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noun
- A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization
- The of the trading post bought the furs.
- An integral part
- The greatest in the decision was the need for public transportation.
- The economy was a in this year's budget figures.
- (mathematics) Any of various objects multiply, multiplied together to form some whole
- 3 is a of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
- The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
- (Root Cause Analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence
- The launch temperature was a of the Challenger disaster.
verb
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
- (context, of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
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noun
- (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
- (obsolete) Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.
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noun
- a monetary payment charged for professional services.
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noun
- That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down
- An animal skin, hide
verb
- (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
adjective
- (archaic) fierce, savage (e.g., one fell swoop)
- (Scot) Pungent.
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adjective
- magical, Magical or fairylike.
- strange, Strange or otherworldly.
- spellbound, Spellbound.
- (archaic) doomed, Doomed to die.
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noun - An arm of the sea; a frith.
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noun
- A fluttering or darting movement
- A particular, unexpected, short lived, change of state. Eg."My computer just had a flit."
- (slang) A homosexual
verb (flits, flitting, flitted)
- To move about rapidly and nimbly
- To move quickly from one location to another
- To unpredictably change state for short periods of time. Eg. "My blender flits because the power cord is damaged."
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noun
- (basketball) The act of making contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- Jones hit a up over the screen.
verb
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- He's fouled her diapers.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
- The hair has fouled the drain.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- ''The drain fouled.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled for strike one.
adjective
- Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
- Cap'n, she's all fouled up.
- Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- The rascal spewed forth a series of pronouncements.
- Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- He has a set of friends.
- Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- This food is making me wretch.
- Ugly; homely; poor.
- Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
- Some weather is brewing.
- Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- Foul play is not suspected.
- (nautical) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
- We've got a anchor.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines.
- Jones hit ball after foul ball.
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adjective
- fill, Filled with; plagued by; riddled.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 236d.
- : all these matters are with paradox, just as they always have been..
- distressed.
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noun
- international trade free from government interference, especially trade free from tariffs or duties on imports
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