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Constants
- noun - a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context; "the velocity of light is a constant"
- a quantity that does not vary
Construes
- verb - interpret, understand
- make sense of; assign a meaning to;
Consumers
- noun - a person who uses goods or services
Contempts
- noun - a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous
- a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
- open disrespect for a person or thing
Continues
- verb - allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
- continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"
- continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
- continue talking; "I know it's hard," he con
Continuos
- noun - a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played
Contracts
- noun - (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
- become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
- engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
- make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manus
Contrails
- noun - an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust
Contrasts
- noun - a conceptual separation or distinction; "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
- put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to", "by contrast"
- the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
- the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
- to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
Contrives
- verb - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"