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square collapse: a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"; any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"; a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views; someone who doesn't understand what is going on; the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"; (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"; something approximating the shape of a square; rigidly conventional or old-fashioned; having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"; make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"; raise to the second power; position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"; pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"; be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"; cause to match, as of ideas or acts

strictly collapse: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business"; in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced"; "stringently controlled"

housewarming collapse: a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

rectify collapse: convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"; set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"; math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"

hieroglyphic collapse: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols; resembling hieroglyphic writing

palpitate collapse: beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated"; cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart"

Steinway collapse: United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)

harpsichord collapse: a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

clavichord collapse: an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound

spinet collapse: early model harpsichord with only one string per note; a small and compactly built upright piano

bop collapse: an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940); dance the bebop

in line collapse: being next in a line of succession; "he was in line for the presidency"; awaiting something; especially something due; "people were in line at the checkout counter"; "she was in line for promotion"; one behind another in a line or queue; "they waited in line for the tickets"

cringle collapse: fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines

self-deception collapse: a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

compulsive collapse: a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things; strongly motivated to succeed; caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion; "compulsive drinking"

cricket collapse: a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs; leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together; play cricket

light show collapse: a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns

chunky collapse: like or containing small sticky lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough"; short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"

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