Meaning of C | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An orthographic ⟨c⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /s/, as in the word "celestial".
   dated
2. The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
   letter, lowercase
3. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
4. do (musical note)
5. The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.
6. One hundred dollars; a c-note.
   US, slang
7. A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
8. Abbreviation of costa.
   abbreviation, alt-of
9. C (musical note or key)
10. The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
11. Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
    British
12. where
13. An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
14. Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.
    alt-of, symbol
15. Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
16. Cocaine.
    slang
17. Cunt.
    slang, vulgar
18. Abbreviation of consonant.
    abbreviation, alt-of
19. Abbreviation of Conservative.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of
20. Abbreviation of century.
    abbreviation, alt-of
21. Abbreviation of center.
    abbreviation, alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]”

“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.”

“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.”

“Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.”

“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.”

“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, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’.”

“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.”

“Thanks, @janecaro, for showing that public profiles can be used for good & that social media belongs in a 21stC democracy.”

“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.”

“Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn.”

CEFR level