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call on collapse: have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to; "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help"

recommendation collapse: any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"; something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable; something that recommends (or expresses commendation) of a person or thing as worthy or desirable

unsuppressed collapse: given vent to; "unsuppressed rage"; "unsuppressed feelings"

same collapse: closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"; same in identity; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"

transcriber collapse: someone who makes a written version of spoken material; someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation; someone who rewrites in a different script

writer collapse: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay); a person who is able to write and has written something

undistorted collapse: without alteration or misrepresentation; "his judgment was undistorted by emotion"

straightforward collapse: pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"; free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions"

outgoing collapse: leaving a place or a position; "an outgoing steamship"; "the outgoing president"

sultry collapse: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"

straight collapse: a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit); right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"; successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"; following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"; (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"; not homosexual; erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"; having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"; free from curves or angles; "a straight line"; characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"; neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"; in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"

filler collapse: the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar; copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper; 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary; used for filling cracks or holes in a surface

permit collapse: large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies; consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

direct collapse: lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite"; direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"; (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"; extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"; similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"; moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth; having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"; in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"; being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"; command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"; give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"; guide the actors in (plays and films); be in charge of

obscenity collapse: an obscene act; the trait of behaving in an obscene manner; an offensive or indecent word or phrase

bawdy collapse: humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"

whiff collapse: a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike; a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil; utter with a puff of air; "whiff out a prayer"; strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third; drive or carry as if by a puff of air; "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"

unreserved collapse: not cautious or reticent; "unreserved behavior"; not reserved

amnesia collapse: partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

disclose collapse: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"

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