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material collapse: things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"; information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"; a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"; the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"; derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"; directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"; concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt; concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"

smudge collapse: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"; a smoky fire to drive away insects

crosier collapse: a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office

vignette collapse: a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books); a photograph whose edges shade off gradually

tenement district collapse: a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses

ghetto collapse: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions; formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"; any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

barrio collapse: an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country; a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)

homeless collapse: people who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city streets"; someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"; without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"

sweltering collapse: excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes"

inscribe collapse: address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication; write, engrave, or print as a lasting record; draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible

buoy collapse: bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; mark with a buoy; keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"; float on the surface of water

parasite collapse: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

skid row collapse: a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts

bagatelle collapse: a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over; something of little value or significance; a light piece of music for piano

red herring collapse: any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue; a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color

anarchistic collapse: of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism

victimization collapse: adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him"

harassment collapse: the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism; a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"

copper collapse: any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings; a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper; a copper penny; a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor; coat with a layer of copper

bean collapse: any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food; any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods; any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans; hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball

camel collapse: cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions

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