📖 C — The English dictionary · page 95

culpability — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, law) Culpability is being to blame for something wrong or bad.↗ Example: The court had to decide the driver's culpability for the crash.↗ · The company denied any culpability for the oil spill.↗ · He accepted culpability and apologised.↗ · Being a child can reduce a person's culpability in law.↗ · The inquiry looked at the culpability of the officials.↗ · Culpability is greater when harm is done on purpose.↗

culpable — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, law) Deserving blame for something wrong or bad: «He was culpable for the accident».↗ Example: The driver was found culpable for the crash.↗ · Everyone who knew about the bullying and did nothing felt a little culpable.↗ · Is a child as culpable as an adult for breaking a rule?↗ · The judge said the company was culpable for the pollution.↗ · In ethics we discussed when someone is morally culpable.↗ · She was not culpable, because she did not know the bridge was unsafe.↗

culprit — Everyday, meaning 1: A culprit is the person who has done something wrong or committed a crime.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A culprit is the cause of a problem.↗ Example: The teacher found the culprit who drew on the wall.↗ · The detective finally named the culprit.↗ · The dog was the culprit — there were crumbs on its nose!↗ · Too much sugar is the main culprit in tooth decay.↗ · The culprit for the flood was a blocked drain.↗ · The police are still looking for the culprits.↗ · Here was the culprit who had brought misfortune on all of them!↗

cult — Everyday, meaning 1: A small religious group with unusual beliefs, often controlled by one strong leader; often used as a negative word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Great admiration for a person, thing or idea that is very popular with a group (a cult of fitness).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Loved by a small group of fans (a cult film).↗ Example: The film became a cult classic.↗ · The band has a cult following.↗ · The cult leader made his followers give him their money.↗ · Ancient Romans had many cults for different gods.↗ · That show is a cult favourite in Australia.↗ · Be wary of any group that tells you to keep secrets from family.↗

cultivate — Everyday, meaning 1: To prepare and use land for growing crops: to dig, plant and look after it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To grow plants or crops on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To build up or develop something slowly with care, such as a skill, a habit or a friendship.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) To grow bacteria or cells in a lab.↗ Example: Farmers cultivate wheat on the wide plains.↗ · The first farmers learned to cultivate rice along rivers.↗ · Grandad cultivates tomatoes in his greenhouse.↗ · Our class cultivated a vegetable patch behind the school.↗ · Try to cultivate the habit of reading every night.↗ · She cultivated a friendship with the new girl next door.↗ · Scientists cultivate bacteria in small round dishes.↗ · This land is too rocky to cultivate.↗ · Long, long ago there lived an old man and his wife who supported themselves by cultivating a small plot of land.↗

cultivated — Everyday, meaning 1: Cultivated land has been dug, planted and looked after for growing crops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cultivated plant has been grown by people on purpose, not wild: «cultivated strawberries».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cultivated person is well educated, polite and knows about art, music and books.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb form, «cultivated» means grew or developed: «She cultivated roses»; «He cultivated a friendship».↗ Example: The farmers cultivated rice in the wet fields.↗ · Wild strawberries are smaller than cultivated ones.↗ · The cultivated fields stretched for miles.↗ · Long ago, people first cultivated wheat.↗ · Her aunt is a cultivated woman who loves opera.↗ · He cultivated a good friendship with his neighbour.↗ · Jeppe Jans cultivated his fields in summer, and in the winter he made wooden shoes.↗

cultivation — Everyday, meaning 1: Preparing land and growing crops or plants on it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The growing of a particular plant: «the cultivation of rice».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Developing a skill, quality or friendship carefully over time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) Being educated and having good manners and taste.↗ Example: Rice cultivation needs a lot of water.↗ · This field has been under cultivation for many years.↗ · The cultivation of potatoes spread across Europe.↗ · Good cultivation of the soil helps the seeds grow.↗ · Learning an instrument needs patient cultivation of skill.↗ · Terraces make cultivation possible on steep hills.↗ · (formal) She was a woman of great cultivation and charm.↗ · He accordingly gathered round him his zealous followers, and they set forth on their travels, planting the vine and teaching its cultivation wherever they went.↗

