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handout collapse: giving money or food or clothing to a needy person; an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

hamper collapse: a basket usually with a cover; prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

male chauvinism collapse: activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women

gray collapse: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black; United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888); American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806); English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

tie in collapse: be in connection with something relevant; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks"

bulletin collapse: a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast); make public by bulletin

assignment collapse: the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"; a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"; an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor); the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

mouse collapse: any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails; a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball"; person who is quiet or timid; manipulate the mouse of a computer

albinism collapse: the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair

grey collapse: horse of a light gray or whitish color; clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"; any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey"; Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845); Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554); United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939); of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"; intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"; used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure"; showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"; turn grey; "Her hair began to grey"; make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky"

sizzling collapse: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"

mule collapse: hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile; a slipper that has no fitting around the heel

proclamation collapse: the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice; "his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature"

bleached collapse: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"; (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

ox collapse: any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos; an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus

embarrassment collapse: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"; the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public; the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

pygmy collapse: any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet; an unusually small individual

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