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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

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"

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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"

articulation collapse: the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible; expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings"; the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech; the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

glide collapse: the activity of flying a glider; move smoothly and effortlessly; cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly; fly in or as if in a glider plane

tense collapse: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time; taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"; pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat'); in or of a state of physical or nervous tension; cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"; become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"; increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"

aspiration collapse: a will to succeed; a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath

peak collapse: the top point of a mountain or hill; "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the summit of Monadnock"; of a period of maximal use or demand or activity; "at peak hours the streets traffic is unbelievable"; to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929"

assimilation collapse: in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance; a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound; the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another; the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

lax collapse: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"; lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"; not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"; pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

honeycombed collapse

indented collapse

notched collapse

voice collapse: a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices"; the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us"; the ability to speak; "he lost his voice"; the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"; something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it"; a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"; (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"; (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes; give voice to; "He voiced his concern"; utter with vibrating vocal chords

pocked collapse: marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease; used of paved surfaces having holes or pits

pockmarked collapse

larynx collapse: a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech

speech organ collapse: any of the organs involved in speech production

broad collapse: slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"; showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"; lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"; not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"; (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent"; very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"

narrow collapse: a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water; limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word"; not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"; very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"; make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"

pharynx collapse

ivories collapse

thick collapse: abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"; (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"; not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"; relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"; in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick"

pitted collapse

strong collapse: freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm"; not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"; of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"; having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"

soft collapse: not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"; willing to negotiate and compromise; out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"; yielding readily to pressure or weight; compassionate and kind; conciliatory; "he was soft on his children"; (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh'); (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected; (of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"; not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "soft targets"; using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation; "soft data"; "the soft sciences"; (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value; "the market for computers is soft"

alveolus collapse: a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways

weak collapse: deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"; likely to fail under stress or pressure; "the weak link in the chain"; not having authority, political strength, or governing power; "a weak president"; (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection; deficient or lacking in some skill; "he's weak in spelling"; having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak link"; tending downward in price; "a weak market for oil stocks"

stop collapse: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"; the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"; (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"; the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"; a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"; cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"; come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"; interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"; stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

front collapse: the side that is seen or that goes first; the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"; the side that is forward or prominent; the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage"; (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses; a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"; confront bodily; "breast the storm"; be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"

palate collapse: the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

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