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  • 61not have anything to do with smb — (not) want to be a friend of or work or have business with someone My father will not have anything to do with the salesman because he sold him the faulty car …

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  • 62car|bon-date — «KAHR buhn dayt», transitive verb, dat|ed, dat|ing. to determine the age of (a specimen) by carbon dating: »The tools themselves, being stone, could not be carbon dated (Science News) …

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  • 63car|cer|and — «KAHR suhr and», noun. a hollow molecule which encloses but does not bond to a smaller molecule: »Cram envisions using…carcerands to shuttle drugs to diseased cells (Science News). ╂[< Latin carcer prison + and abstracted from operand] …

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  • 64car|di|nal|i|ty — «KAHR duh NAL uh tee», noun. 1. the condition or property of being expressible in quantity. 2. the size of a mathematical set, without regard to the kinds of elements contained in the set: »Whenever we add one more member to an infinite set we do …

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  • 65car|nas|si|al — «kahr NAS ee uhl», adjective, noun. –adj. of or having to do with certain teeth of carnivorous animals, adapted for tearing flesh (the last upper premolars and the first lower molars of living mammals): »The cats also use the two bladelike… …

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  • 66car|ni|vor|e|an lethargy — «KAHR nih VR ee uhn», Biology. the winter sleep of bears during which the body temperature does not drop much below normal, as it does in hibernation …

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  • 67car|pen|ter — «KAHR puhn tuhr», noun, verb. –n. a person whose work is building and repairing the wooden parts of houses, barns, ships, or similar constructions. The occupation of carpenter and joiner are often combined. –v.i. to do carpenter s work: »He… …

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  • 68car|ro|nade — «KAR uh NAYD», noun. a short cannon with a large bore, not used now. ╂[< Carron, Scotland, where the cannon was first cast] …

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  • 69car|ti|lage — «KAHR tuh lihj», noun. 1. the tough, elastic substance forming parts of the skeleton of vertebrates; gristle. Cartilage is more flexible than bone and not as hard. The external ear consists of cartilage and skin. »Cartilage is…composed of… …

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  • 70car|tog|ra|pher — «kahr TOG ruh fuhr», noun. a maker of maps or charts: »If a geographer happens to be a cartographer, it is merely a coincidence. Most geographers are not cartographers (White and Renner) …

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