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excellence collapse: the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree; an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine"

maturity collapse: state of being mature; full development; the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid

embellishment collapse: a superfluous ornament; elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"

blanch collapse: cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them"

presidency collapse: the office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time"; the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"

simmer collapse: temperature just below the boiling point; "the stew remained at a simmer for hours"; boil slowly at low temperature; "simmer the sauce"; "simmering water"

prototype collapse: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

rigidity collapse: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

fry collapse: English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907); English painter and art critic (1866-1934); cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes"; be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"

lordship collapse: the authority of a lord; a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge; "Your Lordship"; "His Lordship"

integrity collapse: moral soundness; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity"; an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development"; "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia"

pan collapse: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids; shallow container made of metal; cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel; (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus; express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance"; wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals; make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room"

effectiveness collapse: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

apex collapse: the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars

fidelity collapse: accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal; the quality of being faithful

worth collapse: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful; French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895); an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline"

significance collapse: the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"; a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"

uprise collapse: ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"

scallop collapse: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions; edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces; one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.); shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"; fish for scallops; form scallops in; "scallop the meat"; bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

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