Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 71
Cling (v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.
Cling (v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
Cling (v. t.) To make to dry up or wither.
Cling (n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion.
Clingstone (a.) Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.
Clingstone (n.) A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
Clingy (a.) Apt to cling; adhesive.
Clinic (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
Clinic (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
Clinic (n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
Clinical (v. i.) Alt. of Clinic.
Clinic (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
Clinic (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinic (n.) [ C ] (B1) 診所；門診部 A building, often part of a hospital, to which people can go for medical care or advice relating to a particular condition.
// Bring your baby to the clinic and we'll take a look at her.
// Antenatal clinics provide care for pregnant women.
Idiom:
Hold a clinic 門診；提供門診服務 To be available at a particular place to provide medical care to members of the public.
// Dr Clark holds a clinic on Tuesday mornings.
Hold a clinic (UK) 提供諮詢 To be available at a particular place to provide advice to members of the public.
// Our MP holds a clinic every Friday evening.
Clinical (a.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
Clinical (a.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical (a.) (Medical) (C1) 門診的，臨床的 Used to refer to medical work or teaching that relates to the examination and treatment of ill people.
// Clinical tests/ training.
// The Department of Clinical Medicine.
// Clinical trials of the new drug may take five years.
Clinical (a.) (Without emotionI) (C2) (Disapproving) 冷漠的；無動於衷的；無感情的 Expressing no emotion or feelings.
// She seems to have a very clinical attitude towards her children.
Clinical (a.) (Without emotion) 無特色的；冷冰冰的；樸素的 Showing no character and warmth.
// We were going to paint our kitchen white, but we decided that would look too clinical.
Clinical depression (n.) [ U ] 抑鬱症 A mental illness that causes feelings of sadness and loss of hope, changes in sleeping and eating habits, loss of interest in your usual activities, and pains that have no physical explanation.
Clinically (adv.) In a clinical manner.
Clinique (n.) A clinic.
Clinium (n.) See Clinanthium.
Clinked (imp. & p. p.) of Clink.
Clinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clink.
Clink (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
Clink (v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
Clink (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].
Clink (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Clinkant (a.) See Clinquant.
Clinker (n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
Clinker (n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
Clinker (n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Clinodiagonal (n.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
Clinodiagonal (a.) Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
Clinodome (n.) See under Dome.
Clinographic (a.) Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Clinoid (a.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
Clinometry (n.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
Clinopinacoid (n.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Clinorhombic (a.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Clinquant (a.) Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
Clinquant (n.) Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clio (n.) The Muse who presided over history.
Clione (n.) A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
Clipped (imp. & p. p.) of Clip.
Clipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clip.
Clip (v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Clip (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
Clip (v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Clip (n.) An embrace.
Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
Clip (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
Clip (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
Clipper (n.) One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. -- Locke.
Clipper (n.) A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
Clipper (n.) (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship. -- Clip"per-built`, a.
Note: The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States. --Locke.
Clipper (n.) (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
Syn: limiter.
Yankee Clipper, (a) A clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper [3].
Yankee Clipper, (b) Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.
Clipper (n.) (Electronics) A nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion" [syn: limiter, clipper]
Clipper (n.) A fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper, clipper ship].
Clipper (n.) Shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural).
Clipper (n.) Scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural).
Clipper, () An integrated circuit which implements the SkipJack algorithm. The Clipper is manufactured by the US government to encrypt telephone data. It has the added feature that it can be decrypted by the US government, which has tried to make the chip compulsory in the United States. Phil Zimmerman (inventor of PGP) remarked, "This doesn't even pass the sniff test" (i.e. it stinks).
Clipper, () A compiled dBASE dialect from Nantucket Corp, LA. Versions: Winter 85, Spring 86, Autumn 86, Summer 87, 4.5 (Japanese Kanji), 5.0. It uses the Xbase programming language. (2004-09-01)
Clipping (n.) The act of embracing. [Obs.]
