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backdrop collapse: scenery hung at back of stage

usury collapse: the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest; an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest

bloodshed collapse: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"

ringmaster collapse: the person in charge of performances in a circus ring

house collapse: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house"; a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"; a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house"; aristocratic family line; "the House of York"; an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses"; the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house"; the members of a religious community living together; the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"; provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"; contain or cover; "This box houses the gears"

spectator collapse: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"

movements collapse

quadrangle collapse

coliseum collapse

colosseum collapse: a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80

parade ground collapse: an area for holding parades

cockpit collapse: compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft; seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car; an enclosure for cockfights

hippodrome collapse: a stadium for horse shows or horse races

prostitution collapse: offering sexual intercourse for pay

belligerence collapse: hostile or warlike attitude or nature

tactic collapse: a plan for attaining a particular goal

casino collapse: a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand; a public building for gambling and entertainment

pastoral collapse: a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds); a letter from a pastor to the congregation; of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"

campus collapse: a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

master of ceremonies collapse: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

MC collapse

emcee collapse: act as a master of ceremonies

cincture collapse

prompter collapse: a device that displays words for people to read; someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech

warring collapse

prearrangement collapse: something arranged in advance

groundling collapse: in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

movement collapse: the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"; the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"; a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"; a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something; a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"

flop collapse: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"; a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"; someone who is unsuccessful; with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"; fall suddenly and abruptly; fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"

stadium collapse: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

palaestra collapse

guideline collapse: a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters

praxis collapse

stage collapse: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"; a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"; a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination; the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"; any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"; plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"; perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"

hinterland collapse

schema collapse: an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

field collapse: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"; the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument); all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event; all of the horses in a particular horse race; (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"; (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information; a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"; somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"; a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"; a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"; the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it; select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"; answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"; play as a fielder; catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

purlieu collapse

sketch collapse: preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint"; short descriptive summary (of events); a brief literary description; describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"; make a sketch of; "sketch the building"

forethought collapse

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