C

//siː// adj, adv, character, name, noun, num, symbol, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With sugar and evaporated milk added. Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    being ten more than ninety wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of c.. alt-of, alternative
Character
  1. 1
    The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script. letter, lowercase
  2. 2
    The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script. letter, uppercase

    "Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.

    "1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business."

  2. 2
    Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). British
  3. 3
    Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE. alt-of, symbol

    "Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of c.. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.
  3. 3
    One hundred dollars; a c-note. US, slang

    "I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke."

  4. 4
    Abbreviation of costa. abbreviation, alt-of
  5. 5
    street names for cocaine wordnet
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  1. 6
    The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
  2. 7
    the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet wordnet
  3. 8
    An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.

    "Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries."

  4. 9
    (music) the keynote of the scale of C major wordnet
  5. 10
    Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
  6. 11
    a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system wordnet
  7. 12
    Cocaine. slang

    "Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted."

  8. 13
    a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second wordnet
  9. 14
    Cunt. slang, vulgar

    "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C."

  10. 15
    a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature wordnet
  11. 16
    Abbreviation of consonant. abbreviation, alt-of

    "The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’."

  12. 17
    ten 10s wordnet
  13. 18
    Abbreviation of Conservative. UK, abbreviation, alt-of
  14. 19
    an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds wordnet
  15. 20
    Abbreviation of century. abbreviation, alt-of

    "Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement."

  16. 21
    a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine wordnet
  17. 22
    Abbreviation of center. abbreviation, alt-of
  18. 23
    nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group wordnet
  19. 24
    a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy wordnet
  20. 25
    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 wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script. lowercase
  2. 2
    The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script. uppercase
Symbol
  1. 1
    A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
Verb
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of see. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of

    "C u 2nite as planned."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of see. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of

    "Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).

Etymology 2

Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).

Etymology 3

Abbreviations.

Etymology 4

Abbreviations.

Etymology 5

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

Etymology 6

Abbreviations.

Etymology 7

Abbreviations.

Etymology 8

Uncertain. Either from Hainanese 鮮 /鲜 (si²³, “fresh”), short for 鮮奶 (“fresh milk”), Malay cair (“melted”) referring to evaporated milk, or an abbreviation of Carnation, a canned milk brand, and historically, one of the most widespread forms of evaporated milk in Singapore.

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