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filiation collapse

extraction collapse: the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"; the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

lineage collapse: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

nonintervention collapse: a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

embankment collapse: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

noninterference collapse

origination collapse

radius collapse: the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere; the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm; a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius; "they located it within a radius of 2 miles"; a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)

off base collapse

free enterprise collapse

parterre collapse: an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern

base collapse: a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"; place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"; (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector; installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"; a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"; the principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"; the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end; (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"; the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"; (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"; the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"; any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"; debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"; illegitimate; having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"; of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"; not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"; (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

end collapse: a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"; the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"; a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold; a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"; the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"; a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"; either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"; one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"; (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"; a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"; the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"; bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"; put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"; have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"; be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"

spontaneous collapse: happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion"

segment collapse: one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"; divide or split up; "The cells segmented"; divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"

fall in with collapse

refinery collapse: an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance

confession collapse: (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution; a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party; a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century); a public declaration of your faith; an admission of misdeeds or faults

dawn collapse: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"; the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"; an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"; become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"; appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"

succession collapse: acquisition of property by descent or by will; the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence"; a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"; (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

hachure collapse

together with collapse

silhouette collapse: a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color; an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow); represent by a silhouette; project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette

pottery collapse: the craft of making earthenware; ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln; a workshop where clayware is made

axis collapse: the center around which something rotates; the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head; a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions; in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations; "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II"; the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged

source collapse: a facility where something is available; anything that provides inspiration for later work; a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"; (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"; specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"; get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

map maker collapse

parentage collapse: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

obey collapse: be obedient to

tendency collapse: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"; a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"

esplanade collapse: a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore

assemblage collapse

localism collapse: a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality

apportion collapse

incorrect collapse: not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

allot collapse

canto collapse: a major division of a long poem; the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

midriff collapse

attitude collapse: a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude"; a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun"; position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

horizon collapse: the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"; the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet; the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth; a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land

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