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seminary collapse: a private place of education for the young; a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis

making collapse: (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake"

period collapse: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"; the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"; a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"; one of three periods of play in hockey games; the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon; a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"

development collapse: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"; (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated; a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"; a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"; processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"; a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"; a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"

rudiment collapse: the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"; the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

public school collapse: a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board; private independent secondary school in Great Britain supported by endowment and tuition

exclamation collapse: an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it"; a loud complaint or protest or reproach

lexeme collapse: a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

cadence collapse: a recurrent rhythmical series; the close of a musical section

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

refrain collapse: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers; resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

intransitive collapse: designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object

dictionary collapse: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

phonetics collapse: the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis

sensationalism collapse: the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"; subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes

verbalize collapse: convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized"; be verbose; "This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious"

scenario collapse: a postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack"; an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work); a setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"

cutting collapse: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"; a piece cut off from the main part of something; a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting; suitable for cutting or severing; "a cutting tool"; "the cutting edge"; as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"; (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"

manual collapse: a small handbook; requiring human effort; "a manual transmission"; of or relating to the hands; "manual dexterity"

workbook collapse: a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them

alphabet collapse: a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

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