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performance collapse: any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe"; the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"; the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"; a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 performances"; "the frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity"

spiel collapse: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson); speak at great length (about something)

tag collapse: (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game); a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser; a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal; provide with a name or nickname; attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles"; touch a player while he is holding the ball; supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

sonnet collapse: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme; compose a sonnet; praise in a sonnet

limerick collapse: a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba; port city in southwestern Ireland

idyll collapse: an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll

squab collapse: an unfledged pigeon; a soft padded sofa; flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled; short and fat

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

bird collapse: warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings; the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food; watch and study birds in their natural habitat

baritone collapse: the second lowest brass wind instrument; the second lowest adult male singing voice; a male singer; lower in range than tenor and higher than bass; "a baritone voice"; "baritone oboe"

Big Dipper collapse: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

madrigal collapse: an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form; sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"

roundelay collapse: a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain

lark collapse: any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

maggot collapse: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

rondeau collapse: a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

doom collapse: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"; make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

epic collapse: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"; constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"

entrapment collapse: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

frosted collapse: (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass"

lyric collapse: a short poem of songlike quality; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"; expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"; used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"; of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"; relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"; write lyrics for (a song)

librettist collapse: author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta

term collapse: any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"; a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"; one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"; a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"; the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"; name formally or designate with a term

mirage collapse: something illusory and unattainable; an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

alabaster collapse: a very light white; a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving; a hard compact kind of calcite; of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue"

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