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visage collapse

time signature collapse: a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat

eloquence collapse: powerful and effective language; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"

compendious collapse: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

peculiarity collapse: a distinguishing trait; an odd or unusual characteristic

declamatory collapse

shortened collapse

abridged collapse: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

pruned collapse

clipped collapse: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"; cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"

abbreviated collapse: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"; cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

intelligible collapse: well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation"

timbre collapse: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

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'

twice told tale collapse

verse collapse: a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"; compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"

phonate collapse

laconic collapse

connotative collapse: having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit

denotative collapse: having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming; in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term

high sounding collapse

monitory collapse

platitudinous collapse

banality collapse

docked collapse: that in a dock; "a docked ship"

formulate collapse: prepare according to a formula

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

purple passage collapse: a passage full of ornate and flowery language

taciturn collapse: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

metaphorical collapse: expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"

high flying collapse

axiomatic collapse: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"; of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens; containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom"

squeezing collapse

concise collapse: expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

mode collapse: the most frequent value of a random variable; any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave; a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

exaggeration collapse: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; making to seem more important than it really is

decoction collapse: (pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances

antonym collapse: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"

homonym collapse: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

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