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detective collapse: a police officer who investigates crimes; an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

activate collapse: make active or more active; "activate an old file"; make (substances) radioactive; aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter; make more adsorptive; "activate a metal"

betray collapse: reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true feelings"; deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country"

oxygenate collapse: impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood"

gunfight collapse: a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

Agnus Dei collapse: a liturgical prayer beginning with these Latin words; figure of a lamb; emblematic of Christ

competitive collapse: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"; subscribing to capitalistic competition; involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position"

turn in collapse: make an entrance by turning from a road; "Turn in after you see the gate"

omniscience collapse: the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

opposite collapse: of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves"; altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade; the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"; being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles"; moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions"

cross section collapse: (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns; a sample meant to be representative of a whole population; a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis

textured collapse: having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"

discordant collapse: not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas"; lacking in harmony

contradistinction collapse: a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast; "sculpture in contradistinction to painting"

quartering collapse: dividing into four equal parts; living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel); a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages

sprinkler collapse: mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden

secant collapse: ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle; a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points

cranky collapse: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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