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know collapse: the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people; "he is always in the know"; be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"; be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time"; be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"; know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"; have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"; have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"; perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"; be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"; know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"

manifesto collapse: a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)

datum collapse: an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

synonymy collapse: the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning

communications collapse: the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"

instruction collapse: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

reader collapse: one of a series of texts for students learning to read; a person who enjoys reading; a person who can read; a literate person

parlay collapse: a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers; stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager

foist collapse: insert surreptitiously or without warrant; to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me"

entrench collapse: fix firmly or securely; occupy a trench or secured area; "The troops dug in for the night"

cursive collapse: having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"

letterhead collapse: a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top

propagation collapse: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions; the movement of a wave through a medium

price tag collapse: a tag showing the price of the article it is attached to

finger collapse: one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb; any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"; the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure; indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments; feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"; search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"

impinge collapse: impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"

receptacle collapse: a container that is used to put or keep things in; an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert; enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts

enunciation collapse: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

take down collapse: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

rebuke collapse: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

plaint collapse: a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed

set down collapse: cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"; put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley"

glossary collapse: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

scholiast collapse: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

wind collapse: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"; breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"; empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"; a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"; air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"; coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"; wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"

viola collapse: a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower; large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions; any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola

cello collapse: a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

carry over collapse: transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another; transfer from one time period to the next; transport from one place or state to another; "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"; hold over goods to be sold for the next season

vocabulary collapse: a language user's knowledge of words; the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques"; a listing of the words used in some enterprise

intrude collapse: thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer"; enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room"; search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"

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