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caption collapse: brief description accompanying an illustration; taking exception; especially an quibble based on a captious argument; "a mere caption unworthy of a reply"; provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing

epigraph collapse: an engraved inscription; a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

resistance collapse: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"; the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"; group action in opposition to those in power; (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness; the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria); any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

superscription collapse: the activity of superscribing; an inscription written above something else

headline collapse: the heading or caption of a newspaper article; publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline; provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

screamer collapse: gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call; a sensational newspaper headline

subtitle collapse: secondary or explanatory title; translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen; supply (a movie) with subtitles

lead off collapse: teach immoral behavior to; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach them bad habits"

running head collapse: a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book

precede collapse: furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"; move ahead (of others) in time or space; be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"; come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"

caressing collapse: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs); showing love; "caressive words"

mane collapse: long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck; growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

thatch collapse: a house roof made with a plant material (as straw); hair resembling thatched roofing material; plant stalks used as roofing material; cover with thatch; "thatch the roofs"

drag collapse: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"; clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"; something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"; something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"; the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid; proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"; persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"; pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"; to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"; move slowly and as if with great effort; use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"

flight path collapse: the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air

snout collapse: a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose; beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils

inversely collapse: in an inverse or contrary manner; "inversely related"; "wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"- F.A.Geldard

camber collapse: the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top; a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road); curve upward in the middle

clockwise collapse: in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock; in the direction that the hands of a clock move; "please move clockwise in a circle"

electromagnetism collapse: the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena; magnetism produced by an electric current; "electromagnetism was discovered when it was observed that a copper wire carrying an electric current can magnetize pieces of iron or steel near it"

unpleasantness collapse: the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"; the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling

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