--- title: C — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 39 description: The 1959 words of the English dictionary under C, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / C # C — The English dictionary · page 39 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* A clinic is a place where people go to see a doctor, nurse or other health worker, usually without staying overnight.[↗](../../clinic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A clinic is a session where experts give advice or teach skills, as in a football clinic or homework clinic.[↗](../../clinic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I had my injection at the clinic.[↗](../../clinic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet's clinic is open until seven.[↗](../../clinic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum took the baby to the health clinic.[↗](../../clinic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The clinic sees 12 patients an hour; how many in 5 hours?[↗](../../clinic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our club runs a free tennis clinic.[↗](../../clinic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dental clinic sent a reminder about my check-up.[↗](../../clinic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clinical** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clinical means to do with treating patients in hospitals or clinics: «a clinical trial».[↗](../../clinical/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clinical means cold, very clean and plain, without warmth: «The room looked clinical».[↗](../../clinical/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Clinical means calm, efficient and without feeling: «a clinical finish» in football.[↗](../../clinical/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (medical) Clinical depression is a serious illness diagnosed by a doctor.[↗](../../clinical/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The medicine is being tested in clinical trials.[↗](../../clinical/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The striker gave a clinical finish to win the game.[↗](../../clinical/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The white room looked cold and clinical.[↗](../../clinical/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors and nurses do clinical work.[↗](../../clinical/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He spoke in a clinical voice with no feeling.[↗](../../clinical/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · This cream is clinically proven to help dry skin.[↗](../../clinical/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clinically** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clinically means in a medical way, as judged by doctors examining patients: «clinically tested», «clinically proven».[↗](../../clinically/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clinically can mean in a cold, calm, unemotional way, like a hospital.[↗](../../clinically/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (sport, informal) Clinically means very efficiently and accurately: «He finished clinically.».[↗](../../clinically/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The cream has been clinically tested on sensitive skin.[↗](../../clinically/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors said the boy was clinically well and could go home.[↗](../../clinically/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The advert said the toothpaste was «clinically proven», but we wanted to see the evidence.[↗](../../clinically/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The room was clinically clean and white.[↗](../../clinically/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She explained the facts clinically, without any emotion.[↗](../../clinically/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The striker finished clinically into the corner of the net.[↗](../../clinically/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Clinically depressed means a doctor has diagnosed depression.[↗](../../clinically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **clink** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clink is a short, light ringing sound, like glasses touching or coins falling.[↗](../../clink/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To clink is to make that sound, or to touch glasses together.[↗](../../clink/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «The clink» is an old slang word for prison.[↗](../../clink/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The coins clink in the jar.[↗](../../clink/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We heard 5 clinks.[↗](../../clink/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The glasses clinked.[↗](../../clink/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each coin made a clink.[↗](../../clink/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ice clinked in her glass of lemonade.[↗](../../clink/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone clinked glasses to wish Grandad a happy birthday.[↗](../../clink/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I heard the clink of keys at the door.[↗](../../clink/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The thief ended up in the clink.[↗](../../clink/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Donald held his peace, but after a while he heard the glasses clink, and Hudden singing away at the top of his voice.[↗](../../clink/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **clip** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clip is a small object that holds things together or in place: a paper clip, a hair clip.[↗](../../clip/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To clip means to fasten with a clip: clip the badge onto your coat.[↗](../../clip/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To clip means to cut small bits off with scissors or clippers: clip the hedge, clip your nails.[↗](../../clip/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A clip is a short piece of a film or video.[↗](../../clip/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To clip means to hit lightly at the edge: the car clipped the kerb.[↗](../../clip/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hold the pages together with a paper clip.[↗](../../clip/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She wore a butterfly clip in her hair.[↗](../../clip/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched a short clip of a volcano erupting.[↗](../../clip/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Clip the wires to the battery with crocodile clips.[↗](../../clip/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad clipped the hedge in the garden.[↗](../../clip/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Make sure your helmet strap is clipped under your chin.[↗](../../clip/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The bike clipped the edge of the pavement.[↗](../../clip/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Was it not enough to clip off the end of my beard?[↗](../../clip/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **clipboard** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A flat board with a metal clip at the top that holds sheets of paper, so you can write while standing or walking.[↗](../../clipboard/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (computers) The hidden place in a computer or phone that stores what you have copied or cut until you paste it.[↗](../../clipboard/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Each group took a clipboard on the minibeast hunt.[↗](../../clipboard/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We did a traffic survey with tally marks on our clipboards.[↗](../../clipboard/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The coach held a clipboard with the team list.[↗](../../clipboard/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Press Ctrl and C to copy the text to the clipboard.[↗](../../clipboard/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The clipboard keeps only the last thing you copied.[↗](../../clipboard/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A woman with a clipboard asked us questions about the park.[↗](../../clipboard/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clipped** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clipped is the past form of «clip»: cut something short or neat with scissors or clippers (clipped the hedge, clipped his nails).[↗](../../clipped/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clipped also means fastened with a clip (clipped the papers together).[↗](../../clipped/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Clipped means hit something lightly or quickly on the edge.[↗](../../clipped/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A clipped voice or way of speaking is short, quick and rather unfriendly.