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Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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2019
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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.
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