(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.
Flop
Definition:
(v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
(v. t.) To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
(v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
(v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
(n.) Act of flopping.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3) Just as lipids do not flip-flop, proteins do not rotate across the membrane.
(2) And it was here, several years later, that I came looking for an answer to a question which has baffled many cynical film critics: how did a low-key prison drama, which was considered a box-office flop on its initial release, become one of the most popular movies of all time?
(3) The presence of the flip-flop phenomenon in an I-131 Hippuran renal study suggests the existence of some degree of collecting system obstruction that has persisted long enough to result in renal parenchymal damage.
(4) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(5) Telomeres were generated from both arms of the substrate with equal efficiency, and contained the characteristic "flip" and "flop" sequence inversions observed in vivo.
(6) This value is similar to that obtained for the transbilayer "flip-flop" of phosphatidylcholine molecules in a similar system (Kornberg and McConnell, 1971).
(7) This suggests that generalizations on the kinetics of nonmediated flip-flop of membrane-intercalated amphiphiles may not be justified.
(8) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(9) The story of the transfer window is the story of a flip-flop by the English elite – the Premier League was initially the driving force behind the idea of a transfer window, but by the time it was introduced it was firmly in the "no" camp.
(10) He kept smiling, but he let his arm go limp, his hand flopping from the wrist in a clear signal of non-compliance.
(11) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(12) In April, Quentin Tarantino's revenge western Django Unchained was withdrawn from cinemas minutes into its first screening; it reopened a month later with three of the goriest minutes missing and flopped.
(13) Four models were proposed to analyze the experimental data: (A) two independent and nonequivalent subunits; (B) a single active subunit (subunits presenting absolute "half-of-the-sites reactivity"); (C) alternate functioning of the subunits (flip-flop mechanism); (D) random functioning of the subunits with half-of-the-sites reactivity.
(14) Pharmacokinetics of the depot antipsychotics are unclear and mainly depend on releasing from the depot site (according to a "flip-flop" model).
(15) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
(16) The contrast with the relaxed Holland squad – spotted wandering around upmarket Sandton in flip-flops with their wives as they made their way to the final – was instructive.
(17) Another time I kissed this boy wearing flip-flops, and she said his toenails looked like quavers.
(18) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
(19) And I would have enough confidence in my argument to wait for events to vindicate it, rather than flopping around with each new set of figures.
(20) But Walt Disney has now warned that the film could instead go down as one of the year's biggest flops, predicting losses of almost $200m.