Related Words:
- adaptation
collapse - (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- about-face,
- absolute music,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- adaption,
- adjusting,
- adjustment,
- agreement,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- alignment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- arrangement,
- assimilation,
- attunement,
- bearings,
- betterment,
- biological evolution,
- break,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- coaptation,
- compliance,
- composition,
- conditioning,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- consistency,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conventionality,
- conversion,
- coordination,
- correspondence,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- descant,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disorientation,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- electronic music,
- enablement,
- equipment,
- etude,
- exercise,
- fit,
- fitting,
- flexibility,
- flip-flop,
- furnishing,
- genesis,
- gradual change,
- harmonization,
- harmony,
- horotely,
- improvement,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- instrumentation,
- integration,
- intonation,
- invention,
- keeping,
- line,
- malleability,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- natural selection,
- nocturne,
- obedience,
- observance,
- ontogenesis,
- ontogeny,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- orientation,
- orthodoxy,
- overthrow,
- phrasing,
- phylogenesis,
- phylogeny,
- physiogenesis,
- physiogeny,
- piece,
- pliancy,
- preparation,
- production,
- program music,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regulation,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- ricercar,
- score,
- setting,
- shift,
- solution,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- squaring,
- strictness,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- sudden change,
- suiting,
- suspension,
- switch,
- synchronization,
- tachytely,
- theme and variations,
- timing,
- tone painting,
- total change,
- traditionalism,
- transcription,
- transition,
- trio,
- tuning,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- uniformity,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- work,
- worsening
- agility,
- air speed,
- alacrity,
- briskness,
- celerity,
- decisiveness,
- dispatch,
- expedition,
- expeditiousness,
- fastness,
- flight,
- flit,
- flurry,
- ground speed,
- haste,
- hurry,
- hustle,
- immediacy,
- immediateness,
- instantaneousness,
- knots,
- lightning speed,
- miles per hour,
- nimbleness,
- precipitation,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- punctuality,
- punctualness,
- quickness,
- rapidity,
- readiness,
- round pace,
- rpm,
- rush,
- rustle,
- sharpness,
- smartness,
- snappiness,
- speed,
- spryness,
- summariness,
- swift rate,
- swiftness,
- velocity
- underground
collapse
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- beneath the surface of the earth; "water flowing underground"
- in or into hiding or secret operation; "the organization was driven underground" related words >
- Amtrak,
- Charley,
- L,
- Trojan horse,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- abstruse,
- agreement to disagree,
- alienated,
- alienation,
- alternative,
- antiestablishment,
- apostasy,
- at odds with,
- at rest,
- at variance with,
- avant-garde,
- back door,
- back stairs,
- back way,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- baggage train,
- beclouded,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- behind the veil,
- blind,
- bolt-hole,
- branch,
- breakaway,
- buried,
- bushfighter,
- bushwhacker,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- casual,
- choo-choo,
- clandestine,
- close,
- clouded,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- concealed,
- counter-culture,
- covered,
- covert,
- covert way,
- covertly,
- crypto,
- deep-buried,
- difference,
- differing,
- disaccord,
- disagreeing,
- disagreement,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- disparity,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissidence,
- dissident,
- diversity,
- dropping out,
- eclipsed,
- el,
- electric,
- electric railway,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- escalier derobe,
- escape hatch,
- escape route,
- experimental,
- express,
- express train,
- extremists,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- feline,
- fellow traveler,
- fifth column,
- fifth columnist,
- flier,
- fraternizer,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- furtive,
- goods train,
- gravity-operated railway,
- guerillas,
- guerrilla,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- horse railway,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a cloud,
- in a corner,
- in a fog,
- in a whisper,
- in darkness,
- in eclipse,
- in hidlings,
- in opposition,
- in purdah,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- in the wings,
- incommunicado,
- insurgents,
- insurrectionists,
- interurban,
- irregular,
- junction,
- latent,
- light railroad,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- line,
- local,
- main line,
- maquis,
- maquisard,
- metro,
- milk train,
- minority opinion,
- monorail,
- mysterious,
- nobody the wiser,
- nonagreement,
- nonassent,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconforming,
- nonconformist,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsent,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- partisan,
- passenger train,
- private,
- privy,
- quiet,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- radical,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railroad train,
- railway,
- rattler,
- recondite,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- recusant,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- resistance,
- resistance fighter,
- resting in peace,
- revolutionary,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rolling stock,
- saboteur,
- secession,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- secret exit,
- secret passage,
- secret staircase,
- secretly,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- security risk,
- sequestered,
- shifty,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- side door,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sotto voce,
- special,
- stealthy,
- streamliner,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- sub rosa,
- subterranean,
- subterraneous,
- subversive,
- subversives,
- subway,
- sunken,
- surreptitious,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- train,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- under wraps,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underfoot,
- underground fighter,
- underground railroad,
- underground route,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unknown,
- unobtrusive,
- variance,
- way train,
- with bated breath,
- withdrawal,
- wrapped in clouds
- ice
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- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
- the frozen part of a body of water
- diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!"
