Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 94
Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.]
The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the canon law is a spiritual affinity. -- Sir J. Davies
Compatibility (n.) 適合性；一致；協調；【電腦】兼容性 The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.
Compatibility (n.) A feeling of sympathetic understanding.
Compatibility (n.) Capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination [ant: {incompatibility}].
Compatible (a.) 能共處的；可並立的；適合的；兼用式的；【電腦】相容的 Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.
Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. -- Broome.
Syn: Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
Compatible (a.) Able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple"; "her deeds were compatible with her ideology" [ant: {incompatible}].
Compatible (a.) Capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification [ant: {incompatible}].
Compatible (a.) Capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction.
Compatibleness (n.) Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.
Compatibly (adv.) In a compatible manner.
Compatient (a.) Suffering or enduring together. [Obs.] -- Sir G. Buck.
Compatriot (n.) One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. -- Palfrey.
Compatriot (a.) Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind. -- Thomson.
Compatriot (n.) A person from your own country.
Compatriotism (n.) The condition of being compatriots.
Compear (v. i.) (Obsolete) To appear before.
Compear (v. i.) (Law, Scotland) To appear before a judge in court personally or by attorney.
Compeer (n.) 地位相等的人；同伴 An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.
And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer. -- Milton.
His compeer in arms. -- Ford.
Compeer (v. t.) (Archaic.) To be equal with; to match.
Compeer (v. i.) Alt. of Compeir.
Compeir (v. i.) See Compear.
Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compel.
Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compel.
Compel (v. t.) 推動，強迫，脅迫，迫使 To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. -- Hallam.
And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. -- Mark xv. 21.
Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [R.]
Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance. -- Shak.
Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. -- Dryden.
I compel all creatures to my will. -- Tennyson.
Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism] "In one troop compelled." -- Dryden.
Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
She had this knight from far compelled. -- Spenser.
Syn: To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See {Coerce}.
Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit. "If she can not entreat, I can compel." -- Shak.
Compel (v.) Force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form" [syn: {compel}, {oblige}, {obligate}].
Compel (v.) Necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation".
Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained. -- Blackstone.
Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." -- Milton.
He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." -- Bp. Beveridge.
The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. -- Sir W. Temple.
Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.
Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.
Compend (n.) 大要；概略 A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. -- Bp. Burnet.
Compendiarious (a.) Short; compendious.
Compendiate (v. t.) (obsolete) To sum or collect together.
Compendious (a.) 摘要的；簡明的 Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
More compendious and expeditious ways. -- Woodward.
Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. -- Sir T. Elyot.
Syn: Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise.
Compendious (a.) Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {compact}, {succinct}, {summary}].
Compendiously (adv.) 摘要地；簡潔地 In a compendious manner.
Compendiously expressed by the word chaos. -- Bentley.
Compendiousness (n.) [U] The state or quality of being compendious.
Compendiums (n. pl. ) of Compendium.
Compendia (n. pl. ) of Compendium.
Compendium (n.) 概略；概要；手冊 A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
Compendium (n.) A publication containing a variety of works [syn: {collection}, {compendium}].
Compendium (n.) A concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.
Compensated (imp. & p. p.) of Compensate.
Compensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compensate.
Compensate (v. t.) 補償，賠償；酬報 [（+for）]；改變貨幣含金量以穩定貨幣 To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
Compensate (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. -- Bacon.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. -- Prior.
Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.
Compensate (v. i.) 補償，賠償；抵銷 [（+for）] To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Compensation (n.) [U] 補償，彌補；賠償 [（+for/ on）]；賠償金；補償金 [S1] [（+for）]；【美】報酬，津貼，薪水 The act or principle of compensating. -- Emerson.
Compensation (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. -- Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. -- Burke.
Compensation (n.) (Law) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. -- Bouvier. -- Wharton.
Compensation (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
Compensation (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, A kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.
Compensation (n.) Something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury).
Compensation (n.) (Psychiatry) A defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors.
Compensation (n.) The act of compensating for service or loss or injury [syn: {recompense}, {compensation}].
Compensative (a.) 償還的；補充的 Affording compensation.
Compensative (n.) Compensation.
Compensator (n.) [C] 補償（或賠償）者；補償（或賠償）物；【機】補償器，補助器；【電】自耦變壓器，調相機 One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.
Compensatory (a.) 賠償的；補償的 Serving for compensation; making amends.
Compense (v. t.) To compensate. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Comperendinate (v. t.) To delay. -- Bailey.
Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.
Competed (imp. & p. p.) of Compete.
Competing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compete.
Compete (v. i.) 競爭；對抗；比賽 [（+with/ against/ for）]；（事物）媲美，比得上 [（+with）] To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances. -- Bancroft.
Compete (v.) Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others [syn: {compete}, {vie}, {contend}].
Competence (n.) 能力，勝任，稱職 [U]；【律】權限 [U] Alt. of Competency
Competency (n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. -- Burke.
To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. -- Burke.
Competency (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. -- Pope.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -- Shak.
Competency (n.) (Law) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
Competency (n.) (Law) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
Competency (n.) The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required (for a task).
Competence (n.) The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually [syn: {competence}, {competency}] [ant: {incompetence}, {incompetency}].
Competent (a.) 能幹的，勝任的，有權能的，足夠的 Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." --Atterbury. "Competent age." -- Grafton. "Competent statesmen." -- Palfrey. /"A competent witness." -- Bouvier.
Competent (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.]
That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. -- Locke.
Syn: See Qualified.
Competent (a.) Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist" [ant: {incompetent}].
Competent (a.) Adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance".
Competent (a.) Legally qualified or sufficient; "a competent court"; "competent testimony" [ant: {incompetent}, {unqualified}].
