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obscenity collapse: an obscene act; the trait of behaving in an obscene manner; an offensive or indecent word or phrase

whiff collapse: a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike; a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil; utter with a puff of air; "whiff out a prayer"; strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third; drive or carry as if by a puff of air; "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"

parasitism collapse: the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)

gauge collapse: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.; the thickness of wire; the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train; accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared; mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster"; adapt to a specified measurement; "gauge the instruments"; measure precisely and against a standard; "the wire is gauged"; determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; "gauge the wine barrels"; rub to a uniform size; "gauge bricks"

amnesia collapse: partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

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"

disclose collapse: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"

joust collapse: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances; joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback

testing collapse: the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"; an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

behaviorism collapse: an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior

defamation collapse: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

spoken collapse: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken"

brief collapse: a condensed written summary or abstract; a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case; concise and succinct; "covered the matter in a brief statement"; of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"; give essential information to someone; "The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade"

trial collapse: (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"; (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"; an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"; (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

ordain collapse: issue an order; appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"; invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"; order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"

industry collapse: the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"; the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications"

communicate collapse: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"; transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"; administer communion; in church; be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"; join or connect; "The rooms communicated"

linkage collapse: the act of linking things together; a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion; (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go); an associative relation

fugue collapse: a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement; a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days; dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

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