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halftone collapse: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration; a print obtained from photoengraving

collective bargaining collapse: negotiation between an employer and trade union

undercoat collapse: thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair; seal consisting of a coating of a tar or rubberlike material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion

turpentine collapse: volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally; obtained from conifers (especially pines)

coloration collapse: choice and use of colors (as by an artist); appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration"

blush collapse: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty); turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"; become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

incident collapse: a single distinct event; a public disturbance; "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"; falling or striking of light rays on something; "incident light"

tempera collapse: pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk

aborigine collapse: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived; the earliest known inhabitants of a region

topic collapse: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"

redden collapse: turn red or redder; "The sky reddened"; make red; "The setting sun reddened the sky"

hue collapse: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength; take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey"

timbre collapse: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

saturation collapse: the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid; chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue; a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

atmosphere collapse: the mass of air surrounding the Earth; "there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere"; "it was exposed to the air"; the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body; the weather or climate at some place; "the atmosphere was thick with fog"; a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"

stammer collapse: a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds

episode collapse: a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series; a part of a broadcast serial; a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

mood collapse: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

dye collapse: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair; color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"

complexion collapse: (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament; texture and appearance of the skin of the face; the coloring of a person's face; a point of view or general attitude or inclination; "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"; a combination that results from coupling or interlinking; "diphthongs are complexions of vowels"; give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills"

tint collapse: color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"

motif collapse: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

spectrum collapse: broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities; an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave

rotogravure collapse: printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press; printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

typography collapse: the craft of composing type and printing from it; art and technique of printing with movable type

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