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amplifier collapse: electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it

unshrinking collapse

flexible collapse: bending and snapping back readily without breaking; able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"; capable of being changed; "flexible schedules"

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

on collapse: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position"; (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night"; indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?"; in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on"

automatic writing collapse

true to life collapse

lifelike collapse: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"

received collapse

homespun collapse: a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home; made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"

straight out collapse

chewing collapse

prescriptive collapse: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

homely collapse: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"; without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"; plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare"

large collapse: a garment size for a large person; having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"; above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"; fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"; with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large"; at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

about collapse: in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight"; all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"; in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around"; to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around"; (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"; in rotation or succession; "turn about is fair play"

dealing collapse: method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest dealing"

usual collapse: occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"

accepted collapse: generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"; generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the accepted interpretation of the poem"; "an accepted theory"; "the undisputed fact"; widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist; widely or permanently accepted; "an accepted precedent"; generally accepted or used; "accepted methods of harmony and melody"; "three accepted types of pump"

supple collapse: make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"

average collapse: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"; lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"; around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"; approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"; lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"; compute the average of; achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"; amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"

interplay collapse: reciprocal action and reaction

levitation collapse: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means; movement upward in virtue of lightness; the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means

communicative collapse: able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray; of or relating to communication; "communicative arts"

grandiloquence collapse

truth collapse: a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"; a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"; United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883); conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

unhampered collapse: not held in check or subject to control; "unhampered dissemination of news"; "this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism"; not slowed or blocked or interfered with; "an outlet for healthy and unhampered action"; "a priest unhampered by scruple"; "the new stock market was unhampered by tradition"

poltergeist collapse: a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder

effusive collapse: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"

openhearted collapse: freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted advice"

commonplace collapse: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"; completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"

in collapse: currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"; to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

ascetic collapse: practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"

unaffected collapse: undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"; free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; "an unaffected grace"

lean collapse: not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"; lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"; containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"; rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"; cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"; to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

ribaldry collapse: ribald humor

intercommunication collapse: mutual communication; communication with each other; "they intercepted intercommunication between enemy ships"

phrase collapse: dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence; an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence; a short musical passage; divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"

parole collapse: (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with; a promise; "he gave his word"; release a criminal from detention and place him on parole; "The prisoner was paroled after serving 10 years in prison"

conventional collapse: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"; unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"; (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"; in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"; conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"; represented in simplified or symbolic form

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