Related Words:
- ballad
collapse - a narrative poem of popular origin
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain related words >
- Brautlied,
- Christmas carol,
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Kunstlied,
- Liebeslied,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- Volkslied,
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- anthem,
- art song,
- aubade,
- balada,
- ballade,
- ballata,
- barcarole,
- blues,
- blues song,
- boat song,
- bridal hymn,
- brindisi,
- bucolic,
- calypso,
- canso,
- canticle,
- canzone,
- canzonet,
- canzonetta,
- carol,
- cavatina,
- chanson,
- chant,
- chantey,
- clerihew,
- croon,
- croon song,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- ditty,
- drinking song,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- folk song,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hit,
- hit tune,
- hymeneal,
- idyll,
- jingle,
- lay,
- lied,
- light music,
- lilt,
- limerick,
- love song,
- love-lilt,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- matin,
- minstrel song,
- minstrelsy,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- national anthem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- poem,
- pop,
- pop music,
- popular music,
- popular song,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- satire,
- serena,
- serenade,
- serenata,
- sestina,
- sloka,
- song,
- song hit,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- theme song,
- threnody,
- torch song,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- war song,
- wedding song
- pylon
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- a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists"
- a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race related words >
- French door,
- antenna tower,
- archway,
- back door,
- barbican,
- barway,
- beacon,
- beam,
- belfry,
- bell tower,
- bulkhead,
- campanile,
- carriage entrance,
- cellar door,
- cellarway,
- colossus,
- column,
- cupola,
- derrick,
- dome,
- door,
- doorjamb,
- doorpost,
- doorway,
- fan marker,
- fire tower,
- flare path,
- front door,
- gate,
- gatepost,
- gateway,
- hatch,
- hatchway,
- lantern,
- lighthouse,
- lintel,
- marker,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- mast,
- minaret,
- monument,
- obelisk,
- observation tower,
- pagoda,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- pinnacle,
- pole,
- porch,
- portal,
- porte cochere,
- postern,
- propylaeum,
- pyramid,
- racon,
- radar beacon,
- radio beacon,
- scuttle,
- shaft,
- side door,
- skyscraper,
- spire,
- standpipe,
- steeple,
- stile,
- storm door,
- stupa,
- television mast,
- threshold,
- tollgate,
- tope,
- tour,
- tower,
- trap,
- trap door,
- turnpike,
- turnstile,
- turret,
- water tower,
- wind cone,
- wind indicator,
- wind sock,
- windmill tower
- be caught short,
- be short,
- bear the palm,
- belong,
- break the bank,
- bucket,
- bucketshop,
- capitalize on,
- capture,
- carry,
- carry away,
- carry it,
- carry off,
- carry the day,
- cash in on,
- clean up,
- clear,
- coin money,
- come out first,
- commercialize,
- deposit margin,
- finish in front,
- fluke,
- gain,
- gain by,
- gain the day,
- go long,
- gross,
- hit it,
- hit the jackpot,
- hit the mark,
- hold on,
- make a scoop,
- make money,
- make money by,
- margin up,
- miss the market,
- net,
- operate,
- overstay the market,
- play the market,
- plunge,
- profit,
- pyramid,
- realize,
- realize on,
- ring the bell,
- scalp,
- scoop the market,
- score,
- score a success,
- speculate,
- stag,
- stag the market,
- take a flier,
- take the cake,
- trade on margin,
- turn a penny,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- turn up trumps,
- venture,
- win,
- win out,
- win the battle,
- win the laurels,
- win the palm,
- win the prize,
- win through
- cutoff
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- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated related words >
- air line,
- arrest,
- beeline,
- bell,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- cut,
- cutoff point,
- dead stop,
- deadline,
- deadlock,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- extremity,
- final whistle,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lockout,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- shortcut,
- shortest way,
- sit-down strike,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- walkout,
- work stoppage
- poem
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- a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines related words >
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- article,
- autograph,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- brainchild,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- copy,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- ditty,
- document,
- draft,
- eclogue,
- edited version,
- elegy,
- engrossment,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- essay,
- eyeful,
- fair copy,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- holograph,
- idyll,
- jingle,
- letter,
- limerick,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucubration,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nonfiction,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- opus,
- original,
- palinode,
- paper,
- parchment,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- penscript,
- picture,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poesy,
- poetry,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- prothalamium,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- rhapsody,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rune,
- satire,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sestina,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- the written word,
- thing of beauty,
- threnody,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- typescript,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- version,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- vision,
