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contract collapse: a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid; a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law; (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make; be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"; enter into a contractual arrangement; make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"

crop collapse: the stock or handle of a whip; the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"; a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"; a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale; the yield from plants in a single growing season; cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"; feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"; let feed in a field or pasture or meadow; yield crops; "This land crops well"

thwart collapse: a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

plop collapse: the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash; with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"; drop with the sound of something falling into water; drop something with a plopping sound

touchy collapse

scoff collapse: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"

cursory collapse

jeer collapse: showing your contempt by derision; laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"

underprivileged collapse: lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society

columnist collapse: a journalist who writes editorials

circuit collapse: an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow; (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals; an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to; "she's a familiar name on the club circuit"; "on the lecture circuit"; "the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district"; "the international tennis circuit"; make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"

certificate of deposit collapse: a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest

imprecise collapse: not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"

cut loose collapse

out of season collapse

unstudied collapse: lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"; not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"

inelegant collapse: lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

artistry collapse

voiceless collapse

unorganized collapse: not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government"; not affiliated in a trade union; "the workers in the plant were unorganized"

songster collapse: a person who sings

spurt collapse: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth"

tenderloin collapse: the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column

dole collapse: money received from the state; a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given

storyteller collapse: someone who tells lies

loop collapse: a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane; an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop; a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied; the basic pattern of the human fingerprint; an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan); "he's no longer in the loop"; anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself); fasten or join with a loop; "He looped the watch through his belt"; make a loop in; "loop a rope"; fly loops, perform a loop; "the stunt pilot looped his plane"; move in loops; "The bicycle looped around the tree"

lowness collapse: a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates"; the condition of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling"

bit collapse: the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit"; piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit"; a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"; a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte"

fleer collapse: contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words; to smirk contemptuously

garbled collapse

replication collapse: the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"; (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer; (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division

cartoon collapse: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence; a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine; draw cartoons of

flank collapse: the side between ribs and hipbone; a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg; the side of military or naval formation; "they attacked the enemy's right flank"; a subfigure consisting of a side of something; be located at the sides of something or somebody

preview collapse: a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public; an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future; watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public

nirvana collapse: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

dock collapse: the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair; landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late"; an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial; a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded; any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine; haul into a dock; "dock the ships"; remove or shorten the tail of an animal; come into dock; "the ship docked"; deduct from someone's wages; deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

transcript collapse: a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record); something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech; "he read a transcript of the interrogation"; "you can obtain a transcript of this radio program by sending a self-addressed envelope to the station"

reviewer collapse: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

abstract collapse: existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"; dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"; not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"; consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically; consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"; give an abstract (of)

bibliographer collapse: someone trained in compiling bibliographies

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