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curate collapse: a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

instigator collapse: a person who initiates a course of action; someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel"

architect collapse: someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

formalize collapse: make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"

debug collapse: locate and correct errors in a computer program code; "debug this program"

syllogism collapse: deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises

phantasmagoria collapse: a constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream)

spatula collapse: a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances; a turner with a narrow flexible blade

personality collapse: the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"; a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"

commissar collapse: an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit

beget collapse: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

frill collapse: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim; an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal; (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs

account for collapse: give reasons for; "Can you account for all these absences?"; be the reason or explanation for; "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

veteran collapse: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service; a person who has served in the armed forces; a serviceman who has seen considerable active service; "the veterans laughed at the new recruits"

confess collapse: confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith; confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

inaugurate collapse: be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period"; commence officially; open ceremoniously or dedicate formally

zero collapse: the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale; a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number; indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"; indicating an initial point or origin; of or relating to the null set (a set with no members); adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"; adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

systole collapse: the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

dramatics collapse: participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity

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