ADJECTIVE A convex surface bulges outwards, rather than being level or curving inwards.
See concave (#ulink_6a54f3e0-99f0-5472-877b-20192812085d)
ANTONYM: concave
convey conveys, conveying, conveyed
VERB 1 If someone conveys people or things to a place, they take them there.
2 If you convey information, ideas or feelings, you tell people about them.
conveyor belt conveyor belts
NOUN a moving strip used in factories for moving objects along
convict convicts, convicting, convicted
Said “kon-vikt” VERB 1 If a law court convicts someone of a crime, it says they are guilty of it.
Said “kon-vikt” NOUN 2 someone serving a prison sentence
convince convinces, convincing, convinced
VERB If you convince someone of something, you persuade them to do it or that it is true. • I convinced mum and dad to let me go on the school trip.
convoy convoys
NOUN a group of ships or vehicles travelling together
cook cooks, cooking, cooked
VERB 1 When you cook, you prepare food for eating by boiling, baking or frying it.
NOUN 2 a person whose job is to prepare food
cooker cookers
NOUN an apparatus for cooking food
cookery
NOUN the art of preparing and cooking food
cookie cookies
NOUN 1 a sweet biscuit • a chocolate cookie
2 a small file placed on a user’s computer by a website • This website uses cookies.
cool cooler, coolest; cools, cooling, cooled
ADJECTIVE 1 Something cool has a low temperature but is not cold.
2 If you are cool in a difficult situation, you stay calm.
VERB 3 When something cools, it becomes less warm.
cooperate cooperates, cooperating, cooperated
VERB 1 When people cooperate, they work or act together.
2 If you cooperate, you do what someone asks you to do.
cooperative cooperatives
ADJECTIVE 1 A cooperative person does what they are asked to do willingly and cheerfully.
NOUN 2 a business or organization run by the people who work for it, and who share its profits
coordinates
PLURAL NOUN a pair of numbers or letters that tell you exactly where a point is on a grid, map or graph
cop cops
NOUN INFORMAL a policeman
cope copes, coping, coped
VERB If you cope, you are able to do something even if the circumstances are difficult. • I managed to cope with my homework and with looking after my little brother at the same time.
copper
NOUN a soft, reddish-brown metal
copy copies, copying, copied
NOUN 1 something made to look like something else • a copy of a famous painting
2 A copy of a book, newspaper or record is one of many identical ones produced at the same time. • a copy of today’s newspaper
VERB 3 If you copy what someone does, you do the same thing.
4 If you copy something, you make a copy of it.
copyright copyrights
NOUN If someone has the copyright on a piece of writing or music, it cannot be copied or performed without their permission.