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Cis forClothes iron

An iron is a device that gets very hot on the flat side underneath it. You rub the flat side on your clothes to remove the wrinkles and make sharp creases.

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Pete Birkinshaw / CC BY-SA

Cis forCog

Cogs are the small "teeth" around the edges of gears. Cogs allow the gears to grip onto each other as they turn around.

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Paul Downey / CC BY-SA

A compass is a small device with a needle in the middle that always points north. They work because the needle is a small magnet and the Earth is a big magnet, and the needle always tries to line up with the magnetic field of the Earth.

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Karin Dalziel / CC BY-SA

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A computer is a device that lets you do many, many things. It is very likely you are reading this on a computer. Computers are used for drawing, writing, playing games, making music and many many other things too.

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Generated image of someone applying a contact lens

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Cis forContact lens

Contact lenses are small pieces of soft plastic gel that can be worn directly on your eyes instead of glasses.

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Joe Hall / CC BY-SA

Cis forCorkscrew

A corkscrew is a device used for getting corks out of wine bottles. It has a helix-shaped sharp spike that you twist into the cork, and then pull out the cork with the help of the handles.

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Erik Söderström / CC BY-SA

Cis forCrane (machine)

A crane is a machine that is used for lifting things. Cranes can be very small and used for moving things around in a backyard, or they can be very big and used for lifting things to the top of very tall buildings.

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Photographic Dictionary / Generated illustration

Cis forCrystal Ball

A crystal ball is thought to aid people in telling the future. Gazing in to a crystal ball is supposed to reveal images that may be used to help tell someone's fortune.

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Joybot / CC BY-SA

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A dial is a round device that is marked with letters or numbers. They are most commonly seen on older phones. Used as a verb, dial means the process of calling someone on a phone, for example "I am dialling your number".

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Dis forDrone (aircraft)

A drone is a small aircraft that flies without a pilot inside it. It is controlled remotely by a person on the ground or programmed to fly automatically. The word drone began to be used for pilotless aircraft in the early 1900s. The name was inspired by male bees, also called drones, which do not gather food and were used as a metaphor for machines that operate without a human inside.

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