Related Words:
- iron curtain
collapse - an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries related words >
- Berlin wall,
- Bolshevism,
- Castroism,
- Communist Information Bureau,
- Communist Party,
- Maoism,
- Marxian socialism,
- Marxism,
- Marxism-Leninism,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- Stalinism,
- Titoism,
- Trotskyism,
- arch dam,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- blackout,
- boom,
- border,
- border ground,
- borderland,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- censorship,
- cofferdam,
- communism,
- curtain,
- dam,
- defense,
- democratic centralism,
- dialectical materialism,
- dike,
- ditch,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- fence,
- frontier,
- frontier post,
- gate,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hush-up,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- ironbound security,
- jam,
- jetty,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- march,
- marches,
- marchland,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mound,
- oath of secrecy,
- official secrecy,
- outpost,
- outskirts,
- pall,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- rampart,
- repression,
- revisionism,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- seal of secrecy,
- seawall,
- security,
- shutter dam,
- smothering,
- stifling,
- stone wall,
- suppression,
- three-mile limit,
- twelve-mile limit,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- wall,
- weir,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- wraps
- breakwater
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- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away related words >
- abutment,
- anchorage,
- anchorage ground,
- arc-boutant,
- arch dam,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- basin,
- beam,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- berth,
- bill,
- boom,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- buttress pier,
- buttressing,
- cape,
- chersonese,
- cofferdam,
- coral reef,
- dam,
- defense,
- delta,
- dike,
- ditch,
- dock,
- dockage,
- dockyard,
- dry dock,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- fence,
- flying buttress,
- foreland,
- gate,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hanging buttress,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- head,
- headland,
- hook,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- jutty,
- landing,
- landing place,
- landing stage,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- marina,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- moorings,
- mound,
- mull,
- naze,
- ness,
- parapet,
- peninsula,
- pier,
- pier buttress,
- point,
- port,
- portcullis,
- promontory,
- protected anchorage,
- quay,
- rampart,
- reef,
- retaining wall,
- road,
- roadblock,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rock-fill dam,
- sandspit,
- seaport,
- seawall,
- shipyard,
- shoulder,
- shutter dam,
- slip,
- spit,
- spur,
- stone wall,
- tongue,
- wall,
- weir,
- wharf,
- wicket dam,
- work
- A-blast,
- A-bomb shelter,
- Cloudcuckooland,
- H-blast,
- Mach front,
- airborne radioactivity,
- alto-cumulus,
- alto-stratus,
- anvil cloud,
- atom blast,
- banner cloud,
- billowy cloud,
- blast wave,
- cap cloud,
- cirro-cumulus,
- cirro-fillum,
- cirro-nebula,
- cirro-stratus,
- cirro-velum,
- cirrus,
- cirrus cloud,
- cirrus haze,
- cirrus stripe,
- cloud,
- cloud band,
- cloud bank,
- cloud drift,
- cloud mass,
- cloud street,
- cloudland,
- cloudling,
- cloudscape,
- cocktail,
- cottony cloud,
- cumulo-cirro-stratus,
- cumulo-cirrus,
- cumulo-nimbus,
- cumulo-stratus,
- cumulus,
- cumulus cloud,
- curl cloud,
- dust cloud,
- fallout,
- fallout shelter,
- fission particles,
- flash burn,
- fleecy cloud,
- fractocumulus,
- ground zero,
- high fog,
- hydrogen blast,
- mackerel sky,
- mammatocumulus,
- nimbus,
- nimbus cloud,
- radioactive dust,
- rain cloud,
- scud,
- snail cloud,
- squall cloud,
- storm cloud,
- strato-cumulus,
- stratus,
- stratus cloud,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- water carrier,
- woolpack
- rampart
collapse
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" related words >
- abatis,
- abutment,
- advanced work,
- arc-boutant,
- arch dam,
- backstop,
- balistraria,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- banquette,
- bar,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barrage,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- beam,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- boom,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- buttress pier,
- buttressing,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- cofferdam,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- dam,
- defence,
- defense,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- ditch,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- flying buttress,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- gate,
- glacis,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- guard,
- hanging buttress,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- jutty,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- pier,
- pier buttress,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- retaining wall,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- seawall,
- security,
- shoulder,
- shutter dam,
- stockade,
- stone wall,
- stronghold,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- wall,
- weir,
- wicket dam,
- work
- pulsation
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- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity related words >
- alternation,
- arrhythmia,
- bar beat,
- barrage,
- beat,
- beating,
- ceaselessness,
- chattering,
- constancy,
- constant flow,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- cyclicalness,
- downbeat,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- flutter,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- incessancy,
- intermittence,
- intermittency,
- meter,
- noninterruption,
- offbeat,
- oscillation,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- pendulum motion,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- perpetuity,
- piston motion,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pulse,
- quick fire,
- rapid fire,
- rapid recurrence,
- rapid succession,
