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Call
- noun -
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call"
- a brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"; "the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence"
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call"
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
- a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips"
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
- a telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to Lo
Carl
- - A rude, rustic man; a churl.
Caul
- noun - A woman's close-fitting headdress or hairnet
- part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines
- the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
Ceil
- - To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Cell
- noun - (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
Cill
- - See Sill., n. a foundation.
Coal
- noun - a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
- burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
- fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
- supply with coal
- take in coal; "The big ship coaled"
Coil
- noun - a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
- wind around something in coils or loops
Cool
- adjective - (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets"
- (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks"
- fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
- great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"
- loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
- lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"
- make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament"
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool s