C — The school dictionary · page 141 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19contiguousContiguous things touch each other or share a border, with no gap between them.8 sentencescontinentA continent is one of the very large areas of land on Earth.13 sentencescontinentalContinental means to do with a continent, one of the world's large land masses: «continental shelf», «continental climate».10 sentencescontingentDepending on something else happening first: «The trip is contingent on good weather.».9 sentencescontinualContinual means happening again and again, often in an annoying way, with short breaks in between.10 sentencescontinuallyContinually means again and again, very often, with short breaks in between.10 sentencescontinuanceThe state of going on or lasting; continuing: «the continuance of the old custom».9 sentencescontinuationA continuation is something that continues or carries on from something before, like the next part of a story.7 sentencescontinueTo keep doing something without stopping.13 sentencescontinuityBeing unbroken; carrying on without a break, so that things stay linked from one time to the next.4 sentencescontinuousGoing on without stopping or breaking: continuous rain.12 sentencescontinuouslyContinuously means without stopping or without a break.9 sentencescontourA contour is the outline or shape of something, especially its curves, like the contour of a face or a coastline.11 sentencescontractnoun.17 sentencescontractedBecame smaller or shorter (The metal contracted as it cooled).12 sentencescontractionIn grammar, a contraction is a short form made by joining two words with an apostrophe, like «don't» (do not) or «I'm» (I am).9 sentencescontractorA contractor is a person or company paid to do a particular job, especially building or repair work, under an agreement.8 sentencescontradictTo contradict someone means to say the opposite of what they have said, showing you think they are wrong.11 sentencescontradictionA situation in which two statements or facts cannot both be true: «There is a contradiction between his two stories».11 sentencescontradictoryContradictory statements or ideas cannot both be true because they say opposite things.10 sentencescontradistinctionContradistinction is telling two things apart by showing how they are opposite or different.7 sentencescontraryContrary means opposite or very different: «contrary opinions».13 sentencescontrastnoun A clear difference between two things when you put them side by side.11 sentencescontraveneTo break a law, rule or agreement.8 sentencescontributeTo contribute is to give money, time or help together with other people.11 sentencescontributionA contribution is something you give, especially money, to help pay for something or to help a group.11 sentencescontributorA person who gives money, help or ideas to something together with others: contributors to the charity.9 sentencescontrivanceA clever device or plan, often made with ingenious thinking.4 sentencescontriveTo manage, by some clever means, to do something or bring a result about.5 sentencescontrivedSeeming false and planned, not natural or believable: «The ending of the film felt contrived».10 sentencescontrolTo control something means to make it do what you want, like steering a toy car.14 sentencescontrolledControlled is the past form of «control»: made something or someone do what you want, or kept it in order.12 sentencescontrollerA hand-held device with buttons and sticks used to play video games or work a machine such as a toy car or drone.9 sentencescontrollingAs a verb form, controlling means being in charge of something or making it do what you want: «He is controlling the drone».9 sentencescontusionA contusion is a bruise: an injury where the skin is not broken but blood leaks under it, making a dark mark.7 sentencesconvalescenceConvalescence is the time when someone slowly gets their strength back after an illness or operation.7 sentencesconvectionConvection is the way heat moves through a liquid or a gas: the warm part rises and the cooler part sinks, making a current that goes round.7 sentencesconveneTo come together for a meeting.9 sentencesconvenienceConvenience is being easy, useful or quick for you, so it saves time or trouble.14 sentencesconvenientEasy to use, reach or do; saving time and trouble.10 sentencesconvenientlyIn a way that is easy, useful or suitable for someone: «The shop is conveniently close.».9 sentencesconventA building where nuns live, pray and work together.10 sentencesconventionThe usual or accepted way of doing something; a custom or rule people follow.11 sentencesconventionalConventional means usual, ordinary and done the way most people have done it for a long time.11 sentencesconventionallyConventionally means in the usual, normal, accepted way that most people do things.10 sentencesconvergeWhen lines, roads or rivers converge, they move towards each other and meet at one point.11 sentencesconvergenceConvergence is when lines, roads, paths or things come together and meet at one point.11 sentencesconversationA conversation is a talk between two or more people in which they share ideas, news or