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sale collapse: a particular instance of selling; "he has just made his first sale"; "they had to complete the sale before the banks closed"; the general activity of selling; "they tried to boost sales"; "laws limit the sale of handguns"; an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale"; an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); "the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office"; the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling; "you'll find vitamin C for sale at most pharmacies"; "the new line of cars will soon be on sale"

vision collapse: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light"; a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"; a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"

aesthetics collapse: (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value"

vacuum collapse: an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction; a region that is devoid of matter; the absence of matter; clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"

calibrate collapse: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"; measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"; mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale"

sanatorium collapse: a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

hospital collapse: a health facility where patients receive treatment; a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

vantage collapse: place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)

mistreat collapse: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

calamity collapse: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

psychoanalysis collapse: a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

stress collapse: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"; (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"; difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson; special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"; put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"; to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

abstraction collapse: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; the act of withdrawing or removing something; an abstract painting; the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances; a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

pathos collapse: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"; a style that has the power to evoke feelings

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