📖 F — The English dictionary · page 16

fight — Everyday, meaning 1: To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fight is to argue angrily.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To fight for or against something is to try very hard to get or stop it: fight a fire, fight an illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A fight is an act of fighting or an argument.↗ Example: Don't fight — tell a teacher instead.↗ · My brothers fight over the remote.↗ · We had a silly fight about a game.↗ · White blood cells fight germs.↗ · Firefighters fought the fire all night.↗ · She fought hard to win the race.↗ · Walk away if someone wants a fight.↗ · The town fought to save the old library.↗ · The fight was short and sharp.↗ · The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'↗ (Torah EXO.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.↗ (Torah DEU.20.10, JPS 1917)↗ · for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'↗ (Torah DEU.20.4, JPS 1917)↗ · that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.↗ (Prophets JOS.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.↗ (Writings PSA.35.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And they told David, saying: 'Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.1, JPS 1917)↗

fighter — Everyday, meaning 1: A fighter is a person who fights, for example in boxing or martial arts, or in a war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fighter is someone who does not give up and keeps trying hard against problems or illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fighter (fighter plane, fighter jet) is a small fast military aeroplane made to attack other aircraft.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A firefighter is a person whose job is to put out fires.↗ Example: The boxer was a strong fighter.↗ · Grandad was ill for months, but he's a real fighter.↗ · Two fighter jets flew low over the beach.↗ · The firefighters put out the fire in ten minutes.↗ · Sam wasn't a fighter; he hated hitting anyone.↗ · My little sister is a fighter and never gives up at chess.↗ · The fighter pilot landed the plane safely.↗ · They were savage fighters and hunters.↗

fighteth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «fighteth» means «fights», a form of «fight».↗ e.g. To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons.↗ Example: Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'↗ (Torah DEU.3.22, JPS 1917) · And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'↗ (Torah EXO.14.25, JPS 1917)

figurative — Everyday, meaning 1: Used with a meaning different from the usual, word-for-word one, to make a picture in the mind: «a heart of gold» is figurative.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (art) Showing real people or things that you can recognise, not abstract shapes.↗ Example: «It's raining cats and dogs» is figurative language.↗ · Poets use figurative language to paint pictures with words.↗ · «He has a heart of stone» has a figurative meaning: he is unkind.↗ · The teacher asked us to find three figurative phrases in the poem.↗ · She paints figurative pictures of people at the beach.↗ · The figurative meaning of «break the ice» is to start a friendly chat.↗ · 16) Judah Halevi in his book entitled "Kusari," p. 456, illustrates it thus: The Creator is one, and the space has in the figurative expression six dimensions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

figuratively — Everyday, meaning 1: In a figurative way, not with the plain word-for-word meaning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used in the phrase «figuratively speaking» to show you are using an image, not a fact.↗ Example: Figuratively speaking, my brain is full after that test.↗ · «She is a shining star» is meant figuratively.↗ · He was figuratively walking on air after the win.↗ · The climbers reached the top, both literally and figuratively.↗ · When Mum says the house is a zoo, she means it figuratively.↗ · Can you explain this sentence figuratively and literally?↗

figure — Everyday, meaning 1: A figure is a number written as a sign, like 7 or 25.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A figure is a shape, like a triangle or a square.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A figure is the shape of a person, or a small toy model of a person: an action figure.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A figure in a book is a picture or a diagram.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To figure out is to find the answer or to understand.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To figure in a story means to appear or play a part in it.↗ Example: Jerry had 7 action figures.↗ · He added 2 more figures.↗ · Can you figure out how many he has now?↗ · How many more books than figures are on the shelf?↗ · Write the number in figures: 25.↗ · A square is a figure with four equal sides.↗ · I saw a dark figure in the fog.↗ · Look at Figure 3 on page 10.↗ · A gigantic pike figures also in the Kalevala.↗ · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.↗ (Torah NUM.33.52, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah LEV.26.1, JPS 1917)↗ · To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.↗ (Writings PRO.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.29, JPS 1917)↗

filament — Everyday, meaning 1: A filament is a very thin thread or wire.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In an old-style light bulb, the filament is the thin wire that glows when electricity passes through it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A thin thread in living things, such as in fungi, plants or a flower's stamen.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The plastic thread used in 3D printers.↗ Example: The filament in the bulb glowed bright orange.↗ · When the filament breaks, the bulb stops working.↗ · The stamen of a flower has a filament and an anther.↗ · Spiders spin silk filaments.↗ · Our 3D printer uses plastic filament.↗ · Fungi grow tiny filaments under the ground.↗

filbert — Everyday, meaning 1: A filbert is a hazelnut, the smooth nut of the hazel tree.↗ (old use).↗ Example: A boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts.↗ · Perhaps you may have some more filberts another time.↗

