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novel collapse: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story; pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

take in collapse: make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight"; take up as if with a sponge; fold up; "take in the sails"; accept; "The cloth takes up the liquid"; visit for entertainment; "take in the sights"; provide with shelter

seascape collapse: a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape); a view of the sea

appear collapse: come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"; come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"; be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"; appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; "Gielgud appears briefly in this movie"; "She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage"; seem to be true, probable, or apparent; "It seems that he is very gifted"; "It appears that the weather in California is very bad"; present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority; "He had to appear in court last month"; "She appeared on several charges of theft"

inadequate collapse: (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"; not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

blindfold collapse: a cloth used to cover the eyes; wearing a blindfold; cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing; "the hostage was blindfolded and driven away"

perspective collapse: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

disappointing collapse: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising"

discover collapse: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"; make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"; see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?"

landscape collapse: a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery; painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery; an extensive mental viewpoint; "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"; "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity"; an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view; do landscape gardening; "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"; embellish with plants; "Let's landscape the yard"

blind spot collapse: the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light; a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment; "golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it"

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.

insufficiency collapse: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"; (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally; a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"

fragile collapse: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

sight collapse: a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument; the range of vision; "out of sight of land"; the ability to see; the visual faculty; an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"; a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"; anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"; catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

pithy collapse: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

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

letter of credit collapse: a document issued by a bank that guarantees the payment of a customer's draft; substitutes the bank's credit for the customer's credit

brisk collapse: very active; "doing a brisk business"; quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"; become brisk; "business brisked up"

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