c

uppercase C · plural cs · plural c's

1. letterlowercaseThe third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

uppercase C · plural cs · plural c's

1. lowercaseThe third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

1. alternativeAlternative form of c.

1. alternativeAlternative form of c.

1. alternativeAlternative form of c.

plural cs · plural c's

1. entertainmentThe middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.

1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of see.

   C u 2nite as planned.

   2012, Josephine Angelini, Dreamless, Macmillan Children’s Books, →ISBN

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   Apurv replied, “Hello...nice to c u online!”

   2011 January, Smita Kaushik, Utkarsh Roy, Let's Get Committed…, New Delhi: Mahaveer Publishers, →ISBN, page 31

   Hey! Had fun talking 2 u 2day. C u tmrw.

   2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 158

lowercase c · plural Cs · plural C's

1. letteruppercaseThe third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

   Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

lowercase c · plural Cs · plural C's

1. uppercaseThe third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.

plural Cs

1. USslangOne hundred dollars; a c-note.

   Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy.

   1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke)

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   I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.

   1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227

2. entertainmentThe first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
3. educationAn academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.

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   Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries.

   2021 June 18, Sam Roberts, “Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021

4. UnicodeCanonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
5. slangCocaine.

   Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.

   1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945

6. slangvulgarCunt.

   1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C.

7. abbreviationAbbreviation of consonant.

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   The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’.

   2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog

8. UKabbreviationgovernmentAbbreviation of Conservative.
9. abbreviationAbbreviation of century.

   Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement.

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   Contains an interesting collection of English and European paintings from the 14th to 20th-Cs, in particular the Lycett Green collection of old masters.

   1979, The Automobile Association, AA Town Plans, London: Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd., →ISBN, page 222, column 1

   Thanks, @janecaro, for showing that public profiles can be used for good & that social media belongs in a 21stC democracy.

   2013, Yvette Vignando, edited by Jane Caro, Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World, St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 127

10. abbreviationball gamesAbbreviation of center.

1. computingA particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.

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   1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.

2. UKHead of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
3. symbolbusinessSymbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.

   Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn.

   2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business

1. abbreviationbiologyAbbreviation of costa.

1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of see.

   Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?

   2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80

1. MalaysiaSingaporecolloquialnot comparableWith sugar and evaporated milk added.