- work,
- writing
- barbican
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- a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) related words >
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- antenna tower,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- belfry,
- bell tower,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- campanile,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- colossus,
- column,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- cupola,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- derrick,
- dike,
- dome,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fire tower,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- lantern,
- lighthouse,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- mast,
- merlon,
- minaret,
- monument,
- mound,
- obelisk,
- observation tower,
- outwork,
- pagoda,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- pinnacle,
- pole,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- pylon,
- pyramid,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- shaft,
- skyscraper,
- spire,
- standpipe,
- steeple,
- stockade,
- stupa,
- television mast,
- tenaille,
- tope,
- tour,
- tower,
- turret,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- water tower,
- windmill tower,
- work
- caesura
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- a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
- a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued" related words >
- Alexandrine,
- abeyance,
- accent,
- accentuation,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- beat,
- boundary,
- breach,
- break,
- cadence,
- catalexis,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- clearance,
- colon,
- comma,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- day off,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- dochmiac,
- double space,
- drop,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- em space,
- emphasis,
- en space,
- epitrite,
- feminine caesura,
- fissure,
- foot,
- freeboard,
- gap,
- hair space,
- half space,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hesitation,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- hiatus,
- holiday,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermediate space,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- jump,
- juncture,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- lilt,
- lull,
- margin,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- numbers,
- paeon,
- pause,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- point,
- proceleusmatic,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- recess,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- rhythm,
- room,
- semicolon,
- single space,
- space,
- space between,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stop,
- stress,
- suspension,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- time interval,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- truce,
- vacation
- emphasis
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- special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
- special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" related words >
- Alexandrine,
- accent,
- accentuation,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arsis,
- attention,
- bacchius,
- beat,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- colon,
- concern,
- concernment,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- epitrite,
- excellence,
- feminine caesura,
- foot,
- force,
- grammatical accent,
- gravity,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- high order,
- high rank,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- import,
- importance,
- interest,
- intonation,
- intonation pattern,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- level of stress,
- lilt,
- mark,
- masculine caesura,
- materiality,
- measure,
- merit,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metrics,
- metron,
- molossus,
- moment,
- mora,
- movement,
- note,
- numbers,
- paeon,
- paralipsis,
- paramountcy,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- pitch accent,
- precedence,
- preeminence,
- primacy,
- primary stress,
- priority,
- proceleusmatic,
- prominence,
- prosodics,
- prosody,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- rhetorical accent,
- rhythm,
- rhythmic pattern,
- rhythmical accent,
- rhythmical stress,
- secondary stress,
- self-importance,
- significance,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stress,
- stress accent,
- stress arsis,
- stress pattern,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tertiary stress,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- tone accent,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- underlining,
- underscoring,
- value,
- weak stress,
- weight,
- worth
- summons
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- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- an order to appear in person at a given place and time related words >
- Angelus,
- Angelus bell,
- alarm,
- alarum,
- battle cry,
- beck,
- beck and call,
- bid,
- bid come,
- biddance,
- bidding,
- birdcall,
- bugle call,
- call,
- call away,
- call back,
- call for,
- call forth,
- call in,
- call out,
- call together,
- call up,
- call-up,
- calling,
- calling forth,
- certiorari,
- citation,
- cite,
- compulsory military service,
- conjure,
- conjure up,
- conscription,
- convene,
- convocation,
- convoke,
- demand,
- draft,
- draft call,
- drafting,
- engraved invitation,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- evocation,
- evoke,
- garnishment,
- habeas corpus,
- impressment,
- indent,
- induction,
- invitation,
- invite,
- invocation,
- invoke,
- last post,
- levy,
- mobilization,
- monition,
- moose call,
- muster,
- muster up,
- nod,
- order up,
- page,
- preconization,
- preconize,
- press,
- rallying cry,