filch — Everyday, meaning 1: To filch is to steal something small, usually in a sneaky way.↗ Example: The fox filched the brains when the lion was not looking.↗ · A bit of cheese was filched from the dairy.↗ · Do not filch sweets from the jar.↗

file — Everyday, meaning 1: A file is a set of information kept together on a computer, like a picture or a document.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A file is a folder or box for keeping papers in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A file is a metal tool for making things smooth: a nail file.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To file is to put papers away in order, or to smooth with a file.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In single file means in a line, one behind another.↗ Example: Dave had 24 files on his phone.↗ · He deleted 9 files.↗ · He has 15 apps and 9 files left.↗ · How many more files than apps did he delete?↗ · Save the file before you close it.↗ · The teacher keeps our work in a file.↗ · Walk in single file along the narrow path.↗ · Mum used a nail file to smooth her nail.↗ · These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

filial — Everyday, meaning 1: Filial means of a son or daughter, or owed by a child to a parent: filial duty.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In old stories «filial» describes a child who is loving, respectful and obedient to a parent.↗ Example: She was a filial daughter who cared for her father.↗ · The prince showed filial love by obeying the king.↗ · Be obedient and filial to your mother.↗ · Her filial piety was known throughout the village.↗

filing — Everyday, meaning 1: Filing is putting papers or computer documents in order in files or folders.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Filings are tiny pieces rubbed off metal with a file, such as iron filings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Filing is also the «-ing» form of «file»: walking in a line (filing into class), smoothing with a file (filing nails), or sending a document officially.↗ Example: The iron filings made a pattern round the magnet.↗ · Mum keeps her letters in a filing cabinet.↗ · The children were filing quietly into the hall.↗ · She is filing her nails smooth.↗ · Dad spent the evening doing his filing.↗ · Sprinkle the filings gently over the paper.↗ · Don't blow iron filings; they can get in your eyes.↗ · And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917)↗

filipino — Everyday, meaning 1: Filipino means from or belonging to the Philippines, a country of more than seven thousand islands in South-East Asia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Filipino is a person from the Philippines.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Filipino is also the national language of the Philippines, based mostly on Tagalog; English is also widely spoken there.↗ Example: My friend's mum is Filipino.↗ · We tried Filipino food at the festival.↗ · Filipino is the national language of the Philippines.↗ · Many Filipinos speak both Filipino and English.↗ · The Filipino team won the dance competition.↗ · A Filipino nurse looked after my grandad.↗

fill — Everyday, meaning 1: To fill is to put in as much as something can hold.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fill is to become full: «The room filled with people».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To fill in a form or a gap is to write what is missing.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To fill up means to make completely full.↗ Example: How many boxes can Ben fill?↗ · Anna fills 3 jars with 8 sweets each.↗ · 20 pencils fill 4 boxes equally.↗ · Fill the bucket with sand.↗ · Fill in the missing numbers: 2, 4, _, 8.↗ · The stadium filled with fans.↗ · Fill in your name and age on the form.↗ · The bath takes 10 minutes to fill.↗ · Then he filled the cup again.↗ · And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.↗ (Torah GEN.6.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.40.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are filled, that I may go in unto her.'↗ (Torah GEN.29.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.23.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver; (Writings JOB.3.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.↗ (Writings JOB.8.21, JPS 1917)↗

fille — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Fille» means «girl» or «daughter»: «une petite fille» = a little girl, «ma fille» = my daughter.↗ It sounds like «fee» with a soft y at the end («feey»), and it is not an English word.↗ Example: «Je suis une fille» means «I am a girl» in French.↗ · «C'est ma fille» means «This is my daughter.»↗ · In French, «fille» is feminine: «la fille», «une fille».↗ · The French teacher said «filles» for the girls and «garçons» for the boys.↗ · «Petite-fille» in French means granddaughter.↗ · «La fille du roi» means «the king's daughter».↗

fillet — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A thin band or strip, often used to bind or decorate something.↗ Example: Their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.↗ (Torah EXO.38.10, JPS 1917)↗ · All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.↗ (Torah EXO.27.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.↗ (Torah EXO.27.10, JPS 1917)↗ · In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents; (Prophets ISA.3.18, JPS 1917)↗

filling — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A filling is the food inside a pie, sandwich, cake or pastry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A filling is the material a dentist puts into a hole in a tooth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Filling is also the soft material inside cushions, pillows and toys.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Filling food makes you feel full quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) Filling is the -ing form of «fill»: putting something into a container until it is full.↗ Example: My favourite sandwich filling is cheese and pickle.↗ · I had a filling at the dentist because I ate too many sweets.↗ · Porridge is very filling.↗ · She is filling the bath with warm water.↗ · The teddy's filling came out of a hole.↗ · A tap filling a tank at 5 litres per minute fills 60 litres in 12 minutes.↗ · Please finish filling in your form.↗ · He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water.↗ · It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.↗ (Writings JOB.20.23, JPS 1917)↗