📖 F — The English dictionary · page 15

fiend — Everyday, meaning 1: A fiend is a devil or wicked spirit in old stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A fiend is someone who is very keen on something: a chess fiend.↗ Example: The fiends would not let him go.↗ · See me off, Marusia, says the Fiend.↗ · Wait a bit! said one of the fiends.↗

fiendish — Everyday, meaning 1: Fiendish means very cruel or wicked, like a fiend (a devil or evil spirit).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Fiendish means extremely clever, complicated or difficult: «a fiendish puzzle».↗ Example: The villain had a fiendish plan to steal the crown jewels.↗ · This sudoku is fiendish!↗ · The maths challenge had a fiendish final question.↗ · The witch gave a fiendish laugh.↗ · The maze was fiendishly difficult.↗ · The detective uncovered a fiendish trick.↗ · After a time he became an adept in the black art, and contracted an intimate acquaintance with the fiendish races.↗

fierce — Everyday, meaning 1: Angry, wild and likely to attack: «a fierce dog».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very strong or powerful: «a fierce storm», «fierce heat».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Full of strong feeling or effort: «fierce competition».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) Bold and confident in a cool way.↗ Example: The fierce dog barked at the gate.↗ · A fierce storm blew down the tree.↗ · The two teams are fierce rivals.↗ · The tiger gave a fierce roar.↗ · There was fierce competition for the prize.↗ · The fire was fierce and spread fast.↗ · (slang) Love your new outfit — you look fierce!↗ · They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth.↗ · Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.↗ (Torah EXO.32.12, JPS 1917)↗ · a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.↗ (Torah DEU.28.50, JPS 1917)↗ · Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel; I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.↗ (Torah GEN.49.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.↗ (Writings PSA.88.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.25.37, JPS 1917)↗ · None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?↗ (Writings JOB.41.2, JPS 1917)↗

fiercely — Everyday, meaning 1: In an angry, wild or violent way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very strongly or with great feeling: «fiercely loyal», «fiercely proud».↗ Example: The dog growled fiercely.↗ · The fire burned fiercely all night.↗ · She is fiercely loyal to her friends.↗ · The match was fiercely fought.↗ · The mother bear fiercely protected her cubs.↗ · The wind blew fiercely across the moor.↗ · The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.↗ (Prophets JER.6.29, JPS 1917)↗

fierceness — Everyday, meaning 1: Fierceness is being wild, angry and ready to attack, like a fierce animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fierceness is very great strength or force, such as of a storm, fire or competition.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fierceness can mean strong, passionate feeling, such as fierce love or loyalty.↗ Example: The tiger's fierceness frightened the visitors.↗ · The fierceness of the wind blew the fence down.↗ · She defended her little brother with surprising fierceness.↗ · We were amazed by the fierceness of the competition.↗ · The dog's fierceness was only an act; it was really scared.↗ · The fierceness of the fire made it hard to get close.↗ · But Cadmus was wiser than these earth-born creatures, with the dragon's fierceness in them, and knew better how to use their strength and hardihood.↗ · Hast thou clothed his neck with fierceness?↗ (Writings JOB.39.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And who can abide in the fierceness of His anger?↗ (Prophets NAM.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Pour out Thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Thine anger overtake them.↗ (Writings PSA.69.25, JPS 1917)↗

fiery — Everyday, meaning 1: Burning or full of fire: «a fiery furnace».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bright red or orange like fire: «a fiery sunset», «fiery red hair».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Quick to get angry or very passionate: «a fiery temper», «a fiery speech».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Very hot and spicy: «a fiery curry».↗ Example: The dragon gave a fiery roar.↗ · Three young men were thrown into the fiery furnace.↗ · The sky was fiery orange at sunset.↗ · Our captain has a fiery temper.↗ · This sauce is really fiery!↗ · The leader gave a fiery speech.↗ · "But how did you get across the fiery river?"↗ · And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.↗ (Torah NUM.21.6, JPS 1917)↗ · The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.↗ (Torah DEU.32.24, JPS 1917)↗ · who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; (Torah DEU.8.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Before him goeth the pestilence, and fiery bolts go forth at His feet.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.↗ (Writings PSA.78.48, JPS 1917)↗ · There He broke the fiery shafts of the bow; the shield, and the sword, and the battle.↗ (Writings PSA.76.4, JPS 1917)↗

fife — Everyday, meaning 1: A fife is a small, high-sounding flute without keys, played mainly in military marching bands, often with drums.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Fife is a region in eastern Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay; St Andrews is in Fife.↗ Example: The boy played a fife in the marching band.↗ · A fife sounds higher than a flute.↗ · Fife and drum music led the soldiers.↗ · St Andrews is a famous town in Fife.↗ · We went camping on the coast of Fife.↗ · Our music teacher showed us a wooden fife.↗ · Ivan began playing on his fife, and forthwith they all fell a-dancing.↗

