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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"

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"

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

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

naming collapse: the verbal act of naming; "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals"

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

sutra collapse: a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

bromide collapse: any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

peculiarity collapse: a distinguishing trait; an odd or unusual characteristic

proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

divisional collapse: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"; of or relating to a military division; "divisional artillery"

oratory collapse: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

rhetoric collapse: study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking); using language effectively to please or persuade

glibness collapse: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"

mot collapse: a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes

expression collapse: the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; "the expression of milk from her breast"; the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"; expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"; the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"; (genetics) the process of expressing a gene

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