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noun (ferries)
- A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule
verb (ferr, i, ed)
- To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
- Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to plates of food around a restaurant.
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proper noun - A popular given name for a dog.
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noun (plural: fins)
- One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- (U.S. slang) A five-dollar bill
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noun
- The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
verb
- (intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
- As we approached the runway, the pilot fishtailed slightly to reduce landing speed.
- (intransitive) (idiom) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
- The car fishtailed down the muddy lane.
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noun
- Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
- A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
- a stir, scandal or controversy
- The comment caused quite a in the newspapers.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wing
- A disease in the lips of horses.
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noun
- (aeronautical) An aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as an aileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and a flap (changing the chord line of the wing, thusly affecting the angle of attack).
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verb
- (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
- As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to the pitch.
- Mary would the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
- (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
- The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flatter.
- (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
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noun
- the traveled path of a projectile, rocket or aircraft through the air
- a predefined route of travel for an aircraft or spacecraft
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noun
- a device which records data that would be of use in investigating the cause of an aircraft accident; comprises a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder
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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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initialism
- First Outer Inner Last, the abbreviation for one algorithm for processing the multiplication of multiple binomials
- Example: (2x + 4) × (4x + 3y)
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noun
- (aeronautical) The main body of a winged aerospace vehicle
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