Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 1
C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek [Gamma], [gamma], and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph[oe]nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.
Note: See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 221-228.
C (Mus.) The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
C (Mus.) C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written.
C (Mus.) The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
C () As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.
C Spring, A spring in the form of the letter C.
C (a.) Being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c].
C (n.) A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C].
C (n.) The speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c].
C (n.) A vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid].
C (n.) One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C].
C (n.) A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C].
C (n.) An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6].
C (n.) Ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C].
C (n.) A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second].
C (n.) A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system.
C (n.) (Music) The keynote of the scale of C major.
C (n.) The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c].
C (n.) Street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C].
C (n.) The third letter of the English alphabet.
C (n.) ASCII 1000011.
C (n.) The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix; so called because many features derived from an earlier compiler named ?B? in commemoration of its parent, BCPL. (BCPL was in turn descended from an earlier Algol-derived language, CPL.) Before Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named ?D? or ?P?. C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as ?a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language? See also { languages of choice, indent style.
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A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs ca. 1972 for systems programming on the PDP-11 and immediately used to reimplement Unix.
It was called "C" because many features derived from an earlier compiler named "{B". In fact, C was briefly named "NB". B was itself strongly influenced by BCPL. Before Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named "D" or "P" (following B and C in "BCPL").
C is terse, low-level and permissive. It has a macro preprocessor, cpp.
Partly due to its distribution with Unix, C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. It has grown popular due to its simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility. C programs are often easily adapted to new environments.
C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".
Ritchie's original C is known as K&R C after Kernighan and Ritchie's book. A modified version has been standardised (standard) as ANSI C.
See also ACCU, ae, c68, c386, C-Interp, cxref, dbx, dsp56k-gcc, dsp56165-gcc, gc, GCT, GNU C, GNU superoptimiser, Harvest C, malloc, mpl, Pthreads, ups.
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C-Road, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 152
Housing Units (2000): 79
Land area (2000): 2.606504 sq. miles (6.750813 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.606504 sq. miles (6.750813 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17267
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 39.759419 N, 120.583560 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Caaba (n.) The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]
Note: The Caaba is situated in Mecca, a city of Arabia, and contains a famous black stone said to have been brought from heaven. Before the time of Mohammed, the Caaba was an idolatrous temple, but it has since been the chief sanctuary and object of pilgrimage of the Mohammedan world.
Caaba (n.) (Islam) A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying [syn: Kaaba, Caaba].
Caaba (n.) A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
Caas (n. sing. & pl.) Case.
Cab (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
Cab (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
Cab (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Cabal (n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala.
Cabal (n.) A secret.
Cabal (n.) 陰謀集團；陰謀 A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
Caballed (imp. & p. p.) of Cabal.
Caballing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabal.
Cabal (v. i.) 密謀策劃 To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.
Cabala (n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.
Cabalism (n.) 猶太神祕哲學的教義 The secret science of the cabalists.
Cabalism (n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. [R] -- Emerson.
Cabalism (n.) The doctrines of the Kabbalah [syn: Kabbalism, Cabalism].
Cabalism (n.) Adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation [syn: kabbalism, cabalism].
Compare: Kabbalah
Kabbalah (n.) 神秘釋經學 An esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret [syn: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah].
Kabbalah (n.) An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries [syn: Kabbalah, Kabbala, Kabala, Cabbalah, Cabbala, Cabala, Qabbalah, Qabbala].
Cabalist (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.
Cabalistic (a.) Alt. of Cabalistical.
Cabalistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
Cabalistically (adv.) In a cabalistic manner.
Cabalize (v. i.) To use cabalistic language.
Caballer (n.) One who cabals.
Caballine (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse.
Caballine (n.) Caballine aloes.
Cabaret (n.) （有歌舞表演的）餐館，夜總會 [C]；（餐館等處的）歌舞表演 [U] [C] A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. [Obs. as an English word.]
Cabaret (n.) A type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment.
Cabaret (n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret {2}.
Cabaret (n.) A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" [syn: cabaret, nightclub, night club, club, nightspot].
Cabaret (n.) A series of acts at a night club [syn: cabaret, floorshow, floor show].
Cabas (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.
Cabassou (n.) A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay.
Cabbage (n.) 甘藍菜，高麗菜，卷心菜 [C] [U]；【美】【俚】紙幣，錢 An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
Cabbage (n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See {Cabbage tree}, below.
