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noun - An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat
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noun
- (context, UK, and, AU, slang) A cigarette.
- (context, UK, slang) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
- (context, US, UK, AU, slang, pejorative) A male homosexual.
- Note: Sometimes used jocularly between homosexuals.
- (context, US, slang, pejorative) A jerk, an asshole.
- Why did you do that, you ?
- (context, UK, archaic) Term used in UK public schools for a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (context, US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (context, US, technical) A pv cell that is no longer in use.
verb (fags, fagging, fagged, fagged)
- (context, slang, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
- (context, UK, archaic) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in UK public schools.
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noun
- (context, rare, _, in, _, US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
- (context, UK, _, only) A bundle of sticks tied together.
- (context, UK, _, only) A meatball made from pork.
- (context, pejorative, US, slang) A male homosexual.
| | fair |
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noun
- a community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements
- an event for public entertainment and trade, a market
- an event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business.
adjective
- (dated) beautiful, Beautiful, pleasing to the eye.
- Monday's child is of face.
- light, Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also refers to blond hair.
- She had hair and blue eyes.
- just, Just, equitable.
- He must be given a trial.
- adequate, Adequate, reasonable, or decent.
- The patient was in a condition after some treatment.
- (baseball) Between the baselines.
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noun (famil, ies, -)
- (countable) a father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family
- "Her nuclear family was very small."
- (countable) a group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
- (countable) a kin, tribe; also called extended family
- (context, countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the Magnoliaceae.
- (countable) a group of people who live together
- "This is my fraternity family at the university."
- (countable) a group of people similar to (2)
- "Our company is one big happy family."
- (uncountable) collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group
- They treated me like family.
- (countable) music: a group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production "the brass family" "the violin family"
- (countable) linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language "the Indo-European language family" "the Ural-Altaic language family"
adjective
- related to the family
- The dog was kept as a pet.
- For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.
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proper noun
- (italbrac, collective) A people of western Africa.
- The Bantu language of these people.
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noun
- A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
| | farrier |
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noun
- A person who maintains the health and balance of the horse's feet through the trimming of the hoof and placement of horseshoes.
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proper noun
- (Christianity) God, the father of Creation
- A title given to priests.
- Thomas was a good priest.
- One's father
- I will only do what Father asks.
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noun - Santa Claus
| | favour |
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noun
- A piece of help.
- I need a . Could you lend me 5 dollars til tomorrow, please?
verb
- To look upon fondly; to prefer.
- Most Favoured Nation status
- "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —Wikisource:Bible, English, King_James, Luke
- Chapter 1, Luke 1:28, King James version, 1611
- To do a favour (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward.
- "Would you favour us with a poetry reading?"
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noun
- A participant in the sport of fencing
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adjective
- magical, Magical or fairylike.
- strange, Strange or otherworldly.
- spellbound, Spellbound.
- (archaic) doomed, Doomed to die.
| | fibre |
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noun
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough .
- Dietary fibre.
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of .
- Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone"s .
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
| | file |
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noun
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- In computers, an aggregation of data on a storage device.
verb (fil, ing)
- (transitive) To commit official papers to some office
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order
- (transitive) To store a file (1) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
| | fishmonger |
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noun
- A shop that sells fish
- A person who sells fish
- Archaic, a pimp.
- "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)
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noun
- A kitchen utensil used to turn foodstuffs in a frying pan. Commonly, burgers and omelettes.
- Would you pass me that , please; I'm making a mess trying to turn this omelette.
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noun
- Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it
- a regular patron of a place or institution
- a lighting unit; a luminaire
- (sports) a scheduled match
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noun
- An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
- I poured a cola and waited for the to settle down before topping off the glass.
- The sound of such an emission.
- Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
- A carbonated beverage.
- Nathan ordered an orange from the soda jerk at the counter.
verb (fizzes, fizzing, fizzed)
- To emit bubbles.
- To make a rapid bubbling sound.
| | Flag Day |
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proper noun flag, Flag day, Day
- June 14th, commemorating the adoption of the US flag in 1777
- a similar commemoration in some other countries
| | flat |
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noun
- (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol â� sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., Bâ�) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. â�â�ª)
- (British) An apartment.
- (colloquial) A flat tyre/tire.
- (in plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
- She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
- (context, painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
- An area of level ground
adjective (flatter, flattest)
- Having no variations in altitude.
- The land around here is .
- (context, of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (italbrac, music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (italbrac, music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Uninteresting.
- The party was a bit .
- (context, wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
adverb
- So as to be flat.
- Spread the tablecloth over the table.
- Bluntly.
- I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down .
- (italbrac, with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
- He can run a mile in four minutes .
- Completely.
- I am broke this month.
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noun
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
- A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
verb
- To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of
- a ship that fleets the gulf
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy
- And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet; -- Percy Shelley, Rosalind and Helen.
- To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
adjective
- Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
- Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
| | flexion |
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noun
- The act of bending a joint, esp. a bone joint. The counteraction of extension.
- (alternative spelling of, flection)
| | fly |
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noun (commons)
(fl, ies)
- (context, Zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true fly, true flies.
- (context, non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, or underpants.
- The free edge of a flag.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- (context, fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resemble, resembling an insect.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
verb (flies, flying, flew, flown, )
- (intransitive) To travel through the air.
- Birds of passage to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
- The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.
- It takes about eleven hours to from Frankfurt to Hongkong.
- The little fairy flew home on the back of her friend, the giant eagle.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape.
- Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
- (transitive) (ergative) To cause to move through the air, to transport by air.
- Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
- Why don"t you go outside and kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.
- Birds their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.
- Each day the post flies thousands of letters around the globe.
- (intransitive) (colloquial) Of a proposal: to be accepted.
- Let's see if that idea flies.
adjective (fli, er)
- (slang) quick-witted, Quick-witted, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).
- (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
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noun
- One who follows.
- The thing that comes after another thing.
- Pursuer.
- One who is a part of another's group, such as a servant or retainer.
- One who adheres to the opinions, ideas, or teachings of another.
- A man courting a maidservant.
- Young cattle.
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noun
- A path for pedestrians.
| | footy |
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noun
- football (American soccer)
- (Australia) football usually Australian rules football (Not soccer)
| | fossick |
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verb (fossicks, fossicking, fossicked)
- (intransitive, British) To ferret out, or to rummage.
- 1936, John Kirwan, wikisource:My_Life%27s_Adventure, My Life's Adventure - "Several days were spent by us fossicking, getting a little gold here and there, as gold could be got almost anywhere."
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verb
- (past of, find)
| | freight |
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noun
- Goods or items in transport
verb
- (transitive) to transport (goods)
| | fresher |
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noun (plural freshers)
- A freshman.
adjective
- (compare) of fresh.
| | front |
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noun
- The side or end of something that faces the direction it normally moves
- The side of a building with the building's main entrance
- (Military) an area where armies are engaged in conflict
- (context, meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature. Fronts receive their names from the movement of the air masses involved.
- (context, meteorology) An area where masses of warm and cold air meet, often resulting in precipitation.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- (Military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- (Military) The direction of the enemy.
- (Military) The line of contact of two opposing forces.
- (Military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
verb
- To lead or be the spokesperson of a group.
- (intransitive) To provide money or financial assistance in advance.
- If you can't afford to buy it, I will you the money.
adjective
- Located at or near the front.
- The runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
- (context, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
| | fruiterer |
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noun
- One who sells fruit.
| | flapjack |
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noun
- A pancake.
- Sven ordered a stack of flapjacks with maple syrup, two strips of bacon, and an egg, sunny side up.
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