- water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks"
- put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs" related words >
- Dry Ice,
- French ice cream,
- Freon,
- Italian ice,
- air-condition,
- air-cool,
- alabaster,
- ammonia,
- berg,
- bijouterie,
- billiard table,
- blast,
- blast-freeze,
- blast-frozen,
- blight,
- blot out,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- bubble,
- bump off,
- calf,
- cap,
- carbon dioxide,
- chill,
- china,
- climax,
- congeal,
- congealed,
- consummate,
- cool,
- coolant,
- costume jewelry,
- crest,
- croak,
- crown,
- cryosphere,
- culminate,
- do in,
- eggshell,
- erase,
- ether,
- ethyl chloride,
- firn,
- fix,
- flat,
- floe,
- frappe,
- frazil,
- freeze,
- freeze solid,
- freezing mixture,
- freshen,
- frost,
- frostbitten,
- frostnipped,
- frozen,
- frozen custard,
- frozen dessert,
- frozen solid,
- frozen water,
- gelid,
- get,
- give the business,
- glace,
- glacial,
- glaciate,
- glaciation,
- glacier,
- glacieret,
- glacify,
- glass,
- glass house,
- glaze,
- glazed frost,
- granular snow,
- ground ice,
- growler,
- gun down,
- hail,
- head,
- hit,
- house of cards,
- ice banner,
- ice barrier,
- ice belt,
- ice cave,
- ice cream,
- ice cubes,
- ice dike,
- ice field,
- ice floe,
- ice foot,
- ice front,
- ice island,
- ice needle,
- ice over,
- ice pack,
- ice pinnacle,
- ice raft,
- ice sheet,
- ice up,
- ice-cold,
- ice-cool,
- ice-cream cone,
- ice-cream soda,
- iceberg,
- icefall,
- icelike,
- icequake,
- icicle,
- icy,
- icy-cold,
- infrigidate,
- ivory,
- jewelry,
- jokul,
- junk jewelry,
- lay out,
- level,
- liquid air,
- liquid helium,
- liquid oxygen,
- lolly,
- mahogany,
- marble,
- matchwood,
- neve,
- nieve penitente,
- nip,
- off,
- old paper,
- outtop,
- overarch,
- overtop,
- pack ice,
- parchment,
- paste,
- peak,
- piecrust,
- plane,
- polish off,
- quick-freeze,
- quick-frozen,
- refreeze,
- refresh,
- refrigerant,
- refrigerate,
- regelate,
- rub out,
- satin,
- scatter pins,
- serac,
- settle,
- sharp-frozen,
- shelf ice,
- sherbet,
- silk,
- sleet,
- slide,
- slob,
- sludge,
- smooth,
- snow,
- snow ice,
- snow in,
- snow under,
- snowberg,
- sundae,
- surmount,
- take care of,
- tennis court,
- tip,
- top,
- top off,
- velvet,
- ventilate,
- waste,
- wipe out,
- zap
- Amazon,
- Naval Reservist,
- Royal Marine,
- Seabee,
- air serviceman,
- bluejacket,
- boot,
- brave,
- cadet,
- cannon fodder,
- fighting man,
- food for powder,
- frogman,
- gob,
- halberdier,
- hoplite,
- horse marine,
- jolly,
- legionary,
- man-at-arms,
- marine,
- midshipman,
- midshipmite,
- military man,
- naval cadet,
- pikeman,
- rifle,
- rifleman,
- serviceman,
- soldier,
- spearman,
- swabbie,
- warrior,
- warrioress
- Narcissus,
- blowhard,
- boaster,
- boldface,
- braggadocio,
- braggart,
- brazenface,
- chutzpanik,
- egocentric,
- egoist,
- egotist,
- exhibitionist,
- gasbag,
- grandstander,
- hot-air artist,
- hussy,
- individualist,
- know-it-all,
- malapert,
- minx,
- narcissist,
- narcist,
- no modest violet,
- pup,
- puppy,
- saucebox,
- show-off,
- smart-ass,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- swaggerer,
- swellhead,
- upstart,
- whippersnapper,
- windbag,
- wise guy,
- wise-ass,
- wiseacre,
- wisecracker,
- wisehead,
- wisenheimer
- atlas
collapse
- a figure of a man used as a supporting column
- the 1st cervical vertebra
- a collection of maps in book form
- (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders related words >
- Lambert conformal projection,
- Mercator projection,
- Miller projection,
- aeronautical chart,
- arcade,
- astronomical chart,
- azimuthal equidistant projection,
- azimuthal projection,
- calendar,
- cartographer,
- cartography,
- caryatid,
- casebook,
- catalog,
- catalogue raisonne,
- celestial chart,
- celestial globe,
- chart,
- chorographer,
- chorography,
- city directory,
- classified catalog,
- climatic chart,
- colonnade,
- colonnette,
- column,
- concordance,
- conic projection,
- contour line,
- contour map,
- cyclopedia,
- cylindrical projection,
- diatesseron,
- dictionary catalog,
- directory,
- encyclopedia,
- gazetteer,
- general reference map,
- globe,
- gnomonic projection,
- graphic scale,
- grid line,
- hachure,
- harmony,
- heliographic chart,
- hydrographic chart,
- index,
- isoline,
- latitude,
- layer tint,
- legend,
- longitude,
- map,
- map maker,
- map projection,
- mapper,
- meridian,
- parallel,
- peristyle,
- phone book,
- photogrammetrist,
- photogrammetry,
- photomap,
- phototopography,
- physical map,
- pier,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- political map,
- polyconic projection,
- polyglot,
- portico,
- post,
- projection,
- record book,
- reference book,
- relief map,
- representative fraction,
- road map,
- scale,
- sinusoidal projection,
- source book,
- special map,
- studbook,
- telamon,
- telephone book,
- telephone directory,
- terrain map,
- terrestrial globe,
- thematic map,
