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once collapse: on one occasion; "once I ran into her"; at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once";; as soon as; "once we are home, we can rest"

dullness collapse: without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"; lack of sensibility; "there was a dullness in his heart"; "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."; a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"; the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"; the quality of being slow to understand

boring collapse: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum; so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

later collapse: comparative of the adverb `late'; "he stayed later than you did"

retake collapse: a shot or scene that is photographed again; photograph again; "Please retake that scene"

inspect collapse: look over carefully; "Please inspect your father's will carefully"

boxcars collapse: (usually plural) when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'

pennant collapse: a long flag; often tapering; the award given to the champion; a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering)

existent collapse: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

mileage collapse: distance measured in miles; a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled; the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned

wavelength collapse: the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave; a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding; "they are on the same wavelength"

radio wave collapse: an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m

hold on collapse: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

happening collapse: an event that happens; taking place; "the parade is still happening"

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