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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.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B." ], "id": "en-C-en-noun-en:grade", "links": [ [ "education", "education" ], [ "D", "D" ], [ "B", "B" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B." ], "senseid": [ "en:grade" ], "topics": [ "education" ] }, { "glosses": [ "Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition" ], "id": "en-C-en-noun-XbcaERf6", "links": [ [ "Canonical", "canonical#English" ], [ "Decomposition", "decomposition#English" ], [ "Composition", "composition#English" ] ], "qualifier": "Unicode", "raw_glosses": [ "(Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition" ], "related": [ { "_dis1": "2 24 4 34 9 0 11 6 10", "sense": "in Unicode", "word": "D" }, { "_dis1": "2 24 4 34 9 0 11 6 10", "sense": "in Unicode", "word": "KC" }, { "_dis1": "2 24 4 34 9 0 11 6 10", "sense": "in Unicode", "word": "KD" }, { "_dis1": "2 24 4 34 9 0 11 6 10", "sense": "in Unicode", "word": "NF" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945", "text": "Where did you secure the C? 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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. 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"also c", "word": "see" } ], "categories": [ "English abbreviations", "English internet slang", "English terms with quotations", "English text messaging slang" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80", "text": "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?", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Abbreviation of see; also c." ], "links": [ [ "Internet", "Internet" ], [ "slang", "slang" ], [ "text messaging", "text messaging" ], [ "see", "see#English" ], [ "c", "c#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of see; also c." ], "tags": [ "Internet", "abbreviation", "alt-of" ] } ], "word": "C" } { "etymology_number": 4, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en" }, "expansion": "Uncertain", "name": "uncertain" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nan-hai", "3": "鮮", "t": "fresh" }, "expansion": "Hainanese 鮮/鲜 (“fresh”)", "name": "bor" } ], "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibilities include:\n* Hainanese 鮮/鲜 (“fresh”).\n* The first letter of Carnation, an evaporated milk brand.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "C (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "related": [ { "word": "di lo" }, { "word": "gah dai" }, { "word": "gau" }, { "word": "kosong" }, { "word": "O" }, { "word": "peng" }, { "word": "po" }, { "word": "siew dai" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "Singapore English" ], "glosses": [ "(Singapore, colloquial, after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added.", "With sugar and evaporated milk added." ], "links": [ [ "kopi", "kopi#Malay" ], [ "teh", "teh#Malay" ], [ "sugar", "sugar" ], [ "evaporated milk", "evaporated milk" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Singapore, colloquial, after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added." ], "tags": [ "Singapore", "after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)", "colloquial", "not-comparable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/siː(˦)/", "tags": [ "Singapore" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "Carnation (brand)", "Kopi (drink)" ], "word": "C" }
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