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substantive collapse: a noun or a pronoun that is used in place of a noun; defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law"

hypostasis collapse: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality; any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united; the accumulation of blood in an organ; the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

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"

article collapse: one of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing"; nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication; (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase; a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will); bind by a contract; especially for a training period

appellation collapse: identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

adverb collapse: the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses; a word that modifies something other than a noun

preposition collapse: a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word; (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

participle collapse: a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

part of speech collapse: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

adjective collapse: the word class that qualifies nouns; a word that expresses an attribute of something; relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law ; "adjective law"

chromosome collapse: a threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order

heritage collapse: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"

heredity collapse: the total of inherited attributes; the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next

gene collapse: (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"

inheritance collapse: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property; any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"; (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents; that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

honorific collapse: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"; conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"

eugenics collapse: the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)

genetics collapse: the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms

replication collapse: the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"; (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer; (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division

manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

diathesis collapse: constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

determinant collapse: a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"; a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations

clause collapse: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

interjection collapse: the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

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