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proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

clause collapse: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

ingot collapse: metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling

nugget collapse: a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

shibboleth collapse: a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

bullion collapse: gold or silver in bars or ingots; a mass of precious metal

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

automat collapse: a cafeteria where food is served from machines; a vending machine from which you can get food

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

intermezzo collapse: a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera; a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony

ell collapse: an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building

nickel collapse: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar; five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"; a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite; plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

interlude collapse: a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance; an intervening period or episode; perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"

wording collapse: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

fictionalize collapse: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"

phrase collapse: dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence; an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence; a short musical passage; divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"

parlance collapse: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

think up collapse: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

revolutionize collapse: change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"; fill with revolutionary ideas; overthrow by a revolution, of governments

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