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notation collapse: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters; a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

softly collapse: with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly"; in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; "she smiled softly"

tick collapse: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals; a light mattress; a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"; sew; "tick a mattress"; make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

saving collapse: characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow

pockmark collapse: a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease; mark with or as if with pockmarks; "Her face was pockmarked by the disease"

sort collapse: an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"; a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"; an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting"

endorsement collapse: the act of endorsing; "a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements"; a signature that validates something; "the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement"; a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books); "the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book"

disappointment collapse: an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone; a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment"

phylactery collapse: (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer

speck collapse: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"; produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"

nautical collapse: relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; "nautical charts"; "maritime law"; "marine insurance"

autograph collapse: a person's own signature; something written by one's own hand; mark with one's signature; "The author autographed his book"

cockney collapse: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London; a native of the east end of London; relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"; characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"

lay out collapse: provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house"; spend or invest; "lay out thousands on gold"; "he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit"

trough collapse: a long narrow shallow receptacle; a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

cyclone collapse: a violent rotating windstorm; (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern

rosary collapse: a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)

nominal collapse: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"; insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"; being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value"; pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"; relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"

solvent collapse: a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution"; capable of meeting financial obligations

corrupt collapse: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"; touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"; containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"; alter from the original; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

liquid collapse: a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r'); the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility; a substance in the fluid state of matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume; a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure; clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"; smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin"; existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"; filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"

water collapse: a fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"; binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent; once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles); secrete or form water, as tears or saliva; "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered"; supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields"; fill with tears; "His eyes were watering"; provide with water; "We watered the buffalo"

surround collapse: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"; be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"

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