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chain collapse: a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament; a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";; anything that acts as a restraint; a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership; a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"; (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule); British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979); a unit of length; fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together"; connect or arrange into a chain by linking

arrest collapse: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"

restraint of trade collapse: any act that tends to prevent free competition in business

somewhat collapse

bit collapse: the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit"; piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit"; a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"; a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte"

smithereen collapse

soubrette collapse: a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy; a pert or flirtatious young girl

atom collapse: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything; (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

drill collapse: (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms; similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored; a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows); train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons; undergo military training or do military exercises; learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"; teach by repetition

throughout collapse: from first to last; "the play was excellent end-to-end"

drag collapse: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"; clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"; something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"; something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"; the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid; proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"; persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"; pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"; to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"; move slowly and as if with great effort; use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"

in no time collapse: in a relatively short time; "she finished the assignment in no time"

dab collapse: a small quantity of something moist or liquid; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud"; "just a splash of whiskey"; hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder"; apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint"

meddle collapse: intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"

to a degree collapse

striptease collapse

to the hilt collapse: in full; "you are in this to the hilt"

interrupt collapse: a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out; terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"; destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"; interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"; make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

deceleration collapse: the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed; "he initiated deceleration by braking"; a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"; (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity

dollop collapse: a small measure (usually of food)

earshot collapse: the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot"

villain collapse: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately; the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction

feign collapse: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

admixture collapse: an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand"; the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

unbearable collapse

intercept collapse: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis; seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

cinch collapse: a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps; any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic"; stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place; get a grip on; get mastery of; make sure of; tie a cinch around; "cinch horses"

restrain collapse: hold back; to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"; keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"

straiten collapse: squeeze together

manacle collapse: confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime"

quality control collapse: maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods

broker collapse: act as a broker

prohibition collapse: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"; a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"; a decree that prohibits something; refusal to approve or assent to; the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

cool off collapse: feel less enamoured of something or somebody

imprison collapse: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

hairbreadth collapse

hair collapse: a filamentous projection or process on an organism; any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"; a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"; filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

preposterous collapse

picayune collapse

tall collapse: a garment size for a tall person; great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"

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