Related Words:
- vagueness
collapse - indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"
- unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey" related words >
- airiness,
- airy texture,
- amorphia,
- amorphism,
- amorphousness,
- anarchy,
- attenuation,
- bleariness,
- blobbiness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- bodilessness,
- broadness,
- chaos,
- confusion,
- dark,
- darkness,
- defocus,
- delicacy,
- diaphanousness,
- dilutedness,
- dilution,
- dimness,
- disorder,
- entropy,
- ethereality,
- exiguity,
- exility,
- faintness,
- feebleness,
- filminess,
- fineness,
- flimsiness,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- formlessness,
- frailty,
- fuzziness,
- gauziness,
- generality,
- gossameriness,
- gracility,
- half-visibility,
- haziness,
- ill-definedness,
- immateriality,
- impalpability,
- imponderability,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- incorporeality,
- indecisiveness,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- indistinguishability,
- inexactness,
- insubstantiality,
- intangibility,
- laciness,
- laxity,
- lightness,
- looseness,
- low profile,
- messiness,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscurity,
- opacity,
- orderlessness,
- paleness,
- paperiness,
- perplexity,
- rarity,
- semivisibility,
- shadowiness,
- shapelessness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- slimness,
- soft focus,
- subtility,
- subtlety,
- sweepingness,
- tenuity,
- tenuousness,
- thinness,
- uncertainty,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- unconcreteness,
- unplainness,
- unreality,
- unsolidity,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsubstantialness,
- vague appearance,
- wateriness,
- weakness,
- wispiness
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- beclouded,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- cobwebby,
- confused,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- dark,
- delicate,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- dim,
- downy,
- faint,
- feeble,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fluffy,
- foggy,
- foliaceous,
- foliated,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- ill-defined,
- in layers,
- inconspicuous,
- indefinite,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- insubstantial,
- lamellar,
- lamellate,
- lamellated,
- lamelliform,
- laminate,
- laminated,
- laminous,
- leaflike,
- leafy,
- light,
- light-pervious,
- limpid,
- low-profile,
- lucid,
- membranous,
- merely glimpsed,
- milky,
- misty,
- murky,
- nonopaque,
- obscure,
- opalescent,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- pearly,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- pubescent,
- refined,
- revealing,
- satin,
- satiny,
- scummy,
- see-through,
- semivisible,
- shadowy,
- sheer,
- silky,
- smooth,
- spathic,
- spathose,
- stratified,
- stratiform,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- three-ply,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- two-ply,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unclouded,
- undefined,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- vague,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- weak,
- wiredrawn
- substance
collapse
- that which has mass and occupies space; "an atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter"
- the stuff of which an object consists related words >
- Swiss bank account,
- actuality,
- affective meaning,
- affluence,
- air,
- amount,
- amplitude,
- assets,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- atoms,
- axiom,
- balance,
- bank account,
- basis,
- bearing,
- being,
- bench mark,
- best part,
- better part,
- body,
- bottom,
- bottom dollar,
- bottomless purse,
- brute matter,
- budget,
- building block,
- bulging purse,
- bulk,
- burden,
- call,
- cardinal point,
- case,
- cash reserves,
- cause,
- center,
- chapter,
- checking account,
- chemical element,
- chief thing,
- climax,
- coloring,
- command of money,
- component,
- composition,
- concern,
- concreteness,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- constituent,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- corporeality,
- corpus,
- crisis,
- critical point,
- crux,
- denotation,
- density,
- distillate,
- distillation,
- drift,
- durability,
- earth,
- easy circumstances,
- effect,
- element,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- elixir,
- embarras de richesses,
- entity,
- essence,
- essential,
- essential matter,
- essentiality,
- exchequer,
- extension,
- extent,
- fabric,
- finances,
- fire,
- firmness,
- flower,
- focus,
- focus of attention,
- focus of interest,
- force,
- fortune,
- foundation,
- fund,
- fundamental,
- fundamental particle,
- funds,
- generality,
- gist,
- gold,
- good reason,
- grammatical meaning,
- gravamen,
- great point,
- ground,
- grounds,
- handsome fortune,
- head,
- heading,
- heart,
- high income,
- high point,
- high tax bracket,
- hyle,
- hypostasis,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- important thing,
- independence,
- individual,
- inner essence,
- intension,
- issue,
- kernel,
- keystone,
- kitty,
- landmark,
- lexical meaning,
- life savings,
- literal meaning,
- living issue,
- lucre,
- luxuriousness,
- magnitude,
- main body,
- main point,
- main thing,
- major part,
- majority,
- mammon,
- marrow,
- mass,
- material,
- material basis,
