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- characterise verb (characterise, characterises, characterised, characterising); US spelling characterize
1) To be the typical feature or quality of something. 2) To describe what someone or something is like. - characteristic noun (a characteristic, characteristics); adjective (characteristic of)
A characteristic is a special quality or feature that helps you tell one thing or person from another, like a tiger's stripes. - characteristically adverb
In a way that is typical of a particular person or thing; as they usually do: «Characteristically, Grandma brought cake.». - characterize verb (characterize, characterizes, characterized, characterizing)
To characterize something is to show what it is like by its special features. - charades noun (charades — a game, used with a singular verb)
A party game where one player acts out a word, film, book or song title without speaking, and the others try to guess it. - charcoal noun (charcoal, uncountable; a charcoal = a stick for drawing, charcoals); adjective (charcoal grey)
Charcoal is a black, light material made by burning wood slowly with very little air; it burns hot and is used as fuel for barbecues. - charge verb (charge, charges, charged, charging); noun (a charge, charges)
1) To charge is to ask money for something. A charge is the price or fee. 2) To charge a phone or battery is to fill it with electric… - charger noun (a charger, chargers)
A device that puts electricity back into a battery, like a phone or laptop charger. - chariot noun (a chariot, chariots)
1) A two-wheeled cart pulled by horses, used in ancient times for war and racing. 2) (literary) Any grand carriage. - charioteer noun (charioteer, charioteers)
A charioteer is a person who drives a chariot, a two-wheeled cart pulled by horses (old use). - charisma noun (charisma — uncountable)
A special charm and confidence that makes people like, notice and follow someone. - charitable adjective (charitable, more charitable, most charitable)
Charitable means kind and generous in giving money, food or help to people in need. - charity noun (charity, charities)
A charity is an organisation that collects money and help for people or animals in need. - charlotte proper noun (Charlotte, a girl's name); noun (a charlotte, charlottes: a dessert)
Charlotte is a girl's name, and the name of cities such as Charlotte in North Carolina, USA. - charm noun (charm, uncountable; a charm, charms); verb (charm, charms, charmed, charming)
The power to please or attract people (He has lots of charm). - charmer noun (a charmer, charmers)
A person who is very pleasant and attractive and makes people like them easily, sometimes to get what they want. - charon proper noun (Charon)
1) (Greek myth) Charon is the ferryman in ancient Greek stories who rowed the souls of the dead across the river Styx (or Acheron) into… - chart noun (a chart, charts); verb (chart, charts, charted, charting)
A drawing that shows information, such as a graph, table or diagram (a bar chart). - chase verb (chase, chases, chased, chasing); noun (a chase, chases)
To chase is to run after someone or something to catch it. - chaser noun (chaser, chasers)
A person or animal who chases someone or something. - chasm noun (chasm, chasms)
A chasm is a deep, wide crack or gap in the ground, rock or ice. - chaste adjective (chaste, chaster, chastest)
1) (formal, old use) Chaste means pure and faithful, especially in marriage. 2) (old use) Chaste means plain and simple, without decoration. - chastise verb (chastise, chastises, chastised, chastising)
To chastise someone is to punish them, often by scolding or beating them (old use). - chastisement noun (chastisement, chastisements)
A chastisement is a punishment, given for doing wrong (old use). - chastity noun (chastity, uncountable)
Chastity means not having a sexual relationship, or only within marriage, as a religious or moral choice. - chat verb (chat, chats, chatted, chatting); noun (a chat, chats); adjective chatty
To chat means to talk in a friendly, relaxed way. - chattel noun (chattel, chattels; usually in the phrase goods and chattels)
A chattel is an item of personal property, a thing a person owns that can be moved (old use). Chattels means all the belongings of a person. - chatter verb (chatter, chatters, chattered, chattering); noun (chatter — uncountable)
To chatter is to talk quickly and a lot about small, unimportant things. - chatterbox noun (a chatterbox, chatterboxes)
A person, often a child, who talks a lot and seems never to stop. - chattering verb form (chatter, chatters, chattered, chattering); noun (chattering — uncountable); adjective (chattering)
Talking quickly and a lot about small, unimportant things: «The girls were chattering in the corridor.». - chatty adjective (chatty, chattier, chattiest)
A chatty person likes to talk a lot in a friendly way. - chauffeur noun (a chauffeur, chauffeurs); verb (chauffeur, chauffeurs, chauffeured, chauffeuring)
A chauffeur is a person whose job is driving someone else's car, often for a rich or important person. - chaw verb (chaws, chawed, chawing)
1) (dialect, old use) To chaw is to chew: to bite and grind food with the teeth. - cheap adjective (cheap, cheaper, cheapest); adverb (cheaply)
1) Cheap means it costs only a little money. 2) Cheap can mean low quality, badly made: «a cheap toy that broke». 3) Cheap can mean not… - cheaply adverb (cheaply, more cheaply, most cheaply)
Cheaply means for a low price, without spending much money. - cheapskate noun (a cheapskate, cheapskates) — informal
1) (informal, insulting) A person who does not like spending money, even when they should; a mean or stingy person. - cheat verb (cheat, cheats, cheated, cheating); noun (a cheat, cheats)
To cheat means to break the rules to win or get an advantage, or to do something dishonest. - cheater noun (a cheater, cheaters)
A cheater is a person who cheats: who breaks the rules secretly to win or to get something they should not have. - cheating noun (cheating — uncountable); verb, -ing form of cheat (cheat, cheats, cheated, cheating)
Cheating is acting dishonestly to win or get an advantage: breaking the rules of a game or test. - check verb (check, checks, checked, checking); noun (a check, checks; British «cheque» for money, «tick» for the mark)
To check is to look at something to see if it is right, safe or ready. - checkers noun (checkers — a game, used with a singular verb; a checker, checkers — pieces)
1) Checkers is a board game for two players who move round flat pieces diagonally on a squared board and jump over the other player's… - checklist noun (checklist, checklists)
1) A checklist is a list of things to do or to bring, where you mark each one when it is done. 2) It helps you not to forget anything. - checkmate noun (checkmate); verb (checkmate, checkmates, checkmated, checkmating); exclamation (Checkmate!)