cultivator — Everyday, meaning 1: A cultivator is a person who grows crops and works the land, a farmer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cultivator is also a machine that breaks up the soil before planting.↗ Example: He decided to rid the country of the bull, which had become a terror to the cultivators.↗ · The cultivator broke up the soil before the seeds went in.↗ · She was a land cultivator with many fish ponds.↗

cultural — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with the customs, beliefs, art, food and way of life of a group of people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To do with art, music, theatre and books.↗ Example: Diwali is an important cultural festival for many families.↗ · Our class learnt about cultural differences in greetings.↗ · The city has a new cultural centre with a theatre.↗ · Learning a language gives you cultural knowledge too.↗ · The castle is part of our cultural heritage.↗ · Some gestures are polite in one country and rude in another for cultural reasons.↗

culture — Everyday, meaning 1: The way of life of a group of people: their language, food, clothes, beliefs, customs, festivals, music and art.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Art, music, books, theatre and other creative activities, all together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The ideas and habits shared by people in a group, like a school or team (a culture of kindness).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Tiny living things, like bacteria, grown on purpose in a dish for study.↗ Example: Every culture has its own festivals and foods.↗ · In our class there are children from many different cultures.↗ · We learned about Māori culture and the haka.↗ · Bowing is part of Japanese culture.↗ · Music, dance and stories are part of a culture.↗ · Our school has a culture of helping each other.↗ · The scientist grew a culture of bacteria in a petri dish.↗ · Moving to a new country can give you culture shock.↗ · The continuity of language and culture between these two divisions of Gaeldom has clearly brought about this identity of their folk-tales.↗ · Kalisch in the supplementary paragraphs gives a different attribution ; both are wrong, as an adept cultured clairvoyant could prove.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

cultus — Everyday, meaning 1: The worship of a god, with its rites and ceremonies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A religious cult, or a group that shares such worship.↗ Example: In ancient Greece people held a cultus to honour Apollo.↗ · The priests led the cultus with song.↗ · Old books describe the cultus of the sun.↗

culvert — Everyday, meaning 1: A culvert is a tunnel or large pipe that carries a stream or rainwater under a road, railway or path.↗ Example: The stream flows through a culvert under the road.↗ · After the storm, the culvert was full of rushing water.↗ · Stay away from culverts when it rains.↗ · Leaves blocked the culvert and the road flooded.↗ · Workers cleared the rubbish from the culvert.↗ · The ducks swam out of the culvert.↗

cum — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, from Latin) Combined with; also being used as: «a kitchen-cum-dining room» is one room that is both a kitchen and a dining room; «a shed-cum-workshop».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Latin, school and university) In Latin, «cum» means «with», as in the university honours «cum laude» (with praise) and «magna cum laude» (with great praise).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, adult slang) A rude word grown-ups use; not for school.↗ Example: Our kitchen-cum-dining room is where we do homework.↗ · Dad uses the garage as a gym-cum-workshop.↗ · My aunt graduated magna cum laude from college.↗ · The spare room is a study-cum-guest room.↗ · Chorlton-cum-Hardy is part of Manchester.↗ · Tom., I, Chap.↗ 1.)↗ Third, Rittangel published the book "Yezirah," 1642, at Amsterdam, entitled: "Liber Yezirah qui Abrahamo patriarchae adscribitur, una cum commentario (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

cumulative — Everyday, meaning 1: Cumulative means increasing by adding one amount to another over time, so the total keeps growing.↗ Example: The cumulative total of rainfall for the week was 40 mm.↗ · Saving £2 a week has a cumulative effect: £104 in a year.↗ · Too much sun has a cumulative effect on your skin.↗ · The cumulative score after three rounds was 75 points.↗ · Our final exam is cumulative, so revise everything.↗ · A cumulative tale, like «The House that Jack Built», adds a new line each time.↗

cumulatively — Everyday, meaning 1: Cumulatively means taken all together, with each new amount added to the ones before.↗ Example: Cumulatively, we raised £500 over the whole term.↗ · Each mistake was small, but cumulatively they cost us the game.↗ · Cumulatively, the rain over the week flooded the field.↗ · The planets' small pulls, cumulatively, change the comet's path.↗ · Reading ten minutes a day adds up cumulatively to hours of reading.↗ · Cumulatively, the class has walked 1,000 km this year.↗

