Pronunciations (7)
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/siː/
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/s/
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/k/
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/tʃ/
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/ks/
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/ʃ/
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/siː(˦)/
Pronunciation notes
- Singapore
Character
The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
Usage- letter
- uppercase
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Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
Numeral
The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
Usage- uppercase
- number
A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
Noun
One hundred dollars; a c-note.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
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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.
Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy.
The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
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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 geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries.
Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
Cocaine.
Usage- Slang
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Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.
Cunt.
Usage- Slang
- Vulgar
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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.
Proper noun
A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
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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 spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.
Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
Usage- UK usage
Adjective
With sugar and evaporated milk added.
Usage- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Colloquial
- not-comparable
- used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)
Noun
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
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a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
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nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
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a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
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an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
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ten 10s
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a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
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a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
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(music) the keynote of the scale of C major
the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
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street names for cocaine
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