📖 C — The English dictionary · page 94

cuban — Everyday, meaning 1: Cuban means from Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean Sea, south of Florida.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Cuban is a person from Cuba.↗ Example: Havana is the Cuban capital.↗ · My friend's grandma is Cuban, and she speaks Spanish.↗ · We danced to Cuban music at the party.↗ · The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in 1962.↗ · Cuban sandwiches are popular in Miami.↗ · Many Cubans live in Florida.↗

cube — Everyday, meaning 1: A cube is a solid shape with 6 square faces that are all the same size, like a dice.↗ A cube has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cube is a small block of something, like an ice cube or a sugar cube.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The cube of a number is the number times itself times itself: the cube of 2 is 8.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The cube root of a number is the number which, multiplied by itself twice, gives that number.↗ Example: A cube has 6 faces.↗ · She builds a tower with 12 cubes.↗ · How many 1 cm cubes fill the box?↗ · Each cube has edges 3 cm long.↗ · Put 2 ice cubes in your drink.↗ · The cube of 3 is 27.↗ · Cut the cheese into cubes.↗ · A dice is a cube with dots.↗ · He tried it by square root and by cube root.↗

cubic — Everyday, meaning 1: Cubic tells that something is measured in cubes, to show how much space a thing fills.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cubic also means shaped like a cube.↗ Example: The box holds 60 cubic centimeters.↗ · The tank has a volume of 2 cubic meters.↗ · How many cubic feet of sand are needed?↗ · A cubic inch is a tiny cube.↗ · One cubic centimeter of water weighs 1 gram.↗ · The fridge holds 20 cubic feet.↗ · Salt crystals are cubic.↗

cubical — Everyday, meaning 1: Shaped like a cube, with six equal square faces (a cubical box).↗ Example: Salt crystals are cubical.↗ · The present came in a cubical box.↗ · A cubical block with sides of 2 cm has a volume of 8 cubic centimetres.↗ · Dice are small cubical objects.↗ · The building looked cubical from the outside.↗ · The ice cubes were not quite cubical.↗

cubism — Everyday, meaning 1: (art) A style of painting and sculpture begun around 1907–1908 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, in which people and objects are shown as flat geometric shapes like cubes and angles, often seen from several sides at once.↗ Example: Picasso is famous for Cubism.↗ · In art class we made a Cubist portrait out of triangles and squares.↗ · Cubism shows a face from the front and the side at the same time.↗ · The guitar in the painting is broken into shapes, which is typical of Cubism.↗ · Our teacher showed us how Cubism changed modern art.↗

cubit — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A cubit is an old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 45 cm.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: An old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.↗ Example: The fish was only a cubit long.↗ · The horn is about a cubit long.↗ · They have cleared only one cubit of the granary.↗ · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.↗ (Torah GEN.7.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the house, that is, the temple before the Sanctuary, was forty cubits long.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.↗ (Prophets EZK.40.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.↗ (Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917) · Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.↗ (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) · Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.↗ (Torah EXO.26.16, JPS 1917)

cuckoo — Everyday, meaning 1: A cuckoo is a grey bird whose call sounds like «cuck-oo».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, so other birds raise their chicks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cuckoo clock has a little bird that pops out and calls the hours.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Informally, «cuckoo» means silly or crazy.↗ Example: We heard a cuckoo calling in the woods.↗ · The cuckoo lays its egg in another bird's nest.↗ · The cuckoo chick was bigger than its foster parents.↗ · Grandma's cuckoo clock calls every hour.↗ · Hearing the first cuckoo means spring is here.↗ · The cuckoo flew off across the field.↗ · That idea is a bit cuckoo!↗ · The little bird popped out of the clock: «Cuckoo!»↗ · The cuckoo sang, and the lark carolled, for it was now beautiful spring.↗

cucumber — Everyday, meaning 1: A long, thin, green vegetable with a cool, watery inside, eaten raw in salads or sandwiches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The plant it grows on.↗ Example: Slice the cucumber for the salad.↗ · Cucumbers are mostly water.↗ · We grew cucumbers in the school garden.↗ · She stayed as cool as a cucumber in the test.↗ · Pickles are made from little cucumbers.↗ · Cucumber sandwiches are popular at tea parties.↗ · "One is born to that," said the cucumber to itself.↗ · We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917)↗ · They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.↗ (Prophets JER.10.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

cud — Everyday, meaning 1: Cud is food that a cow, sheep, goat or deer has swallowed and then brings back up from its stomach into its mouth to chew again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «To chew the cud» means to chew food this way; figuratively, it means to think about something slowly and carefully.↗ Example: The cow lay in the field chewing the cud.↗ · Sheep and goats chew the cud too.↗ · Animals that chew the cud are called ruminants.↗ · A cow brings grass back up from its stomach as cud.↗ · Grandad sat on the bench chewing the cud about the old days.↗ · In old laws, animals that chew the cud were allowed as food.↗ · When he and his guests entered the courtyard, they noticed the goat tied to the post quietly chewing the cud.↗ · And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.↗ (Torah LEV.11.3, JPS 1917)↗

