📖 F — The English dictionary · page 24

flatten — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something flat or flatter by pressing or rolling it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To knock down or destroy something completely: «The storm flattened the trees».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To become flat: «The hills flatten out near the sea».↗ Example: Flatten the dough with a rolling pin.↗ · We flattened the cardboard boxes for recycling.↗ · The storm flattened the farmer's wheat.↗ · The road flattens out after the big hill.↗ · She flattened the crumpled paper with her hand.↗ · Squash and flatten the plasticine into a pancake.↗ · The line on the graph flattens out after day five.↗ · Her head seemed to flatten, and her eyes to look oddly round the corners; her legs and her arms were stuck to her sides, and she gasped wildly for breath.↗

flattened — Everyday, meaning 1: Made flat or flatter, for example by pressing, rolling or squashing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Knocked down to the ground: «the storm flattened the trees».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Having a flat shape: «a flattened ball».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To flatten someone's spirits means to make them feel suddenly sad and discouraged.↗ Example: She flattened the dough with a rolling pin.↗ · The strong wind flattened the corn.↗ · The cat flattened its ears because it was cross.↗ · The Earth is a little flattened at the top and bottom.↗ · We flattened the cardboard boxes for recycling.↗ · The grass was flattened where the tent had been.↗ · When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again.↗ · And Samekh-Tzadi-Resh-Shin, between the teeth and tongue, lain down and flattened.↗ [note 1: These last two words, שכובה ושטותה, are difficult to identify.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

flatter — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To praise someone too much, often not sincerely, to please them or get something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make someone look better than usual: «That colour flatters you».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) «be flattered»: feel pleased because someone admired you.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) More flat; more level or smooth.↗ Example: The fox flattered the crow so she would drop the cheese.↗ · Don't try to flatter me — you still have to tidy up.↗ · I was flattered when they asked me to sing.↗ · That dress really flatters you.↗ · The fields here are flatter than in the hills.↗ · Press it down to make it flatter.↗ · He flattered the teacher to get extra time.↗ · Such a neatly turned compliment flattered Ludovine.↗ · May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!↗ (Writings PSA.12.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For I know not to give flattering titles; else would my Maker soon take me away.↗ (Writings JOB.32.22, JPS 1917)↗ · A lying tongue hateth those that are crushed by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.↗ (Writings PRO.26.28, JPS 1917)↗

flatterer — Everyday, meaning 1: A flatterer is someone who praises you too much, often to please you or to get something from you.↗ Example: Alas, he was led away by flatterers.↗ · This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers.↗

flattery — Everyday, meaning 1: Flattery is praise that is too much or not sincere, often given to please someone or to get something from them.↗ Example: The fox used flattery to trick the crow into singing.↗ · «Flattery will get you nowhere,» laughed Mum when I said she was the best cook in the world.↗ · The courtiers covered the king in flattery.↗ · Honest praise is better than flattery.↗ · She saw through his flattery straight away.↗ · Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, people say.↗ · He tried flattery to get an extra biscuit.↗ · Do not let flattery throw you off your guard against an enemy.↗ · He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.↗ (Writings JOB.17.5, JPS 1917)↗

flatworm — Everyday, meaning 1: A simple soft worm with a flat body and no legs; many live in water or damp places, and some are parasites that live inside other animals.↗ Example: A flatworm glided across the bottom of the pond.↗ · Flatworms have soft, flat bodies.↗ · Some flatworms can regrow if cut in half.↗ · The tapeworm is a kind of flatworm that lives inside animals.↗ · We found a flatworm under a damp rock.↗ · Bright sea flatworms look like tiny ribbons.↗

flavor — Everyday, meaning 1: The flavor of food is how it tastes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To flavor food is to add something to it, such as herbs or garlic, so that it tastes of something.↗ Example: Cakes of unleavened flour flavored with garlic.↗ · But the more I drink of it, the better I like the flavor.↗

flavour — Everyday, meaning 1: Flavour is the taste of food or drink: a lemon flavour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flavour is one kind of taste that a food is made in: ice cream comes in many flavours.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To flavour means to add something to food to give it a taste: flavour the soup with herbs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Flavour can mean the special feeling or character of something: the festival had a Mexican flavour.↗ Example: What's your favourite ice-cream flavour?↗ · Chocolate is the most popular flavour in our class tally.↗ · Mum flavoured the rice with garlic and lemon.↗ · When you have a cold, food has less flavour.↗ · These crisps are cheese and onion flavour.↗ · Fresh herbs add flavour to the pasta.↗ · The town fair had a real seaside flavour.↗ · The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour.↗

flaw — Everyday, meaning 1: A flaw is a small mark, crack or fault that spoils something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flaw is a weakness or mistake in a plan, an argument or a person's character.↗ Example: There's a small flaw in the glass.↗ · Can you find the flaw in this argument?↗ · His only flaw is that he is always late.↗ · The plan had one big flaw: nobody had the key.↗ · The jeweller looked for flaws in the diamond.↗ · The flaw in the experiment was that we did not keep it fair.↗ · Everyone has flaws, and that's all right.↗

