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gamut collapse: a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"; the entire scale of musical notes

SEC collapse: (of champagne) moderately dry

allowance collapse: the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"; a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits; an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"; an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous"; a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses; put on a fixed allowance, as of food

continuum collapse: a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts

localism collapse: a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality

buy collapse: accept as true; "I can't buy this story"; obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"; acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"; be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum will buy you a ride on the train"

dialect collapse: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"

appointment collapse: (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment"; the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"; the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury"; (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

tier collapse: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"; something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"; a worker who ties something; any one of two or more competitors who tie one another

turn about collapse

grant collapse: the act of providing a subsidy; a right or privilege that has been granted; 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885); United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986); Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978); (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance; any monetary aid; transfer by deed; "grant land"; bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"

rotation collapse: the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"; a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"; a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"; (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

gradation collapse: the act of arranging in grades; relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"

bank collapse: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"; a building in which the business of banking transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"; an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"; a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"; sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"; a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force; the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"; a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies); cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"; enclose with a bank; "bank roads"; tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"; be in the banking business; act as the banker in a game or in gambling; do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"

briefing collapse: detailed instructions, as for a military operation

provincialism collapse: a lack of sophistication

employment collapse: the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"; the act of giving someone a job; the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

taboo collapse: an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion; a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature; forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands; declare as sacred and forbidden

Yankee collapse: an American (especially to non-Americans); an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War); used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

queue collapse: a braid of hair at the back of the head; (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

ox collapse: any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos; an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus

critter collapse: a regional term for creature (especially domestic animals)

white collapse: (board games) the lighter pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black); a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri; a member of the Caucasoid race; United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918); United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985); United States architect (1853-1906); United States political journalist (1915-1986); Australian writer (1912-1990); United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921); of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"; of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"; being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"; (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"; (of coffee) having cream or milk added; benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"; glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"; restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"; marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"; free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"

Big Dipper collapse: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

recurrence collapse: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

bovine collapse: any of various members of the genus Bos; dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"; of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

bossy collapse

periodicity collapse

chain reaction collapse: a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next; a self-sustaining nuclear reaction; a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitting of others

string collapse: a lightweight cord; a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed; a collection of objects threaded on a single strand; a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases); a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"; (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop; add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"; provide with strings; "string my guitar"; thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"; remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"; string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"; stretch out or arrange like a string; move or come along

cattle collapse: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

black collapse: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"; (board games) the darker pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white); a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928); British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799); marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"; of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.; extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"; being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"; (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"; soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"; dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"; (of coffee) without cream or sugar; (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"; stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy; (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"; offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"; (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"; harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

receive collapse: convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"; receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"; regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"; accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"; partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament; express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"; get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"; have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"

heifer collapse: young cow

stint collapse: an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"; supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

yak collapse: large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated; noisy talk

sequence collapse: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie; a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"; several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys; serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"; arrange in a sequence; determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"

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