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tinker collapse: formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living; a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts; try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"; work as a tinker or tinkerer

doctor collapse: children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office; "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"; a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"; a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"; give medical treatment to

descendant collapse: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race; going or coming down

next of kin collapse: the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person

lineage collapse: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

lineal collapse: arranged in a line; in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

overhead collapse: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head; (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship; located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing"; above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead"; above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead"

indent collapse: an order for goods to be exported or imported; notch the edge of or make jagged; make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car"; cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication; "indent the documents"; set in from the margin; "Indent the paragraphs of a letter"

community collapse: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other; a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"; a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"; a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"; common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"; agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"

wrongdoing collapse: activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing"

antiquity collapse: an artifact surviving from the past; the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

continuance collapse: the act of continuing an activity without interruption

annulment collapse: (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)

polity collapse: shrewd or crafty management of public affairs; "we was innocent of stratagems and polity"; a politically organized unit

survival collapse: something that survives; a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment; a state of surviving; remaining alive

subsistence collapse: minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"; the state of existing in reality; having substance; a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"

sachem collapse: a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief); a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)

national collapse: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"; concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country; "the national government"; "national elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway system"; "national forests"; limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy"; owned or maintained for the public by the national government; "national parks"; of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country; "national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark"; of or relating to nationality; "national origin"; characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a national trait"

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