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distinction collapse: a distinguishing difference; "he learned the distinction between gold and lead"; a distinguishing quality; "it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town"

heading collapse: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"

limit collapse: the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"; the boundary of a specific area; as far as something can go; the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"; the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity; restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

heirloom collapse: something that has been in a family for generations; (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance

preservative collapse: a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition; tending or having the power to preserve; "the timbers should be treated with a preservative"

as the crow flies collapse: by the shortest and most direct route; "it's 10 miles as the crow flies"

origin collapse: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"; the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero; an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

overkill collapse: any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal; the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required

treble collapse: three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase"; sing treble

comply collapse: act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules"

westward collapse: toward the west; "they traveled westward toward the setting sun"

rectilinear collapse: characterized by a straight line or lines; "rectilinear patterns in wallpaper"; "the rectilinear propagation of light"

unbent collapse: not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"

orthodox collapse: adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"; of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"; of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church

nullification collapse: the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something; the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

aggression collapse: violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked; deliberately unfriendly behavior; the act of initiating hostilities; a disposition to behave aggressively; a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

demarcate collapse: set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something; separate clearly and as if by boundaries

mortification collapse: (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)

lapidary collapse: a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones; an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them; of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; "the ring is of no lapidary value"- Lord Byron; "lapidary art"

involution collapse: the action of enfolding something; a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction; reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

rhomboid collapse: any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade; a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal; shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid; "rhomboidal shapes"

inlay collapse: a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface; (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place; decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal

price support collapse: a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level

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