[↗](../../clipped/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dad clipped the hedge in the front garden.[↗](../../clipped/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet clipped the dog's nails.[↗](../../clipped/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She clipped her name badge onto her jumper.[↗](../../clipped/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The papers were clipped together.[↗](../../clipped/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ball clipped the top of the bar and went over.[↗](../../clipped/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Fine,» she said in a clipped voice.[↗](../../clipped/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The bird's wings had been clipped so it could not fly away.[↗](../../clipped/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings.[↗](../../clipped/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.[↗](../../clipped/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.48.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../clipped/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **clipper** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clippers are a tool for cutting hair, nails or hedges.[↗](../../clipper/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A clipper was a fast sailing ship in the 1800s.[↗](../../clipper/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A clipper can be anything that clips or holds things.[↗](../../clipper/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The barber used clippers to cut my hair.[↗](../../clipper/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum trimmed my nails with nail clippers.[↗](../../clipper/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad cut the hedge with clippers.[↗](../../clipper/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The clipper ship sailed fast across the ocean.[↗](../../clipper/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Cutty Sark is a famous clipper.[↗](../../clipper/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful, the clippers are sharp.[↗](../../clipper/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clipping** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clipping is an article or picture cut out of a newspaper or magazine.[↗](../../clipping/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clippings are small pieces cut off something, such as grass, hair or nails.[↗](../../clipping/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Clipping is the -ing form of «clip»: cutting something short, or fastening with a clip.[↗](../../clipping/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum kept a newspaper clipping about my football team.[↗](../../clipping/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We glued magazine clippings onto our poster.[↗](../../clipping/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the grass clippings in the compost bin.[↗](../../clipping/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad is clipping the hedge.[↗](../../clipping/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There were hair clippings all over the barber's floor.[↗](../../clipping/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She is clipping the pages together.[↗](../../clipping/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **cloak** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the shoulders and is fastened at the neck.[↗](../../cloak/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Something that covers or hides: «under a cloak of darkness».[↗](../../cloak/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To cover or hide something: «The hills were cloaked in mist.».[↗](../../cloak/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The wizard swirled his long black cloak.[↗](../../cloak/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The thieves escaped under cloak of darkness.[↗](../../cloak/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The mountains were cloaked in fog.[↗](../../cloak/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Little Red Riding Hood wore a red cloak with a hood.[↗](../../cloak/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Hang your coats in the cloakroom.[↗](../../cloak/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a cloak-and-dagger mission.[↗](../../cloak/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He wore a bearskin dress and cloak.[↗](../../cloak/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../cloak/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.[↗](../../cloak/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.9.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../cloak/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, and their robes, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.[↗](../../cloak/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.3.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../cloak/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **cloakroom** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cloakroom is a room where you can leave coats, bags and umbrellas, for example in a school or theatre.[↗](../../cloakroom/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, polite euphemism) A cloakroom can mean a toilet: «the ladies' cloakroom».[↗](../../cloakroom/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hang your coat in the cloakroom.[↗](../../cloakroom/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My PE bag is in the cloakroom.[↗](../../cloakroom/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We left our umbrellas at the theatre cloakroom.[↗](../../cloakroom/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cloakroom ticket was number 42.[↗](../../cloakroom/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Excuse me, where is the cloakroom?[↗](../../cloakroom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The cloakroom was full of wet wellies.[↗](../../cloakroom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **cloche** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (gardening) A glass or plastic cover shaped like a bell or a small tunnel, put over young plants to protect them from cold and pests.[↗](../../cloche/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A close-fitting, bell-shaped woman's hat, popular in the 1920s.[↗](../../cloche/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (cooking) A dome-shaped cover put over a plate of food to keep it warm.[↗](../../cloche/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We put a cloche over the lettuce seedlings to keep the frost off.[↗](../../cloche/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A plastic bottle cut in half makes a good cloche.[↗](../../cloche/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The waiter lifted the silver cloche with a flourish.[↗](../../cloche/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the 1920s photo, she wore a little cloche hat.[↗](../../cloche/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cloche traps heat like a tiny greenhouse.[↗](../../cloche/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Slugs couldn't get to the plants under the cloche.[↗](../../cloche/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clock** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clock is a machine that shows the time, on a wall or a table.[↗](../../clock/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* O'clock names an exact hour: «three o'clock».[↗](../../clock/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To clock is to measure a time or a speed: «She clocked 12 seconds».[↗](../../clock/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A film starts at 3 o'clock and lasts 2 hours.[↗](../../clock/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop opens at 9 o'clock and closes at 5 o'clock.[↗](../../clock/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It is 11 o'clock.[↗](../../clock/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") What time will it be in 3 hours?[↗](../../clock/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My alarm clock rings at 7.[↗](../../clock/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The clock on the wall is 5 minutes slow.[↗](../../clock/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn the lid clockwise to close it.[↗](../../clock/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Nurses work around the clock.[↗](../../clock/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We raced against the clock to finish.[↗](../../clock/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It was two o'clock in the morning.[↗](../../clock/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **clockmaker** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clockmaker is a person who makes and repairs clocks.[↗](../../clockmaker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The clockmaker fixed Grandad's old clock.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the clockmaker built a mechanical bird.