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Conk Out
- verb -
- stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
- use up all one''s strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
- use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
Connacht
- unknown - Province and ancient kingdom of NW Republic of Ireland
Conodont
- noun - small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
- the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
Conquest
- noun - an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
- success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
- the act of conquering
Constant
- adjective - 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
- steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"
- uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
- unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity"
Contempt
- 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
Contract
- 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
Contrast
- 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"