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derivation collapse: the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin; drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation; drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body; a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions; the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"; (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do'

documentation collapse: documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones"; confirmation that some fact or statement is true

buxom collapse: euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"

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

antiquity collapse: an artifact surviving from the past; the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

letters collapse: the literary culture; "this book shows American letters at its best"; scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters"

distended collapse: abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"

heavyweight collapse: a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds; a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds; an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds

mimeograph collapse: a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo); print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus"

past collapse: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past; the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"; a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"; earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"; a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"

sample collapse: a small part of something intended as representative of the whole; all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class; take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

myth collapse: a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

tub collapse: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids; the amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water"

prototype collapse: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

stout collapse: a garment size for a large or heavy person; a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops

stencil collapse: device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern; mark or print with a stencil

remains collapse: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

examine collapse: question closely; observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country"

old collapse: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'); of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"; old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"; of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"; (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

photography collapse: the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies; the act of taking and printing photographs; the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

idealism collapse: impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are; (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

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