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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
- The act of moving in gas or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.
- (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere; from the falling of leaves during this season) autumn, Autumn.
- A loss of greatness or status; as, the fall of Rome.
- (cricket) (of a wicket) The act of a batsman being out.
- (In plural only: falls) A waterfall.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown in an area to drift in a given direction
verb (falls, falling, fell or (sense 7 only) (archaic) felled, fallen or (sense 7 ony) (archaic) felled)
- (intransitive) To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity
- Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
- to come down, to drop or descend
- The rain fell at dawn.
- to come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself
- He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
- to be brought to the ground; to collapse, to be overthrown or defeated; to die
- Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
- to be allotted to; to come to through chance or fate
- And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
- (transitive) (followed by an adjective) To become; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows.
- She has fallen ill.
- Usage note: Now only used in certain set phrases and expressions (see "Derived terms" below).
- (transitive) (archaic) To cause something to fall (4); especially to cause a tree to fall (4) by cutting it down.
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noun (uncountable and countable; plural fats)
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
- (countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- We need to trim the fat in this company
- (context, countable, obsolete) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
- A person or animal that is overweight or obese.
adjective (fatt, er)
- Carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body.
- The man had trouble getting through the door.
- thick, Thick.
- The wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- bountiful, Bountiful.
- Variant form of phat.
- (rfv-sense) (sports) A poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (See Thin,Shank,Toe)
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noun - (mining)An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air
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noun (firemen)
- (firefighting) A person who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
- (firefighting) A fireman that is of the male sex (see usage note).
- (railroading) A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive.
- (railroading) By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
- (baseball) A relief pitcher.
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noun (collectively (UK) or (US) and when referring to two or more kinds fishes or informally fishies)
- (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- We have many in our aquarium.
- (context, possibly archaic) Any vertebrates that lives in water and cannot live outside it.
- (context, collectively) (plural of, fish)
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- (countable) A type of fish.
- Salmon is a .
- God created all the fishes of the world.
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- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- The seafood pasta had lots of but not enough pasta.
- (countable) A period of time spent fishing.
- The at the lake didn't prove successful.
- (countable) An instance of seeking something.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
- (context, uncountable, derogatory, slang) Women.
- (slang) An easy victim for swindle, swindling.
verb (fish, es)
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
- She went to the river to for trout.
- (context, intransitive, followed by "about," "around," "through," etc.) To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Why are you fishing through in my things?
- (context, intransitive, followed by "around") To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- (context, intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (context, transitive, followed by "for") To attempt to get hold of (an object) that is among other objects.
- He was fishing for in his pocket the keys.
- (context, transitive, figurative, followed by "for") To attempt to gain.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
adjective
- Of or relating to fish.
- It was a fine dinner.
- Of or relating to fishing.
- Put the worm on a hook.
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noun
- A brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area.
- The flares steered the traffic away from the accident.
- A widening of the lower legs of trousers and jeans.
- That's a genuine early '70's on those pants.
- (aircraft) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- The captain executed the perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders
- Jones hits a little to left that falls for a single.
verb (flar, ing)
- (intransitive): To blaze brightly.
- The blast furnace flared in the night.
- (intransitive): To burn unsteadily.
- (intransitive): To burst out suddenly, as in anger (often with up or out.)
- The insult made him up.
- (transitive): to make flare.
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noun
- The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
- the room has a wooden floor
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space
- the ocean floor
- the floor of a cave
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/story, stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A storey/story of a building.
- live on the third floor
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.
- the senator has the floor
- be given the floor
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- the floor of 4.5 is 4
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