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lay collapse: not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"; put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"; lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"; prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"; impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"

workings collapse

mental hospital collapse: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

consultation collapse: a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question; "frequent consultations with his lawyer"; "a consultation of several medical specialists"; a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king"

orchard collapse

automatism collapse: any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)

advice collapse: a proposal for an appropriate course of action

traditionalism collapse: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters); strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings; the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

admonition collapse: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger); a firm rebuke

caste collapse: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth; (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity; social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"

education collapse: the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university); the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"; the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement"; the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"; knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"

reconciliation collapse: getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement"; the reestablishing of cordial relations

incumbency collapse: the office of an incumbent; a duty that is incumbent upon you

angle collapse: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians; fish with a hook; move or proceed at an angle; "he angled his way into the room"

performing collapse

independence collapse: the successful ending of the American Revolution; "they maintained close relations with England even after independence"; a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail; freedom from control or influence of another or others

handling collapse: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means; manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something

car collapse: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"; a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails"; where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor"; the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant

monition collapse: a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted

kudos collapse

individualism collapse: the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs; a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence

congruity collapse: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate

influence collapse: causing something without any direct or apparent effort; a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"; a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"; one having power to influence another; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"; the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"; have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"

quarter collapse: clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"; piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp; a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"; an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"; a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"; a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds); a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds); one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter"; a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"; one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"; a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"; one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"; divide by four; divide into quarters; divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"; provide housing for (military personnel)

croft collapse: a small farm worked by a crofter

ranch collapse: farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle); manage or run a ranch; "Her husband is ranching in Arizona"

collective farm collapse: a farm operated collectively

kibbutz collapse: a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively

caveat collapse: (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; "a caveat filed against the probate of a will"

functionary collapse

plantation collapse: a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century"; an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

regime collapse

prescript collapse

jumping off place collapse

Federal collapse: any federal law-enforcement officer; a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War; national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"; characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations"; of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government"

clinic collapse: a healthcare facility for outpatient care; meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity; a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists

mechanism collapse: the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style"; device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function; (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes; a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function; "the mechanism of the ear"; "the mechanism of infection"; the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction; "he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"

ensconce collapse: fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"

vector collapse: a variable quantity that can be resolved into components; any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"; a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

stratum collapse: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)

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