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L collapse: the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet

lie collapse: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; position or manner in which something is situated; Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968); tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"; be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"; be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position; have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"; be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant"

discontinuity collapse: lack of connection or continuity

loaded collapse: (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence; "a loaded question"; (of weapons) charged with ammunition; "a loaded gun"

activity collapse: any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"; (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; "catalytic activity"

superficiality collapse: lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling; shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something; "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"

diapason collapse: either of the two main stops on a pipe organ

fiction collapse: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

frozen collapse: not convertible to cash; "frozen assets"; turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook"; not thawed

cockeyed collapse

unit collapse: a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"; an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"; a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"; an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"

sister collapse: a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group; "none of her sisters would betray her"; (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God"; a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician"

inept collapse: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

dominant collapse: (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale; exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"; (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar

cadence collapse: a recurrent rhythmical series; the close of a musical section

squall collapse: sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation; make high-pitched, whiney noises; blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails"

limited collapse: including only a part; not unlimited; "a limited list of choices"; having a specific function or scope; "a special (or specific) role in the mission"; small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends"; not excessive; mediocre

tour collapse: a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island"; make a tour of a certain place; "We toured the Provence this summer"

relief collapse: the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged; "he asked for troops for the relief of Atlanta"; aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped; "he has been on relief for many years"; assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions provided some relief for the victims"; sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background; the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"; (law) redress awarded by a court; "was the relief supposed to be protection from future harm or compensation for past injury?"; the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease"

dedication collapse: complete and wholehearted fidelity; a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something; a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose

marking collapse: the act of making a visible mark on a surface; evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"; a pattern of marks

forward collapse: a position on a basketball team; the person who plays the position of forward on a basketball team; moving toward a position ahead; "forward motion"; "the onward course of events"; at or near or directed toward the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"; "a forward plunge down the stairs"; "forward motion"; of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle; "in a forward gear"; used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline"; at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations); send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail"

poor collapse: unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"; having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"; lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"; characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

staccato collapse: (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato command"; "staccato notes"; separating the notes; in music; "play this staccato, please"

sextet collapse: a musical composition written for six performers; six people considered as a unit; a set of six similar things considered as a unit; six performers or singers who perform together

crown collapse: the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head; an ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty; a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory; the center of a cambered road; the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel; the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy; "the colonies revolted against the Crown"; the upper branches and leaves of a tree; an English coin worth 5 shillings; be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting"; put an enamel cover on; "crown my teeth"; invest with regal power; enthrone; "The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey"; form the topmost part of; "A weather vane crowns the building"

spectrum collapse: broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities; an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave

soporific collapse: a drug that induces sleep; sleep inducing

piece collapse: a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"; an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china";; a distance; "it is down the road a piece"; an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"; an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck"; a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"; repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup"; join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings"

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