📖 F — The English dictionary · page 14

fib — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A fib is a small lie, usually about something not very important.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To fib means to tell a small lie.↗ Example: Don't tell fibs!↗ · He fibbed about brushing his teeth.↗ · It was just a little fib to keep the party a surprise.↗ · I knew she was fibbing because she giggled.↗ · One fib led to another and another.↗ · Tell the truth — no fibbing.↗

fibber — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A person who tells fibs, small lies that are not very serious.↗ Example: «You're a fibber — you did eat the biscuit!»↗ · My little sister is a terrible fibber.↗ · Don't be a fibber; tell the truth.↗ · Everyone knew he was a fibber.↗ · «I'm not a fibber!» she cried.↗ · The fibber said his dog had done his homework.↗ · Toad was a boaster and a bit of a fibber.↗

fibbing — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Fibbing is telling small lies, usually about unimportant things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fibber is someone who tells fibs.↗ Example: Are you fibbing about eating your vegetables?↗ · He was fibbing when he said the dog ate his homework.↗ · Stop fibbing and tell me what happened.↗ · I caught my brother fibbing about brushing his teeth.↗ · She admitted she had been fibbing.↗ · Fibbing gets you into more trouble in the end.↗

fiber — Everyday, meaning 1: A fiber is a thin thread-like piece of something, such as cotton, wool or wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fiber is also the tough part of food, found in bread, oats and vegetables, that helps the body to digest it.↗ Example: They stitched the leaves together with fibers.↗ · Cotton is a soft fiber from a plant.↗ · Oats and beans have plenty of fiber.↗

fibre — Everyday, meaning 1: A fibre is a very thin thread, like those that make up wool, cotton, string, hair or paper.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fibre is the part of plant foods, like vegetables, fruit, beans and wholemeal bread, that your body does not digest but needs to keep your gut healthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fibre can mean a material made of threads, like glass fibre.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Your moral fibre is your inner strength and goodness.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Fibres are thin threads of tissue that make up your muscles and other parts of your body.↗ Example: Brown bread has more fibre than white bread.↗ · Eat fruit and vegetables for fibre.↗ · Wool is made of animal fibres.↗ · The rope was made of thick plant fibres.↗ · Fibre-optic cables carry the internet as light.↗ · Under the microscope, we saw the fibres of the paper.↗ · Cotton is a natural fibre.↗ · Beans are full of fibre.↗ · A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weariness creeping through my every fibre and muscle.↗

fibreglass — Everyday, meaning 1: Fibreglass is a light, strong material made of very thin glass threads, often set in plastic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is used to make boats, car bodies, helmets, slides and surfboards, and to keep houses warm as insulation in lofts.↗ Example: The boat is made of fibreglass.↗ · Fibreglass insulation keeps the loft warm.↗ · Wear gloves when touching fibreglass, it makes skin itchy.↗ · The playground slide is fibreglass.↗ · Fibreglass is light but strong.↗ · The surfboard has a fibreglass coat.↗

fibrin — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Fibrin is a stringy protein in the blood that forms a net of threads to make a clot and stop bleeding when you cut yourself.↗ Example: Fibrin forms a net over a cut.↗ · Platelets and fibrin help blood to clot.↗ · The scab on my knee is made with the help of fibrin.↗ · Fibrin threads trap red blood cells.↗ · Without fibrin, a small cut could keep bleeding.↗ · Under the microscope, fibrin looks like a tangle of thread.↗

fibrosis — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) A condition where too much tough, thick tissue (like scar tissue) grows in a part of the body, such as the lungs, making it stiff and not work as well.↗ Example: My classmate has cystic fibrosis, so she takes medicine before lunch.↗ · Fibrosis makes the lungs stiff.↗ · The doctor explained that fibrosis is like scarring inside the body.↗ · People with cystic fibrosis do physio to clear their lungs.↗ · Smoking can damage the lungs and may lead to fibrosis.↗

