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discriminate collapse: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"; noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"; recognize or perceive the difference; distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"; treat differently on the basis of sex or race

place collapse: an abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"; the passage that is being read; "he lost his place on the page"; an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"; any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"; a general vicinity; "He comes from a place near Chicago"; a particular situation; "If you were in my place what would you do?"; proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station"; proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"; take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"; estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."; to arrange for; "place a phone call", "place a bet"; sing a note with the correct pitch; finish second or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to place"; place somebody in a particular situation or location; "he was placed on probation"; assign to (a job or a home); identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection"

straiten collapse: squeeze together

interminably collapse: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly"

specialize collapse: become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers"; suit to a special purpose; "specialize one's research"; devote oneself to a special area of work; "She specializes in honey bees"; "This plumber specialized in jacuzzis"

imprison collapse: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

hem in collapse: surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers"

jumping off place collapse

all inclusive collapse

leaven collapse: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"; a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

ground collapse: (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting; a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage); a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused; a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle); "they gained ground step by step"; "they fought to regain the lost ground"; instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject; connect to a ground; "ground the electrical connections for safety reasons"; hit onto the ground; hit a groundball; "he grounded to the second baseman"; throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage; place or put on the ground; confine or restrict to the ground; "After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot"; hit or reach the ground; bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"

split hairs collapse

nullify collapse

tall collapse: a garment size for a tall person; great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"

spire collapse

littoral collapse: the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; of or relating to a coastal or shore region

carry through collapse: put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"

tighten collapse: become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"; make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

heaven collapse: the abode of God and the angels

division collapse: the act or process of dividing; the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart; an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed; discord that splits a group; an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"; a group of ships of similar type; a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings; an administrative unit in government or business; (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum; (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

confinement collapse: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them; the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"

unbounded collapse

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

subdivide collapse: divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!"; form into subdivisions; "The cells subdivided"

meridian collapse: an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude"; a town in eastern Mississippi; of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"

box in collapse: enclose or confine as if in a box

long collapse: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"; primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"; primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"; (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; " the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"; holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"; involving substantial risk; "long odds"; of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"; for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"; for an extended distance

uncircumscribed collapse

stipulation collapse: a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement; (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record; "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay"

jib collapse: any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)

parts collapse: the local environment; "he hasn't been seen around these parts in years"

constrict collapse: become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted"

determine collapse: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"; fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; the tree determines the border of the property; shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"; establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"; find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"

proscription collapse

assuage collapse

stub collapse: the part of a check that is retained as a record; a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt; a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost; strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"; clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"; extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"; pull up (weeds) by their roots

extremity collapse: an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm"; that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso; the outermost or farthest region or point; the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair"; an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)

height collapse: the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

abridge collapse: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

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