- topographer,
- topographic chart,
- topography,
- transportation map,
- weather chart,
- weather map,
- work of reference
- Linotype
collapse
- a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal related words >
- Intertype,
- Monotype,
- cold-type typesetting,
- composing,
- composing stick,
- composition,
- computerized typesetting,
- dummy,
- furniture,
- galley chase,
- hot-metal typesetting,
- imposition,
- justification,
- layout,
- line of type,
- photocomposition,
- photosetting,
- phototypesetter,
- phototypesetting machine,
- quoin,
- setting,
- slug,
- typesetting,
- typesetting machine
- about to be,
- already in sight,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- beetle,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- brewing,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- forthcoming,
- future,
- gathering,
- going to happen,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the air,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- incumbent,
- instant,
- jutting,
- looming,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- menacing,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- on the horizon,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- preparing,
- projecting,
- proximate,
- superincumbent,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- to come,
- upcoming,
- waiting
- agreeable rattle,
- babbler,
- big talker,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabberer,
- blabbermouth,
- blatherer,
- busybody,
- chatterer,
- conversationalist,
- gabber,
- gabbler,
- gasbag,
- gibble-gabbler,
- gossip,
- great talker,
- hot-air artist,
- idle chatterer,
- jabberer,
- jay,
- magpie,
- moulin a paroles,
- newsmonger,
- patterer,
- prater,
- prattler,
- quidnunc,
- rattle,
- sayer,
- scandalmonger,
- speaker,
- tabby,
- talker,
- tattletale,
- utterer,
- windbag,
- windjammer,
- word-slinger
- fender
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- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud; "in England they call a fender a wing"
- a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- barrier,
- brattice,
- buffer,
- buffer state,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- chimney,
- chimney corner,
- cloison,
- collision mat,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- diaphragm,
- dissepiment,
- dividing line,
- dividing wall,
- division,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- finger guard,
- fire screen,
- fireboard,
- fireguard,
- fireplace,
- fireside,
- flue,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- hearth,
- hearthstone,
- helmet,
- hob,
- hub,
- ingle,
- inglenook,
- ingleside,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- interseptum,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mat,
- midriff,
- midsection,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- panel,
- paries,
- partition,
- party wall,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- property line,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- separation,
- septulum,
- septum,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- shock pad,
- smokehole,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- wall,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- criminal,
- delinquent,
- deviant,
- disgraceful,
- disorderly,
- disruptive,
- evil,
- hardly the thing,
- ignominious,
- ill-adapted,
- ill-assorted,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fitted,
- ill-matched,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-sorted,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- illegal,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- inept,
- inexact,
- inexpedient,
- infamous,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- late,
- lax,
- loose,
- mal a propos,
- maladjusted,
- malapropos,
- misbehaving,
- misjoined,
- mismatched,
- mismated,
- misplaced,
- mistimed,
- naughty,
- negligent,
- not done,
- not respectable,
- not the thing,
- off base,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- out of character,
- out of joint,
- out of keeping,
- out of order,
- out of phase,
- out of place,
- out of plumb,
- out of proportion,
- out of season,
- out of square,
- out of step,
- out of time,
- out of true,
- out of tune,
- out of turn,
- out-of-line,
- premature,
- rowdy,
- rowdyish,
- ruffianly,
- sacrilegious,
- scandalous,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- terrible,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unadapted,
- unapt,
- unbecoming,
- unbefitting,
- unbehaving,
- undue,
- unfactual,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlawful,
- unlucky,
- unprecise,
- unpropitious,
- unqualified,
- unready,
- unrighteous,
- unrigorous,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuitable,
- unsuited,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- wicked,
- wrong,
- wrongful
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