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noun
- The sixth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by E and followed by G.
- A failing grade in a class or course. The next best grade is a D. Some institutions issue Es instead of Fs.
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noun
- A discontinued British coin worth one-quarter of an old penny.
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noun
- A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.
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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.
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(physics) A region affected by a particular force.
magnetic field
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
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(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.
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(sport) An area reserved for playing a game.
soccer field
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(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field or oilfield
gold field or goldfield
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(heraldry) The background of the shield
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(computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
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(context, transitive, sport) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
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(context, transitive, sport) To place a team in (a game).
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(transitive) To answer, accept or address.
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She will questions immediately after her presentation.
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- something added to fill a space or add weight or size
- any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores
- a short article in a newspaper or magazine
- a short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes
- cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar
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(computing) in COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that may contain no data
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noun
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(rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.
adjective (no comparative or superlative)
- Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.
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abbreviation
- floor
- floruit
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| flan |
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noun
- type of custard dessert, popular in Spanish-speaking countries
- (numismatics) a flat metal disk used to strike coins
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noun
- The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol Æ’
- A former British coin, worth two shillings / ten (new) pence.
Synonyms - two shillings, two bob
- a guilder (former currency unit if the Netherlands)
- any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy
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noun
- A large bronze coin minted during the Rome, Roman Empire.
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noun
- The basic unit of currency of Hungary; subdivided into 100 filler, fillér.
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noun
- former unit of currency of France and Belgium, replaced in 1999 by the euro.
- current unit of currency of Switzerland
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noun
- A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
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(context, of a person) An oddball, especially in physiology; unique in a displeasing way.
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(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).
- A person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of a something.
- A very sexually perverse individual, usually used affectionately or in another good willed context.
verb
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(transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance
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1994, James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story, (Alyson Publishing), page 107
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:But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.
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(transitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug
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1992, Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, (Ronin Publishing), page 56
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:"... Harvard have compiled a list of LSD's contributions"largely missing before then"to our popular language: turned on, straight, , freaked out, stoned, ..."
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(transitive) To streak
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1930, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books, (Literary Criticism), page 20
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:"... in fine diaper of silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure; Now scurrying close overhead, wild ink-hued random racers that fling sheeted ..."
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(intransitive) To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
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(intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure
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abbreviation
- fort, Fort.
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Ft. Lauderdale
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