feelings.10 sentencesconversationalTo do with conversation, or like ordinary friendly talk.8 sentencesconverseTo converse is to talk with someone, have a conversation.11 sentencesconversionA conversion is changing something from one form, unit or use to another.11 sentencesconvertTo convert means to change something into a different form or use.18 sentencesconverterA converter is a machine or device that changes something from one form into another, such as electricity, signals or files.10 sentencesconveyTo make an idea, feeling or message known to someone.9 sentencesconveyanceA conveyance is a vehicle or any way of carrying people or things.11 sentencesconveyorA conveyor (conveyor belt) is a long moving belt or line of rollers that carries things from one place to another, as in factories, airpor…9 sentencesconvictTo convict someone is for a court to decide officially that they are guilty of a crime.9 sentencesconvictionA strong belief or opinion: «She has a deep conviction that animals should be treated kindly».12 sentencesconvinceTo convince someone is to make them believe that something is true.11 sentencesconvincedCompletely sure that something is true: «I'm convinced the cat ate my sandwich.».11 sentencesconvincingConvincing means making you believe something is true or right: «a convincing argument».9 sentencesconvincinglyConvincingly means in a way that makes people believe something is true or real.8 sentencesconvolvulusA convolvulus is a climbing plant with trumpet-shaped flowers, such as bindweed or morning glory.4 sentencesconvulsionA convulsion is a sudden, violent shaking of the body that you cannot control.5 sentencesconvulsiveConvulsive movements are sudden, violent shakes of the body that a person cannot control.8 sentencesconvulsivelyIn a sudden, jerky way that you cannot control, with a shake or a grip.4 sentencescooFor a pigeon or dove to make its soft, low, round sound.12 sentencescookTo cook is to make food ready to eat by heating it: boil, fry, bake, roast.12 sentencescookbookA cookbook is a book of recipes and instructions for cooking.8 sentencescookedCooked means made ready to eat by heating, like boiled, baked or fried food.11 sentencescookerA large kitchen machine with an oven and hot plates or burners for cooking food; US: stove or range.9 sentencescookeryCookery is the skill or activity of preparing and cooking food.9 sentencescookieA cookie is a small sweet baked biscuit, often round, sometimes with chocolate chips.11 sentencescookingCooking is making food ready to eat by heating it, for example by baking, boiling or frying.14 sentencescoolA little cold, pleasantly not warm.19 sentencescoolerCooler means more cool: a little colder, or (slang) more stylish or exciting.12 sentencescoolingCooling means becoming cooler or making something cooler.11 sentencescoollyIn a calm way, without showing worry, fear or excitement.5 sentencescoolnessCoolness is being a little cold in a pleasant way.10 sentencescoopA coop is a cage or small house where chickens or other birds are kept.9 sentencescooperationCooperation is working together with other people to reach the same goal.8 sentencescooperativeIf you are cooperative, you are willing to help and work together with others and do what is asked.11 sentencescoordinateCoordinates are a pair of numbers, like (3, 5), that show exactly where a point is on a grid or graph.11 sentencescoordinatedAble to move different parts of your body together well and smoothly.9 sentencescootA coot is a black water bird with a white beak and a white patch on its forehead.8 sentencescopA cop is a police officer.13 sentencescopeTo cope means to deal well with a hard problem or situation, and to keep going.9 sentencescopepodA copepod is a tiny animal with a hard shell and many legs, a relative of crabs and shrimps, that lives in the sea and in fresh water.7 sentencescopierA copier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and pictures; it is also called a photocopier.8 sentencescopiousIn large amounts; more than enough: «copious notes», «copious amounts of food».7 sentencescopiouslyCopiously means in very large amounts, much more than usual.7 sentencescopperCopper is a reddish-brown metal that conducts electricity and heat very well.13 sentencescoppersmithA coppersmith is a person who makes or mends things from copper.5 sentencescopperyCoppery means having the colour of copper: a shiny reddish-brown or orange-brown.8 sentencescoproliteA coprolite is fossilised poo (dung) from an animal that lived long ago, such as a dinosaur, that has slowly turned to stone.8 sentencescopseA small group of trees growing close together; a little wood.8 sentencescopyA copy is a thing made to be the same as another one, like a copy of a page or a photo.15 sentencescopycatA person who copies what someone else does, says or wears.7 sentencescopyrightCopyright is the legal right of the person who made a book, song, picture, film or program to decide who can copy, sell or use it.9 sentencescoracleA coracle is a small, round boat made of a frame covered with skin or cloth, used on rivers.4 sentences1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/page/14/