📖 F — The English dictionary · page 11

feeler — Everyday, meaning 1: A feeler is a long, thin part on the head of an insect, snail or other small animal, used to touch, smell and sense the world; scientists call insect feelers antennae.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To put out feelers means to quietly try to find out what people think before you decide something.↗ Example: The beetle waved its feelers in the air.↗ · When I touched the snail, it pulled its feelers in.↗ · Ants touch feelers to pass messages to each other.↗ · Butterflies have club-shaped feelers.↗ · A snail's eyes are at the ends of its long feelers.↗ · Dad put out feelers to see if any shop had the game in stock.↗ · ‘She has no feelers!’ cried another.↗

feeling — Everyday, meaning 1: An emotion such as happy, sad, angry or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something you feel in your body.↗ e.g. "a feeling of cold".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An idea or belief that is not sure.↗ e.g. "I have a feeling it will rain."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Feelings" also means someone's emotions that can be hurt.↗ e.g. "hurt her feelings".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The ability to feel with touch.↗ e.g. "no feeling in my fingers".↗ Example: What feeling do you have right now?↗ · Don't hurt her feelings.↗ · I had a funny feeling something was wrong.↗ · It's OK to have angry feelings.↗ · My fingers have no feeling in the cold.↗ · I have a feeling we'll win.↗ · Talk about your feelings with someone you trust.↗ · No hard feelings, okay?↗ · Walter got up feeling very foolish.↗

feelings — Everyday, meaning 1: Feelings are what happens inside you that make you happy, sad, angry, scared, excited and so on; emotions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your feelings are also the part of you that can be hurt by what people say or do: «You hurt my feelings».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Feelings can mean opinions or attitudes: «What are your feelings about the plan?».↗ Example: It is okay to talk about your feelings.↗ · Calling him names hurt his feelings.↗ · She had mixed feelings about moving house.↗ · Draw a face to show your feelings today.↗ · Try to think about other people's feelings.↗ · No hard feelings — let's be friends again.↗ · Anger and fear are strong feelings.↗ · He kept his feelings to himself.↗

feign — Everyday, meaning 1: To pretend to feel something or to be ill, tired or asleep when you are not.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To feign can also mean to pretend not to know something.↗ Example: Tom feigned a headache so he would not have to go swimming.↗ · The possum feigned death to trick the dog.↗ · She feigned surprise, but she already knew about the party.↗ · He feigned interest in his aunt's holiday photos.↗ · The cat feigned sleep while watching the mouse.↗ · Don't feign illness; tell the truth about the test.↗ · Him also the Yaga attempts to destroy, but he feigns ignorance, and persuades her to show him how to tie knots and to blow.↗ · Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.'↗ (Writings NEH.6.8, JPS 1917)↗

feigned — Everyday, meaning 1: Pretended; shown on the outside but not truly felt.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Past form of feign: having pretended to feel or be something.↗ Example: She gasped with feigned surprise when she opened the present she had already seen.↗ · He feigned illness to miss the spelling test.↗ · With feigned innocence, the dog sat next to the chewed shoe.↗ · The spy spoke with feigned calm.↗ · Her feigned smile did not fool her best friend.↗ · The fox feigned sleep until the hens came close.↗ · "W'ich ark's dat?" asked the old man, in a tone of well-feigned curiosity.↗ · And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.↗ (Prophets 1SA.21.14, JPS 1917)↗

feigning — Everyday, meaning 1: Pretending to have a feeling, illness or state that is not real: «feigning sleep», «feigning surprise».↗ Example: He was feigning illness to miss the test.↗ · The opossum survives by feigning death.↗ · She lay still, feigning sleep.↗ · He was feigning surprise, but he knew about the party.↗ · Stop feigning — I know you're awake!↗ · The bird was feigning a broken wing to lead the fox away.↗

feldspar — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A very common group of light-coloured minerals found in many rocks, such as granite.↗ Example: Granite contains feldspar, quartz and mica.↗ · The pink crystals in the rock are feldspar.↗ · Feldspar is used in making glass and pottery.↗ · We looked at feldspar under a magnifying glass.↗ · Feldspar is softer than quartz.↗ · Most rocks in the Earth's crust contain feldspar.↗

felicity — Everyday, meaning 1: Felicity is great happiness, joy and good fortune.↗ Example: They lived in great felicity.↗ · The stream of life flows on to joy and felicity.↗ · Her felicity showed in her smile.↗

felid — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A felid is any member of the cat family, Felidae: from pet cats to lions, tigers, lynxes and cheetahs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Felid is a scientific word; everyday English says «cat» or «wild cat».↗ Example: A cheetah is the fastest felid.↗ · Lions, tigers and house cats are all felids.↗ · Most felids hunt alone, but lions live in groups.↗ · Scientists study how felids use their whiskers.↗ · The snow leopard is a rare felid of the mountains.↗ · The zoo has five kinds of felid.↗

feline — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with cats or the cat family, which includes house cats, lions, tigers, leopards and cheetahs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Like a cat, graceful, quiet and smooth in the way you move, as in «feline grace».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A cat or any animal of the cat family.↗ Example: Lions, tigers and house cats are all felines.↗ · The vet specialises in feline illnesses.↗ · She moved with feline grace across the stage.↗ · The cheetah is the fastest feline.↗ · My cat has a very feline way of ignoring me.↗ · The feline eyes glowed in the dark.↗

