Collins First Dictionary

container noun containers

A container is something that you use to keep things in, for example a box or a bottle.

control verb controls, controlling, controlled

If you control something, you can make it do what you want.

I can control the speed by pressing this button.

cook verb cooks, cooking, cooked

When you cook food, you make it hot and get it ready to eat.

Mum was cooking dinner.

cooker noun cookers

A cooker is a machine that you use to cook food.

cool adjective cooler, coolest

Something that is cool is quite cold.

Put the milk in the fridge to keep it cool.

copy noun copies

A copy is something that is made to look like another thing.

I made a copy of the drawing.

corn noun

Corn is a long vegetable. It is covered with yellow seeds that you eat.

corner noun corners

A corner is a place where two sides join together.

He stood at the corner of the street.

correct adjective

If something is correct, there are no mistakes in it.

cost noun costs

The cost of something is the amount of money you need to buy it.

The cost of the holiday was too high.

cot noun cots

A cot is a bed for a baby, with high sides to stop the baby from falling out.

cotton noun

1 Cotton is a kind of cloth that is made from the cotton plant.

2 Cotton is also thread that you use to sew with.

cough verb coughs, coughing, coughed

When you cough, you make air come out of your throat with a sudden, loud noise.

The smoke made us cough.

could verb

If you say you could do something, you mean that you were able to do it. Could comes from the word can.

I could see through the window.

couldn’t

Couldn’t is short for could not.

She couldn’t open the door.

count verb counts, counting, counted

1 When you count, you say numbers in order, one after the other.

I counted from one to ten.

2 When you count all the things in a group, you add them up to see how many there are.

The teacher counted the children in the class.

country noun countries

1 A country is a part of the world with its own people and laws.

He lives in a different country.

2 The country is land that is away from towns and cities. There are farms and woods in the country.

We went for a walk in the country.