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noun · tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage

combustive

adjective · supporting combustion

come

noun · the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

come across

verb · be received or understood

come back

verb · be restored

Example: Her old vigor returned

come down

verb · get sick

Example: She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital

come hell or high water

adverb · in spite of all obstacles

Example: we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water

come in

verb · take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

Example: Jerry came in third in the Marathon

come round

verb · change one's position or opinion

Example: He came around to our point of view

come short

verb · fail to meet (expectations or standards)

come to grips

verb · deal with (a problem or a subject)

Example: I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents

come with

verb · be present or associated with an event or entity

Example: French fries come with the hamburger

comfortingly

adverb · in a comforting or consoling manner

Example: one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form

commander

noun · an officer in the airforce

commemorate

verb · call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony

Example: We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

committal service

noun · service committing a body to the grave

Example: the committal service will be held next Monday

common hyacinth

noun · widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers

commonplaceness

noun · ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace

commonwealth of the bahamas

noun · island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort

communalise

verb · make something the property of the commune or community

communicate

verb · transmit thoughts or feelings

Example: He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist

communicative

adjective · able or tending to communicate- W.M.Thackeray

Example: was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew

communise

verb · make into property owned by the state

Example: The new government communized all banks

compactly

adverb · taking up no more space than necessary

Example: liquid food compactly stored in a pressurized tank

comparably

adverb · in a comparable manner or to a comparable degree

Example: you will have to work comparably harder

competitively

adverb · in competition

Example: the companies should bid competitively

compiler

noun · (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

complacently

adverb · in a self-satisfied manner

Example: he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher

complaisant

adjective · showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

Example: to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover

completely

adverb · to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')

Example: he was wholly convinced

complex number

noun · (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

composedly

adverb · in a self-collected or self-possessed manner

Example: he announced the death of his father collectedly

compound

adjective · composed of more than one partcompound flower heads"

Example: compound leaves are composed of several lobes;

comprise

verb · form or compose

Example: This money is my only income

computationally

adverb · with regard to computation

Example: computationally, this is a tricky problem

comte donatien alphonse francois de sade

noun · French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)

con man

noun · a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim

concavely

adverb · in a concave way

Example: shaped concavely

concealed

adjective · hidden on any grounds for any motive

Example: a concealed weapon

conceivably

adverb · within the realm of possibility

Example: the weather may conceivably change

concernedly

adverb · in a manner showing concern

Example: `Are you all right,' he asked concernedly

concisely

adverb · in a concise manner; in a few words

Example: the history is summed up concisely in this book

conciseness

noun · terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

conclude

verb · decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

Example: We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house

concordant

adjective · being of the same opinion