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noun
- An honest observation.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a , but the rest is fiction.
- Something which has become real.
- The promise of television became a in the 1920s.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of people.
- There is no doubting the that the Earth orbits the Sun.
- Information about a particular subject.
- The facts about space travel.
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verb (factoriz, ing)
- (mathematics) To create a list of factors.
- (mathematics) To divide an expression into a listing items that, when multiply, multiplied together, will produce the original quantity.
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noun
- a monetary payment charged for professional services.
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noun - The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use and transfer the property at will.
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noun
- A person convicted of a serious crime which carries serious fines and / or jail time or imprisonment, usually for longer than one year. Crimes carrying small fines or imprisonment of less than a year are called misdemeanors.
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adjective
- Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; being, relating to, or concerning felony
- O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars? - w:John Milton
- done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.
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noun (felon, ies)
- a severe crime, usually punishable upon conviction by a large fine or by a term of imprisonment longer than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, or which is punishable by death. Crimes which are punishable by small fines and/or by imprisonment for less than one year are usually called misdemeanors. While crimes punishable by death are felonies, they are also usually referred to as capital offenses.
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noun
- Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real fact, facts, usually written as prose.
- The company"s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
- I am a great reader of .
- (uncountable) Invention.
- The butler"s account of the crime was pure .
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noun (fiduciaries)
- One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
- One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.
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noun
- Anything that is found, especially by good fortune.
verb (finds, finding, found, found or archaic founden)
- (transitive) To encounter, to discover.
- Project Gutenberg finds that Find is the 190th most important word in the English language.
- I found my car keys -- they were under the couch.''
- (transitive) To point out.
- He kept finding faults with my work.
- (transitive) To decide that, to form the opinion that.
- I find your argument unsatisfactory.
- (transitive) To determine or judge.
- The jury finds for the defendant
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noun
- Results of research or an investigation
- Legal verdict
verb
- (present participle of, find)
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noun
- (usually plural) something that is fine; fine particles
- They filtered silt and fines out of the oil.
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verb (fin, ing)
- (transitive) to make finer, purer, or cleaner
- (intransitive) to become finer, purer, or cleaner
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
adjective (finer, finest)
- Of superior quality.
- The tree frog that they encountered was truly a specimen.
- Only a really wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- The small scratch meant that his copy of X-Men
- 2 was merely when it otherwise would have been near mint.
- (context, of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- "How are you today?" "Fine."
- "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it" "Yeah, it'll be , I guess."
- "It's with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."
- Good-looking, attractive.
- "That man is so that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."
- Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Grind it into a powder.
- When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of dust.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- The threads were so that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- They protected themselves from the small parasites with a wire mesh.
- Being dismissive, a way to keep to yourself when asked, "How are you?" "Fine"
adverb
- expression of agreement
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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
| | folio |
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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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proper noun
- A mystical power which is the object of the Jedi and Sith religions.
| | foreclose |
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verb (foreclos, ing)
- to repossess a mortgage, mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments
- They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
- to prevent from doing something
| | foreclosure |
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noun
- the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments
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adjective
- relating to, or appropriate for courts of law
- relating to, or used in debate or argument; rhetorical
- relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law
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noun - The tenure of property held in fee simple for life
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adjective
- (context, of a debt) Able to be substituted for something of equal value.
- interchangeable, Interchangeable.
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