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jet collapse: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines; the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid); a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation; issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"; fly a jet plane

squirt collapse: wet with a spurt of liquid; "spurt the wall with water"; cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his little sister"

babble collapse: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby; to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"; utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention"

put up collapse: provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"; make available for sale at an auction; "The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction"; mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"

gossip collapse: a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"; a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

levitation collapse: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means; movement upward in virtue of lightness; the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means

pore collapse: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal; any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

blowout collapse: a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus; "the right front tire had a blowout"; "as a result of the blowout we lost all the lights"

read collapse: something that is read; "the article was a very good read"; to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"; interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"; look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"; interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"; obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"; indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"; audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"; have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

erupt collapse: become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"; erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"; become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"; start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"; appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"; break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"; start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"

fountain collapse: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water; an artificially produced flow of water; a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises

weir collapse: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow; a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish

grimace collapse: a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"; contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

recite collapse: repeat aloud from memory; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"; render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story"

harangue collapse: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

go on collapse: start running, functioning, or operating; "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"

cascade collapse: a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"; a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls; arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible; rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

gas collapse: the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container; a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely; attack with gas; subject to gas fumes; "The despot gassed the rebellious tribes"

patter collapse: a quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of mice"; "the patter of tiny feet"; make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering rain"

palaver collapse: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"; have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds

pawn collapse: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan; (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank; an article deposited as security; leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

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