Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 83
Cold (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. -- Dryden.
Cold (n.) (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
Cold sore (Med.), A vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever.
To leave one out in the cold, To overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.]
Cold (v. i.) To become cold. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Cold (a.) Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" [ant: hot].
Cold (a.) Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" [ant: hot].
Cold (a.) Having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent."
Cold (a.) (Color) Giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish grey."
Cold (a.) Marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started."
Cold (a.) Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten].
Cold (a.) So intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him."
Cold (a.) Sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" [syn: cold, frigid].
Cold (a.) Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate].
Cold (a.) Feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play."
Cold (a.) Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold."
Cold (a.) Of a seeker; far from the object sought.
Cold (a.) Lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave."
Cold (n.) A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?" [syn: cold, common cold].
Cold (n.) The absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness] [ant: heat, high temperature, hotness].
Cold (n.) The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" [syn: cold, coldness].
COLD, () Computer Output on LaserDisk.
COLD, () A sugared version of COLD-K.
COLD, () Computer Output to Laser Disk -- see Enterprise Report Management. (2007-07-24)
Cold-blooded (a.) 冷血的；【口】怕冷的；冷酷的 Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
Cold-blooded (a.) Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
Cold-blooded (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
Cold-blooded (a.) Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: {cold}, {cold-blooded}, {inhuman}, {insensate}].
Cold-blooded (a.) Having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated) [ant: {warm-blooded}].
Coldfinch (n.) A British wagtail.
Cold-hearted (a.) Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
Coldish (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.
Coldly (adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.
Coldness (n.) The state or quality of being cold.
Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
Cold-shut (a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.
Cold-shut (n.) An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
Cole (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.
Co-legatee (n.) A joint legatee.
Colegoose (n.) See Coalgoose.
Colemanite (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
Colemouse (n.) See Coletit.
Coleopter (n.) One of the Coleoptera.
Coleoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.
Coleopteral (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous
Coleopterous (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.
Coleopteran (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera.
Coleopterist (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.
Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.
Coleperch (n.) A kind of small black perch.
Colera (n.) Bile; choler.
Coleridgian (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.
Coleseed (n.) The common rape or cole.
Coleslaw (n.) 【美】涼拌捲心菜 A salad made of sliced cabbage.
Coleslaw (n.) Basically shredded cabbage [syn: {coleslaw}, {slaw}].
Co-lessee (n.) 【經】共同承租人 A partner in a lease taken.
Co-lessor (n.) 【經】聯合出租人A partner in giving a lease.
Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.
Colet (n.) Alt. of Collet.
Compare: Collet
Collet (n.) （戒指上的）寶石座；【機】有縫夾套；（表內鉤發條的）金屬環 A small collar or neckband. -- Foxe.
Collet (n.) (Mech.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
Collet (n.) (Jewelry) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
Collet (n.) (Jewelry) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of {Brilliant}.
Collet (n.) A metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: {ferrule}, {collet}].
Collet (n.) A cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe [syn: {collet}, {collet chuck}].
Collet (n.) A band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting.
Collet (v. t.) (colleted, colleting) 鑲嵌在寶石座上 To set (a gem or other stone) in a collet.
Colet (n.) 輔祭 An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See {Acolyte}.
Compare : Acolyte
Acolyte (n.) 侍僧，助手，輔祭 (Eccl.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
Acolyte (n.) One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." -- Motley.
Altar boy (n.) A boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called {acolyte}.
Acolyte (n.) Someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Coletit (n.) Alt. of Coaltit.
Coaltit (n.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.
Coleus (n.) 薄荷科植物 A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.
Coleus (n.) Any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers [syn: {coleus}, {flame nettle}].
Colewort (n.) 小菜類；白菜的一種 A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.
Colewort (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.
Colewort (n.) A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head [syn: {kale}, {kail}, {cole}, {borecole}, {colewort}, {Brassica oleracea acephala}].
Colfox (n.) A crafty fox. [Obs.]
Colic (n.) 【醫】絞痛；急腹痛 A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
Colic (a.) 結腸的 Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
Colic (n.) Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) [syn: {colic}, {intestinal colic}, {gripes}, {griping}].
Colical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.
Colicky (a.) 肚腹絞痛的；疝痛的 Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
Colin (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
Coliseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.
Colitis (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.
Coll (v. t.) To embrace.
Collaborateur (n.) See Collaborator.
Collaboration (n.) 合作；共同研究；勾結 The act of working together; united labor.
Collaboration (n.) The act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.
Collaboration (n.) Act of working jointly; "they worked either in collaboration or independently" [syn: {collaboration}, {coaction}].
