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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
- an early photographic process in which the image is made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film
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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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noun - (photography) A measure of a film's sensitivity to light; faster films needing shorter exposures
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noun
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- He runs an email to catch the junk mail.
verb
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- This strainer should out the large particles.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- The water filtered through the rock and soil.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- The crowd filtered into the theater.
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noun
- An instance of fix
- Verb, fixing.
- A difficult situation or dilemma.
- A serving of an addictive drug to an addict.
- "Just one !" -Alain Jourgensen
verb (fix, es)
- To mend or repair.
- To attach; to affix.
- To prepare. He fixed dinner for the kids.
- To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant, usually before the content happens.
- To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion<ref>Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.</ref>
- To render an animal (especially a pet) infertile.
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noun
- one who, or that which, fixes
- a chemical used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions
| | flare |
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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
- a rotating cube containing a flashbulb in each of four sides
| | flashlight |
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noun
- An battery-powered hand-held lightsource.
| | fog |
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noun
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- (Scottish) moss, Moss.
verb (fog, g, ed)
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- The mirror fogged every time he showered.
- (context, intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (context, transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
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adjective (wikipedia, fog)
- Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy
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noun
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- (finance) A block on pay rises
verb (freezes, freezing, froze or rarely frore, frozen or rarely froren)
- (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- It didn't this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- (context, intransitive, informal) To be very cold.
- It's freezing in here!
- (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- The pond has frozen over.
- Vodka won't in there, but beer will.
- (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- Don't meat twice.
- (intransitive) To become motionless.
- The squirrel froze when it saw the hawk overhead.
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noun
- A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
- (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
- A luxury.
verb
- To make something into a frill.
- To become wrinkled.
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