📖 F — The English dictionary · page 22

fizzing — Everyday, meaning 1: Making lots of small bubbles with a hissing sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Full of energy or excitement: «fizzing with ideas».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK informal) Very angry: «Mum was fizzing».↗ Example: The mixture is fizzing in the beaker.↗ · Bubbles were fizzing up the side of the glass.↗ · She was fizzing with excitement before the party.↗ · The sherbet was fizzing on my tongue.↗ · Fizzing shows a gas is being made.↗ · (UK informal) Dad was fizzing when he saw the scratch on the car.↗

fizzle — Everyday, meaning 1: To fizzle is to make a soft hissing, spitting sound, like a sparkler or a fizzy drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) If something fizzles out, it slowly ends in a weak, disappointing way after a good start.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal noun) A fizzle is a disappointing failure.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A fizzle can also be a short, soft hissing sound.↗ Example: The sparkler fizzled in the rain.↗ · The firework fizzled and didn't go off.↗ · Our plan to build a treehouse fizzled out after a week.↗ · The storm fizzled out before it reached the coast.↗ · The party was a bit of a fizzle.↗ · The sausages fizzled in the pan.↗ · But as he stooped down the water gave a sudden fizzle, and splashed into the fox’s eyes, blinding him.↗

fizzy — Everyday, meaning 1: Fizzy means full of tiny bubbles of gas: a fizzy drink.↗ Example: I had a fizzy drink at the party.↗ · Fizzy water tickles my nose.↗ · Shaking a fizzy bottle makes it spray when you open it.↗ · The vinegar and baking soda went fizzy.↗ · Too many fizzy drinks are bad for your teeth.↗ · The lemonade went flat and was not fizzy any more.↗ · These sweets are fizzy on your tongue.↗ · A tablet in water made it fizzy.↗

fjord — Everyday, meaning 1: A fjord is a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, made by a glacier long ago.↗ Example: A fjord is a long arm of the sea between steep cliffs.↗ · We took a boat trip along a Norwegian fjord.↗ · Milford Sound in New Zealand is really a fjord.↗ · Glaciers carved the fjords long ago.↗ · Waterfalls tumbled down the sides of the fjord.↗ · The fjord was deep, cold and very still.↗

fl — Everyday, meaning 1: fl oz: «fluid ounce», a unit of liquid volume used in the USA and UK.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: fl.: «floor», as in a building: «3rd fl.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: FL.↗ e.g. Florida, a state in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: fl.: «floruit», Latin for «flourished», used before the time when a person was known to be active.↗ Example: The can holds 12 fl oz of juice.↗ · The office is on the 3rd fl.↗ · Grandpa lives in Orlando, FL.↗ · A US fluid ounce is about 30 ml.↗ · The label says 8 fl oz.↗ · The recipe needs 4 fl oz of milk.↗ · And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.↗ (Torah GEN.31.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.↗ (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, (Torah GEN.39.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.↗ (Prophets 2SA.19.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The sea saw it, and fled; the Jordan turned backward.↗ (Writings PSA.114.3, JPS 1917)↗

flag — Everyday, meaning 1: A flag is a piece of cloth with colours and pictures that stands for a country, a team or a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flag can be a sign or signal, like a chequered flag at the end of a race or a red flag for danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To flag something is to mark it so people notice it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To flag means to get tired and slow down.↗ Example: There are 12 flags along the street.↗ · Each flag has 3 stripes.↗ · Flags are put every 4 m on a 20 m path.↗ · She draws 5 red flags and 3 blue flags.↗ · The flag of Canada has a red maple leaf.↗ · Always swim between the red and yellow flags.↗ · The runners were flagging near the end of the race.↗ · The teacher flagged the mistakes in red.↗ · Steamboats, with waving flags, pass swiftly by.↗ · And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.↗ (Torah EXO.2.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.↗ (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.6, JPS 1917)↗

flagon — Everyday, meaning 1: A flagon is a large jug or bottle for holding wine, ale or other drink.↗ Example: The king poured wine from a silver flagon.↗ · A flagon of milk stood on the table.↗ · Fetch me a flagon of wine.↗ · The servant carried two flagons to the hall.↗ · And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons.↗ (Prophets ISA.22.24, JPS 1917)↗

flagpole — Everyday, meaning 1: A flagpole is a tall pole on which a flag is raised.↗ Example: The flag flew at the top of the flagpole.↗ · We raised the school flag up the flagpole.↗ · The flagpole is ten metres tall.↗ · The flag was lowered to half-mast.↗ · A bird sat on top of the flagpole.↗ · The flagpole's shadow got shorter at midday.↗ · Don't climb the flagpole!↗

flagstaff — Everyday, meaning 1: A tall pole on which a flag is flown; a flagpole.↗ Example: The flag fluttered on top of the flagstaff.↗ · They raised the flag up the flagstaff every morning.↗ · Toad Hall's flagstaff stood on the roof.↗ · Lightning struck the tall flagstaff.↗ · Pluto was discovered at an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.↗ · The flag was lowered to half-mast on the flagstaff.↗

flagstone — Everyday, meaning 1: A flagstone is a flat stone slab used for paving a path, a yard or a floor.↗ Example: The path was laid with flagstones.↗ · They lifted the flagstone to find the key.↗ · Pigeons walked across the broad flagstones.↗ · The giant's flagstone was too heavy to move.↗

flail — Everyday, meaning 1: A flail is an old farm tool: a wooden stick swung on a handle to beat grain from its husks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To flail is to wave or swing the arms or legs wildly.↗ Example: He beat the corn with a flail in the barn.↗ · Tom would not bring the flail into the palace.↗ · The farmer's flail thudded on the grain.↗ · The boy flailed his arms as he fell.↗

