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noun - The amount or value listed on a bill, note, stamp, etc.; the stated value or amount.
- (idiom) No more or less than what is stated; a literal or direct meaning or interpretation.
- Please take this comment at and don't try to read anything into it.
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noun
- A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization
- The of the trading post bought the furs.
- An integral part
- The greatest in the decision was the need for public transportation.
- The economy was a in this year's budget figures.
- (mathematics) Any of various objects multiply, multiplied together to form some whole
- 3 is a of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
- The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
- (Root Cause Analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence
- The launch temperature was a of the Challenger disaster.
verb
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
- (context, of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
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noun
- A place where manufacture, manufacturing takes place.
- A building within which manufacturing takes place.
- A device which produces or manufactures something.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function or method which creates an object.
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noun
- The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
- The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
verb (financ, ing)
- To borrow or provide funding for a transaction or undertaking.
- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
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noun
- A business partnership, the name under which it trades.
- In economics, a collection of individuals grouped together for economic gain.
- (slang) A criminal gang
verb
- (transitive) Make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive) Make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive) Become firm; stabilise.
- (intransitive) Improve after decline.
- (intransitive) Aust. To shorten (of betting odds).
adjective
- steadfast, secure, hard (in position)
- fixed (in opinion)
- solid, rigid (material state)
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proper noun (plural: Flips)
- (slang) A Filipino; a person who is of Filipino background.
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noun (plural: flip-flops)
- An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour.
- An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
verb (inf=to flip-flop, flip-flops, flip-flopping, flip-flopped)
- To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
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noun
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- Attach the and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces.
- When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a .
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- That covered in roses is very pretty.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the so we stay within our reserves limit.
- (context, finance, AU, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- 2006, You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. — w:Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article, Buying shares in a float http://www.fido.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/print/Buying+shares+in+a+float?opendocument
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- No sir, your current is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- We make a lot of interest from our nightly .
- (programming) Short form of floating-point number.
- That routine should not have used an int, it should be a .
- A soft beverage with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream floating in it.
- It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" .
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
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noun
- Anything that floats.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- (police jargon) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
- (sports) An unaffiliated player.
- (surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- (vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
- 2004: He left a floater in the toilet. — poetry critical workshop http://poetry.tetto.org/read/11410/
- (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
- 1998: In this section "floater" means a spin in which at least 1 of the coins does not turn over in the air at least once. — Queensland government Casino Gaming Amendment Rule (No. 2) 1998 http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/SLS/1998/98SL233.pdf
- Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or "flush," that person.
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noun
- A leaf of a book or manuscript.
- A sheet of paper once folded.
- A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind.
- (printing, Printing) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
- A page of a book; (bookkeeping, Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
- (law, Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.
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Fol"io (?), n.; pl. Folios (- ). Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th Foil.
1. A leaf of a book or manuscript.
2. A sheet of paper once folded.
3. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
4. (Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
5. A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
6. (Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.
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noun
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. Holder.
- A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
- As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite. Macaulay.
- A relative condition; state.
- Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay.
- A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
- Hark, I hear the footing of a man. w:Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
- A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.
- (Architectural & Engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
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noun (deprecated spelling: forebearance)
- Restraint under provocation.
- A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
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noun
- The exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country.
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verb
- (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
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adjective (abbreviation FOB)
- without charge to the purchaser for delivery on board a carrier (originally a ship), at a specified location or point; used in such phrases as FOB destination to specify the point where the title of goods passes from the seller to the buyer
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noun
- international trade free from government interference, especially trade free from tariffs or duties on imports
| | freeze |
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noun
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- (finance) A block on pay rises
verb (freezes, freezing, froze or rarely frore, frozen or rarely froren)
- (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- It didn't this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- (context, intransitive, informal) To be very cold.
- It's freezing in here!
- (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- The pond has frozen over.
- Vodka won't in there, but beer will.
- (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- Don't meat twice.
- (intransitive) To become motionless.
- The squirrel froze when it saw the hawk overhead.
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noun
- Goods or items in transport
verb
- (transitive) to transport (goods)
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noun (plural freighters)
- One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
- One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
- One for whom freight is transported.
- A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
| | friendly fire |
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noun
- Fire from allied or friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces or enemy fire.
| | fringe |
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noun
- A decorative border.
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- Those members of a political party etc. holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city.
- That part of the hair that hangs down over the eyes (US bangs).
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- (The Fringe) non-mainstream theatre.
verb (fring, ing)
- (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
- (transitive) To serve as a fringe.
adjective
- Outside the mainstream
| | frozen |
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verb
- (past participle of, freeze)
- The mammoth was shortly after death.
adjective
- The state of that which freezes; in ice form.
- The mammoth has been for ten thousand years.
- immobilized
- I just stood as the robber pointed at me with his gun.''
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noun - a sum or source of money
verb
- (transitive) To pay for.
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