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clay.noun,.plural.clays
a fine-grained, firm Earthy material that is malleable
when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydrated silicates
of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles and pottery;
a hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency.similar
to clay and used for modeling
cement.noun,.plural.cements
a building material made by grinding calcined
limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and
poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar
or concrete; a substance
that hardens to act as an adhesive;
glue; something that serves
to bind
or unite;
Portland
cement
cement, cemented,
cementing,
cements.verbs
transitive
verb use.to bind with or as
if with cement; to cover or coat with cement
intransitive
verb use.to become cemented
cementer.noun,.plural.cementers
Portland cement
a hydraulic.cement
made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln
and pulverizing the resulting
material; after Portland, an urban district of southern England
concrete.adjective
of.or.relating.to
an actual, specific.thing
or instance; particular
(concrete evidence global warming now deemed
'climate change' is a
crock); existing
in reality or in real experience;
perceptible
by the senses; real (concrete objects
such as trees); of or relating to a material
thing or group of things as opposed
to an abstraction
concrete.noun,.plural.concretes
a hard, strong construction
material consisting of sand,
conglomerate
gravel, pebbles, broken stone or slag
in a mortar or cement.matrix
concrete,
concreted,
concreting,
concretes.verbs
transitive verb use.to
build, treat or cover with hard, strong conglomerate
construction material; to form
into a mass
by coalescence or cohesion
of particles or parts
intransitive verb use.to
harden; solidify
concretely.adverb
concreteness.noun
concretion.noun,.plural.concretions
the act
or process of concreting into
a mass;
coalescence;
the state of having been concreted
(a concretion of seminal.ideas
in her treatise); a solid,
hard mass;
in geology, a rounded mass of mineral
matter
found in sedimentary rock;
in pathology, a solid mass,
usually composed of inorganic.material,
formed
in a cavity or tissue
of the body; a calculus
concretionary.adjective
chronicle.noun,.plural.chronicles
an extended.account
in prose or verse
of historical.events,
sometimes including.legendary.material,
presented
in chronological
order;
a detailed.narrative.record
or report; the books of Chronicles in the Bible
chronicle,
chronicled,
chronicling,
chronicles.transitive
verbs
to record in or in the form
of a historical record
chronicler.noun,.plural.chroniclers
chronology.noun,.plural.chronologies
deals with the determination
of dates and the sequence
of events; the arrangement
of events in time; a chronological list or table
chronologist.noun,.plural.chronologists
chronological.also.chronologic.adjective
arranged
in order of time of occurrence;
relating to or in accordance with chronology
chronologically.adverb
cheap, cheaper,
cheapest.adjectives
relatively
low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively
inexpensive (nobody wants something 'cheap', but 'inexpensive' is nice,
the connotation
is better); of poor quality; inferior
(a cheap toy); stingy;
miserly
cheap, cheaper,
cheapest.adverbs
inexpensively (got the new car cheap)
cheap at twice the price.idiom
extremely
inexpensive
cheaply.adverb
(everything the factory produces is done cheaply,
but people buy that junk)
cheapness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
captivate,
captivated,
captivating,
captivates.transitive
verbs
to attract
and hold by charm,
beauty or excellence
captivation,
captivator.nouns
captor.noun,.plural.captors
one that takes another as
a captive; you can refer to the
person who has captured a person or animal as their captor
captivity.noun,.plural.captivities
the state
or period of being imprisoned,
confined
or enslaved, such as ancient
Israel
and Judah's captivities or our own captivity from time to time, until
we learn some things:.Job
42:10
captive.noun,.plural.captives
one held in the grip of
a strong emotion or passion; one, such as a prisoner of war, that is forcibly
confined, subjugated or enslaved
captive.adjective
taken and held prisoner,
as in war; enslaved; in bondage
(money formulas
keep many in bondage to mediocrity);
kept under restraint or control; confined
(captive birds); restrained
by circumstances
that prevent.free
choice; enraptured,
as by beauty; captivated
capture,
captured,
capturing,
captures.transitive
verbs
to take captive,
as by force or craft;
seize;
to gain control of or possession,
as in a game or contest (capture the queen in chess; captured the zeitgeist);
to attract and hold (tales of adventure that capture the imagination);
to succeed in preserving in lasting form (capture a likeness in a painting)
capture.noun
the act of catching, taking
or winning, as by force or skill
culprit.noun,.plural.culprits
one charged with an offense
or crime; one guilty of a fault or crime
conjoin,
conjoined,
conjoining,
conjoins.transitive
and intransitive verbs
to join
or become joined together; unite
conjoiner.noun
conjoint.noun
joined
together; combined (freedom and prosperity, the conjoint aims of humanity);
of, consisting
of or involving
two or more combined
or associated.entities;
joint
conjointly.adverb
congest, congested,
congesting,
congests.verbs
transitive verb use.to
overfill or overcrowd (trucks congested the tunnel); to cause the accumulation
of excessive blood or tissue fluid in a vessel or an organ (he felt congested
with the flu) intransitive verb use.to
become congested
congestive.adverb
congestion.noun
case.noun,.plural.cases
a container;
a receptacle (a jewelry case;
put your computer in its case and let's go; sausages
are animal meat mixed with spices and stuffed into casings often of the
intestine of the same animal); a container
with its contents; a protective
covering or cover; the frame or framework of a window, door or stairway
