Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 33
Cement (n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
Cement (n.) (Anat.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also {cementum}.
{Hydraulic cement}. See under {Hydraulic}.
Cemented (imp. & p. p.) of Cement.
Cementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cement.
Cement (v. t.) 用水泥接合 [（+together）]；用水泥塗 [（+over）] To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
Cement (v. t.) To unite firmly or closely.
Cement (v. t.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
Cement (v. i.) 黏緊，黏牢 To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Cement (n.) Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool".
Cement (n.) A building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar.
Cement (n.) Something that hardens to act as adhesive material.
Cement (n.) Any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
Cement (n.) A specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth [syn: {cementum}, {cement}].
Cement (v.) Make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship".
Cement (v.) Cover or coat with cement.
Cement (v.) Bind or join with or as if with cement.
Cemental (a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation (n.) The act or process of cementing.
Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
Cementatory (a.) Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
Cementer (n.) A person or thing that cements.
Cementitious (n.) Of the nature of cement.
Cemeterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a cemetery.
Cemeteries (n. pl. ) of Cemetery.
Cemetery (n.) 公墓，墓地 [C] A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Cenation (n.) Meal-taking; dining or supping.
Cenatory (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.
Cenobite (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
Cenobitic (a.) Alt. of Cenobitical.
Cenobitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
Cenobitism (n.) The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
Cenogamy (n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
Cenotaph (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Cenotaphy (n.) A cenotaph.
Cenozoic (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
Cense (n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.
Cense (n.) Condition; rank.
Censed (imp. & p. p.) of Cense.
Censing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cense.
Cense (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Censer (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
Censor (n.) [C]（出版物、電影等的）審查員；[C]（戰時）信件檢查員 One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
Censor (n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
Censor (n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Censor (n.) Someone who censures or condemns.
Censor (n.) A person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable.
Censor (v.) (v. t.) 檢查（出版物等），審查 Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) [syn: {ban}, {censor}].
Censor (v.) Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government".
Censored (a.) 被檢查過的Suppressed or subjected to censorship; as, the censored press in some countries. Opposite of {uncensored}.
Censored (a.) Suppressed or subject to censorship; "the censored press in some countries" [ant: {uncensored}].
Compare: Suppressed
Suppressed (a.) 被抑制的，被忍住的 ；Suppress 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 If something is suppressed, it has been kept secret or forcibly restricted. You may hear rumors about a suppressed report on a politician's activities -- it's kept secret, so you don't know the facts.
Compare: Censorship
Censorship (n.) [Mass noun] 審查制度； 審查機構； 審察員的職權； [心] 中的抑制力 The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
‘The regulation imposes censorship on all media.’
[As modifier ]‘We have strict censorship laws.’
Censorship (n.) [Count noun] (In ancient Rome) The office or position of censor.
‘He celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly.’
Censorial (a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Censorial (a.) Full of censure; censorious.
Censorian (a.) Censorial.
Censorious (a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. -- Watts.
Censorious (a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ness, n.
Censorious (a.) Harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings".
Censorship (n.) [U] 審查（制度），檢查（制度）；審查員（或檢查員）的職務 The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. --Holland.
The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. -- Macaulay.
Censorship (n.) Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy [syn: {censoring}, {censorship}, {security review}].
Censorship (n.) Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances [syn: {censoring}, {censorship}].
Censual (a.) Relating to, or containing, a census.
Censurable (a.) Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Censure (n.) 責難 Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Censure (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
Censured (imp. & p. p.) of Censure.
Censuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Censure.
Censure (v. i.) 非難，指責 To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
Censure (v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Censure (v. i.) To judge.
Censure (n.) Harsh criticism or disapproval [syn: {censure}, {animadversion}].
Censure (n.) The state of being excommunicated [syn: {excommunication}, {exclusion}, {censure}].
Censure (n.) Rebuke formally [syn: {reprimand}, {censure}, {criminate}].
Censurer (n.) One who censures.
Census (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
Cent (n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Cent (n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
Cent (n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Centage (n.) Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Cental (n.) A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Cental (n.) Relating to a hundred.
Centare (n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 11/5 square yards.
