Join free

C

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

c¹

  • /siː/ letter, name
  • /k/ phoneme
  • /s/ phoneme
  • /tʃ/ phoneme

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

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

letter C · cs · c's

  1. letter, lowercase The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

number C · cs · c's

  1. lowercase The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

c²

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

preposition

  1. alternative Alternative form of c.c.

adverb

  1. alternative Alternative form of c.c.

noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of c.c.

c³

noun cs · c's

  1. 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.

c⁴

verb

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of see.see Apurv replied, “Hello...nice to c u online!”

C⁵

  • /siː/ letter, name
  • /s/ phoneme
  • /k/ phoneme
  • /tʃ/ phoneme
  • /ks/ phoneme
  • /ʃ/ phoneme

Sounds like si, cee, sea, see · Rhymes with -iː

letter c · Cs · C's

  1. letter, uppercase The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script. Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

number c · Cs · C's

  1. uppercase The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

symbol

  1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.

noun Cs

  1. US, slang One hundred dollars; a c-note. 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.
  2. The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
  3. 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 geo
  4. Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
  5. slang Cocaine. Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.
  6. slang, vulgar Cunt. 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.
  7. abbreviation Abbreviation of consonant.consonant 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 ere
  8. UK, abbreviation Abbreviation of Conservative.Conservative
  9. abbreviation Abbreviation of century.century Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement.
  10. abbreviation Abbreviation of center.center

C⁶

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

  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
  2. UK Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
  3. symbol Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn.

C⁷

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of costa.costa

verb

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of see.see 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?

C⁸

  • /siː(˦)/ Singapore

Where it comes from

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.

adjective

  1. Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, not comparable With sugar and evaporated milk added.

Talk about this word