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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"

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

coloratura collapse: singing with florid ornamentation; a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music

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

insert collapse: an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted; a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication; introduce; "Insert your ticket here"; put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"

write up collapse: bring to public notice by writing, with praise or condemnation; "The New York Times wrote him up last week"; "Did your boss write you up?"

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'"

embellishment collapse: a superfluous ornament; elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"

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

synonym collapse: two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context

nickel collapse: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar; five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"; a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite; plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

paper collapse: medium for written communication; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"; a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses; "he has written many scientific papers"; a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses; cover with paper; "paper the box"

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"

stationery collapse: paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes

semester collapse: half a year; a period of 6 months; one of two divisions of an academic year

year collapse: the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"; a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"; a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"

month collapse: a time unit of approximately 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill"

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

take down collapse: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

cognizance collapse: range or scope of what is perceived; range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken"

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"

morpheme collapse: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

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

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