Centare (n.) A centare is 1/100th of an are [syn: square meter, square metre, centare].
Centaur (n.) (Class. Myth.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
Centaur (n.) (Astron.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
Centaur (n.) (Classical mythology) A mythical being that is half man and half horse.
Centaur (n.) A conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus, Centaur].
Centaur, (n.) One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse." The best of the lot was Chiron, who to the wisdom and virtues of the horse added the fleetness of man. The scripture story of the head of John the Baptist on a charger shows that pagan myths have somewhat sophisticated sacred history.
Centaurea (n.) (Bot.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle ({Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle ({Centaurea Calcitrapa}).
Centaurea (n.) Knapweed; star thistle [syn: Centaurea, genus Centaurea].
Centaury (n.) (Bot.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
Centaury (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium.
Centaury (n.) Any plant of the genus Centaurea
Centenarian (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years.
Centenarian (n.) A person a hundred years old.
Centenarian (a.) Being at least 100 years old.
Centenarian (n.) Someone who is at least 100 years old.
Centenary (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
Centenary (a.) Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." --Fuller.
Centenaries (n. pl. ) of Centenary.
Centenary (n.) The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century. "Every centenary of years." -- Hakewill.
Centenary (n.) A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Centenary (a.) Of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration" [syn: centennial, centenary].
Centenary (n.) The 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [syn: centennial, centenary].
Centennial (a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
Centennial (a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
Centennial (a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
Centennial (n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Centennially (adv.) Once in a hundred years.
Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Center (n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
Center (n.) The earth. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See {Right}, and {Left}.
Center (n.) (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
Center (n.) (Mech.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
Center (n.) (Mech.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
Note: In a lathe the
{Live center} Is in the spindle of the head stock; the
{Dead center} Is on the tail stock.
{Planer centers} Are stocks carrying centers, when the object to be planed must be turned on its axis.
{Center of an army} The body or troops occupying the place in the line between the wings.
{Center of a curve} or {Center of a surface} (Geom.) (a) A point such that every line drawn through the point and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at the point.
{Center of a curve} or {Center of a surface} (Geom.) (b) The fixed point of reference in polar coordinates. See {Coordinates}.
{Center of curvature of a curve} (Geom.), The center of that circle which has at any given point of the curve closer contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever. See {Circle}.
{Center of a fleet} The division or column between the van and rear, or between the weather division and the lee.
{Center of gravity} (Mech.) That point of a body about which all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported, the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by gravity.
{Center of gyration} (Mech.), That point in a rotating body at which the whole mass might be concentrated (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the intertia of the body to angular acceleration or retardation.
{Center of inertia} (Mech.), The center of gravity of a body or system of bodies.
{Center of motion} The point which remains at rest, while all the other parts of a body move round it.
{Center of oscillation} The point at which, if the whole matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form and state of the body.
{Center of percussion} That point in a body moving about a fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without communicating a shock to the axis.
Compare: Percussion
Percussion (n.) [Mass noun] 打，敲；衝擊；振動；【音】敲打樂器 Musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.
[As modifier ]‘Percussion instruments.’
Percussion (n.) [Mass noun] The striking of one solid object with or against another with some degree of force.
‘The clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters.’
Percussion (n.) [Mass noun] [Medicine ] The action of tapping a part of the body as part of a diagnosis.
‘The chest sounded dull on percussion.’
Compare: Cymbal
Cymbal (n.) (pl. - s) 鐃鈸（金屬製的打擊樂器）[P] A musical instrument consisting of a slightly concave round brass plate which is either struck against another one or struck with a stick to make a ringing or clashing sound.
Compare: Xylophone
Xylophone (n.) 【音】木琴 [C] A musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic beaters.
{Center of pressure} (Hydros.), That point in a surface pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the whole pressure of the fluid. Center
Centered (imp. & p. p.) of Centre.
Centred () of Centre.
Centering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centre.
Centring () of Centre.
Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centre.
Centre (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
Centre (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. -- Dr. H. More.
Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. -- Dryden.
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre.
Centre (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. -- Milton.
Centre (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
Thy joys are centered all in me alone. -- Prior.