- material point,
- material resources,
- material wealth,
- material world,
- materiality,
- materials,
- materiel,
- matter,
- matter in hand,
- meaning,
- meaningfulness,
- means,
- measure,
- measurement,
- meat,
- medium,
- milestone,
- molecule,
- monad,
- money,
- money to burn,
- moneybags,
- moneys,
- most,
- motif,
- motive,
- natural world,
- nature,
- nest egg,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nucleus,
- numbers,
- nuts and bolts,
- object,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- overtone,
- palpability,
- pecuniary resources,
- pelf,
- pertinence,
- physical world,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plenum,
- plurality,
- pocket,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- ponderability,
- pool,
- possessions,
- postulate,
- practical consequence,
- principle,
- problem,
- property,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- purport,
- purse,
- quantity,
- quantum,
- question,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- quintessential,
- range of meaning,
- raw material,
- real issue,
- real meaning,
- reality,
- reason,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- reserves,
- resources,
- resume,
- riches,
- richness,
- right,
- rubric,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- salient point,
- sap,
- savings,
- savings account,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- short,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- sine qua non,
- solidity,
- soul,
- soundness,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- stability,
- staple,
- steadiness,
- stock,
- store,
- stoutness,
- strength,
- structural meaning,
- stuff,
- sturdiness,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- substances,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- substantive point,
- substratum,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- sum total,
- summary,
- summation,
- supply,
- symbolic meaning,
- tangibility,
- tangible,
- tenor,
- text,
- the bottom line,
- the four elements,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the point,
- theme,
- thrust,
- topic,
- totality of associations,
- toughness,
- transferred meaning,
- treasure,
- turning point,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- unit of being,
- unregistered bank account,
- upper bracket,
- upshot,
- value,
- warrant,
- water,
- wealth,
- wealthiness,
- wherewithal,
- whole,
- worth
- funnel
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- (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
- a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle" related words >
- adjutage,
- approach,
- asymptote,
- bottleneck,
- canalize,
- carry,
- catheter,
- center,
- centralize,
- channel,
- channelize,
- chimney,
- close,
- close in,
- close up,
- close with,
- collision course,
- come together,
- complex cone,
- concenter,
- concentralization,
- concentralize,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- conduct,
- cone,
- conelet,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congress,
- conoid,
- converge,
- convergence,
- converging,
- convey,
- cop,
- cornet,
- crossing,
- drainpipe,
- efflux tube,
- fall in with,
- fire hose,
- flue,
- flue pipe,
- flume,
- focalization,
- focus,
- fumarole,
- garden hose,
- gas pipe,
- hose,
- hosepipe,
- hub,
- ice-cream cone,
- intersect,
- meet,
- meeting,
- mutual approach,
- narrow the gap,
- narrowing gap,
- nip,
- nipple,
- organ pipe,
- pinch,
- pine cone,
- pipe,
- pipeline,
- pipette,
- piping,
- put through,
- put through channels,
- radius,
- reed,
- reed pipe,
- run together,
- siamese,
- siamese connection,
- siphon,
- smokeshaft,
- smokestack,
- snorkel,
- soil pipe,
- spokes,
- stack,
- standpipe,
- steam pipe,
- stem,
- stovepipe,
- straw,
- tangent,
- tap,
- taper,
- traject,
- transmit,
- trench,
- tube,
- tubing,
- tubulation,
- tubule,
- tubulet,
- tubulure,
- unite,
- waste pipe,
- water pipe
- unmistakable
collapse
- clearly evident to the mind; "his opposition to slavery was unmistakable" related words >
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- apodictic,
- apparent,
- bound,
- categorical,
- certain,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear and distinct,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear-cut,
- coherent,
- complete,
- conclusive,
- connected,
- consistent,
- conspicuous,
- crisp,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- decided,
- decisive,
- defined,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- direct,
- discernible,
- distinct,
- downright,
- entire,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- final,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- glaring,
- global,
- implicit,
- in focus,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- indubitable,
- ineluctable,
- inevitable,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- necessary,
- noticeable,
- observable,
- obvious,
- open-and-shut,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- palpable,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perceivable,
- perceptible,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- perfectly sure,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- plain as day,
- positive,
- predestined,
- predetermined,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- round,
- seeable,
- self-evident,
- self-explaining,
- self-explanatory,
