C

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

Adjective

  1. or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added.

Origin

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.

Related

di lo gah dai gau kosong O peng po siew dai

Derived

kopi teh

Character

  1. 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 […] - 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur...

Forms

c Cs C's

Related

letter A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h I i J j K k L

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...
  2. Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
  3. Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.
    • Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn. - 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:

Origin

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

Related

BCPL

Derived

C-- C# C++ C family C minus minus C plus plus C sharp C-style comment Unsupported titles/C sharp

Noun US, slang

  1. 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. - 1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:
    • Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy. - 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke):
  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...
  4. Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
  5. Cocaine.
    • Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted. - 1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945
  6. 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...
  7. Abbreviation of 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,...
  8. Abbreviation of Conservative.
  9. Abbreviation of century.
    • Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement.
    • Contains an interesting collection of English and European paintings from the 14th to 20th-Cs, in particular the Lycett Green collection of old masters. - 1979, The Automobile Association, AA Town Plans, London:...
    • Thanks, @janecaro, for showing that public profiles can be used for good & that social media belongs in a 21stC democracy. - 2013, Yvette Vignando, edited by Jane Caro, Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the...

    Related: C. c.

  10. Abbreviation of center.

    Coordinate Terms: PG SG SF PF

Forms

Cs

Related

D KC KD NF

Derived

Area C C-19 C-DNA C-drama C-grade C-level C-list C-low cluster C personality disorder C major C-man C melody C minor C of W C-suiter C-type conflict C wire K of C Mode C NFC Part C state type C

Noun biology, entomology

  1. Abbreviation of costa.

Origin

Abbreviations.

Numeral

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

Forms

c Cs C's

Symbol

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

Verb

  1. Abbreviation of 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?...

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