Cabbage (n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.
Cabbage (v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
Cabbaged (imp. & p. p) of Cabbage.
Cabbaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabbage.
Cabbage (v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Cabbage (n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Cabbage (n.) Any of various types of cabbage [syn: {cabbage}, {chou}].
Cabbage (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage}, {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale}, {lettuce}, {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}].
Cabbage (n.) Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: {cabbage}, {cultivated cabbage}, {Brassica oleracea}].
Cabbage (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}].
Cabbler (n.) One who works at cabbling.
Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
Cabeca (n.) Alt. of Cabesse.
Cabesse (n.) The finest kind of silk received from India.
Caber (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.
Cabezon (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.
Cabiai (n.) The capybara. See Capybara.
Cabin (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.
Cabin (n.) A small room; an inclosed place.
Cabin (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.
Cabined (imp. & p. p.) of Cabin.
Cabining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabin.
Cabin (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
Cabin (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
Cabinet (n.) 櫃子，櫥子，箱子；內閣，內閣會議；【古】私人小房間，密室 [C] A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.]
Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. -- Spenser.
Cabinet (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
Cabinet (n.) A private room in which consultations are held.
Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. -- Prescott.
Cabinet (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
Note: In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. -- Mozley & W. -- In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general, and the Attorney-general.
Cabinet (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:
Cabinet (n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere.
Cabinet (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
Cabinet council. (a) Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title).
Cabinet council. (b) A meeting of the cabinet.
Cabinet councilor, A member of a cabinet council.
Cabinet photograph, A photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite.
Cabinet picture, A small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.
Cabinet (a.) 內閣的；秘密的 Suitable for a cabinet; small.
He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. -- For. Quar. Rev.
Cabineting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabinet.
Cabinet (v. i.) To inclose. [R.] -- Hewyt.
Cabinet (n.) A piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display.
Cabinet (n.) Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers.
Cabinet (n.) A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [syn: {cabinet}, {locker}, {storage locker}].
Cabinet (n.) Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television [syn: {cabinet}, {console}].
Cabinet. () Certain officers who taken collectively make a board; as, the president's, cabinet, which is usually composed of the secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, the attorney general, and some others.
Cabinet. () These officers are the advisers of the president.
Cabinetmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
Cabinetmaker (n.) A woodworker who specializes in making furniture [syn: cabinetmaker, furniture maker].
Cabinetmaking (n.) 小廚；會議室；細木工手藝；家具製造；組閣 The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.
Cabinetmaking (n.) The craft of a joiner [syn: {cabinetmaking}, {joinery}].
Cabinetwork (n.) The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.
Cabinetwork (n.) Woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker.
Cabinetwork (n.) The craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) [syn: cabinetwork, cabinetry].
Cabirean (n.) One of the Cabiri.
Cabiri (prop. n. pl.) (Myth.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] -- Liddell & Scott.
Cabirian (a.) Same as Cabiric.
Cabiric (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship. [Written also Cabiritic.]
Cable (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
Cable (n.) (Arch) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.
Bower cable, The cable belonging to the bower anchor.
Cable road, A railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor.
Cable's length, The length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or more; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile).
Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed.
Cable tier. (b) A coil of a cable.
Sheet cable, The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
Stream cable, A hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas.
Submarine cable. See Telegraph.
To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole.
To serve the cable, To bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et.
To slip the cable, To let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.
Cable (v. t.) To fasten with a cable.
Cable (v. t.) (Arch.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
Cabled (imp. & p. p.) of Cable.
Cabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cable.
Cable (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable. [Recent]
Cabled (a.) Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." -- Dyer.
Cabled (a.) (Arch.) Adorned with cabling.
Cablegram (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
Note: [A recent hybrid, sometimes found in the newspapers.]
Cablegram (n.) A telegram sent abroad [syn: cable, cablegram, overseas telegram].
Cablelaid (a.) (Naut.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
Cablelaid (a.) Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. -- Simmonds.
Cablet (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
Cabling (n.) (Arch.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting.
These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
Cabmen (n. pl. ) of Cabman.
Cabman (n.) The driver of a cab.
Cabman (n.) Someone who drives a taxi for a living [syn: taxidriver, taximan, cabdriver, cabman, cabby, hack driver, hack-driver, livery driver].
Cabob (n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia. [Also spelled kebab, kebob, or kabab.]