- simple,
- staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- tangible,
- to be seen,
- total,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- true,
- unambiguous,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconfused,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- univocal,
- unlimited,
- unmitigated,
- unperceivable,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- visible,
- well-defined,
- well-marked,
- well-pronounced,
- well-resolved,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- addlebrained,
- addled,
- addleheaded,
- addlepated,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baggy,
- beclouded,
- befuddled,
- bemused,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- clear as mud,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- dark,
- dazed,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dreamy,
- dull,
- faint,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fogged,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fuddlebrained,
- fuddled,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- in a fog,
- in a muddle,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lax,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- mazed,
- merely glimpsed,
- misted,
- misty,
- muddled,
- muddleheaded,
- muddy,
- murky,
- mushy,
- muzzy,
- nebulous,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- overcast,
- pale,
- pea-soupy,
- puzzleheaded,
- random,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- smoggy,
- soupy,
- stochastic,
- stuporous,
- sweeping,
- tranced,
- transcendent,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- veiled,
- weak
- definition
collapse
- clarity of outline; "exercise had give his muscles superior definition"
- a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol related words >
- acutance,
- appellation,
- atmospheric visibility,
- baptism,
- black spot,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- bounding,
- calling,
- ceiling,
- ceiling unlimited,
- characterization,
- christening,
- circling-in,
- circumscribing,
- circumscription,
- clarification,
- clarity,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- conspicuity,
- conspicuousness,
- construction,
- crystal-clearness,
- crystallinity,
- definiteness,
- delimitation,
- delineation,
- demarcation,
- denomination,
- description,
- designation,
- determination,
- diagnosis,
- differentiation,
- directness,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- encincture,
- evidence,
- evidentness,
- explanation,
- explication,
- explicitness,
- flare,
- focus,
- fringe area,
- ghost,
- granulation,
- grid,
- hard shadow,
- high visibility,
- identification,
- image,
- inclusion-exclusion,
- interpretation,
- limpidity,
- low visibility,
- lucidity,
- manifestness,
- meaning,
- multiple image,
- naming,
- nicknaming,
- noise,
- obviousness,
- outlining,
- patentness,
- pellucidity,
- percipi,
- perspicuity,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- plain English,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- precision,
- prominence,
- rain,
- reading,
- resolution,
- rolling,
- scanning pattern,
- scintillation,
- seeing,
- sense,
- shading,
- sharpness,
- simplicity,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- specification,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- styling,
- terming,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- unadorned style,
- unambiguousness,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness,
- visibility unlimited,
- visibility zero,
- way of seeing
- nucleus
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- a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction
- any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord
- the positively charged dense center of an atom
- (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail related words >
- Anlage,
- Kern,
- NMR,
- alpha particle,
- antibaryon,
- antilepton,
- antimeson,
- atomic nucleus,
- atomic particle,
- axiom,
- axis,
- baryon,
- basichromatin,
- beta particle,
- bud,
- center,
- center of action,
- center of gravity,
- centroid,
- centrum,
- chromatin,
- chromatin strands,
- core,
- dead center,
- diameter,
- diaphragm,
- egg,
- electron,
- elementary particle,
- elixir,
- embryo,
- epicenter,
- equator,
- essence,
- essential,
- flower,
- focus,
- fundamental,
- germ,
- germen,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- heart,
- heterochromatin,
- hub,
- hypostasis,
- inner essence,
- interior,
- karyosome,
- karyotin,
- kernel,
- lepton,
- loins,
- macronucleus,
- marrow,
- mean,
- meat,
- median,
- medulla,
- meganucleus,
- meson,
- metacenter,
- micronucleus,
- middle,
- midmost,
- midriff,
- midst,
- nave,
- navel,
- neutron,
- nub,
- nuclear force,
- nuclear magnetic resonance,
- nuclear particle,
- nuclear resonance,
- nucleolus,
- nucleon,
- nucleosynthesis,
- nuts and bolts,
- omphalos,
- ovum,
- photon,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plasmosome,
- postulate,
- principle,
- proton,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- rudiment,
- sap,
- seed,
- soul,
- spark,
- spermatozoon,
- spirit,
- storm center,
- strangeness,
- strong interaction,
- stuff,
- substance,
- the nitty-gritty,
- thick,
- thick of things,
- triton,
- umbilicus,
- valence electron,
- waist,
- waistline,
- zone
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