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noun
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An electrical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock"s tail.
verb (fan, n, ing)
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.
- (intransitive) (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
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noun
- a piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.
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noun
- In heraldry a horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
- 1892: Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral"Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a sable. " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" (Norton 2005 p.294)
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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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adjective
- (botany) fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.
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noun
- A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly.
- Try to look past his foibles and see the friendly fellow underneath.
- A weakness or failing of character.
- (fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
adjective
- (obsolete) weak.
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noun
- A strength or talent.
- He writes respectably, but poetry is not his .
- The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
adjective (fortissimo, fortississimo)
- (music) loud, Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, {f.}, to indicate raising the volume of the music. (abbreviated in musical notation with an f, unicode character 1D141)
- This passage is , then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.
adverb (fortissimo, fortississimo)
- (music) loudly
- The musicians played the passage .
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noun
- An ornamental water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which a fountain issues.
- A spring.
- A source (especially of knowledge).
verb
- To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
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proper noun
- Country in Western Europe having borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain. Member state of the European Union. Official name: French Republic (République Franí§aise). Population: 62 million inhabitants.
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noun
- (music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument that marks note positions for fingering.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief).
verb (frets, fretting, fretted or , fretted or fretten(usually in compounds))
- (context, transitive, obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume.
- (transitive, and, intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- (intransitive) To worry or be anxious.
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noun
- hairy, Hairy skin of an animal processed to be a suitable wear to cover human nakedness and to protect humans from the cold.
- A pelt used to make, trim, or line clothing apparel.
- Hairy coat of a mammal, especially: when fine, soft, and thick.
- A coating resembling fur.
- A thick pile of fabric.
- Layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
verb (furs, furring, furred)
- To cover with fur.
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