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syncopation collapse: music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm; a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

fossilized collapse: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

hourly collapse: occurring every hour or payable by the hour; "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"; every hour; "daily, hourly, I grew stronger"

affairs collapse: transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

habitual collapse: made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"

continually collapse: seemingly without interruption; "complained continually that there wasn't enough money"

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

dated collapse: bearing a date; "dated and stamped documents"; marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

presto collapse: (of tempo) very fast; suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift; at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)

ever collapse: at any time; "did you ever smoke?"; "the best con man of all time"; (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly"

generation collapse: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production; the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity"; group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent; the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"; a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers"

depression collapse: pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"; sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object); a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"; a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity; a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment; a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

old collapse: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'); of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"; old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"; of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"; (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

andante collapse: a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace); (of tempo) moderately slow; at a moderately slow temp; "this passage must be played andante"

circumstances collapse: a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"; the state (usually personal) with regard to wealth; "each person was helped according to his circumstances"

everyday collapse: commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"; found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

antiquity collapse: an artifact surviving from the past; the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

venerable collapse: impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"

ancient collapse: a person who lived in ancient times; a very old person; very old; "an ancient mariner"; belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

Gothic collapse: a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas; characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"; of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

antediluvian collapse: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"; of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"

late collapse: being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"; at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child"; of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek"; later than usual or than expected; "the train arrived late"; "we awoke late"; "the children came late to school"; "notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"; "I belatedly wished her a happy birthday"; at an advanced age or stage; "she married late"; "undertook the project late in her career"

daily collapse: a newspaper that is published every day; occurring or done each day; "a daily record"; "day-by-day labors of thousands of men and women"- H.S.Truman; "her day-after-day behavior"; "an every day occurrence"; measured by the day or happening every day; "a daily newspaper"; "daily chores"; "average daily wage"; "daily quota"; without missing a day; "he stops by daily"

petrified collapse: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"; converted into a mineral; "petrified wood"; converted into stone

primitive collapse: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived; a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization; used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

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