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manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

clause collapse: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

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"

introvert collapse: (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts; turn inside; "He introverted his feelings"

turn in collapse: make an entrance by turning from a road; "Turn in after you see the gate"

shibboleth collapse: a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

invert collapse: make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"

turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

intermezzo collapse: a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera; a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony

turn down collapse: make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"; take a downward direction; "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"

supinate collapse: turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg)

proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

bottom out collapse: hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"; reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"

interlude collapse: a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance; an intervening period or episode; perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"

indispose collapse: cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed"; make unwilling

wean collapse: gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"; detach the affections of

turn the tables collapse: cause a complete reversal of the circumstances; "The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!"

keel over collapse: turn over and fall; "the man had a heart attack and keeled over"

rotate collapse: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"; perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"; cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"; exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

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

pirouette collapse: (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet); do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance

swivel collapse: a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin

expression collapse: the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; "the expression of milk from her breast"; the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"; expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"; the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"; (genetics) the process of expressing a gene

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