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cadenza collapse: a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music

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

salvo collapse: a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"; an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs

legislation collapse: the act of making or enacting laws; law enacted by a legislative body

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"

route collapse: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"; send via a specific route; send documents or materials to appropriate destinations

convection collapse: the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion; (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere

conduit collapse: a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"

gangway collapse: a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site)

gangplank collapse: a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside

motorboat collapse: a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine; ride in a motorboat

euphuism collapse: an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology; any artificially elegant style of language

floater collapse: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location; an object that floats or is capable of floating; a swimmer who floats in the water; a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election; an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed; a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

migration collapse: the movement of persons from one country or locality to another; the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding; (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule; a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

portico collapse: a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area

bullfight collapse: a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators

extraction collapse: the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"; the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

nostril collapse: either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose

scull collapse: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls; each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman; a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward; propel with sculls; "scull the boat"

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