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crash, crashed,
crashing,
crashes.verbs
intransitive
verb use.to
break.violently.and/or.noisily;
smash;
to undergo.sudden.damage.or.destruction
on impact (she knocked
the vase and the flowers it contained
off the table to a crashing sound as it hit the hard stone tile floor of
the patio; their car crashed into
a guardrail); to make a sudden loud noise (breakers
crashing against the rocks); to move noisily or so as to cause damage (went
crashing through the woods); to go to sleep (I think I'll crash in this
town for the night)
Computers:.if
a computer crashes or if you crash the computer, it suddenly stops working.
transitive
verb use.to
cause
to crash; to dash to pieces; smash;
to join or enter a party, for example
without invitation
crash.noun,.plural.crashes
a sudden loud noise, as of an object
breaking; a smashing to pieces;
a collision, as between two
automobiles
crash.adjective
of or characterized by an intensive.effort
to produce or accomplish
(a crash course; a crash diet)
crasher.noun,.plural.crashers
crash and burn.idiom
to fail utterly;
to fall asleep from exhaustion
charlatan.noun,.plural.charlatans
a person who makes elaborate,
fraudulent
and often voluble.claims.to.skill.or.knowledge;
a quack or fraud;
an impostor
charlatanic.or.charlatanical.adjective
charlatanism.or.charlatanry.noun,.plural.charlatanisms.or.charlatanries.
from French and from Italian 'ciarlatano', probably
alteration,
influenced
by 'ciarlare' meaning 'to prattle',
of 'cerretano' an
inhabitant.of
Cerreto, a city of Italy once famous for its quacks
cruciferous.adjective.(pronounced
'krue sif air us')
belonging to the Cruciferae, the mustard family
of plants (cruciferous vegetables such as various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower;
brussel sprouts); bearing a cross (soldiers often have to live a cruciferous
life); the suffix
'fer' means one that bears, such as in the word 'aquifer'
crucifer.noun,.plural.crucifers
copycat.noun,.plural.copycats
one that closely imitates
or mimics another
copycat, copycatted,
copycatting,
copycats.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
act as an imitator or mimic
transitive verb use.to
imitate closely; mimic
copycat.adjective
closely imitating or following another (a copycat
version
of a successful product)
copyright.noun,.plural.copyrights
a right granted to an author, a composer, a playwright,
a publisher or a distributor, by a governing body to exclusive publication,
production, sale or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic or artistic
work
copyright.adjective
of.or.relating.to
a copyright (copyright law; a copyright agreement; copyright restrictions);
protected by copyright (they have permission to publish copyright material)
copyright, copyrighted,
copyrighting,
copyrights.transitive
verb
to secure a copyright for
copyrightable.adjective
copyrighter.noun,.plural.copyrighters
copy.noun,.plural.copies
an imitation
or reproduction of an original;
a duplicate (a copy of a painting;
made two copies of the letter); also suitable.source
material for journalism (celebrities
make good copy)
copy, copied,
copying,
copies.verbs
transitive verb use.to
make a reproduction or copy of; to follow as a model or pattern (see the
way he uses the saw, be careful but copy the way he does it when you try
do the same)
intransitive verb use.to
make a copy or copies; to admit
of being copied (colored ink that does not copy well); from Middle
English 'copie' and Old
French and from Medieval
Latin 'copia', transcript, from Latin
'copia' from which the word 'copious'
arrives
copyable.adjective
copier.noun,.plural.copiers
an individual that transcribes
or copies (a copier of ancient.manuscripts);
also, a copier is an office machine that makes copies of printed or graphic
matter
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.B.C.E.
106-43, Roman statesman, orator,
and philosopher; a major.figure
in these last years of ancient
Rome; a quote of his
Ciceronian.adjective
Catiline,
B.C.E.
