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hall collapse: a large building for meetings or entertainment; a large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall"; a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning"; United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907); United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871); United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914); United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924); English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

cognate collapse: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language; having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"

turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

wampum collapse: small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

repository collapse: a burial vault (usually for some famous person); a person to whom a secret is entrusted

sidle collapse: move sideways; move unobtrusively or furtively; "The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log"

lover collapse: a person who loves or is loved; a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

evening collapse: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"; the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"; a later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire"

fasten collapse: attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"; cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"; become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back"

comparable collapse: able to be compared or worthy of comparison; conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year"

sunset collapse: the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon; atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun; the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon; of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"

contain collapse: be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"; be divisible by; "24 contains 6"

similar collapse: marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats"; (of words) expressing closely related meanings

discontinuance collapse: the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)

campus collapse: a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

insulate collapse: protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came"

perorate collapse: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style; conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

join battle collapse: engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined"

spectrum collapse: broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities; an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave

imprisonment collapse: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison); putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

neighborhood collapse: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"

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