fibrous — Everyday, meaning 1: Made of or containing fibres: long, thin threads.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (food) Tough and stringy, like celery or old beans; full of fibre.↗ Example: Grass has fibrous roots that spread in every direction.↗ · Celery is crunchy and fibrous.↗ · Muscles are made of fibrous tissue.↗ · The coconut husk is very fibrous.↗ · A carrot has a tap root, but grass has fibrous roots.↗ · Fibrous foods like oats help keep your tummy healthy.↗

fibula — Everyday, meaning 1: The fibula is the thinner of the two long bones in the lower leg, on the outside, next to the larger shin bone (tibia).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A fibula is also an ancient brooch or pin used to fasten clothes, as worn by Romans and Celts.↗ Example: The fibula is the thin bone on the outside of your lower leg.↗ · He broke his fibula playing football.↗ · The tibia and fibula sit side by side.↗ · Archaeologists found a Roman fibula in the field.↗ · Your fibula connects to your ankle.↗ · The skeleton model shows the fibula clearly.↗

fickle — Everyday, meaning 1: Fickle means changing often in what one likes or loves, so one cannot be trusted to stay the same.↗ Example: The fickle prince soon forgot the girl he had promised to marry.↗ · The weather in April is fickle.↗ · Do not trust a fickle friend.↗

fickleness — Everyday, meaning 1: The quality of being fickle: changing one's mind or feelings often and without warning.↗ Example: The fickleness of the weather spoiled our picnic.↗ · Her fickleness made her friends sad.↗ · Beware the fickleness of fortune.↗

fiction — Everyday, meaning 1: Stories that are made up by a writer, not true facts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that is not true.↗ e.g. "His story about a dragon was pure fiction."↗ Example: I like reading fiction about dragons.↗ · Fiction books are in the next aisle.↗ · Is it fact or fiction?↗ · Harry Potter is a work of fiction.↗ · Science fiction stories often happen in space.↗ · An atlas is non-fiction, not fiction.↗ · Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction.↗

fictional — Everyday, meaning 1: Invented, made up, not real, as in «a fictional character».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To do with fiction, stories that are imagined rather than true.↗ Example: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.↗ · The village in the book is fictional, but it is based on a real place.↗ · Dragons are fictional creatures.↗ · We wrote a fictional diary of a Roman soldier.↗ · The film is fictional, even though it feels real.↗ · Is this a fictional story or a true one?↗

fictitious — Everyday, meaning 1: Invented or made up; not real or true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used as a false name or detail to trick people.↗ Example: Sherlock Holmes is a fictitious detective.↗ · The story takes place in a fictitious town by the sea.↗ · The thief gave a fictitious name to the police.↗ · All the characters in this book are fictitious.↗ · The scammer used a fictitious address.↗ · Her excuse about the dog eating her homework was fictitious.↗

fiddle — Everyday, meaning 1: A fiddle is a violin, especially when it is used to play folk or country music.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fiddle with something is to keep touching or moving it with your fingers, often because you are nervous or bored.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To fiddle is to cheat, especially by changing figures to get money: «fiddle the books».↗ A fiddle is such a cheat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK, informal) «A fiddle» can mean a task that is awkward and fiddly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To play the fiddle is to play the violin.↗ Example: She played a jig on her fiddle.↗ · Stop fiddling with your zip and listen.↗ · Grandpa is ninety but as fit as a fiddle.↗ · He fiddled the numbers to pay less tax.↗ · I'm tired of playing second fiddle to my big sister.↗ · It was a real fiddle putting the tiny Lego pieces together.↗ · Irish music often has a fiddle, a flute and a drum.↗ · So he drew out his fiddle, and fiddled away lustily.↗

fiddler — Everyday, meaning 1: A fiddler is a person who plays the fiddle, which is a violin, especially in folk, country or Irish music.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fiddler crab is a small crab where the male has one huge claw that he waves.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) A fiddler is someone who cheats a little, for example by changing numbers on forms to get money.↗ Example: The fiddler played a fast Irish jig.↗ · Old King Cole called for his fiddlers three.↗ · Everyone danced when the fiddler started playing.↗ · The fiddler crab waved its giant claw.↗ · My grandad was a fiddler in a country band.↗ · A fiddler and a piper played at the wedding.↗ · (UK, informal) The boss found out he was a fiddler who changed his work hours.↗ · The street fiddler had a hat for coins.↗ · The Fiddler got back to the village.↗

