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tack collapse: sailing a zigzag course; (nautical) the act of changing tack; a short nail with a sharp point and a large head; the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails; fasten with tacks; "tack the notice on the board"; turn into the wind; "The sailors decided to tack the boat"; "The boat tacked"

sable collapse: marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur; a scarf (or trimming) made of sable; an artist's brush made of sable hairs; the expensive dark brown fur of the marten; of a dark somewhat brownish black

ell collapse: an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

bloat collapse: swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas; become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"; make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly"

minim collapse: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram; a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters

here collapse: the present location; this place; "where do we go from here?"; in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on Earth"; to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"; in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail; "what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"; at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon"

errant collapse: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"; straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

fleur-de-lis collapse: (heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris

signify collapse: convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"; make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

prawn collapse: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; fish for prawns

shellfish collapse: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

involution collapse: the action of enfolding something; a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction; reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

issue collapse: the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity); "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"; the act of issuing printed materials; an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"; one of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"; supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government; come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"; bring out an official document (such as a warrant); circulate or distribute or equip with; "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds"

frisk collapse: the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk"; search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets; "The police frisked everyone at the airport"

heart collapse: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it; "he led the queen of hearts"; "hearts were trumps"; an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart"; the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"; the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"; the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"; a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six"; a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it a valentine"

unicorn collapse: an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

finger collapse: one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb; any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"; the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure; indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments; feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"; search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"

intermittence collapse: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

steamer collapse: a ship powered by one or more steam engines; a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it; travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"

half life collapse: the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)

search collapse: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"; boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"; the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"; an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"; try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"; subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"; search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

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