Competently (adv.) 勝任地；適合地；【律】有法定資格地 In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.
Competently (adv.) With competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently].
Competible (a.) Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Competition (n.) [U] [（+with/ between/ for）] 競爭，角逐 ；[C] [+to-v] 比賽，競賽；賽會； [U] （總稱）競爭者；比賽對手 The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. -- Bacon.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. -- Dryden.
There is no competition but for the second place. -- Dryden.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. -- A. T. Hadley.
Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation.
Competition (n.) A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times".
Competition (n.) An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: {contest}, {competition}].
Competition (n.) The act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: {competition}, {contention}, {rivalry}] [ant: {cooperation}].
Competition (n.) The contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {competition}, {contender}].
Competition (n.) (B2) [ U ] 競爭 A situation in which someone is trying to win something or be more successful than someone else.
// Competition for jobs is intense.
// There's a lot of competition between computer companies.
// The two companies are in competition with each other.
// [ + to infinitive ] There's fierce competition to get into that school.
// Foreign competition (= similar products from other countries) had reduced their sales.
// Why are you jealous of her? She's no competition!
Competition (n.) (A2) [ C ] 競賽，比賽 An organized event in which people try to win a prize by being the best, fastest, etc.
// A swimming/ chess competition.
// She's entered a crossword competition.
// (Humorous) You don't need to eat so quickly! It's not a competition.
The competition [ S ] 競爭對手，競爭者 The person or people you are trying to be better than.
// The competition on the track looked fierce and her heart sank.
Competitive (a.) 競爭的；經由競爭的，競爭性的；好競爭的 Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Competitive (a.) Involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position" [syn: {competitive}, {competitory}] [ant: {noncompetitive}].
Competitive (a.) Subscribing to capitalistic competition [syn: {competitive}, {free-enterprise(a)}, {private-enterprise(a)}].
Competitive (a.) Showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" [syn: {competitive}, {militant}].
Competitor (n.) 競爭者；對手，敵手 [C] One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
And can not brook competitors in love. -- Shak.
Competitor (n.) An associate; a confederate. [Obs.]
Every hour more competitors Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth. -- Shak.
Competitor (n.) The contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {competition}, {contender}].
Competitory (a.) 競爭的 Acting in competition; competing; rival.
Competitory (a.) Involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position" [syn: {competitive}, {competitory}] [ant: {noncompetitive}].
Competitress (n.) A woman who competes.
Competitress (n.) (Archaic) A female competitor.
Competitrix (n.) A competitress.
Competitrix (n.) (rare) A female competitor.
Compilation (n.) 編輯（物） The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. -- Macaulay.
Compilation (n.) Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) [syn: {compilation}, {digest}].
Compilation (n.) The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" [syn: {compilation}, {compiling}].
Compilator (n.) Compiler.
Compiled (imp. & p. p.) of Compile.
Compiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compile.
Compile (v. t.) 匯編；編輯；收集（資料等） To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.]
Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. -- Spenser.
Compile (v. t.) To contain or comprise. [Obs.]
Which these six books compile. -- Spenser.
Compile (v. t.) To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. -- Macaulay.
Compile (v. t.) To write; to compose. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Compile (v. t.) (Computers) To process (computer program source code) with a compiler [2] to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.
Compile (v.) Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: {roll up}, {collect}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass}, {compile}, {hoard}].
Compile (v.) Put together out of existing material; "compile a list" [syn: {compose}, {compile}].
Compile (v.) Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed.
Compilement (n.) Compilation. [R.]
Compilement (n.) (Archaic) A compilation.
Compilement (n.) (Obsolete) The act of compiling.
Compilement (n.) (Countable and uncountable, pl. compilements) The act or process of compiling; compilation. [1]
Compare: Compilation
Compilation (n.) 編輯（物）The action or process of producing something, especially a list, book, or report, by assembling information collected from other sources.
‘Great care has been taken in the compilation of this guidebook.’
Compilation (n.) A thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast program, that is put together by assembling previously separate items.
‘There are thirty-three stories in this compilation.’
[As modifier ]‘A compilation album.’
Compiler (n.) 編輯者 One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
Compiler (n.) 編譯程式; 編譯器 (Computers) A computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.
Compinge (v. t.) (Obsolete) To compress; to shut up.
Complacence (n.) 滿足；自滿的；安心 Alt. of Complacency
Complacency (n.) 滿足，自滿，得意 Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
Complacency (n.) The cause of pleasure or joy.
Complacency (n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Complacent (a.) 滿足的，自滿的，得意的 Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.
They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. -- Burke.
Complacent (a.) Contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self- satisfied dignity" [syn: {complacent}, {self-satisfied}, {self-complacent}].
Complacential (a.) Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." -- Baxter.
Complacently (adv.) 滿足地；自滿地；得意地 In a complacent manner.
Complacently (adv.) In a self-satisfied manner; "he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher".
Complained (imp. & p. p.) of Complain.
Complaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complain.
Complain (v. i.) 抱怨，發牢騷；訴說（病痛等）[（+to/ about/ of）]；控訴，投訴 [（+to/ about/ of）] To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! -- Milton.
Complain (v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king? -- Shak.
Syn: To repine; grumble; deplore; bewail; grieve; mourn; regret; murmur.
Complain (v. t.) 抱怨；控訴 [Y] [+that] To lament; to bewail. [Obs.]
They might the grievance inwardly complain. -- Daniel.
By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd Her wrongs to us. -- Shak.
Complain (v.) Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" [syn: {complain}, {kick}, {plain}, {sound off}, {quetch}, {kvetch}] [ant: {cheer}, {cheer up}, {chirk up}].
Complain (v.) Make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge; "The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client".
Complainable (a.) That may be complained of.