Collaboration (n.) Act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country [syn: {collaboration}, {collaborationism}, {quislingism}].
Collaboration (n.) (Working with) (C1) [ C or U ] 合作；協作 The situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing.
// The two playwrights worked in close collaboration (with each other) on the script.
// The new airport is a collaboration between two of the best architects in the country.
Collaboration (n.) (Helping an enemy) [ U ] (Disapproving) 勾結；通敵，叛國 The situation of people working with an enemy who has taken control of their country.
// She was accused of collaboration.
Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
Collaborator (n.) [ C ] (Enemy supporter) (Disapproving) 通敵分子，賣國賊 A person who works with an enemy who has taken control of their country.
// Wartime collaborators.
// A Nazi collaborator.
Collaborator (n.) [ C ] (Working with) （為了特殊目的的）合作者 A person who works together with others for a special purpose.
// A new production by Andrew Davies and collaborators.
Collagen (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.
Collagenous (a.) Containing or resembling collagen.
Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collapse.
Collapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse.
Collapse (v. i.) 倒塌；崩潰，瓦解；（價格）暴跌；（計畫等）突然失敗；（健康等）垮掉；衰退；累倒；摺疊起來；（肺，血管等的）萎陷；虛脫 To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
Collapse (n.) 倒塌；崩潰 [U]；突然失敗 [U] [C]；暴跌 [U]；（健康等的）衰竭，垮掉 [U] [C]；虛脫；萎陷 [U] [C] A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Collapse (n.) An abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men" [syn: {collapse}, {prostration}].
Collapse (n.) A natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in; "the roof is in danger of collapse"; "the collapse of the old star under its own gravity."
Collapse (n.) The act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" [syn: {flop}, {collapse}].
Collapse (n.) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) [syn: {crash}, {collapse}].
Collapse (v.) (v. t.) 使倒塌；使崩潰；使癟掉；使萎陷；摺疊 Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: {collapse}, {fall in}, {cave in}, {give}, {give way}, {break}, {founder}].
Collapse (v.) Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack [syn: {break down}, {collapse}].
Collapse (v.) Fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand".
Collapse (v.) Fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down" [syn: {crumble}, {crumple}, {tumble}, {break down}, {collapse}].
Collapse (v.) Cause to burst; "The ice broke the pipe" [syn: {collapse}, {burst}].
Collapse (v.) Suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: {crack up}, {crack}, {crock up}, {break up}, {collapse}].
Collapse (v.) Lose significance, effectiveness, or value; "The school system is collapsing"; "The stock market collapsed".
Collapsible (a.) （傢俱）可摺疊的 Collapsible furniture can be folded, usually so it can be put or stored in a smaller space.
// Collapsible chairs.
Collapsion (n.) Collapse.
Collar (n.) [C] 衣領；項圈；護肩 Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.
Collar (n.) A ring or cincture.
Collar (n.) A collar beam.
Collar (n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
Collar (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
Collar (n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
Collar (n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.
Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
Collared (imp. & p. p.) of Collar.
Collaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collar.
Collar (v. t.) 給（衣服）上領子；抓住……的領口 To seize by the collar.
Collar (v. t.) To put a collar on.
Collar bone () The clavicle.
Collards (n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.
Collared (a.) Wearing a collar.
Collared (a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
Collared (a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.
Collatable (a.) Capable of being collated.
Collated (imp. & p. p.) of Collate.
Collating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collate.
Collate (v. t.) 校對，核對；對照；整理；檢點 To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
Collate (v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
Collate (v. t.) To bestow or confer.
Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
Collate (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 對照，核對，校勘 To bring together different pieces of written information so that the similarities and differences can be seen.
// To collate data/ information.
Collate (v.) [ T ] 檢點，整理（印張）；整理（報告、書等） To collect and arrange the sheets of a report, book, etc., in the correct order.
// The photocopier will collate the documents for you.
Collateral (a.) 並行的；附屬的，附帶的 Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
Collateral (a.) Acting in an indirect way.
Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.
Collateral (a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.
Collateral (n.) 旁系親屬 [C]；擔保品，抵押品 [U] [S1] A collateral relative.
Collateral (n.) Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
Collateral (n.) [ U ] (Security for debt ) 擔保品，抵押品 Valuable property owned by someone who wants to borrow money, that they agree will become the property of the company or person who lends the money if the debt is not paid back.
// She used/ put up her house as collateral for a loan.
Collateral (a.) (Formal) 附帶的，次要的；（親戚）旁系的，非直系的 Connected but less important, or of the same family although not directly related.
// Collateral senses of a word.
// A collateral branch of the family.
Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.