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alteration collapse: the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

helot collapse

lackey collapse: a male servant (especially a footman)

checkbook collapse: a book issued to holders of checking accounts

IOU collapse: an informal debt instrument; representing `I owe you'

demand draft collapse

money order collapse: a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office

mediator collapse: a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

percussion collapse: the act of exploding a percussion cap; the act of playing a percussion instrument; tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

sycophant collapse: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

dissemination collapse: the property of being diffused or dispersed; the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

affidavit collapse: written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath

handmaid collapse: a personal maid or female attendant; in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"

lever collapse: a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum; a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock; a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum

courtier collapse: an attendant at the court of a sovereign

export collapse: commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country; cause to spread in another part of the world; "The Russians exported Marxism to Africa"; sell or transfer abroad; "we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance"

jackal collapse: Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

edict collapse: a formal or authoritative proclamation

spacecraft collapse: a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun

carrying collapse

functionary collapse

serf collapse: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

attestation collapse: the evidence by which something is attested; the action of bearing witness

voyage collapse: a journey to some distant place; travel by boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

Federal collapse: any federal law-enforcement officer; a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War; national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"; characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations"; of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government"

certificate collapse: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts; authorize by certificate; present someone with a certificate

bell collapse: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck; the flared opening of a tubular device; the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"; United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922); English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961); a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905); the shape of a bell; (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.; attach a bell to; "bell cows"

pipe collapse: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.; a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco; a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor; a hollow cylindrical shape; trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"; play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"; transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"

transcribe collapse: convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA; make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"; write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"; rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

horn collapse: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates; any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn; an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound; a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather); a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it; a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;; the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails; stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"

conveyance collapse: act of transferring property title from one person to another; something that serves as a means of transportation; the transmission of information; document effecting a property transfer

strings collapse

gong collapse: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick; sound a gong

instrument collapse: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"; a device that requires skill for proper use; a person used by another to gain an end; address a legal document to; write an instrumental score for; equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

amanuensis collapse

sharpen collapse: become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened"; make sharp or sharper; "We had to sharpen our arguments"; make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision"; give a point to; "The candles are tapered"; raise the pitch of (musical notes); make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives"; make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

peon collapse

apparatus collapse: equipment designed to serve a specific function; (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"

translation collapse: the act of uniform movement; rewording something in less technical terminology; a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language; a uniform movement without rotation; (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm; (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same

transposition collapse: (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards; the act of reversing the order or place of; (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance; "he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition"; (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign; (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome; any abnormal position of the organs of the body

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