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log collapse: measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water; a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane); a written record of messages sent or received; "they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station"; "an email log"; a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches; enter into a log, as on ships and planes; cut lumber, as in woods and forests

checkmate collapse: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king; complete victory; place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

incomplete collapse: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"; not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play"

literature collapse: the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure"; the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"; creative writing of recognized artistic value; published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature"

cut back collapse: return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"

sketchy collapse: giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy"

chestnut collapse: a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse; a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg; edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea; any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur; wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea; (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"

chalk up collapse: accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"

dossier collapse: a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)

bunk collapse: a rough bed (as at a campsite); a long trough for feeding cattle; unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements); provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

superscribe collapse: write on the outside or upper part of; "superscribe an envelope"; write on the top or outside; "superscribe one's name and address"

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

printing collapse: the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution; text handwritten in the style of printed matter; reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

galvanize collapse: stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock; cover with zinc; "galvanize steel"

hornbook collapse: a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge

impatient collapse: restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

written collapse: set down in writing in any of various ways; "written evidence"; systematically collected and written down; "written laws"

electrify collapse: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"; charge (a conductor) with electricity; excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us"

history collapse: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"; a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"; the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

binary collapse: consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two; "a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"; "a binary compound"; "the binary number system has two as its base"; of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base; "a binary digit"

sob story collapse: a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy

sweetness and light collapse: a mild reasonableness; "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light"

poet collapse: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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