We
waited inside until things calmed down. fl 1 fl' 't> F*3, 4S!|—®fP#cSTJF#o
0 He took a
few deep breaths to calm himself down, tfotyiT JL P ^ , (k
ia»T*.
■ noun [C,
U] 1 a quiet and peaceful time or situation :f- # W W iffl; o' $ W : the calm of a summer evening JfHf£f!&fitiTl$o The police appealed for calm.
X ‘X ff: ft X M* o 2 a quiet and relaxed manner M ■ § tr: Her previous calm gave way to
terror.
B IT»Tm the calm before the storm
a calm
time immediately before an expected period of violent activity or argument
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Calor
gas™ /' kaela
gaes; NAmE 'kaelar/ (BrE) (US 'cooking gas) noun [U] a type of gas stored as a
liquid under pressure in metal containers and used for heating and cooking in
places where there is no gas supply MI ®
(Jl-TMftfrtS )
cal-orie /'kaelari/ noun 1 a unit for measuring how much
energy food will produce X , ff ( S'] it ft VJI ) : No sugar for me, thanks—I’m counting my calories. $ ^ K $|, ill ill „ $ 4 }£
©J &U1X Wt 1 = 0 a low-calorie dr ink/diet fft M fl'j if tj / if It 2 (technical iff) a unit for measuring a
quantity of heat; the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a gram
of water by one degree Celsius {?, Rj® ft (
cal or ific /.kaela'rifik/
adj. [usually before noun] (technical ft if) connected with or producing
heat ( ) RM; f':
: the calorific value of food (= the quantity of heat or energy
produced by a particular amount of food)
calorimeter /,k®l8‘rimito(r)/
noun
(technical ft
if) a device which measures the amount of heat in a chemical reaction iftftit;
caique /kaelk/ (also
loan translation) noun (linguistics if gj a word or expression in a
language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language if i£il, ( thili^ifWiifisI ) : “Traffic calming’
is a caique of the German “Verkehrsberuhigung’. * traffic
calming H&liif Verkehrsberuhigung Sif cal-umny /'kaelamni/ noun (pi. -ies) (formal) 1 [C] a false statement about a person that is made to damage their
reputation ® Jg , I
2 [U] the act
of
making such
a statement SI, iff-\% (
W?f X ) SC] SLANDER
Cal-va-dos
/'kaelvadDs; NAmE .kaelva'doos/ noun [U] a French drink made by distilling apple juice (SB)
calve /ka;v; NAmE kaev/ verb [V] (of a cow (541) to
give birth to a calf XXX; calves pi of calf
Calvinist
/'kaelvinist/
(also Calvinistic)
adj. 1 connected with a Church that follows the
teachings of the French Protestant, John Calvin jJU XX’^tth jffl X M.
) 2 having
very strict moral attitudes ^ 3118 (ft ► Cal-vin-ism noun [U] Cal vin ist noun calypso /ka'lipsau; NAmE -sou/ noun [C, U] (pi. -os) a
muk );
calyx
/'keiliks/ noun (pi. calyxes or calyces /'keilisiiz/) (technical ft if) the ring of small green
leaves (called sepals) that
protect a flower before it opens ft
W CAM /ksem/ abbr. computer aided manufacturing it
Jf
fettMTStiMii
cam /kaem/ noun a, part on a wheel that sticks out
and changes the circular movement
of the wheel into up-and-down or backwards-and-forwards movement
cama rad