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carve to cut a large piece of cooked meat into smaller pieces for eating: Dinner is ready. Who's going to carve the turkey?

chop something down to cut a tree, etc. at the bottom so that it falls down

chop something off to remove something from something else by cutting it to chop a branch off a tree

chop2 / tfap/ noun [ count ] a thick slice of meat with a piece of bone in it a Iamb chop

chop • sticks

/ ' tfapstiks / noun [ plural ]

a pair of thin sticks that are used for eating with, especially in some Asian countries

chord / kord / noun [ count ]

( music ) two or more musical notes that are played at the same time

chore / tfor / noun [ count ] a job that is not interesting but that you must do doing the household chores

cho • re • og • ra • phy / |kori' agrefi / noun

[noncount]

the arrangement of movements for a dance

cho • rus / ' kores / noun [ count ] ( plural cho . rus . es ) ( music )

a part of a song that you repeat

a large group of people who sing together —SYNONYM choir

chose, cho•sen

forms of choose

chow • der / ' tJаudэr /

[count]

a thick soup, usually made with fish clam chowder

Christ / kraist / =Jesus

chris • ten / ' krisn / verb ( chris tens , chris . ten . ing , chris tened ) ( religion ) to give a name to a baby and make him or her a member of the Christian church in a special ceremony ►chris • ten • ing / ' krisnig / noun [ count ] the ceremony when a baby is christened

Chris • tian / ' kristjbn / noun [ count ]

( religion ) a person who believes in Jesus Christ and what he taught

► Chris • tian adjective

the Christian church

Chris • ti • an • i • ty / ,knstji ' remti / noun

[ noncount ]

( religion ) the religion that follows what Jesus Christ taught

Christ • mas / ' krIsmэs / noun

[ count, noncount ]

( religion ) the period of time around and including December 25, when Christians remember the birth of Christ

Merry Christmas!

Where are you spending Christmas this year? Culture

Christmas is an important festival in the U.S. The day before Christmas Day is called Christmas Eve .

Many children believe that Santa Claus visits them at Christmas to bring presents, and they hang Christmas stockings for him to fill with presents.

People send Christmas cards and give presents to their friends and family. Many people go to church at Christmas and sing Christmas carols .

People put special trees (called Christmas trees ) in their homes, and decorate them with small lights and other pretty things. Christmas is sometimes written informally as Xmas .

chrome / kroum / noun [ noncount ]

a hard, shiny metal that is used to cover other metals a chrome bumper on a car

chro • mo • some / ' kroumэsoum / noun

[ count ]

( biology ) the part of a cell that decides the sex, character, size, etc. that a person, plant, or animal will have

chron • ic / kranik / adjective

( health ) (used about a disease or problem) that continues for a long time and is hard to get rid of a chronic backache chronic unemployment

chron • o • log • i • cal / ikram ' lad3ikl /

adjective

arranged in the order in which events happened a list of Civil War battles in chronological order

chrys • a • lis / ' kr^lis / noun [ count ]

( plural chrys a lis es ) ( biology ) the form of an insect while it is changing into an adult inside a hard case

—Look at the picture at butterfly .

chub • by / ' tfAbi / adjective ( chub . bi . er , chub . bi est )

slightly fat

a baby with chubby cheeks

chunk / tJAgk / noun [ count ] a large piece or part of something A large chunk of my income goes to paying rent. Thesaurus