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edition collapse: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published; an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times"; all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"

sweeping collapse: the act of cleaning with a broom; ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"; taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river"

indiscriminate collapse: not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"; failing to make or recognize distinctions

cosmopolitan collapse: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries; of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"; composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"; growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

global collapse: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"

galactic collapse: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way); "the galactic plane"

wide collapse: not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"; having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"; having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"; great in degree; "won by a wide margin"; to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"; with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"; far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"; to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"

rudiments collapse

planetary collapse: of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"

yardstick collapse: a ruler or tape that is three feet long; a measure or standard used for comparison; "on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?"

deliberation collapse: the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision; "he was a man of judicial deliberation"; careful consideration; "a little deliberation would have deterred them"; (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question; "the deliberations of the jury"

broadly collapse: without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"; in a wide fashion; "he smiled broadly"

literacy collapse: the ability to read and write

away collapse: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"; used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"; from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"; from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"; out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"; indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"; in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"; in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"; so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"; freely or at will; "fire away!"

elementary education collapse: education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school

totality collapse: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing totality of the state"

generic collapse: any product that can be sold without a brand name; a wine that is a blend of several varieties of grapes with no one grape predominating; a wine that does not carry the name of any specific grape; applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"; (of drugs) not protected by trademark; "`Acetaminophen' is the generic form of the proprietary drug `Tylenol'"; relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus; "the generic name"

abecedary collapse

vote collapse: the opinion of a group as determined by voting; "they put the question to a vote"; a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; the total number of votes cast; "they are hoping for a large vote"; a body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote"; express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; "He voted for the motion"; "None of the Democrats voted last night"; bring into existence or make available by vote; "They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia"; express a choice or opinion; "I vote that we all go home"; "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant"; express one's choice or preference by vote; "vote the Democratic ticket"; be guided by in voting; "vote one's conscience"

narration collapse: (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth; the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"

aside collapse: a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage; in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"; on or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"; out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"; placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"

contemplation collapse: a long and thoughtful observation; a calm lengthy intent consideration

liberal collapse: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties; a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets; tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition; having political or social views favoring reform and progress

vastly collapse: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator"

far and away collapse

wholesale collapse: the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers; selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer; "wholesale prices"; "a wholesale produce market"; on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale"; at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale"; sell in large quantities

version collapse: manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery); something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"; an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint; "his version of the fight was different from mine"

capacious collapse: large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag"

broad collapse: slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"; showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"; lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"; not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"; (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent"; very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"

nomination collapse: the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor"; the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election; "there was keen competition for the nomination"; "his nomination was hotly protested"

rendering collapse: giving in acknowledgment of obligation; perspective drawing of an architect's design; a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall

application collapse: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application"; the work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint";; the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis"; a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school; "December 31 is the deadline for applications"; a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications"

abroad collapse: in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets"; to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled abroad"

hornbook collapse: a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge

unconfined collapse: not confined; free from confinement or physical restraint

far collapse: at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future"; being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"; beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right"; being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse"; at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other"; remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past"; to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together"; at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"; to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far"

lorgnette collapse: eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle

monocle collapse: lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles

contact lens collapse

bifocals collapse: eyeglasses having two focal lengths

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