is living in
cloud cuckoo land, you mean that they do not understand what a situation is
really like, but think it is much better than it is fiki^5ili£65
cloud-less /'klaudlas/ adj. clear; with no clouds Hjf glj 65;, AA65: a cloudless sky ®|L|65A$ cloudy /'klaudi/
adj. 1
(of the sky
or the weather A$ covered with clouds; with a lot of clouds
f il ill nil; PhA$#65; RBA65; ^H65 BGQ clear: a grey, cloudy day JfcWu# A65 A£ 2 (of liquids not clear or transparent A
itS[ 65 ; A M. s}j 65 ; # 65
► cloudi ness noun [U] clout /klaut/
noun,
verb
m noun 1 [U] power and
influence H|b] fj ; fj : political/financial clout 3&?a / 0 I knew his
opinion carried a lot of
clout with them. $c$^#.65'®,& BfnIA o 2 [C, usually sing.l {informal) a blow with the hand
or a hard object ( 51^565 ) fh, ff
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verb [VN]
(informal) to hit sb hard, especially with your
hand () sa, mn
dove /klauv; NAmE klouv/ noun 1
[C,
U] the dried flower of a tropical tree, used in cooking as a spice, especially
to give flavour to sweet foods. Cloves look like small
daik: t# (.i&*w*65A£,
&, ) 2 [C] a garlic ~ | a ~ of garlic
one of
the small separate sections of a bulb
(= the round underground part) of garlic
—picture o page Ri8 — see also cleave v.
.cloven 'hoof noun the foot of an animal such as a cow, a
sheep, or a goat, that is divided
into two parts
(4% #$6&)
mm,
do-ver /'klauvafc); NAmE 'klou-/ noun [U] a small wild plant that
usually has three leaves on each stem
and purple, pink or white flowers that are shaped like balls A ^: a four-leaf clover (= one with four
leaves
instead of three, thought to bring good luck) PH
)
m
be/
live in
clover (informal) to have enough money to be able
to live a very comfortable life clover-leaf /’klauvaliif; NAmE 'klouvar-/ noun (NAmE) a place where a number of main roads meet
at different levels, with curved sections that form the pattern of a four-leaf
clover fflnflflfBtP clown /klaun/
noun, verb
m noun 1 an entertainer who wears funny
clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh 3L^ ;
/ML: (figurative) Robert was always the
class clown (= he did silly things to make the other
students laugh). M652 (disapproving) a person that you disapprove of because
they act in a stupid way H j#; : What do those clowns
in the government think
they are doing? Ifciff MISSIS
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verb [V] ~ (around) (often disapproving) to behave in a silly way, especially in
order to make other people laugh (
clownish /'klaumj/ adj. like a clown; silly AIL M 65;
L#ft65; AS65;
im
cloy /kloi/ verb (of sth pleasant or sweet A A # St 65 A
ffi) to start to become slightly disgusting or annoying, because there is too
much of it ( ilmM ) ih AMM: After a while, the
rich sauce begins to cloy. M
7-pji, mmnff&mmmTo.
cloy ing /'kburj/
adj. (formal) 1 (of
food, a smell, etc. tKPMSii so sweet that it is unpleasant StLfAM 65; L& AM^165 2 using emotion in a very obvious
way, so that the result is unpleasant ( )'4-A
M®65: the cloying
sentimentality of her novels fcfe65 A i&AAAAM65li^1M ► cloying ly adv. cloze test /'klauz test; NAmE 'klouz/ noun a type of test in which you have to put
suitable words in spaces in a text where words have been left out tjIAifJiJ# dub On /klAb/ noun, verb mnoun
► FOR ACTIVITY/SPORT # j$j ; •# ff jP ijj 1 [C+sing./pl. v.] (especially in compounds A$] A-a* M) a group of
people who meet together
regularly, for a particular activity, sport, etc. LHArI^ L±@3; h : a golf/tennis,
etc. club |wj jjc A
JP 0 a
chess/film/
movie, etc. club 0 to join/
belong to a club
jjpALRAhP; MA 0
The
club
has/have voted to admit 50
new members. LPlAptfilMfi: M50 — see also fan club, youth
club 2 [C] the building or rooms
that a particular club uses (IRA 65 ) We had lunch
at the golf club. & A A^LR5£|$iJ£65|f:t!*. <> the
club bar fRjf; — see also country
club, health club 3 [C+sing./pl. v.] (BrE) a professional sports organization that includes the
players, managers, owners and members Manchester
United Foot
ball Club
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MUSIC/DANCING f-Jfc; ff gg 4 [C] a place where
people, especially young people, go and listen to music, dance, etc. (
a jazz club o the club scene in
A
Iff A 65 —see also clubbing, nightclub,
STRIP CLUB
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SOCIAL Li
ic 5 [C+sing./pl.
v.] (especially
in
He’s a member of several
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SELLING BOOKS/CDS ft A 15/.'^!® A 6 [C] an organization
that sells books, CDs, etc. cheaply to its members
IfP, a music club
—
see also book club
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WEAPON jf£
t# 7
[C] a heavy stick with one end thicker
than the other, that is
used as a weapon ^ LS ( —Affi —* ) — see
also billy club
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IN GOLF [iiAAfi 8 [C] = GOLF club(1)
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IN CARD GAMES 9 dubs [pi., U] one of the
four
sets of cards (called suits) in a pack/deck of cards. The clubs have
a black design shaped like three black leaves on a short stem. & :
the five/queen/ace of clubs $|?£3l/Q/A
—picture
o playing card 10 [C] one card from the suit called clubs I played a
club.
ITS!?! be in the club
(BrE,
informal)
to be pregnant ff fit A A T — more at join v.
m verb (-bb-) 1 [VN] to hit a person
or an animal with a heavy stick or similar object )
ff: The victim was clubbed to death with a baseball
bat. 2 [V] go clubbing
(BrE, informal)
to
spend time dancing and drinking in nightclubs
& i-JlhWl ,club to'gether (BrE) if
two or more people club together, they each give an amount of money and the
total is used to pay for sth : We clubbed together to
buy them a
new television.
club bing /'klAbir)/ noun [U]
the activity of going to nightclubs regularly
^ & A : They go clubbing
most weekends. Lfe i\1A ^ ^ A IP A ^ ^
^ e ►clubber noun: The venue was packed
with 3 000 clubbers.
3 ooo
'dub car noun (NAmE) a coach/car on a
train with comfortable chairs and tables, where you can buy sth to eat or drink
( AA65 ) , #
'club class noun [u] (BrE) = business class
club 'foot noun [C, U] a foot that has
been deformed (= badly shaped)
since birth ( A A '14 65 ) M & ►
club-
footed adj.
club-house /'klAbhaus/ noun the building used by
a club, especially a sports club ( Afiaf^W ) LHAnPAfifi
club-land /'klAblaend/ noun [U] (BrE) popular nightclubs in general and the people
who go to them; an area of a town where there are a lot of
nightclubs
modern clubland
o
club 'sandwich noun a sandwich consisting of three slices of
bread with two layers of food between them
( HAM'S,