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instruct collapse: give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation"; make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?"

transpose collapse: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix; change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"; put (a piece of music) into another key; transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality

ration collapse: the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced"; a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity); distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed"; restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"

hand over collapse: to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"

charter collapse: a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation; a contract to hire or lease transportation; grant a charter to

detach collapse: cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"; come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"; separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"

spend collapse: pay out; "spend money"; spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"; pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"

set off collapse: set in motion or cause to begin; "The guide set the tour off to a good start"

signify collapse: convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"; make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

barter collapse: an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"; exchange goods without involving money

deploy collapse: place troops or weapons in battle formation; to distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East"

authorize collapse: grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

tag collapse: (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game); a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser; a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal; provide with a name or nickname; attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles"; touch a player while he is holding the ball; supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

convey collapse: make known; pass on, of information; transmit a title or property; transfer to another; "communicate a disease"

consign collapse: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"; commit forever; commit irrevocably; send to an address

reserve collapse: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary; something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose; (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions; obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"; hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"; arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"

alienate collapse: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees"

transplant collapse: the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location; "the transplant did not flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"; an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"; "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"; place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient; lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants"; be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

commit collapse: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

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