by a government or bank, such as Bitcoin.↗ Example: Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency.↗ · The price of cryptocurrency can rise or fall a lot in one day.↗ · My uncle lost money when his cryptocurrency crashed.↗ · Cryptocurrency is kept in a digital wallet.↗ · Scammers often ask for payment in cryptocurrency.↗ · Some cryptocurrencies use a lot of electricity.↗

cryptogram — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A message written in a secret code or cipher.↗

crystal — Everyday, meaning 1: A crystal is a solid with a regular shape, flat sides and sharp edges, formed naturally when some substances become solid, like salt, sugar, snowflakes or quartz.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crystal is a kind of very clear, high-quality glass, used for glasses and decorations.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Crystal clear» means completely clear, very easy to see or understand.↗ Example: We grew salt crystals on a piece of string.↗ · Every snowflake is made of ice crystals.↗ · Quartz is a common crystal in rocks.↗ · The water in the lake was crystal clear.↗ · The witch looked into her crystal ball.↗ · Grandma keeps her crystal glasses for special days.↗ · Is that crystal clear?↗ · A Stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water.↗ · No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.↗ (Writings JOB.28.18, JPS 1917)↗

crystalline — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Made of crystals or having the regular, repeating structure of a crystal: «Salt is a crystalline solid».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literary) Very clear, bright and sparkling, like crystal: «crystalline water».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of sound or speech) Very clear and pure: «a crystalline voice».↗ Example: Salt and sugar are crystalline solids.↗ · Under the microscope, the snowflake showed a crystalline pattern.↗ · Quartz has a crystalline structure.↗ · We swam in the crystalline waters of the bay.↗ · Her crystalline voice filled the church.↗ · Glass looks like crystal but is not crystalline inside.↗ · Diamonds are crystalline forms of carbon.↗

crystallisation — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The process of crystals forming, for example when a salty or sugary solution cools or the water evaporates.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The way an idea or plan becomes clear and definite.↗ Example: We watched the crystallisation of salt in a dish.↗ · Crystallisation separates salt from salty water.↗ · Honey can turn hard by crystallisation.↗ · Snowflakes form by crystallisation of water vapour.↗ · Slow crystallisation makes bigger crystals.↗ · The meeting led to the crystallisation of our plan.↗

crystallise — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) When a substance crystallises, it forms crystals, usually as a liquid cools or water evaporates: «Salt crystallises as the water dries».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When an idea, feeling or plan crystallises, it becomes clear and definite: «Her plan crystallised in her mind».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (cooking) To coat fruit or flowers with sugar so they become sweet and hard: «crystallised ginger».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When talk or a conversation crystallises, it begins to take a clear and definite shape.↗ Example: As the water evaporated, the salt crystallised on the saucer.↗ · Our sugar solution crystallised on the string overnight.↗ · Honey can crystallise if you keep it in the cold.↗ · Gran decorated the cake with crystallised violets.↗ · Slowly, my idea for the story crystallised.↗ · The talk helped crystallise what I wanted to be when I grow up.↗ · They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied.↗

crystallised — Everyday, meaning 1: Turned into crystals: a liquid or a solution formed solid pieces with flat, regular faces.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Became clear and fixed: an idea, a plan or a feeling took a definite shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, food) Coated or preserved in sugar, so it sparkles, like crystallised ginger.↗ Example: The salt crystallised on the saucer after the water dried up.↗ · Our sugar solution crystallised into tiny cubes overnight.↗ · Old honey in the jar had crystallised and gone grainy.↗ · Her idea for the science fair crystallised after the trip to the beach.↗ · Slowly the plan crystallised in his mind.↗ · Nan put crystallised ginger on top of the cake.↗ · The water crystallised into frost on the window.↗ · In the cave, minerals had crystallised into shining points.↗

crystallization — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The process by which something becomes firm and fixed, like a crystal.↗ Example: In essence the work was, doubtless, the crystallization of centuries of tradition by one writer, and it has been added to from time to time, by later authors, who have also revised it.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

crystallize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To become clear, firm and fixed in shape, like a crystal.↗ Example: This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

crystallized — Everyday, meaning 1: Crystallized means covered in sugar or made into hard, sweet, shiny crystals, as in crystallized fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crystallize means to form crystals.↗ Example: She ate crystallized ginger.↗ · The dishes were crystallized lotus leaves and flowers.↗ · Sugar crystallizes when the water dries away.↗

ct — Everyday, meaning 1: ct: short for «carat», the unit for the weight of diamonds and gems (1 carat = 0.2 grams), and also for «karat» (in the US), the measure of how pure gold is (24 ct = pure gold).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: ct: short for «cent» or «cents» in prices, as in «50 ct».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ct: short for «Court» in addresses: «12 Oak Ct».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: CT: short for «computed tomography»: a CT scan is an X-ray scan that makes pictures of slices of the inside of the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: CT: the postal code for Connecticut, a state in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (sport, other) ct also stands for «caught» in some cricket scorecards and «count» in some lists.↗ Example: Mum's ring is 18 ct gold.↗ · The diamond weighs 2 ct.↗ · We live at 4 Maple Ct.↗ · The doctor sent Grandad for a CT scan of his head.↗ · My penpal lives in Hartford, CT.↗ · The sticker said 99 ct.↗

cub — Everyday, meaning 1: A cub is a baby animal, such as a young bear, lion, tiger, fox or wolf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Cub or Cub Scout is a young member of the Scouts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cub can also mean a young, inexperienced person, sometimes said teasingly or rudely.↗ Example: The bear has 3 cubs.↗ · There are 4 lions and 9 cubs at the zoo.↗ · Each cub eats 2 kg of meat.↗ · How many cubs are there in 5 dens with 2 cubs each?↗ · The fox cubs played outside their den.↗ · The mother lion carries her cub.↗ · My brother joined the Cubs.↗ · Bear cubs are born in winter.↗ · “Man!” he snapped.↗ “A man’s cub.↗ · Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.↗ (Prophets EZK.30.5, JPS 1917)↗