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against the grain collapse

black market collapse: an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls; people who engage in illicit trade

fend collapse: try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"

sweating collapse

law collapse: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale"; a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society; a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"; legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"; the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

dieting collapse

transgress collapse: pass beyond (limits or boundaries); act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"; spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"

regime collapse

inverse collapse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"; reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect; opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

listing collapse: the act of making a list of items

supposition collapse: the cognitive process of supposing

lawless collapse: disobedient to or defiant of law; "lawless bands roaming the plains"

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

upper case collapse

lower case collapse

felonious collapse

slinky collapse

stimulus collapse

answer collapse: a nonverbal reaction; "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me"; the principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims; a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"; the speech act of replying to a question; understand the meaning of; "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"; give the correct answer or solution to; "answer a question"; "answer the riddle"; react to a stimulus or command; "The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch"; respond to a signal; "answer the door"; "answer the telephone"; give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument); "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"; reply or respond to; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"; be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of; "This may answer her needs"; match or correspond; "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"; be liable or accountable; "She must answer for her actions"

adverse collapse: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind"; contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"

movements collapse

pi collapse: the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet; the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846...

eyeball to eyeball collapse

steering collapse: the act of steering a ship; the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king"

underhanded collapse

italic collapse: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right; a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right; a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative; of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"; characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"

sales talk collapse: promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

inference collapse: the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation

antipodes collapse: any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

stave off collapse

nullify collapse

canon collapse: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired; a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"; a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts; a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

sneaking collapse

shake up collapse

portfolio collapse: the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"; a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather; "he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio"; a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution; "they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio"; a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers; "the artist had put together a portfolio of his work"; "every actor has a portfolio of photographs"

industrious collapse

reciprocation collapse: alternating back-and-forth movement; the act of making or doing something in return

dilation collapse: the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"; a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic

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