| chemical attraction |
affinity: the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk"
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| chestnut |
wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"
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| choroidal artery |
an artery that supplies the choroid plexus
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| choke |
breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing gag: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience" check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger" clog: become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" suffocate: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" suffocate: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" suffocate: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" die: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" gag: cause to retch or choke a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
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| chromatic vision |
color vision: the normal ability to see colors
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