108?-62, a Roman politician
and conspirator who led an
unsuccessful
revolt against the
Roman
Republic while Cicero was a consul
chuff,
chuffed,
chuffing,
chuffs.intransitive
verbs
to produce or move with
noisy puffing or explosive sounds
chuff.noun,.plural.chuffs
a noisy puffing or explosive
sound, such as one made by a locomotive
or horses on a long run
cabin.noun,.plural.cabins
a small,
roughly.built.house;
a cottage; a room in a ship used as living quarters by an officer or a
passenger (a cruise ship with hundreds of cabins); the enclosed space in
an aircraft or spacecraft for the crew, passengers or cargo
cabin,
cabined,
cabining,
cabins.intransitive
and transitive verbs
to confine
or live in or as if in a small space or area; from Middle
English 'caban' which is from Old
French 'cabane', from Old
Provençal 'cabana' and Late
Latin 'capanna'
cottage.noun,.plural.cottages
a small,
single-storied house, usually built for country temporary living; a small
house in the country used mostly for summer living and often by picturesque
scenery including water; from Middle
English, Old English and
Anglo-French
'cotage', 'cot' meaning, a small house in the country or a country cottage
cellphone.noun,.plural.cellphones
a hand-held mobile.radiotelephone
for use in an area.divided
into small.sections
called cells, named after the small areas in which coverage
by radio waves.is.optimally.utilized
and within which area each cellphone operates with its own built in short-range
transmitter.and.receiver;
a cellular phone is also called a mobile phone
countess.noun,.plural.countesses
a woman holding the title
of count or earl
in various European countries; used as a title for such a noblewoman
comtessa.noun,.plural.comtessas
a comtessa is a countess
canape.noun.pronounced
'can uh pay',.plural.canapes
a canape, also spelt.canapé,
is a cracker or a small thin piece of bread or toast spread with cheese,
pate,
meat or relish and served as an appetizer;
from French 'canapé meaning 'couch' and from Medieval
Latin 'canapeum' meaning 'mosquito net'
cleat.noun,.plural.cleats
a cleat is a kind of hook
with two ends which is used to hold ropes, especially on sailing boats;
a device like a spur
used in gripping a tree or pole in climbing; a short piece of rubber, metal,
etc.
attached to the bottom of a sports shoe; a cleat is also a stud, a spike;
a pair of sports shoes with these pieces attached to them, in order to
prevent someone from slipping; a projecting
piece of metal or hard rubber attached to the underside of a shoe to provide
traction;
a pair of shoes with such projections on the soles;
a strip of wood or iron used to strengthen or support the surface to which
it is attached; a piece of metal or wood having projecting arms or ends
on which a rope can be wound or secured; a wedge
shaped piece of material, such as wood, that is fastened onto something,
such as a spar, to act as a support or prevent slippage
cleat,
cleated,
cleating,
cleats.transitive
verbs
to supply, support, secure
or strengthen with a cleat
cholesterol.noun,.plural.cholesterols
a white, crystalline substance,
chemical name C27H45OH, found in animal tissues and various foods, that
is normally synthesized by the liver and is important as a constituent
of cell membranes and a precursor to steroid.hormones;
its level in the bloodstream can influence the pathogenesis of certain
conditions, such as the development of atherosclerotic plaque and coronary
artery disease; called cholesterol because it was first found in gallstones
chesterfield.noun,.plural.chesterfields
a large, overstuffed sofa
with upright armrests; a term for any type of sofa, was probably brought
down from Canada, where it is common; a single or double-breasted overcoat,
usually with concealed buttons and a velvet collar, named after a 19th-century
earl
of Chesterfield, city of north-central England south of Sheffield
chimera.noun,.plural.chimeras
a monster compounded
of incongruous parts as the
cabal has done in experimentations
to produce the bioweapon and many more
horrendous
evils; a chimera is a monster
made up of grotesquely.disparate
parts (what one of the cabal's creations
looks like); a chimera is also an unrealistic.idea
that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely
to be fulfilled (a believed
unrealizable
dream); in Greek.mythology, a
chimera is a fire-breathing she monster usually represented as a composite
of the head of a lion, body of a goat and the tail of a snake, something
akin
to the satanic Baphomet;
a chimera is something, especially an idea or hope,
that is not really possible and
can never exist (trying to present that chimera of 'a balanced view')
chimerical.also.chimeric.adjective
created by or as if by a
wildly fanciful imagination; highly
improbable;
given to unrealistic fantasies
chimerically.adverb
conterminous.also.coterminous.adjective
having a boundary.in
common; contiguous; contained
in the same boundaries; coextensive
conterminously.adverb
conterminousness.noun
cattail.noun,.plural.cattails
any of various perennial.herbs,
widespread
in marshy places and having long, straplike leaves and a dense, cylindrical
cluster of minute flowers and fruits; also called reed mace
cowl.noun,.plural.cowls
the hood
of an automobile body is the top portion of the front part supporting the
windshield and dashboard; a draped
neckline on a woman's garment;
a hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft
of a chimney; the cowling on an aircraft
cowl,
cowled,
cowling,
cowls.transitive
verbs
to cover with or as if with
a cowl
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