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fast collapse: abstaining from food; acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"; at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot"; (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast"; securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"; resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors"; (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"; quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"; firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight"; abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"; abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"

hedge collapse: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes; an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"; any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change; minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"; avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"; enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"; hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in"

esteemed collapse: having an illustrious reputation; respected; "our esteemed leader"; "a prestigious author"

stormy petrel collapse: sooty black petrel with white markings; of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean

picnic collapse: any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion; eat alfresco, in the open air; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday"

excessive collapse: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"; unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"

feast collapse: something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"; partake in a feast or banquet; provide a feast or banquet for

Agnus Dei collapse: a liturgical prayer beginning with these Latin words; figure of a lamb; emblematic of Christ

reed collapse: a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"; United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902); United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920); tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

sonar collapse: a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return; "sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging"; "asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee"

bathe collapse: the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe"; cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"; clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day"; suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight"

urine collapse: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water"

sublime collapse: lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime"- Milton; vaporize and then condense right back again; change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"

ambergris collapse: waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume

myrrh collapse: aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume

musk collapse: the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer; an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative

siren collapse: eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills; an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning; a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound; a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song"

dew collapse: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet with dew"

kerosene collapse: a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

gasoline collapse: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

paraffin collapse: (British usage) kerosine; from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings

floating collapse: the act of someone who floats on the water; borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"; inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"

corncob collapse: the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn

flux collapse: in constant change; "his opinions are in flux"; "the newness and flux of the computer industry"; a flow or discharge; a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action; "the flux following the death of the emperor"; excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea); a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed; the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface

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