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Janus collapse: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

liner collapse: (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop"; a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule); a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment

iteration collapse: doing or saying again; a repeated performance; (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"; (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"

lappet collapse: medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars; a small lap on a garment or headdress

bushing collapse: a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction; an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass

reappearance collapse: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"; the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet"

inlay collapse: a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface; (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place; decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal

wainscot collapse: wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room; panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

dualism collapse: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

regurgitation collapse: recall after rote memorization; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation"; backflow of blood through a defective heart valve

tuck collapse: a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place; (sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest; eatables (especially sweets); fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in"; make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric"; "tuck in the sheet"

dichotomy collapse: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

reincarnation collapse: the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions; a second or new birth; embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion"

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

facing collapse: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building; a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening; an ornamental coating to a building

duplicity collapse: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

packing collapse: carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"; the enclosure of something in a package or box

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

filling collapse: the act of filling something; (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"; a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.; flow into something (as a container); any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench"

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

polarity collapse: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

quotation collapse: the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"; a passage or expression that is quoted or cited; a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

filler collapse: the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar; copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper; 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary; used for filling cracks or holes in a surface

recurrence collapse: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"

lining collapse: the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.); providing something with a surface of a different material; a protective covering that protects an inside surface

reproduction collapse: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring; the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"; recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall; the process of generating offspring

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