flake — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, thin, flat piece of something, like a snowflake or a flake of paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To come off in small thin pieces: «The paint is flaking».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To break cooked fish or food into small pieces.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal noun) A person who often forgets or breaks plans.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal verb, flake out / flake on) To not do what you promised, or to fall asleep from tiredness.↗ Example: A snowflake landed on my glove.↗ · The old paint on the fence is flaking off.↗ · I had a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast.↗ · Flake the cooked fish with a fork.↗ · Dry skin can come off in tiny flakes.↗ · He said he would come but he flaked at the last minute.↗ · After the long hike, I flaked out on the sofa.↗ · We put a chocolate flake in the ice cream.↗ · The snow-flakes grew larger and larger, till at last they looked just like great white fowls.↗ · The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.↗ (Writings JOB.41.15, JPS 1917)↗

flaky — Everyday, meaning 1: Flaky means breaking off easily into thin, flat pieces called flakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flaky skin is dry and comes off in small bits.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A flaky person is unreliable: they forget things or cancel plans.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) Something flaky, like a wifi connection or a computer program, works only some of the time.↗ Example: The sausage rolls were made with flaky pastry.↗ · The old paint on the gate was flaky.↗ · My lips get flaky in winter.↗ · Don't rely on Jake — he's a bit flaky and always cancels.↗ · The wifi is flaky in the garden.↗ · Fish is cooked when it is white and flaky.↗ · A Flake is a crumbly chocolate bar that goes in ice cream in the UK.↗

flame — Everyday, meaning 1: A flame is the hot, bright, burning gas you see in a fire: the flame of a candle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «In flames» means burning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To flame is to burn brightly or turn bright red.↗ Example: Blow out the flame of the candle.↗ · The house was in flames.↗ · Keep your sleeves away from the flame.↗ · The flame flickered in the wind.↗ · The car burst into flames.↗ · If your clothes catch fire, stop, drop and roll.↗ · A blue flame is hotter than a yellow one.↗ · Never play with flames.↗ · The flames were breaking out from below.↗ · For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it hath devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.↗ (Torah NUM.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.↗ (Torah EXO.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · This word means " scintillating flame."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · At the brightness before Him coals of fire flamed forth.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.13, JPS 1917)↗ · The voice of the LORD heweth out flames of fire.↗ (Writings PSA.29.7, JPS 1917)↗ · His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.↗ (Writings JOB.41.13, JPS 1917)↗

flamenco — Everyday, meaning 1: Flamenco is a lively, passionate kind of music, singing and dance from southern Spain (Andalusia), with guitar playing, hand clapping and fast stamping feet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective use) Flamenco describes things to do with this style, like a flamenco dress or flamenco guitar.↗ Example: The flamenco dancer stamped her heels in time to the guitar.↗ · We clapped along to the flamenco rhythm in music class.↗ · She wore a red flamenco dress with frills.↗ · Flamenco comes from southern Spain.↗ · My uncle plays flamenco guitar.↗ · The flamenco show was loud, fast and exciting.↗

flaming — Everyday, meaning 1: (mild swearing, mainly UK, Ireland, Australia) a softer stand-in for «bloody» to show annoyance: «that flaming dog».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literal) burning with flames: «a flaming torch».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: bright red or orange like fire: «flaming red hair».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: very angry or violent: «a flaming row».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (internet) sending angry, insulting messages online.↗ Example: Turn that flaming telly off!↗ · Where are my flaming keys?↗ · The knight carried a flaming torch into the cave.↗ · She has flaming red hair.↗ · They had a flaming row about the washing-up.↗ · The flaming sun set behind the hills.↗ · Flaming heck, it's cold out here!↗ · Our online-safety lesson said flaming other users is a form of bullying.↗ · At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty grey stone walls.↗ · And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.↗ (Torah GEN.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.↗ (Torah GEN.3.24, JPS 1917)↗ · His ministers a flaming fire."↗ (Psalm 104, 4.)↗ [1:13] He selected three consonants from the simple ones which are in the hidden secret of three mothers or first elements: א"מ"ש air, water and ether or fire.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Who makest winds Thy messengers, the flaming fire Thy ministers.↗ (Writings PSA.104.4, JPS 1917)↗ · He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.↗ (Writings PSA.105.32, JPS 1917)↗ · For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.6, JPS 1917)↗

flamingo — Everyday, meaning 1: A flamingo is a tall wading bird with long thin legs, a long bendy neck, pink feathers and a curved beak, that lives in big groups by lakes and lagoons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A plastic flamingo is a pink garden ornament, a joke symbol of fancy American gardens.↗ Example: A flamingo stood on one leg in the shallow lake.↗ · Flamingos are pink because of the shrimps and algae they eat.↗ · A flock of flamingos flew over the salt lake.↗ · Flamingo chicks are grey and fluffy at first.↗ · The flamingo fed with its head upside down.↗ · We did a balance challenge: stand like a flamingo for one minute!↗ · A group of flamingos can be called a flamboyance.↗ · John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.↗

flammable — Everyday, meaning 1: Flammable means easily set on fire and burning quickly.↗ Example: Petrol is highly flammable.↗ · Keep flammable things away from the candle.↗ · The can has a «flammable» warning sign.↗ · Paper is flammable but metal is not.↗ · Never spray aerosol cans near a flame; they are flammable.↗ · Choose costumes that are not flammable.↗ · In science we sorted materials into flammable and non-flammable.↗