cumulonimbus — Everyday, meaning 1: A cumulonimbus is a very tall, heavy, dark cloud that brings thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail or lightning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the biggest kind of cloud and can have a flat top shaped like an anvil.↗ Example: A huge cumulonimbus cloud filled the sky.↗ · Cumulonimbus clouds bring thunder and lightning.↗ · The top of a cumulonimbus is shaped like an anvil.↗ · We went inside when we saw the cumulonimbus coming.↗ · Hail falls from cumulonimbus clouds.↗ · Label the cumulonimbus on your cloud chart.↗

cumulus — Everyday, meaning 1: Cumulus is a type of white, puffy cloud with a flat bottom and a rounded top, like cotton wool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cumulus clouds usually mean fine weather, but very tall ones can grow into storm clouds (cumulonimbus).↗ Example: Fluffy cumulus clouds floated across the blue sky.↗ · Cumulus clouds look like cotton wool.↗ · A cumulus cloud has a flat bottom and a puffy top.↗ · Big cumulonimbus clouds can bring thunderstorms.↗ · We drew cumulus, stratus and cirrus clouds in science.↗ · The cumulus clouds meant it would stay sunny.↗

cuneiform — Everyday, meaning 1: Cuneiform is one of the oldest kinds of writing in the world, made of small wedge-shaped marks pressed into wet clay with a reed, first used in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) over 5,000 years ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Cuneiform describes something shaped like a wedge, or written in this script.↗ Example: The Sumerians wrote in cuneiform on clay tablets.↗ · Cuneiform marks look like tiny triangles and lines.↗ · Scribes pressed a reed into wet clay to write cuneiform.↗ · Some cuneiform tablets are lists of sheep and barley.↗ · We tried writing our names in cuneiform with lollipop sticks and clay.↗ · The British Museum has thousands of cuneiform tablets.↗ · Experts can now read cuneiform.↗ · Similarly, all cuneiform characters originated from two symbols Y < those for one and ten.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Did it spring from the Egyptian liioro- fflyphics, or from the cuneiform systems of the Assyrians, or from the hieroglyphics of the Hittites, or from the Syllabary (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

cunning — Everyday, meaning 1: Cunning means clever at tricking people or getting what you want, often in a sly or dishonest way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cunning plan or idea is clever and well thought out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cunning (noun) is the skill of tricking or deceiving people.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (US, old informal) Cunning can mean cute: a cunning little puppy.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Clever with the hands or mind, or clever at tricking people.↗ Example: The cunning fox tricked the crow into dropping her cheese.↗ · I have a cunning plan to win the treasure hunt.↗ · The thief used cunning to get past the guards.↗ · Odysseus was famous for his cunning in the Trojan horse story.↗ · The cunning cat waited until we left the kitchen.↗ · Scammers can be very cunning, so never share your password.↗ · Common sense is always worth more than cunning.↗ · And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.↗ (Torah GEN.25.27, JPS 1917)↗ · If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.↗ (Writings PSA.137.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.↗ (Writings PSA.58.6, JPS 1917)↗ · The captain of fifty, and the man of rank, and the counsellor, and the cunning charmer, and the skilful enchanter.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.↗ (Torah GEN.25.27, JPS 1917) · “He is very old and very cunning.↗ (The Jungle Book) · Then he tried to get out by cunning.↗ (The Arabian Nights Entertainments)

cunningly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a clever way that tricks or fools someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a skilful, neat way that is hard to see through.↗ Example: The fox cunningly hid the bait.↗ · She cunningly hid the key under the mat.↗ · The puzzle was cunningly made, with hidden doors.↗

cup — Everyday, meaning 1: A cup is a small container with a handle that you drink from.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cup is the amount a cup holds, also a unit in recipes: a cup of flour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cup is a prize in a sport, often shaped like a big cup: the World Cup.↗ Example: I place one cup on the table.↗ · Student: one cup and one pear↗ · Each cup holds 3 sweets.↗ How many sweets are in 5 cups?↗ · Would you like a cup of hot chocolate?↗ · Add two cups of flour to the bowl.↗ · Our team won the cup!↗ · Be careful: the cup is hot.↗ · She cupped the little bird in her hands.↗ · Then he filled the cup again.↗ · And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.↗ (Torah GEN.40.21, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot.↗ (Writings PSA.16.5, JPS 1917)↗ · I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.↗ (Writings PSA.116.13, JPS 1917)↗ · In the way of thy sister hast thou walked; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.31, JPS 1917)↗