- rapidity,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- reappearance,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- regularity,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- return,
- rhythm,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- seasonality,
- spatter,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- steadiness,
- stuttering,
- sustainment,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- tempo,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thumping,
- tom-tom,
- undulation,
- unintermission,
- uninterruption,
- upbeat,
- vibration
- television
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- a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs related words >
- TV,
- advice,
- adviser,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- authority,
- automation,
- avionics,
- box,
- broadcast journalism,
- channel,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- electron microscopy,
- electron optics,
- electron physics,
- electronic engineering,
- electronics,
- electrophysics,
- enlightener,
- expert witness,
- gossipmonger,
- grapevine,
- informant,
- information,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- intelligence,
- interviewee,
- journalism,
- line radio,
- monitor,
- mouthpiece,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newsmonger,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- notifier,
- photoelectricity,
- press,
- press association,
- public relations officer,
- publisher,
- radar,
- radio,
- radionics,
- radiophotography,
- radiotelegraphy,
- radiotelephony,
- reportage,
- reporter,
- source,
- spokesman,
- telegraph agency,
- teller,
- telly,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- tipster,
- tout,
- transistor physics,
- tube,
- wire service,
- wire wave communication,
- wired radio,
- wired wireless,
- wireless,
- wireless telegraphy,
- wireless telephony,
- witness,
- word
- accents,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- bavardage,
- bazoo,
- bibble-babble,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blah-blah,
- blarney,
- blather,
- blether,
- blethers,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- cackle,
- caquet,
- caqueterie,
- chaps,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chitter-chatter,
- chops,
- clack,
- clatter,
- comment,
- conversation,
- converse,
- crap,
- declaim,
- discourse,
- dither,
- drivel,
- elocution,
- embouchure,
- eyewash,
- flummery,
- gabble,
- garbage,
- gas,
- gibber,
- gibble-gabble,
- go on,
- gob,
- gobbledygook,
- gossip,
- guff,
- gush,
- haver,
- hogwash,
- hot air,
- idle talk,
- jabber,
- jaw,
- jaws,
- jowls,
- kisser,
- language,
- lips,
- mandibles,
- maw,
- maxilla,
- mere talk,
- moonshine,
- mouth,
- mug,
- mumbo-jumbo,
- mush,
- muzzle,
- natter,
- nonsense,
- nonsense talk,
- oral cavity,
- oral communication,
- palaver,
- parole,
- patter,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- pour forth,
- prate,
- prating,
- prattle,
- premaxilla,
- prittle-prattle,
- ramble on,
- rapping,
- rattle,
- rattle on,
- reel off,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- run on,
- shit,
- speak,
- speaking,
- speech,
- spout,
- spout off,
- stuff and nonsense,
- talk,
- talk away,
- talk nonsense,
- talk on,
- talkee-talkee,
- talking,
- tittle-tattle,
- trap,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- waffle,
- wag the tongue,
- words,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking,
- yap
- entangle
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- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"
- entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" related words >
- absorb,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- allure,
- bag,
- bait the hook,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bewilder,
- birdlime,
- bother,
- bug,
- burden,
- capture,
- catch,
- catch out,
- catch up,
- catch up in,
- clog,
- cloud,
- complicate,
- concern,
- confound,
- confuse,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- decoy,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disturb,
- draw in,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- embroil,
- encumber,
- engage,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- enweb,
- fetter,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- foul,
- foul up,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- gin,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- harpoon,
- hobble,
- hook,
- hook in,
- impede,
- implicate,
- interest,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- inveigle,
- involve,
- knot,
- lame,
- land,
- lasso,
- lime,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- lure,
- maze,
- mesh,
- mess up,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pother,
- press down,
- put out,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- rope,
- ruffle,
- sack,
- saddle with,
- screw up,
- shackle,
- snag,
- snare,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- sniggle,
- spear,
- spread the toils,
- suck into,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- throw into confusion,
- toil,
- trammel,
- trap,
- trip,
- twist,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- weigh down,
- wind
- a outrance,
- antagonize,
- bandy with,
- battle,
- battle it out,
- beat against,
- beat up against,
- box,
- brawl,
- breast the wave,
- broil,
- buck,
- buffet,
- buffet the waves,
- bump heads,
- clash,
- close,
- close with,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- compete with,
- contend,
- contend against,
- contend with,
- contest,
- cope with,
- cross swords with,
- cut and thrust,
- duel,
- engage with,
- exchange blows,
- exchange shots,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- fight against,
- fight like devils,
- fight with,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- go to loggerheads,
- grapple,
- have it out,
- join battle with,
- jostle,
- joust,
- labor against,
- lock horns,
- measure swords with,
- militate against,
- mix it up,
- offer resistance,
- quarrel,
- rassle,
- reluct,
- reluctate,
- riot,
- rival,
- run a tilt,
- scramble,
- scuffle,
- settle it,
- skirmish,
- spar,
- stem the tide,
- strive,
- strive against,
- strive with,
- struggle,
- struggle against,
- struggle with,
- take on,
- tangle with,
- thrust and parry,
- tilt,
- tilt with,
- tourney,
- try conclusions with,
- tussle,
- vie with,
- wage war,
- war,
- wrestle,
- wrestle with
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