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spectacle collapse: a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself; an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale; something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight); "the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape"

hall collapse: a large building for meetings or entertainment; a large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall"; a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning"; United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907); United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871); United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914); United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924); English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

notation collapse: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters; a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

vacuum collapse: an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction; a region that is devoid of matter; the absence of matter; clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"

mime collapse: a performance using gestures and body movements without words; an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

installation collapse: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

romanticism collapse: impractical romantic ideals and attitudes; an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure); a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

bleeding heart collapse: someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged; garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers

conservation collapse: the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources; (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations; an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

shin collapse: the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle; the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet; a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg

meteor collapse: a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

alien collapse: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"; not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"; transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"

yawn collapse: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy"; utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance"

masterpiece collapse: an outstanding achievement; the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman

tonnage collapse: a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship

orbit collapse: the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the orbit of the moon"; the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

proportion collapse: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin; magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions"; the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole; adjust in size relative to other things; give pleasant proportions to; "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"

cantor collapse: the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos

span collapse: the distance or interval between two points; a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches); the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour"

tableau collapse: any dramatic scene; a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

soup collapse: liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food; an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"; any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup; dope (a racehorse)

drama collapse: the quality of being arresting or highly emotional; the literary genre of works intended for the theater; an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

allocate collapse: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip"

trailer collapse: a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy; a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor

institution collapse: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated; a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater"; an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

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