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marginal collapse: being close to a lower limit or or of lower class; "marginal abilities"; producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"

inside track collapse: a favorable position in a competition; "the boss's son had the inside track for that job"; the inner side of a curved racecourse

grieve collapse: feel grief; eat one's heart out; cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"

beeline collapse: the most direct route; "he made a beeline for the bathroom"

sketchbook collapse: a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn

plat collapse: a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.); make a plat of; "Plat the town"

nervy collapse: showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers"

limb collapse: the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant"; either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"; one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper; (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet; any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

purl collapse: a basic knitting stitch; gold or silver wire thread; make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling"; embroider with gold or silver thread; edge or border with gold or silver embroidery; knit with a purl stitch

secant collapse: ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle; a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points

lay figure collapse: dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body

haw collapse: the nictitating membrane of a horse; utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"

fixative collapse: a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging; a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study

scallop collapse: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions; edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces; one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.); shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"; fish for scallops; form scallops in; "scallop the meat"; bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

interlope collapse: encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license

gravel collapse: rock fragments and pebbles; cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"

shore collapse: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support; the land along the edge of a body of water; serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"

acridity collapse: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone; extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali"; having an acrid smell

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