fiddlesticks — Everyday, meaning 1: (mild, old-fashioned) a gentle exclamation of annoyance, used instead of a swear word: «Oh, fiddlesticks!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) nonsense: «Fiddlesticks!↗ That's not true.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (literal, rare) the bow used to play a fiddle (violin).↗ Example: Oh, fiddlesticks, I've dropped my glasses again.↗ · "Fiddlesticks!" cried Granny when the cake sank.↗ · Fiddlesticks, it's raining and I forgot my brolly.↗ · "You're too old to climb trees." "↗ Fiddlesticks!" said Grandad.↗ · The cartoon mouse squeaked, "Fiddlesticks!"↗ · Miss Brown says "fiddlesticks" instead of swearing.↗ · Fiddlesticks!↗ I've missed the bus.↗ · "Fiddlesticks" sounds so silly that everyone laughed.↗

fidelity — Everyday, meaning 1: Fidelity is being faithful and loyal to a person, a promise or a belief, especially to a husband or wife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fidelity is how exactly something copies or follows the original: high-fidelity sound, fidelity to the book.↗ Example: The couple promised fidelity to each other at their wedding.↗ · The dog's fidelity to its master was famous.↗ · Christians believe God shows fidelity to his people.↗ · The film shows great fidelity to the book.↗ · Hi-fi is short for high fidelity.↗ · Fidelity to your word matters to a good friend.↗ · At once the old recollections rushed into his mind, and he thought of the tiger to test his fidelity.↗

fidget — Everyday, meaning 1: To fidget means to keep moving your hands, feet or body in small restless ways, because you are bored, nervous or cannot sit still.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fidget is someone who fidgets a lot.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fidget toy is a small toy made to be squeezed, spun or clicked in your hands.↗ Example: Stop fidgeting and sit still, please.↗ · He fidgeted with his pencil during the test.↗ · My little brother is a real fidget.↗ · Some children use a fidget toy to help them focus.↗ · I always fidget when I'm nervous.↗ · The class began to fidget after an hour of listening.↗

fidgety — Everyday, meaning 1: Fidgety means unable to keep still, moving your hands, feet or body a lot because you are bored, nervous or restless.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fidget toy is a small toy for busy hands.↗ Example: I get fidgety in long assemblies.↗ · The fidgety puppy would not sit still.↗ · He was fidgety before his turn on stage.↗ · A short run helps fidgety children focus.↗ · The fidgety girl kept twisting her hair.↗ · Long car journeys make my brother fidgety.↗

fie — Early Modern English, meaning 1: an exclamation that shows disgust or disapproval.↗ Example: "Fie on the villain that forsook her!"↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose.↗ (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) · “Fie!” said he.↗ “How naughty a boy Cupid is!↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales)

field — Everyday, meaning 1: A field is a big open piece of land, often with grass or crops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A field is a place for playing sports, like a football field.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A field is a subject or area of work, like the field of science.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To field is to catch or stop the ball in cricket or baseball.↗ Example: The field is 60 m long and 40 m wide.↗ · How long is the fence around the field?↗ · Each field has 30 rows of corn.↗ · The football field is 100 yards long.↗ · Cows are eating grass in the field.↗ · Our class went on a field trip.↗ · She works in the field of medicine.↗ · He fielded the ball and threw it back.↗ · And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.↗ (Torah GEN.27.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, (Torah GEN.31.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.↗ (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'↗ (Prophets MIC.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And they came into the field of Moab, and continued there.↗ (Writings RUT.1.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.↗ (Writings PSA.107.37, JPS 1917)↗

fielder — Everyday, meaning 1: A fielder is a player in cricket, baseball or rounders whose team is not batting, who tries to catch or stop the ball.↗ Example: The fielder caught the ball and the batter was out.↗ · In cricket there are eleven fielders including the bowler and the wicketkeeper.↗ · The fielder threw the ball back to the bowler.↗ · Our best fielder dived for the ball.↗ · In baseball the outfielders stand far from the batter.↗ · Fielders must watch the ball all the time.↗ · Two fielders ran for the same catch and bumped into each other.↗