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whittle collapse: English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996); cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"

ramify collapse: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

subdivide collapse: divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!"; form into subdivisions; "The cells subdivided"

hew collapse: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"; make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"

lance collapse: open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"; pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight; move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"

pare collapse: decrease gradually or bit by bit; remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

middle collapse: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"; an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle; time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"; between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"; of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"; put in the middle

rend collapse: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

fission collapse: a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy; reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts

saw collapse: hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting; cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"

average collapse: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"; lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"; around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"; approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"; lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"; compute the average of; achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"; amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"

ax collapse: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle; terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

fork collapse: cutlery used for serving and eating food; an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs; the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"; shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"; place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

cleave collapse: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"; make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

excise collapse: a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate); remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"; levy an excise tax on

snip collapse: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off); cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

slice collapse: a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing"; a spatula for spreading paint or ink; a thin flat piece cut off of some object; a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"; hit a ball so that it causes a backspin; cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please"; hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction

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