Clipping (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
Note: This practise was common when precious metals such as silver or gold were used in commonly circulated major coins, such as the dime, quarter, and higher denominations; scoundrels would remove small slivers of precious metal from the edges of many coins, eventually accumulating enough precious metal to be worth a significant sum, while passing on the clipped coins at their nominal values. After most governments discontinued coinage in silver and gold in the late 1900's, the practice became obsolete. The serrations, or milling, at the edges of coins was introduced to defeat the practice by making the result of clipping evident. Many coins continued to be made with milled edges even after the practice of clipping was rendered pointless by use of non-precious metals in coinage.
Clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. -- Locke.
Clipping (n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
Clipping (n.) (Football) The act of hitting a player from behind, for the purpose of blocking. It is illegal in football because it can lead to injury to the blocked player, who cannot anticipate the action. A penalty of 10 yards or more may be assessed against the team of the offending player.
Clipping (n.) An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting].
Clipping (n.) Cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, trimming, clipping].
Clipping (n.) The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip].
Clique (n.) A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.
Clique (v. i.) To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Clique (n.) An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp].
Clique, () A maximal totally connected subgraph.
Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). In other words, a clique contains all, and only, those nodes which are directly connected to all other nodes in the clique. [Is this correct?] (1996-09-22)
Cliquish (a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. -- Cli"*quish*ness, n.
Cliquish (a.) Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby].
Cliquism (n.) The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Clitellus (n.) (Zool.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
Clitoris (n.) (Anat.) 【解】陰核；陰蒂 A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
Clitoris (n.) A female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris, clit, button].
Compare: Vulva
Vulva (n.) [Anatomy] 【解】陰戶，女陰，女性的外陰部 The female external genitals.
Vulva (n.) [Zoology] The external opening of the vagina or reproductive tract in a female mammal or nematode.
Compare: Nematode
Nematode (n.) [Zoology] 【動】線蟲類（的） A worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm.
Compare: Homologus
Homologus (a.) (Comparative more homologous, superlative most homologous) 相應的 Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Homologus (a.) (Biology) Corresponding to a similar structure in another life form with a common evolutionary origin.
// Flippers and hands are homologous structures.
Homologus (a.) (Chemistry) Belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds that differ only by the addition of a CH2 group.
Homologus (a.) (Genetics) Having the same morphology as another chromosome; relating to a homologue.
Compare: Penis
Penis (n.) (Penises, penes) 【解】陽物；陰莖 The male genital organ of higher vertebrates, carrying the duct for the transfer of sperm during copulation. In humans and most other mammals, it consists largely of erectile tissue and serves also for the elimination of urine.
Penis (n.) [Zoology] A type of male copulatory organ present in some invertebrates, such as gastropod mollusks.
Compare: Mons pubis
Mons pubis (n.)〔拉丁語〕【解剖學】陰阜The mons pubis is a pad of fatty tissue that covers the pubic bone. It’s sometimes referred to as the mons, or the mons veneris in females. While both sexes have a mons pubis, it’s more prominent in females.
Clivers (n.) See Cleavers.
Clivities (n. pl. ) of Clivity.
Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
Cloacae (n. pl. ) of Cloaca.
Cloaca (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
Cloaca (n.) A privy.
Cloaca (n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
Cloacal (a.) Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
Cloak (n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
Cloak (n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
Cloaked (imp. & p. p.) of Cloak.
Cloaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloak.
Cloak (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
Cloakedly (adv.) In a concealed manner.
Cloaking (n.) The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
Cloaking (n.) The material of which of which cloaks are made.
Cloakroom (n.) A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.
Clock (n.) The striking of a clock.
Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Clocklike (a.) 準確如時鐘的；時鐘般有規律的 Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Their services are clocklike, to be set Backward and forward at their lord's command. -- B. Jonson.
Clockwork (n.) 鐘錶的機械；發條裝置 [U] The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Clockwork (n.) Any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock.
Clod (n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." -- Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." -- Milton. "Clods of blood." -- E. Fairfax.
The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. -- Bacon.
Clod (n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. -- Swift.
Clod (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. -- T. Burnet.
Clod (n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt -- Dryden.
Clod (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.