knockdown vs slump

knockdown

noun
  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

slump

noun
  • A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. 

  • A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. 

  • A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. 

  • The gross amount; the mass; the lump. 

  • A boggy place. 

  • The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. 

  • A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove. 

verb
  • To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill. 

  • To collapse heavily or helplessly. 

  • To lump; to throw together messily. 

  • To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc. 

  • To slouch or droop. 

  • To decline or fall off in activity or performance. 

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