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qualifier collapse: a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier"

modifier collapse: a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene; a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb; a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising

syntax collapse: the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; a systematic orderly arrangement

prey collapse: animal hunted or caught for food; a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"; profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"

filler collapse: the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar; copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper; 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary; used for filling cracks or holes in a surface

frown collapse: a facial expression of dislike or displeasure; look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

ostracize collapse: avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

predicate collapse: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements; (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"; affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"; make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"

exemplar collapse: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"

target collapse: sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at; a reference point to shoot at; "his arrow hit the mark"; the location of the target that is to be hit; intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

attribute collapse: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

pursuit collapse: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"; a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth"

slot collapse: a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); "he put a quarter in the slot"; a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots"; (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional memory"; a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"; the trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"; a position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some tough competition for the number one slot"; assign a time slot; "slot a television programs"

disapprove collapse: consider bad or wrong; deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

doodad collapse: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use"

work of art collapse: art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit)

skull session collapse: teaching strategy to an athletic team; a session (as of executives or advisors) to discuss policy or strategy or to solve problems or exchange ideas

goal collapse: a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"; game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points; the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"

mismatch collapse: a bad or unsuitable match; match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together

entity collapse: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

objective collapse: the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed; belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"; undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"; emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art"; serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"

disfavor collapse: an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group; the state of being out of favor; "he is in disfavor with the king"

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