gingerbread - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

featherbedding collapse: the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required

carving collapse: removing parts to create a desired shape; a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape

mannequin collapse: a life-size dummy used to display clothes; a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin"

festoon collapse: flower chains suspended in loops between points; an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work; a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops; decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"

scarecrow collapse: an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

cake collapse: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"; made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs

tautology collapse: useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"

expletive collapse: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line

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"

pinchbeck collapse: an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold; serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"

lay figure collapse: dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body

brownie collapse: square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts; a junior Girl Scout

embellishment collapse: a superfluous ornament; elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"

statuary collapse: statues collectively; of or relating to or suitable for statues

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

overlap collapse: the property of partial coincidence in time; a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"; coincide partially or wholly; "Our vacations overlap"; extend over and cover a part of; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city"

trickery collapse: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

dolly collapse: conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects; conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted

redundancy collapse: repetition of an act needlessly; the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"; (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails; repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

sculpture collapse: creating figures or designs in three dimensions; a three-dimensional work of plastic art

monument collapse: an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

Wordage.info