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pate collapse: the top of the head; liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned

nasal collapse: an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose

retroflex collapse: bent or curved backward; articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"; bend or turn backward

frontiersman collapse: a man who lives on the frontier

explosive collapse: a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck; serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"; sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"; liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"

shirr collapse: bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs"

headpiece collapse: a protective helmet for the head

modification collapse: slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; "a modification of last year's model"; the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

corrugation collapse: the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves; a ridge on a corrugated surface

high noon collapse

chine collapse: backbone of an animal; cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone; cut through the backbone of an animal

mountaintop collapse

noon collapse: the middle of the day

plate collapse: dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten; a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners); a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic; a shallow receptacle for collection in church; structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage; a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper); a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded; the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube; any flat platelike body structure or part; a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"; the thin under portion of the forequarter; a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly; the quantity contained in a plate; coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"

liquid collapse: a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r'); the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility; a substance in the fluid state of matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume; a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure; clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"; smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin"; existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"; filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"

wide collapse: not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"; having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"; having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"; great in degree; "won by a wide margin"; to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"; with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"; far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"; to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"

lateral collapse: lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus"; situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson

cracker collapse: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends; a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet; a programmer who `cracks' (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"

surd collapse: a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

col collapse: a pass between mountain peaks

rumple collapse: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

tonic collapse: a medicine that strengthens and invigorates; (music) the first note of a diatonic scale; lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine; used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"; relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; "tonic harmony"; employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"; of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; "a tonic reflex"; "tonic muscle contraction"

upmost collapse

knurl collapse

crinkle collapse

vertex collapse: the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure; the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"

mountaineer collapse: someone who climbs mountains; climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

mute collapse: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument; a deaf person who is unable to speak; expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe; lacking power of speech

crease collapse

tip top collapse

consonant collapse: a speech sound that is not a vowel; a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant; involving or characterized by harmony

nubbin collapse: a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)

flange collapse: a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object

central collapse: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication; in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"; centrally located and easy to reach; "the central city has good bus service"; "the shop has a central location"; used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; "the people of Central and Northern Europe"; "country in central Africa"

utmost collapse: the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"

engraved collapse: cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design"; "engraved invitations"

cloud nine collapse

blob collapse: an indistinct shapeless form

back collapse: the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage; a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable"; the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back"; the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"; the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store"; (football) a person who plays in the backfield; in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"; at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"; in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"; in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house"; in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep"; in answer; "he wrote back three days later"; "had little to say in reply to the questions"; strengthen by providing with a back or backing; establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"; shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"; travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"; cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot"; support financial backing for; "back this enterprise"; be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"; be in back of; "My garage backs their yard"

bulb collapse: a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end); "the bulb of a syringe"; a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ; a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure

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