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random sample collapse: a sample grabbed at random; a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

whack collapse: the sound made by a sharp swift blow; hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy"

abstraction collapse: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; the act of withdrawing or removing something; an abstract painting; the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances; a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

concept collapse: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

ring collapse: jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band"; a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle; a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"; the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe; a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"; attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"; sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"; make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

colon collapse: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted; a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter); a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal; the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos; the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

pound collapse: a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"; United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972); a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec; 16 ounces; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"; break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"; shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"; partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"

slog collapse: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"

luck collapse: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"; an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"

cuckoo collapse: any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail; repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call

hap collapse: an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"

history collapse: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"; a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"; the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

channel collapse: a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"; a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"; a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"; (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"; a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel"; direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience"

slap collapse: a blow from a flat object (as an open hand); hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"

opinion collapse: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself); a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"; the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"; a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page"

screwball collapse: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

drum collapse: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise; a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end; a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids; the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"; play a percussion instrument; make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

noise collapse: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"; the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"; a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"; sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"; electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

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