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few collapse: a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"; an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"; a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"

dodo collapse: extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons; someone whose style is out of fashion

amount collapse: how much of something is available; "an adequate amount of food for four people"; be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion"

more collapse: English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state; used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly"; comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should"

number collapse: an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"; a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"; the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand"; the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"; a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number"; a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die"; a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence"; place a limit on the number of; enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"; give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis"

over and over collapse: repeatedly; "the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text"

enumerate collapse: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

day by day collapse: gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by day"

countless collapse: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"

prosody collapse: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification; the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

dad collapse: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

antonym collapse: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"

include collapse: add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category; "We must include this chemical element in the group"; consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits"; have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers"

raffle collapse: a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money; dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"

series collapse: (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions; a periodical that appears at scheduled times; (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"; similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"; a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"; (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

quantify collapse: express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?"; use as a quantifier

plurality collapse: (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes); the state of being plural; "to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable"

library collapse: a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study; a room where books are kept; "they had brandy in the library"; a building that houses a collection of books and other materials; (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use; a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

block out collapse: plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general; indicate roughly; "We sketched out our plan"

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