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lip collapse: fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth

pure collapse: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"; concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"; free from discordant qualities; (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"; free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"

subject collapse: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"; (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated; (logic) the first term of a proposition; the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"; a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"; likely to be affected by something (especially something unpleasant); "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"; being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"; make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"; cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"

spectacle collapse: a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself; an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale; something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight); "the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape"

deliver collapse: deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students"; utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.); "The students delivered a cry of joy"; bring to a destination, make a delivery; "our local super market delivers"; throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball"; carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left"; save from sins

notation collapse: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters; a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

axiom collapse: (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident

rave collapse: an extravagantly enthusiastic review; "he gave it a rave"; a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played; "raves are very popular in Berlin"; praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant"; participate in an all-night techno dance party

appreciation collapse: an increase in price or value; "an appreciation of 30% in the value of real estate"; understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"; an expression of gratitude; "he expressed his appreciation in a short note"

transmission collapse: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted; the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle; communication by means of transmitted signals

essay collapse: a tentative attempt; an analytic or interpretive literary composition

characterization collapse: the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"

relate collapse: give an account of; "The witness related the events"; have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"; be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations related?"

dead collapse: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"; a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"; devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"; physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"; no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"; not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"; lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"; drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"; no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"; no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"; lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"; not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"; out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"; unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"; not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"; lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"; devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

masque collapse

dumb collapse: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness; lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"

scoop collapse: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"; the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe; the quantity a scoop will hold; a hollow concave shape made by removing something; take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"

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"

utter collapse: express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"; put into circulation; "utter counterfeit currency"

author collapse: be the author of; "She authored this play"

trace collapse: either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree; an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"; a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle; a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"; follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress"; make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"; copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"; make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"; to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"; discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

motto collapse: a favorite saying of a sect or political group

throw off collapse

witness collapse: testimony by word or deed to your religious faith; someone who sees an event and reports what happened; (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature; (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law; be a witness to; "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"; perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

square collapse: a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"; any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"; a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views; someone who doesn't understand what is going on; the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"; (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"; something approximating the shape of a square; rigidly conventional or old-fashioned; having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"; make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"; raise to the second power; position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"; pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"; be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"; cause to match, as of ideas or acts

natural collapse: (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake; a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat; someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"; being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"; related by blood; not adopted; "natural parent"; in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"; existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers"; existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation"; (of a key) containing no sharps or flats; (of a note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural"; functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"; (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"; unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

image collapse: the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"; an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

articulate collapse: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"; express or state clearly

vision collapse: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light"; a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"; a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"

tableau collapse: any dramatic scene; a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

message collapse: a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message"; what a communication that is about something is about; send a message; "There is no messaging service at this company"; send as a message; "She messaged the final report by fax"; send a message to; "She messaged the committee"

accord collapse: sympathetic compatibility; concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"; allow to have; "grant a privilege"

psychodrama collapse

drama collapse: the quality of being arresting or highly emotional; the literary genre of works intended for the theater; an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

corruption collapse: inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"; destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"; moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"; decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

canon collapse: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired; a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"; a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts; a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

surd collapse: a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

gossip collapse: a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"; a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

rule collapse: measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths; a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation"; (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"; any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order; "the rule of St. Dominic"; prescribed guide for conduct or action; directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted; "he knew the rules of chess"; (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice; the duration of a monarch's or government's power; "during the rule of Elizabeth"; keep in check; "rule one's temper"; decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed"; decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"; mark or draw with a ruler; "rule the margins"; have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac

let out collapse: make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"

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