c

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/siː/

noun 8name 3character 2num 2verb 2

Collocations

ADJ.

english, half, olympic, rich, still

VERB + C

boils, eliminate, got, models, need, visited

C + NOUN

2nite, capital, d, furnace, he's, u, years

PREP.

around, from, in, in, on, out, since

ADV.

such

Definitions

character

The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

num

The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

adv

Alternative form of c..

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Synonyms

noun — street names for cocaine

noun — a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge tr

coulomb
ampere-second

noun — ten 10s

noun — an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in thr

carbon

noun — a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine

cytosine

adjective — being ten more than ninety

hundred

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

I before E, except after C

In English words that contain the letters I and E together, the I tends to come before the E (ie), except in cases when the two are preceded by the letter C, in which case the E comes before the I (cei).

Example Bank

C u 2nite as planned.

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Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

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I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.

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Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy.

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Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive

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1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, c is marked as slang, US, British, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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