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enroll collapse: register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members"

obstruction collapse: getting in someone's way; the act of obstructing; "obstruction of justice"; any structure that makes progress difficult; the state or condition of being obstructed

inflamed collapse: adorned with tongues of flame; resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened; "eyes inflamed with crying"

jog trot collapse: an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot

rut collapse: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"; a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels); be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

public address system collapse: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas

stylus collapse: a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"; a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player

mono collapse: designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel

sound truck collapse: a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising

turntable collapse: a circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played; a rotatable platform with a track; used to turn locomotives and cars; a revolving tray placed on a dining table

jukebox collapse: a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin

stereo collapse: reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound; two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together

record changer collapse: an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention

record player collapse: machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically

Gramophone collapse: an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

squawk box collapse: the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system

hang up collapse: interrupt a telephone conversation; put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

Communist collapse: a socialist who advocates communism; a member of the communist party; relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"

lint collapse: cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds; fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

Red collapse: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood; a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana; red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears; of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

chestnut collapse: a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse; a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg; edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea; any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur; wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea; (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"

lag collapse: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"; throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins; hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

strip collapse: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"; artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material; thin piece of wood or metal; a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"; remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"; draw the last milk (of cows); take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"; remove a constituent from a liquid; remove the thread (of screws); remove the surface from; "strip wood"; strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"

tent collapse: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"

chalk up collapse: accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"

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