(a staircase)
case,
cased,
casing,
cases.transitive
verbs
to put into or cover with
a case; encase
case.noun,.plural.cases
an instance
of something (in the grammatical
case, one example being the word ablative);
an occurrence;
an example
(a case of mistaken
identity); an occurrence of a disease or disorder (a mild case of normal
bodily detoxification often
interpreted
as flu); a set of circumstances
or a state
of affairs;
a situation
(it may rain, in which case the hike will be canceled); actual.fact;
reality
(we suspected the walls were hollow and this proved to be the case); a
question or problem; a matter
(it is simply a case of honor); in law, an action or a suit or just grounds
for an action); the facts or evidence offered in support of a claim; a
set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument
(presented a good case for changing the law); a person or group of persons
being assisted, treated or studied, as by a physician, lawyer or social
worker (a case worker); a peculiar
or eccentric
person (this character
was a real case of strangeness)
Linguistics:.the
syntactic
relationship of a noun, a pronoun or a determiner
to the other words of a sentence,
indicated by declensional
endings, by the position of the words within the sentence, by prepositions
or by postpositions;
the form or position of a word that indicates this relationship; such forms,
positions and relationships considered as a group; a pattern of inflection
of nouns, pronouns and adjectives to express different
syntactic
functions in a sentence; the form of such an inflected word
case, cased,
casing,
cases.transitive
verbs
to examine carefully, as in planning a crime (cased
the bank before robbing it)
in any case.idiom
regardless
of what has occurred
or will occur; same as in
any event
in case.idiom
if it happens that; if; as a precaution
(took along an umbrella, just in case)
in case of.idiom
if there should happen to be; in the event of
(a number to call in case of emergency)
in this case.idiom
regarding
the particular.concern
at the moment
civilized.adjective
showing evidence.of
moral
and intellectual.advancement;
humane,
ethical
and reasonable
(principled from the Bible
he became an honest.upstanding
person); having a highly developed society
and culture;
marked
by refinement
in taste and manners;
cultured;
polished
civilize, civilized,
civilizing,civilizes.transitive
verbs
to raise from barbarism
to an enlightened stage of development; bring out of a primitive
or savage.state;
to educate in matters of culture
and refinement;
make more polished or sophisticated
civilizable.adjective
civilizer.noun,.plural.civilizers
civil.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.befitting
a citizen or citizens (civil duties of a town's mayor are many and varied);
of or relating to citizens and their interrelations
with one another (civil society);
of ordinary citizens or ordinary
community life; of or in accordance
with organized society; civilized;
sufficiently
observing or befitting accepted social
usages; not rude (gave aa civil reply);
polite
Law:.in
law
there are two kinds affecting people, that of what's called civil
law, based on Maritime law, also called Admiralty law and these are laws
of consent,
that is you consent by your words or acquiescence
to obey such laws; Maritime/Admiralty/Civil law have hundreds upon hundreds
of do's and don'ts, trapping people at every step. They get you to consent
by asking if you understand.
People are automatically
under the great Common Law, the
law you came to Earth with and is your birthright, including land
you were to have and also such as was used in comprising
the
American Constitution
and the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms and by following this simple law called
the golden rule (Matthew 22:36-40),
society has no need for the burdensome many laws those wishing control
over others have written down in their Maritime/Admiralty/Civil law and
By-laws.
civilly.adverb
civilization.noun
an advanced state of intellectual,
cultural and material development in human society,
marked
by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of writing; the
type of culture and society developed
by a particular nation or region
or in a particular epoch (Mayan
civilization; the civilization of ancient Egypt); the act or process of
civilizing or reaching a civilized state;
cultural or intellectual refinement; good taste; modern society with its
conveniences (returned to civilization after camping in the mountains)
civic.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.belonging
to a city, a citizen or citizenship;
municipal
or civil; from Latin
'civicus' and from 'civis' meaning 'citizen'
casuistry.noun,.plural.casuistries
specious
or excessively subtle
reasoning intended to rationalize
or mislead;
casuistry is the use of clever.arguments
to persuade or trick people;
the use of clever but often false arguments to answer moral or legal questions;
specious argument; argumentation that is specious or excessively
subtle and intended to be misleading; sophism;
the equivocal
determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience
by the application of general principles
of ethics
casuist.noun
a person who is expert in
or given to casuistry
casuistic.also.casuistical.adjective
of or relating to casuists
or casuistry
casuistically.adverb
collateral.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.guaranteed
by a security pledged
against the performance of an obligation
(a loan where you sign away your rights to something of value you have
used as security to obtain money at interest that you have created by signature
on a banking document); situated or running side by side; parallel;
coinciding
in tendency
or effect;
concomitant
or accompanying;
serving to support or corroborate
(collateral information); of a secondary nature; subordinate
(collateral target damage from wild carelessness)
collateral.noun
property acceptable as security for a loan or
other obligation
collaterally.adverb
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