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lay down the law collapse

regularize collapse: make regular or more regular; "regularize the heart beat with a pace maker"

dislocated collapse

standard collapse: any distinctive flag; an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support); "distance was marked by standards every mile"; "lamps supported on standards provided illumination"; a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"; the value behind the money in a monetary system; a board measure = 1980 board feet; commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"; regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item"; established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"; conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"; conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)

rally round collapse

disposition collapse: your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"; a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"

wise collapse: a way of doing or being; "in no wise"; "in this wise"; United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900); United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949); having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"

taxing collapse

inoperable collapse: not suitable for surgery; "metastasis has rendered the tumor inoperable"; not able to perform its normal function

effects collapse: property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I watched over their effects until they returned"

enterprising collapse: marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects; "an enterprising foreign policy"; "an enterprising young man likely to go far"

contrivance collapse: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"; an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"; an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

series collapse: (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions; a periodical that appears at scheduled times; (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"; similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"; a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"; (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

prognosis collapse: a prediction of the course of a disease; a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

allocation collapse: (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions

ashram collapse: (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus; a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram

segment collapse: one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"; divide or split up; "The cells segmented"; divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"

request collapse: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority; the verbal act of requesting; express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"; ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript"; inquire for (information); "I requested information from the secretary"

yeasty collapse: exuberantly creative; of or resembling or containing yeast

hierarchy collapse: the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body; a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

gens collapse

employee collapse: a worker who is hired to perform a job

resource collapse: a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed; "the local library is a valuable resource"; the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"; available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed

succession collapse: acquisition of property by descent or by will; the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence"; a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"; (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

special delivery collapse: mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge)

RFD collapse

parcel post collapse: postal service that handles packages

mailing list collapse: a list of names and addresses to which advertising material is mailed

subpoena collapse: a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court; serve or summon with a subpoena; "The witness and her records were subpoenaed"

expedient collapse: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one; serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"; appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

step by step collapse

turbid collapse

soft sell collapse: suggestive or persuasive advertising

market research collapse

guise collapse: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

diagnosis collapse: identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

vending collapse: the act of selling goods for a living

form collapse: a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation"; the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features"; a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility"; an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night"; a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"; the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"; a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form"; an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form"; (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms"; assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads"; create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"; to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"; develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape"

small potatoes collapse

sweating collapse

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