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noun
- (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- She has a pretty .
- One's facial expression.
- Why the sad ?
- The public image.
- The of this company.
- (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch.
- (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
- (slang) The mouth.
- Shut your !
- He's always stuffing his with chips.
- (slang) Makeup.
- I'll be out in a sec, just let me put on my .
- (slang, professional wrestling) The good guy; a wrestler embodying heroic or virtuous traits.
- The fans cheered on the as he made his comeback.
- Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
- Put a big sign on each of the building that can be seen from the road.
- They climbed the north of the mountain.
- (cards) the side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck)
verb (fac, es)
- (transitive, of a person or animal) to position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- Face the sun.
- (transitive, of an object) to have its front closest to (something else).
- Turn the chair so it faces the table.
- (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
- I'm going to have to this sooner or later.
- (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
- The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany.
- (intransitive) (cricket) To be the striking batsman.
adjective
- (slang, professional wrestling) (rfd-sense) Describing the good guy wrestler.
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noun
- A fail-safe device or mechanism.
verb (fail-saf, ing)
- To compensate automatically in the event of a failure.
adjective
- Which does not cause undue damage, in the event of failure.
- ''The system is failsafe, because everything is backed up automatically.
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| falcon |
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noun
- Any bird of the genus Falco, all of them bird of prey, birds of prey.
verb
- To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
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| fatigue |
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noun
- (uncountable) weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion
- (countable) military menial labour
- (uncountable) material failure due to cyclic loading;
verb (fatigu, ing)
- (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
- (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
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| Fat Man |
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proper noun
- The nickname given to the nuclear bomb dropped over w:Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
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| field |
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noun
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
- (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
- magnetic field
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
- (mathematics) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
- The set of rational numbers, <math>\mathbb{Q}</math>, is the prototypical field.
- (sport) An area reserved for playing a game.
- soccer field
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- oil field or oilfield
- gold field or goldfield
- (heraldry) The background of the shield
- (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
verb
- (context, transitive, sport) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (context, transitive, sport) To place a team in (a game).
- (transitive) To answer, accept or address.
- She will questions immediately after her presentation.
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| field day |
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noun a
- (military) A parade day. In the Navy, "field day" refers to a thorough cleaning of the ship's spaces.
- A school day for athletic events; a sports day.
- A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
- (idiom) A great time or a great deal to do.
- They went to the park and had a playing on the swings.
- (idiom) A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
- The reporters will have a with a comment like that.
- The scandal was a for the press.
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| field marshal |
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noun
- (military) In certain nations (but never in the United States) the highest military rank, coming after only the commander in chief; now essentially disused. German: Feldmarshal; French: Maréchel de France.
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noun (fields of honor)
- Any place a duel was fought.
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| fighter |
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noun
- A person who fights.
- A warrior.
- A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
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| fighter-bomber |
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noun
- A military aircraft designed to operate in combined roles of attacking enemy aircraft and bombing targets. Usually faster and more maneuverable than a traditional bomber.
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| firebomb |
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noun (Plural: firebombs)
- A weapon that causes fire, an incendiary weapon.
- A molotov cocktail is a simple .
verb - To use a firebomb as a weapon.
- The rioters firebombed the parked car.
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| flack |
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noun
- a publicist, a publicity agent
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verb
- to publicise, to promote
- 1997: he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn"t listening. " Don DeLillo?, Underworld
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| flak |
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural flaks)
- Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
- Anti-aircraft shell fire.
- (figurative, informal; also flack) Adverse criticism.
- (informal; also flack) A public-relations spokesperson.
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| flank |
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noun
- The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
- A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
- The side of a military formation.
- A side of something.
- The outermost strip of a road.
verb
- (transitive) To attack the flank(s) of something.
- (transitive) To defend the flank(s) of something.
- (transitive) To place to the side(s) of something.
- To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side.)
adjective
- Nautical: Maximum (of speed). Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack (All ahead flank!).
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| flash |
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noun (flashes)
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a repressed minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class; for example, Ebonics, ebonics.
- A very short amount of time.
- 1876, w:Mark Twain, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- :Quick"something must be done! done in a , too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.
- material, Material left around the edge of a mould, moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
verb (flash, es)
- To briefly illuminate a scene.
- He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- The light flashed on and off.
- To be visible briefly.
- The scenery flashed by quickly.
- To make visible briefly.
- A number will be flashed on the screen.
- (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
- (colloquial) To expose one's naked body in public briefly.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
adjective
- (context, UK, and, NZ, slang) expensive, Expensive looking and attention worthy.
:(compare flashy)
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| flying column |
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noun
- A mobile band of IRA rebels during the War of Independence 1919 - 1922, operating against the British military using guerilla tactics.
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| foot |
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noun (feet)
- (countable, Anatomy) The part of a human"s body below the ankle. Used to stand and walk.
- (countable, Zoology) The equivalent part of an animal"s body.
- (countable) The bottom of anything; as, the foot of the stairs, the foot of a printed page.
- (countable) A short projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it.
- (countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches and one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- (context, countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the of the sail.
- Printing. the bottommost part of a type page or printed page
- (used with the plural verb) foot soldiers; infantry.
verb
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
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| footman |
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noun (foot, men)
- A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
- A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
- Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
- A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
- (Zoí¶l.) A moth of the family Lithosidí¦; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
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noun
- A soldier who fights on foot; an infantryman
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noun (forced marches)
- (military) Soldiers, especially infantry, being made to move at a speed that would normally tire them excessively, to meet a military necessity.
- 1885 I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. " Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant'' http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=327093481&tag=Grant,+Ulysses+S.+(Ulysses+Simpson),+1822-1885.:+Personal+memoirs+of+U.S.+Grant,+Volume+I,+1885&query=forced+march&id=GraPers Chapter 28.
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| fort |
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noun
- A fortify, fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- Any permanent army post
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verb (fortif, i, ed)
- To increase the defenses of.
- To impart strength or vigor to.
- To increase the effectiveness of,as by additional ingredients.
- To strengthen mentally or morally.
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| foxhole |
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noun
- (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
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| frag |
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noun
- (italbrac, gameplaying) A successful kill in a deathmatch game.
- I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my !
verb (frag, g, ing)
- (italbrac, US military slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
- (italbrac, gameplaying) To kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game.
- I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.
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| fragmentation |
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noun
- The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
- The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
- (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
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| friendly fire |
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noun
- Fire from allied or friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces or enemy fire.
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| furlough |
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noun
- A leave of absence or vacation, especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
- The documents authorizing such leave.
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