fell — Everyday, meaning 1: (past of fall) Dropped down or came down.↗ e.g. I fell off my bike.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To cut down a tree, or knock someone down.↗ e.g. They felled the old oak.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, UK) A hill or high moor in the north of England: the Lake District fells.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective, old or poetry) Cruel or terrible: «at one fell swoop» = all at once.↗ Example: I fell over and hurt my knee.↗ · The baby fell asleep in the car.↗ · The temperature fell from 12 °C to 4 °C, a fall of 8 degrees.↗ · Leaves fell from the trees in autumn.↗ · The workers felled three tall trees.↗ · We walked up the fell to see the lake.↗ · She fell in love with the puppy.↗ · This lasted for a while, and then they came upon the fells.↗ · Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.'↗ (Prophets ISA.14.8, JPS 1917)↗ · But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.6.5, JPS 1917)↗

fella — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, slang) A man or a boy; a spelling of «fellow» that shows how people say it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A boyfriend: «her fella».↗ Example: Hey, fella, you dropped your hat!↗ · That little fella is my puppy, Max.↗ · The young fella next door helped carry our shopping.↗ · My aunt is bringing her new fella to dinner.↗ · Come on, fellas, the game is starting!↗ · The old fella at the shop always gives us a sweet.↗

felloe — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The rim of a wheel, or a piece of it.↗ Example: And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel; their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.33, JPS 1917)↗

fellow — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, a bit old-fashioned) A man or boy.↗ e.g. He's a nice fellow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Someone in the same group or situation as you: my fellow pupils.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A member of a society or an important person at a university.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) One of a pair: a sock without its fellow.↗ Example: He seems a friendly fellow.↗ · I thanked my fellow classmates for their help.↗ · Fellow passengers helped the old lady with her bag.↗ · The poor fellow was soaking wet.↗ · She became a fellow of the science society.↗ · We are fellow members of the chess club.↗ · "Ah, you foolish fellows!" he cried.↗ · And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'↗ (Torah EXO.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying: Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known'; (Torah DEU.13.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And thus said Shimei when he cursed: 'Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow; (Prophets 2SA.16.7, JPS 1917)↗ · But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?'↗ And they despised him, and brought him no present.↗ (Prophets 1SA.10.27, JPS 1917)↗ · That hath no slander upon his tongue, nor doeth evil to his fellow, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour; (Writings PSA.15.3, JPS 1917)↗

fellowship — Everyday, meaning 1: A friendly feeling of sharing and belonging among people with the same interests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group or club of people who share an aim or belief.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) Christians meeting together, sharing faith, prayer and friendship.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A special job or paid place for a researcher at a university.↗ Example: After the service there is tea and fellowship in the church hall.↗ · The fellowship of the campers made the trip special.↗ · Christians believe fellowship with others helps their faith grow.↗ · The nine heroes formed a fellowship to destroy the ring.↗ · She won a fellowship to study at a university.↗ · Our youth fellowship meets on Friday evenings.↗ · But the youngsters said they would rather make a speech and drink to their good fellowship; they had no wish to marry.↗ · Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?↗ (Writings PSA.94.20, JPS 1917)↗

felt — Everyday, meaning 1: Felt is the past of «feel»: you felt happy, you felt the soft fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Felt is a thick, soft cloth made by pressing wool or other fibres together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Felt-tip pen» is a pen with a soft tip of this material.↗ Example: I felt very happy on my birthday.↗ · She felt the warm sand under her feet.↗ · He felt sorry for the lost puppy.↗ · We made puppets out of felt.↗ · Colour the picture with felt-tip pens.↗ · I felt like going home.↗ · After a rest, she felt better.↗ · Of course he felt quite hopeless.↗ · And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.↗ (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?↗ (Torah GEN.31.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.'↗ (Torah EXO.10.21, JPS 1917)↗ · 'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake?↗ (Writings PRO.23.35, JPS 1917)↗

female — Everyday, meaning 1: Female means of the sex that can have babies or lay eggs; women and girls are female.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A female is a female person or animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In plants, female parts make seeds or fruit.↗ Example: A female lion is called a lioness.↗ · Only the female mosquito bites.↗ · The female bird sits on the eggs.↗ · There are 14 female and 12 male pupils in our class.↗ · The female part of the flower is in the middle.↗ · Female sea turtles come back to the beach to lay eggs.↗ · Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one.↗ · And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.↗ (Torah LEV.27.4, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.↗ (Torah LEV.12.7, JPS 1917)↗ · there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.↗ (Torah GEN.7.9, JPS 1917)↗

feminine — Everyday, meaning 1: Feminine means typical of or thought to be suitable for women or girls.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) In many languages, feminine is a group (gender) of nouns and words, like «la» words in French.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In English, some feminine word forms show a female: actress, lioness, waitress.↗ Example: «Lioness» is the feminine form of «lion».↗ · In French, «table» is a feminine noun.↗ · She likes a feminine style with flowers and lace.↗ · «Duchess» is the feminine of «duke».↗ · The poem has soft, feminine rhymes.↗ · Boys and girls can like any colour — colours are not really feminine or masculine.↗ · In Spanish, many feminine nouns end in «-a».↗ · [239] Kruchina, as an abstract idea, is of the feminine gender.↗

femur — Everyday, meaning 1: The femur is the thigh bone, the long bone between your hip and your knee.↗ It is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.↗ Example: The femur is the longest bone in your body.↗ · Your femur joins your hip and your knee.↗ · Label the femur, skull and ribs on the skeleton.↗ · The dinosaur's femur was taller than a man.↗ · A broken femur takes months to heal.↗ · The femur is very strong because it carries your weight.↗ · Muscles pull on the femur to move your leg.↗