cuddle — Everyday, meaning 1: To cuddle someone is to hold them close in your arms to show love or to comfort them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cuddle is a long, warm hug.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cuddle up is to lie or sit close to someone to be warm and comfortable.↗ Example: Mum gave me a big cuddle.↗ · The baby likes to cuddle her teddy.↗ · We cuddled up on the sofa to watch a film.↗ · The puppy loves cuddles.↗ · Can I have a cuddle?↗ · My cuddly toy is a rabbit.↗ · It's OK to say «no thank you» to a cuddle.↗ · He was able to sit up in bed and look at picture-books, while the little Rabbit cuddled close at his side.↗

cuddly — Everyday, meaning 1: Cuddly means soft, warm and nice to hug.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cuddly person or animal is friendly and likes to be hugged, or is a little plump in a pleasant way.↗ Example: My sister sleeps with her cuddly rabbit.↗ · Kittens are so cuddly.↗ · The fair gave cuddly toys as prizes.↗ · Grandma is warm and cuddly.↗ · Koalas look cuddly, but they have sharp claws.↗ · He won a big cuddly bear.↗

cudgel — Everyday, meaning 1: A short thick stick used as a weapon; a club.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To hit someone with a cudgel.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (phrase) «Cudgel your brains» means think very hard to remember something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (phrase) «Take up the cudgels for someone» means defend them strongly in an argument.↗ Example: Badger handed each friend a stout cudgel.↗ · The robber waved a cudgel at the travellers.↗ · Mole ran through the hall waving his cudgel.↗ · I cudgelled my brains but could not remember her name.↗ · She took up the cudgels for her little brother in the argument.↗ · The guard carried a heavy cudgel.↗ · How can I forget the blow with the cudgel?↗

cue — Everyday, meaning 1: A signal, word or action that tells someone it is time to do something, especially an actor to speak or come on stage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hint that helps you understand or remember something: «context cues», «picture cues».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A long thin stick used to hit the ball in snooker, pool and billiards.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To give someone a signal to start: «Cue the music!».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To get a song or video ready at the right point to play.↗ Example: When the bell rang, that was our cue to line up.↗ · The actor missed his cue and came on late.↗ · Right on cue, the rain started as we left.↗ · Use the picture cues to guess the word.↗ · He chalked the end of his cue before taking the shot.↗ · Cue the music!↗ · Take your cue from the teacher and stay calm in the fire drill.↗ · She cued up her favourite song.↗

cuff — Everyday, meaning 1: A cuff is the end part of a sleeve, around the wrist.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A cuff is a turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg (UK: turn-up).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cuffs (informal) are handcuffs, and to cuff someone is to put handcuffs on them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To cuff someone is to hit them lightly with an open hand; a cuff is such a light hit.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A cuff is a band put round the arm to measure blood pressure.↗ Example: The cuffs of my school shirt are dirty.↗ · He rolled up his cuffs to wash his hands.↗ · The police cuffed the thief and put him in the car.↗ · In the old story, the boy got a cuff round the ear.↗ · She gave a funny speech off the cuff, without notes.↗ · The nurse put a cuff on Grandma's arm to check her blood pressure.↗ · His jeans had wide cuffs at the bottom.↗ · Fairies indeed are strange, and Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed them.↗

cuisine — Everyday, meaning 1: Cuisine is a style of cooking from a certain country or region, such as Italian cuisine or Indian cuisine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cuisine is the food served, especially good-quality food, as in the restaurant's cuisine.↗ Example: Pizza and pasta are part of Italian cuisine.↗ · Mexican cuisine uses lots of beans, corn and chillies.↗ · The town has restaurants with cuisines from all over the world.↗ · We studied Chinese cuisine in food technology.↗ · Australian cuisine has many influences.↗ · The hotel is famous for its fine cuisine.↗

culinary — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with cooking or the kitchen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Connected with cooking as a skill or art, such as culinary skills or a culinary school.↗ Example: Basil and parsley are culinary herbs.↗ · My uncle went to culinary school to become a chef.↗ · The class showed off their culinary skills at the bake sale.↗ · The festival had food from many culinary traditions.↗ · Grandad's culinary masterpiece was a burnt sausage.↗ · (formal) The hotel is famous for its culinary excellence.↗

cull — Everyday, meaning 1: To cull animals means to kill some of them on purpose, to keep the group small or healthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cull means to choose or collect things from many sources: «facts culled from books».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A cull is an act of killing some animals in a group.↗ Example: The park plans to cull some of the deer.↗ · The farmer culled the sick hens.↗ · The facts were culled from old newspapers.↗ · After a cull of 40, how many of the 300 deer are left?↗ · Many people protested against the badger cull.↗ · She culled the best photos for the album.↗

culled — Everyday, meaning 1: (euphemism, official) killed a number of animals to reduce their numbers, or because they are ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: chose or picked out from a large group (culled facts from books).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (business) cut, removed (jobs culled).↗ Example: Thousands of chickens were culled because of bird flu.↗ · Deer are culled in the park to protect the trees.↗ · The editor culled the best stories from hundreds of letters.↗ · The company culled two hundred jobs.↗ · The badgers were culled despite protests.↗ · We culled old toys from the cupboard for the charity shop.↗

culminate — Everyday, meaning 1: To culminate is to reach the highest or final point of something, often after a long time or many steps.↗ Example: The school year culminated in a big summer show.↗ · Weeks of training culminated in winning the cup.↗ · The adventure culminated with the dragon's defeat.↗ · The protests culminated in a new law.↗ · Our science project culminated in a trip to the museum.↗ · Years of hard work culminated in her first book.↗