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A clockmaker uses tiny tools and gears.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The village clockmaker had a shop full of ticking.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She dreamed of becoming a clockmaker.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The clockmaker set the pendulum swinging.[↗](../../clockmaker/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clockwise** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clockwise means moving round in the same direction as the hands of a clock: from the top to the right, down, to the left and back up.[↗](../../clockwise/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The opposite is anticlockwise (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) or counterclockwise (US, Canada).[↗](../../clockwise/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Turn the shape a quarter turn clockwise.[↗](../../clockwise/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The children walked clockwise round the circle.[↗](../../clockwise/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn the lid clockwise to close the jar.[↗](../../clockwise/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · If you face north and turn 90° clockwise, you face east.[↗](../../clockwise/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The hands of a clock always move clockwise.[↗](../../clockwise/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Stir the mixture clockwise, then the other way.[↗](../../clockwise/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clockwork** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clockwork is the set of springs and wheels inside a clock or toy that makes it move when wound up.[↗](../../clockwork/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clockwork means a toy that runs on such springs, not on batteries: a clockwork mouse.[↗](../../clockwork/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The clockwork mouse ran across the floor.[↗](../../clockwork/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wind the clockwork toy to start it.[↗](../../clockwork/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The clockwork bird sang waltzes.[↗](../../clockwork/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **clod** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A lump of earth or soil, often large and hard: a clod of earth.[↗](../../clod/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The boy threw a clod at the bird.[↗](../../clod/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The field was full of clods of earth.[↗](../../clod/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He hit the big fellow so hard that he kissed the clod.[↗](../../clod/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?[↗](../../clod/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.38.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../clod/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.[↗](../../clod/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.7.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../clod/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.[↗](../../clod/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.21.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../clod/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clog** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clog is a heavy shoe with a thick wooden sole.[↗](../../clog/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To clog something is to block it so things cannot pass through.[↗](../../clog/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* Hair clogged the drain.[↗](../../clog/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To clog up means to become blocked.[↗](../../clog/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sink is clogged with food.[↗](../../clog/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Leaves clogged the gutter.[↗](../../clog/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Traffic clogged the roads to the beach.[↗](../../clog/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dutch dancers wore wooden clogs.[↗](../../clog/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't pour fat down the drain or it will clog.[↗](../../clog/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My nose is all clogged up with a cold.[↗](../../clog/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He slipped off his clogs and entered the cottage.[↗](../../clog/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **cloister** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cloister is a covered walk with arches around an open square inside a church or monastery.[↗](../../cloister/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old use) A cloister is a place where monks or nuns live apart from the world.[↗](../../cloister/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* This was the cloister of the nuns.[↗](../../cloister/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The arched cloisters were covered with sand.[↗](../../cloister/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He went into the cloister to pray and study.[↗](../../cloister/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some monks walked slowly round the cloister.[↗](../../cloister/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **clomb** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* Went up something, using hands and feet.[↗](../../clomb/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* \[Illustration: THE GLASSY HILL I CLOMB FOR THEE\][↗](../../clomb/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (More English Fairy Tales) · At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation.[↗](../../clomb/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (More English Fairy Tales) · “I cleaned the stable, I laved the lake, and I clomb the tree, And all for the love of thee, And thou wilt not waken and speak to me.”[↗](../../clomb/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (English Fairy Tales) **clon** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* «Clon» is not an English word on its own.[↗](../../clon/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is usually a piece of a longer word such as «clone», «cyclone» or «colon», cut off in the middle.[↗](../../clon/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In Irish place names «Clon-» (from Irish «cluain», a meadow) begins names such as Clonmel and Clontarf.[↗](../../clon/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Clon» is the start of «clone».[↗](../../clon/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A cyclone is a giant spinning storm.[↗](../../clon/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Clonmel is a town in County Tipperary.[↗](../../clon/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.[↗](../../clon/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The game lets you clone your character.[↗](../../clon/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We drove through Clontarf on the way to Dublin.[↗](../../clon/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **clone** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A living thing that is an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made naturally or by scientists.[↗](../../clone/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To make such a copy.[↗](../../clone/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Something or someone that is very like another: a cheap clone of a famous game.[↗](../../clone/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (computing) To make an exact copy of a disk, phone or code project.[↗](../../clone/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dolly the sheep was a clone.[↗](../../clone/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A cutting from a plant grows into a clone of the parent.[↗](../../clone/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Identical twins are a bit like natural clones.[↗](../../clone/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists cloned a mouse in a laboratory.[↗](../../clone/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · This game is a clone of a famous one.[↗](../../clone/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We cloned the code from the website.[↗](../../clone/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Criminals cloned his bank card, so he called the bank.[↗](../../clone/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) … [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/38/) **39** [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/40/) … [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/99/) - ← previous: [page 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/38/) - next →: [page 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/40/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)