- rebel yell,
- recall,
- recruiting,
- recruitment,
- requisition,
- reveille,
- selective service,
- send after,
- send for,
- serve,
- subpoena,
- summon,
- summon forth,
- summon up,
- taps,
- trumpet call,
- venire,
- venire de novo,
- venire facias,
- war cry,
- warrant,
- whistle,
- writ,
- writ of summons
- deadlock
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- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" related words >
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
- arrest,
- bell,
- blind alley,
- block,
- box,
- brake,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- cessation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- condition,
- corner,
- cul-de-sac,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- dam,
- dead end,
- dead heat,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- dead-end street,
- dilemma,
- draw,
- draw rein,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- even break,
- extremity,
- fair shake,
- final whistle,
- freeze,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hole,
- impasse,
- knotted score,
- lock,
- lockout,
- neck-and-neck race,
- photo finish,
- plight,
- posture,
- predicament,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- quandary,
- sit-down strike,
- situation,
- slow down,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- stand-off,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- state,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- stymie,
- subsidence,
- the same,
- tie,
- walkout,
- wane,
- waning,
- work stoppage
- whine
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- complain whiningly
- move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us" related words >
- bark,
- bawl,
- bay,
- bell,
- bellow,
- blare,
- blat,
- blate,
- bleat,
- blubber,
- boom,
- bray,
- breathe,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- call,
- caterwaul,
- chant,
- chirp,
- coo,
- creak,
- crow,
- cry,
- dolorous tirade,
- drawl,
- exclaim,
- flute,
- fuss,
- gasp,
- give tongue,
- give voice,
- groan,
- growl,
- grunt,
- hiss,
- howl,
- jeremiad,
- keen,
- kick,
- lament,
- lilt,
- low,
- meow,
- mew,
- mewl,
- miaow,
- moan,
- moo,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- neigh,
- nicker,
- outcry,
- pant,
- pipe,
- plaint,
- planctus,
- pule,
- repine,
- roar,
- rumble,
- screak,
- scream,
- screech,
- shriek,
- shrill,
- sibilate,
- sigh,
- sing,
- skirl,
- skreigh,
- snap,
- snarl,
- snort,
- sob,
- sough,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeal,
- thunder,
- tirade,
- troat,
- trumpet,
- twang,
- ululate,
- ululation,
- wail,
- wail of woe,
- warble,
- whicker,
- whimper,
- whinny,
- whisper,
- whistle,
- wrawl,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yowl
- checkmate
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- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- complete victory
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" related words >
- arrest,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- balking,
- bell,
- blast,
- block,
- brake,
- brave,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- challenge,
- check,
- circumvent,
- confound,
- confounding,
- confront,
- confusion,
- contravene,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- dam,
- dash,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- defeat,
- defy,
- destroy,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disrupt,
- draw rein,
- elude,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- final whistle,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foiling,
- freeze,
- frustrate,
- frustration,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- knock the chocks,
- lockout,
- nonplus,
- perplex,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- rebuff,
- repulse,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rout,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- setback,
- sit-down strike,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- stump,
- thwart,
- thwarting,
- upset,
- walkout,
- work stoppage
- bucolic
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- relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" related words >
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- Arcadian,
- Castalian,
- English sonnet,
- Homeric,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- Theocritean,
- agrarian,
- agrestic,
- agricultural,
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- arcadian,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bardic,
- boor,
- bumpkin,
- campestral,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- clod,
- clodhopper,
- clown,
- countrified,
- country,
- country bumpkin,
- didactic,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- eclogue,
- elegiac,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- farm,
- farmer,
- genuine,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hayseed,
- heroic,
- hick,
- hillbilly,
- homespun,
- idyll,
- idyllic,
- inartificial,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- looby,
- lout,
- lowland,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- mock-heroic,
- monody,
- narrative,
- narrative poem,
- native,
- natural,
- naturelike,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- outland,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- poem,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- prothalamium,
- provincial,
- rhapsodic,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rube,
- runic,
- rural,
- rustic,
- sapphic,
- satire,
- sestina,
- skaldic,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- undesigning,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulating,
- unembellished,
- unfeigning,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unspoiled,
- unvarnished,
- upland,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- yokel
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