In chess, checkmate is when a king is attacked and cannot escape, so the game ends and that player loses. - checkout noun (a checkout, checkouts); verb phrase (check out — two words)
The place in a shop or supermarket where you pay for things. - checkup noun (a checkup, checkups)
A visit to a doctor, dentist or vet to check that you are healthy, even when you feel fine. - cheddar noun (cheddar — uncountable; a cheddar, cheddars — kinds)
A hard, yellow or orange-yellow cheese, mild or strong-tasting, first made in the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England. - cheek noun (a cheek, cheeks; cheek — uncountable, rudeness); verb (cheek someone — British, informal)
Your cheeks are the soft sides of your face below your eyes. - cheekbone noun (a cheekbone, cheekbones)
1) Your cheekbones are the bones at the top of your cheeks, just below your eyes. - cheekily adverb (cheekily; more cheekily)
In a slightly rude but often funny or playful way, showing a lack of respect (especially UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand). - cheekiness noun (cheekiness, uncountable)
1) Rude but often playful or funny behaviour that shows a lack of respect. 2) Boldness, cheek, the nerve to ask for or do something. - cheeky adjective (cheeky, cheekier, cheekiest)
Cheeky means rude or not respectful, but often in a funny or playful way. - cheep verb (cheep, cheeps, cheeped, cheeping); noun (a cheep, cheeps)
1) (of a young bird) To make a short, high, weak sound. 2) A short high sound made by a young bird. 3) (informal) A tiny sound from… - cheer verb (cheer, cheers, cheered, cheering); noun (a cheer, cheers; cheer — uncountable)
To cheer is to shout loudly to show you are pleased or to encourage someone. - cheerer noun (a cheerer, cheerers)
1) A cheerer is a person who cheers, shouting loudly to encourage a team or a player. 2) Something or someone that makes others happier. - cheerful adjective (cheerful, more cheerful, most cheerful)
A cheerful person is happy and in a good mood, and shows it with smiles and a friendly manner. - cheerfully adverb (cheerfully)
1) In a happy, bright and friendly way. 2) Willingly, without complaining, as in «she cheerfully helped». 3) Without caring or noticing a… - cheerfulness noun (cheerfulness, uncountable)
1) Cheerfulness is being happy, bright and in a good mood, and showing it to others. - cheerily adverb (from cheery)
1) In a happy, bright and hopeful way. - cheerio interjection (cheerio — informal, UK)
1) (UK, informal) Goodbye, said in a friendly, cheerful way. 2) (Australia, informal) A small red cocktail sausage, often served at… - cheerleader noun (a cheerleader, cheerleaders)
A cheerleader is a person, often in a team, who dances, shouts chants and does jumps to encourage a sports team and the crowd. - cheerless adjective (cheerless, more cheerless, most cheerless)
1) Cheerless means gloomy, dull and without anything to make you happy or comfortable. - cheery adjective (cheery, cheerier, cheeriest)
1) Happy and friendly in a bright, lively way. 2) Making you feel happy, bright and pleasant (a cheery room, a cheery colour). - cheese noun (cheese, uncountable; a cheese, cheeses for types or whole ones)
Cheese is a food made from milk, usually yellow or white, that can be soft or hard. - cheeseburger noun (a cheeseburger, cheeseburgers)
1) A hamburger with a slice of melted cheese on top of the meat patty, served in a bun. - cheesy adjective (cheesy, cheesier, cheesiest)
Tasting or smelling of cheese, or full of cheese. - cheetah noun (a cheetah, cheetahs)
1) A cheetah is a slim, spotted big cat from Africa (and a few in Iran) and the fastest land animal, able to run as fast as a car on a… - chef noun (chef, chefs)
1) A chef is a person whose job is to cook, often the main cook in a restaurant or hotel. 2) A head chef leads the other cooks in a kitchen. - chemical noun (a chemical, chemicals); adjective (chemical); adverb chemically
A chemical is a substance, especially one made or used in science or industry, such as bleach, salt or oxygen. - chemically adverb (chemically)
In a way that involves chemistry or chemicals: chemically treated wood. - chemise noun (chemise, chemises)
A loose, simple dress or a woman's undergarment like a long shirt, worn in the past under other clothes. - chemist noun (a chemist, chemists; the chemist's)
A chemist is a scientist who studies chemistry: what substances are made of and how they change. - chemistry noun (chemistry, uncountable)
Chemistry is the science of substances: what they are made of, how they behave and how they change into new substances. - chemotherapy noun (chemotherapy, uncountable; short: chemo)
Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer that uses strong medicines to kill the sick cells. - cheque noun (a cheque, cheques)
A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to pay money from your account to someone. - chequebook noun (a chequebook, chequebooks); US spelling: checkbook
A small book of printed forms (cheques) that a bank gives to a customer; you write on a cheque to pay someone from your bank account. - cherish verb (cherishes, cherished, cherishing)
1) To cherish someone or something is to love it and take great care of it. - cherished adjective (cherished); verb form (past of cherish: cherish, cherishes, cherished, cherishing)
Loved, protected and cared for very much (a cherished toy). - cherokee noun (the Cherokee, a Cherokee, Cherokees; Cherokee — the language); adjective (Cherokee)
1) The Cherokee are a Native American people, originally from the south-east of what is now the USA, many of whom now live in Oklahoma and… - cherry noun (a cherry, cherries); adjective (cherry-red)
A cherry is a small round red or dark red fruit with a hard stone in the middle and a long thin stalk. - cherub noun (cherubs)
1) A cherub is a kind of angel, often shown as a chubby child with small wings. 2) A cherub can also mean a sweet, rosy-cheeked young child. - chess noun (chess)
Chess is a board game for two players with pieces like kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns on a board of 64 squares. - chessboard noun (a chessboard, chessboards)
1) A square board with 64 squares in eight rows of eight, coloured light and dark in turn, used for playing chess or draughts. - chest noun (a chest, chests)
Your chest is the front of your body between your neck and your tummy. - chestnut noun (a chestnut, chestnuts); adjective (chestnut hair, a chestnut horse)
A chestnut is a shiny reddish-brown nut that grows inside a prickly case on a chestnut tree; sweet chestnuts can be roasted and eaten. - chesty adjective (chesty, chestier, chestiest)
Having a lot of mucus in the chest from a cold, with a deep, wet cough, as in "a chesty cough". - chew verb (chew, chews, chewed, chewing); noun (a chew, chews)
To chew is to break up food in your mouth with your teeth before you swallow it. - chewing verb form (chew, chews, chewed, chewing); noun (chewing); adjective (chewing, as in chewing gum)
Chewing means crushing food with your teeth to make it soft enough to swallow. - chewy adjective (chewy, chewier, chewiest); noun (chewy — Australia, informal)
Needing a lot of chewing because it is soft but tough or sticky, as in «chewy sweets» or «chewy meat». - chi noun (chi — the Greek letter; chi or qi — Chinese idea); (Mandarin, pinyin) chī, "to eat"
The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, written χ, said "kye" (rhymes with "sky"). - chicago proper noun (Chicago)
Chicago is a big city in the United States, in the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. - chick noun (a chick, chicks)
A baby bird, especially a baby chicken that has just hatched from its egg. - chicken noun (chicken, chickens); adjective (chicken — scared, slang); verb (chicken out)
1) A chicken is a farm bird that lays eggs. 2) Chicken is also the meat of this bird, which people eat. 3) In slang, «chicken» means… - chickenpox noun (chickenpox — no plural)
A common illness, mostly of children, caused by a virus, that gives a fever and very itchy red spots that turn into blisters and then scabs. - chicle noun (chicle — uncountable)
1) A natural gum made from the milky sap of the sapodilla tree of Central America, used in the past to make chewing gum. - chief noun (a chief, chiefs); adjective (chief)
The leader or head of a group, such as a tribe, organisation or police force (the fire chief). - chiefly adverb (chiefly)
1) Chiefly means mainly or mostly. 2) Chiefly means above all, more than anything else. - chieftain noun (chieftains)
1) A chieftain is the leader of a tribe or clan. - chihuahua noun (a chihuahua, chihuahuas; Chihuahua — a name)
A chihuahua is a very small breed of dog with big ears and big eyes, the smallest dog breed in the world. - chilblains noun (a chilblain, chilblains – usually plural)
Painful, itchy red or purple swellings on the toes, fingers, ears or nose, caused when skin gets very cold and then warms up too fast. - child noun (child, children; casual: kid, kids)
1) A child is a young boy or girl. 2) A child is someone's son or daughter, at any age: Grandma has three children. Children means more…
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