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operational collapse: being in effect or operation; "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"- Leslie Marmon Silko; "bus service is in operation during the emergency"; "the company had several operating divisions"; of or intended for or involved in military operations; pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result; "operational difficulties"; "they assumed their operational positions"

anoxia collapse: severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues

chilblain collapse: inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture

gallop collapse: a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously; ride at a galloping pace; "He was galloping down the road"; cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?"; go at galloping speed; "The horse was galloping along"

time zone collapse: any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used

taper collapse: the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone); a convex shape that narrows toward a point; diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

fetlock collapse: projection behind and above a horse's hoof; the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern

worm collapse: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae; screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack; a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"; a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

relax collapse: cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"; become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"; make less tight; "relax the tension on the rope"; become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"; make less severe or strict; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"; become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner; "our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group"

counterpoint collapse: a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies; write in counterpoint; "Bach perfected the art of counterpointing"

shiftless collapse: lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way"

calorie collapse: unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure; a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food

drag collapse: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"; clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"; something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"; something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"; the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid; proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"; persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"; pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"; to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"; move slowly and as if with great effort; use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"

prance collapse: ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward; cause (a horse) to bound spring forward; spring forward on the hind legs; "The young horse was prancing in the meadow"

unwind collapse: reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn"; separate the tangles of

obstructed collapse: shut off to passage or view or hindered from action; "a partially obstructed passageway"; "an obstructed view"; "justice obstructed is not justice"

unusual collapse: not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer unusual"; not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"

toe collapse: the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes; (golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft; one of the digits of the foot; forepart of a hoof; touch with the toe; drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club; hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club; drive obliquely; "toe a nail"; walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction; "She toes inwards"

unbend collapse: release from mental strain, tension, or formality; "unbend the mind from absorbing too much information"; free from flexure; "unbend a bow"; unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay

walk out collapse: leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval; "She walked out on her husband and children"; leave abruptly, often in protest or anger; "The customer that was not served walked out"

wainscot collapse: wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room; panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

gingerly collapse: with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White; in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket"

reactor collapse: an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit

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