fifo — Everyday, meaning 1: (computing, maths) «First in, first out»: a rule where the first thing to come in is the first thing to go out, like a queue.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, informal) «Fly-in fly-out»: a worker, often in a mine, who flies to work far away for some weeks and then flies home, as in «Dad is a FIFO worker».↗ Example: A lunch queue works on FIFO: first in, first out.↗ · The printer prints pages in FIFO order.↗ · My dad is a FIFO worker on a mine in the Pilbara.↗ · FIFO families often use video calls to keep in touch.↗ · A stack of plates is LIFO, not FIFO.↗ · Shops use FIFO so older milk is sold first.↗

fifteen — Everyday, meaning 1: Fifteen is the number 15: ten and five more, one more than fourteen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fifteen is a rugby union team, which has fifteen players.↗ Example: Ten plus five is fifteen.↗ · Three fives make fifteen.↗ · We waited fifteen minutes for the bus.↗ · Fifteen minutes is a quarter of an hour.↗ · My sister is fifteen years old.↗ · The rugby fifteen won the match.↗ · Fifteen divided by three is five.↗ · ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’↗ · Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.↗ (Torah GEN.7.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.↗ (Torah NUM.31.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.↗ (Torah GEN.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers, that lay on forty and five pillars, fifteen in a row.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.3, JPS 1917)↗ · So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.↗ (Prophets 2KI.14.17, JPS 1917)↗

fifteenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Fifteenth means number 15 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fifteenth is one of 15 equal parts, written 1/15.↗ Example: He was fifteenth in line.↗ · On the fifteenth day she finished the book.↗ · How many people are ahead of the fifteenth?↗ · One fifteenth of 30 is 2.↗ · Her fifteenth birthday is next year.↗ · The office is on the fifteenth floor.↗ · On the fifteenth day the duke sent for the dwarf and presented him to the prince.↗ · And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.↗ (Torah NUM.28.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.↗ (Torah LEV.23.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.23.34, JPS 1917)↗ · the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer; (Writings 1CH.24.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.22, JPS 1917)↗ · So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.↗ (Writings 2CH.15.10, JPS 1917)↗

fifth — Everyday, meaning 1: Fifth means number 5 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fifth is one of 5 equal parts, written 1/5.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fifth grade (in the USA) is the school year for children about 10 to 11 years old.↗ Example: She finished fifth in the race.↗ · One fifth of 20 is 4.↗ · He is in fifth grade.↗ · Two fifths of the class are boys.↗ · We live on the fifth floor.↗ · Today is the fifth day of camp.↗ · Cut the cake into fifths.↗ · Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly, it is your three-hundred-and-sixty-fifth night.↗ · And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.↗ (Torah GEN.1.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.↗ (Torah GEN.30.17, JPS 1917)↗ · On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon: (Torah NUM.7.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth; (Writings 1CH.2.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Mashmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth; (Writings 1CH.12.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.↗ (Writings 1CH.8.2, JPS 1917)↗

fiftieth — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming as number 50 in a row or order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) One of fifty equal parts of something, written 1/50.↗ Example: Dad is having a party for his fiftieth birthday.↗ · She came fiftieth out of two hundred runners.↗ · One fiftieth of 100 is 2.↗ · Our school is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.↗ · This is the fiftieth time I've asked you to tidy your room!↗ · Two fiftieths make one twenty-fifth.↗ · And Jason himself would be the fiftieth.↗ · A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.↗ (Torah LEV.25.11, JPS 1917)↗ · In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.↗ (Prophets 2KI.15.23, JPS 1917)↗ · In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.↗ (Prophets 2KI.15.27, JPS 1917)↗

fifty — Everyday, meaning 1: Fifty is the number 50, five tens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fifty is half of a hundred.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Fifty-fifty» means half and half, or an equal chance.↗ Example: She has fifty marbles.↗ · Fifty people came to the show.↗ · A fifty-dollar bill.↗ · Fifty minus ten is forty.↗ · The USA has fifty states.↗ · Fifty is half of a hundred.↗ · We split the cost fifty-fifty.↗ · Fifty cents is half a dollar.↗ · Here are fifty talers for you.↗ · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.↗ (Torah GEN.9.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.↗ (Torah GEN.7.24, JPS 1917)↗ · The men of Netophah, fifty and six.↗ (Writings EZR.2.22, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Nebo, fifty and two.↗ (Writings EZR.2.29, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.↗ (Writings EZR.2.14, JPS 1917)↗

fig — Everyday, meaning 1: A soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped like a small pear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tree that this fruit grows on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) The fig tree appears in many Bible stories; Adam and Eve made clothes from fig leaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (abbreviation) «Fig.» is short for «figure», a numbered picture or diagram in a book.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal, old-fashioned) Something worth nothing: «I don't give a fig».↗ Example: We ate fresh figs on holiday in Greece.↗ · The fig tree in the garden gives lots of fruit.↗ · Look at Fig.↗ 4 to see the parts of a flower.↗ · In the Bible, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves.↗ · Dried figs are sweet and chewy.↗ · He doesn't care a fig about football.↗ · And here are sweet sauce, honey, raisins, green peas, and dry figs.↗ · a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.↗ (Torah GEN.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. — (Torah NUM.13.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.10, JPS 1917)↗ · He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.↗ (Writings PSA.105.33, JPS 1917)↗ · The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance.↗ (Writings SNG.2.13, JPS 1917)↗