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platter collapse: a large shallow dish used for serving food

abrogation collapse: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

orchestration collapse: the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments; an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect; "the skillful orchestration of his political campaign"; an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band

emergence collapse: the act of emerging; the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"; the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

activate collapse: make active or more active; "activate an old file"; make (substances) radioactive; aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter; make more adsorptive; "activate a metal"

beatitude collapse: one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'"

journeying collapse

current collapse: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"; occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"

course collapse: a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"; education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"; facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"; (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"; part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal"; a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"; general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"; hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"; move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic"

glorification collapse: the act of glorifying (as in worship); "the glorification of God"

edge collapse: a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box"; a strip near the boundary of an object; "he jotted a note on the margin of the page"; a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition"; the attribute of urgency; "his voice had an edge to it"; the boundary of a surface; provide with an edge; "edge a blade"; advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car"

opening collapse: the act of opening something; "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door"; becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"; a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; "he memorized all the important chess openings"; a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"; the initial part of the introduction; "the opening established the basic theme"; the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews"; a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise; an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"; opportunity especially for employment or promotion; "there is an opening in the sales department"; first or beginning; "the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth"; "the play's opening scene"

throwback collapse

sainthood collapse: the status and dignity of a saint; saints collectively

documentary collapse: a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event; relating to or consisting of or derived from documents

wheels within wheels collapse

chassis collapse: the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor; a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device

reluctantly collapse: with reluctance

propound collapse: put forward, as of an idea

sunstroke collapse: sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat

descending collapse

forum collapse: a public facility to meet for open discussion; a public meeting or assembly for open discussion

revocation collapse: the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done; "the revocation of a law"; the state of being cancelled or annulled

breather collapse

downhill collapse: a ski race down a trail; the downward slope of a hill; toward the bottom of a hill; "running downhill, he gained a lot of speed"; toward a lower or inferior state; "your performance has been going downhill for a long time now"

sound track collapse

circus collapse: performance given by a traveling company of acrobats clowns and trained animals; "the children always love to go to the circus"; a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"; a genus of haws comprising the harriers; an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent; "they used the elephants to help put up the circus"; (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games; a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals; "he ran away from home to join the circus"

quoin collapse: the keystone of an arch; expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

escapism collapse

motion sickness collapse: the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle

riddance collapse

dumb show collapse

precinct collapse: a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes

terrain collapse: a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; "they decided to attack across the rocky terrain"

poultry collapse: flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

emulsion collapse: a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin; (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids; "an oil-in-water emulsion"

retroaction collapse

background collapse: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear; a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"; the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"; relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"; extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"; understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

downward collapse

motivation collapse: the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"; the act of motivating; providing incentive; the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level"

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