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plainness collapse: the appearance of being plain and unpretentious; the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainness of vanilla ice cream"

way collapse: a journey or passage; "they are on the way"; a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"; any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out"; the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"; doing as one pleases or chooses; "if I had my way"; a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing"; a portion of something divided into shares; "the split the loot three ways"; the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way"; to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"

style collapse: a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style"; a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand"; editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display; (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma; make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript"; designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"; make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress"

comment collapse: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"; explain or interpret something; make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague"

specialization collapse: the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology"; the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose; (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo"

format collapse: the general appearance of a publication; the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing); divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!"; determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science); set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out"

censor collapse: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable; someone who censures or condemns; subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

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

composition collapse: something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; "he envied the composition of their faculty"; the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"; an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"; a mixture of ingredients

baptize collapse: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized"

intaglio collapse: glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)

gestalt collapse: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

pattern collapse: a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"; form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

partiality collapse: an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives

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