flawless — Everyday, meaning 1: Flawless means perfect, without any mistakes, marks or faults.↗ Example: Her dance was flawless.↗ · He got a flawless score of ten out of ten.↗ · The diamond was clear and flawless.↗ · Nobody is flawless, so don't worry about little mistakes.↗ · The gymnast landed a flawless jump.↗ · Your spelling test was flawless; well done!↗ · The plan seemed flawless, but it rained.↗

flax — Everyday, meaning 1: Flax is a plant whose stems are spun into thread for making linen cloth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flax can also mean the thread spun from it.↗ Example: Here thou hast two bundles of flax.↗ · Must they spin gold flax for ever?↗ · And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.↗ (Torah EXO.9.31, JPS 1917)↗ · She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.↗ (Writings PRO.31.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.9, JPS 1917)↗ · But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.↗ (Prophets JOS.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

flay — Everyday, meaning 1: To flay an animal is to strip the skin off it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use, cruel) To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin.↗ Example: Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire.↗ · What you smell so must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed.↗ · And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.↗ (Torah LEV.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood, which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.↗ (Writings 2CH.35.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.↗ (Prophets MIC.3.3, JPS 1917)↗

flea — Everyday, meaning 1: A very small jumping insect without wings that lives on the skin and fur of animals and people and sucks their blood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flea market: a market where people sell old and second-hand things cheaply.↗ Example: Our dog kept scratching because it had fleas.↗ · The vet gave the cat flea treatment.↗ · A flea can jump more than a hundred times its own length.↗ · We bought old comics at the flea market.↗ · Flea bites leave small itchy red spots.↗ · Fleas are parasites that drink blood.↗ · Long ago, fleas on rats spread a deadly disease called the plague.↗ · After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.↗ (Prophets 1SA.24.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.26.20, JPS 1917)↗

fleck — Everyday, meaning 1: A fleck is a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of something, like a fleck of paint or dust.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To be flecked with something means to have small spots of it scattered over it.↗ Example: There was a fleck of paint on her nose.↗ · His eyes were blue with flecks of grey.↗ · The bird's feathers were flecked with white.↗ · I found a fleck of gold in the stream.↗ · Flecks of snow drifted past the window.↗ · The wall was flecked with mud after the football game.↗ · It was written on a leaflet of paper heavily flecked with gold-dust.↗

fledged — Everyday, meaning 1: A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Half-fledged» means not yet fully grown or ready, like a young bird still learning to fly.↗ Example: But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling.↗

fledgling — Everyday, meaning 1: A young bird that has just grown its feathers and is learning to fly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or thing that is new and not yet experienced: «a fledgling club».↗ Example: A fledgling hopped about on the lawn.↗ · The fledgling flapped its wings and tried to fly.↗ · If you find a fledgling, leave it; its parents are close by.↗ · Keep the cat inside while fledglings are learning to fly.↗ · The fledgling club had only five members.↗ · Fledglings have feathers, but nestlings are still fluffy.↗ · Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!↗

flee — Everyday, meaning 1: To flee is to run away from danger or from a place, quickly.↗ Example: The deer fled when it heard the dog.↗ · People fled from the burning town.↗ · The thief fled before the police arrived.↗ · Many families fled the war to stay safe.↗ · The mice fled into their holes.↗ · We had to flee the beach when the storm came.↗ · The rabbit fled at the sight of the fox.↗ · Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together.↗ · Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; (Torah GEN.27.43, JPS 1917)↗ · He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses; (Torah EXO.9.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?'↗ And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.'↗ (Torah GEN.16.8, JPS 1917)↗ · To whom will ye flee for help?↗ (Prophets ISA.10.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Madmenah is in mad flight; the inhabitants of Gebim flee to cover.↗ (Prophets ISA.10.31, JPS 1917)↗

fleece — Everyday, meaning 1: The woolly coat of a sheep, or the wool cut from one sheep in one piece.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A soft, warm jacket or jumper made of fluffy man-made fabric.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To fleece someone is to cheat them out of money, often by charging far too much.↗ Example: The farmer clipped the sheep's fleece in one big piece.↗ · Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow.↗ · Bring a warm fleece on the school camping trip.↗ · My fleece got covered in dog hair.↗ · The tourists were fleeced by a taxi driver who charged them triple.↗ · In the Greek myth, Jason sailed to find the Golden Fleece.↗ · One fleece can give enough wool to knit a jumper.↗ · It was a good fat sheep, with a fine fleece on its back.↗ · The first-fruits of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.↗ (Torah DEU.18.4, JPS 1917)↗ · If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; (Writings JOB.31.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.↗ (Prophets JDG.6.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.↗ (Prophets JDG.6.38, JPS 1917)↗

fleecy — Everyday, meaning 1: Fleecy means soft and woolly, like a sheep's fleece.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fleecy can describe soft white clouds.↗ Example: The water had taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe.↗ · Fleecy clouds drifted over the hills.↗