(v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
(v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
(n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
(n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
(n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) The ATPase inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, which collapsed the chemical and electrical components of the proton motive force, caused rapid cell swelling in the presence of glucose (and high intracellular ATP levels).
(6) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
(7) For the next three years, Foxtons suffered collapsing sales and staff culls.
(8) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(9) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(10) Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) inhibits this carrier in a time- and concentration -dependent manner as shown by the following evidence: it inhibits the carrier-mediated pH gradient driven monoamine uptake without collapsing the pH gradient; it affects the binding of the specific inhibitors [2-3H]dihydrotetrabenazine and [3H]reserpine.
(11) After completion of the hepatectomy, he developed circulatory collapse of unknown cause and died shortly after the operation.
(12) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(13) In such cases, hypertension must be controlled with phentolamine or sodium nitroprusside, cardiac arrhythmia with lignocaine, and collapse with volaemic expansion.
(14) Two conditions must be fulfilled: a lesion of a non collapsible vein; and a pressure gradient from outside to inside the vein, as occurs for instance during puncture of a large vein in a hypovolemic patient.
(15) Gastroduodenal investigation must of course be comprised of pictures during collapse, semi-collapse and repletion of the entire duodenal outline; once out of every two times, one has to recourse to intravenous duodenography which has become a routine investigation.
(16) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(17) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(18) In 4 persons the test had to be stopped because of collapse.
(19) Peacocks , the budget fashion chain, has fallen into administration, putting 9,600 jobs at risk, after a management buyout deal collapsed at the last minute.
(20) Nuclear pyknosis was seen in cortical cells of animals dying in collapse.
Crater
Definition:
(n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
(n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
(n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(2) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(3) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
(4) It's brown, crusty and cratered, like somewhere Hubble may have sent back a photo of.
(5) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(6) The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where a rocket laced with a nerve agent fell, killing more than 70 people in one of the worst mass casualty chemical attacks in the six-year war in Syria .
(7) Following one or more hours of ischaemia crater-like depressions and blebs appeared on the luminal surfaces of ventricular endothelial cells, with margination and clumping of nuclear chromatin, loss of glycogen granules, swelling of mitochondria, and the development of subendothelial membrane-bound dilatations of myocytes.
(8) Invagination-like craters were observed in the plasmalemma.
(9) Histology for the 213-nm ablation showed a clean ablation crater with minimal collagen lamellae disruption and a damage zone less than 1 micron.
(10) Irradiation directly on the left endocardial and epicardial walls lasted for 10 seconds and was repeated 3 times, creating 3 craters.
(11) Efficacy parameters included daytime and nocturnal symptom relief and duodenal ulcer healing, documented by endoscopy, and defined as complete reepithelization of the ulcer crater.
(12) Patients in groups I (45 patients) y II (28 patients), were submitted to a vaporization crater of the whole transformation zone because of having the cervical canal free of lesion.
(13) Fibrin and exposed collagen fibers were seen at the crater base.
(14) When the RF probe approached perpendicularly to the cadaver arterial wall, a crater with charring and coagulating necrosis was formed.
(15) Residents of Aden’s central Crater district told Reuters that Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the area by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.
(16) A rough surface of epitheliocytes has deep craters and irregular protrusions, microvilli, cilia and spherical bodies.
(17) the esophageal lesion revealed a variety of macroscopic manifestations including giant rugae, submucosal nodules, multiple erosions, and craters.
(18) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(19) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
(20) Photoablation was continued until aqueous appeared percolating through the juxtacanalicular tissue at the bottom of the crater; a water-tight closure of conjunctiva was then performed.