📖 F — The English dictionary · page 37

fortify — Everyday, meaning 1: To fortify a place is to make it stronger against attack by building walls, towers or ditches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fortify yourself is to make yourself stronger or braver, for example with food, a drink or encouragement.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To fortify food is to add extra vitamins or minerals to it: «fortified cereal».↗ Example: The Normans fortified the town with stone walls.↗ · The castle was fortified with a moat and drawbridge.↗ · This cereal is fortified with iron and vitamins.↗ · She fortified herself with a big breakfast before the race.↗ · The soldiers fortified the hill.↗ · Fortified foods help people get enough vitamin D.↗ · And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye broke down the houses to fortify the wall; (Prophets ISA.22.10, JPS 1917)↗ · A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! — (Prophets NAM.2.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.51.53, JPS 1917)↗

fortnight — Everyday, meaning 1: A period of two weeks; fourteen days.↗ Example: We're going on holiday for a fortnight.↗ · I'll see you in a fortnight.↗ · The library books are due back in a fortnight.↗ · How many days are there in three fortnights?↗ Forty-two.↗ · She gets paid every fortnight.↗ · The magazine comes out fortnightly.↗ · It was more than a fortnight since the Moon had shone.↗

fortress — Everyday, meaning 1: A fortress is a large, strong building or town with thick walls, built to protect people from attack.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fortress is any place that is very safe and hard to get into.↗ Example: The soldiers hid inside the stone fortress.↗ · The fortress stood on a hill above the river.↗ · Edinburgh Castle was once a mighty fortress.↗ · We built a pillow fortress in the living room.↗ · The dragon guarded the gate of the dark fortress.↗ · Their defence was like a fortress — no goals all season.↗ · The fortress walls were three metres thick.↗ · Shiyu by using his magic art quickly passed over with his army and shut himself up in a fortress on the opposite bank.↗ · and he said: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; (Prophets 2SA.22.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The God who is my strong fortress, and who letteth my way go forth straight; (Prophets 2SA.22.33, JPS 1917)↗ · That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.↗ (Prophets AMO.5.9, JPS 1917)↗

fortunate — Everyday, meaning 1: Fortunate means lucky; having something good happen to you by chance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having more good things, like money or comfort, than many people: «less fortunate people».↗ Example: We were fortunate to find a seat on the train.↗ · It was fortunate that nobody was hurt.↗ · The school collects food for less fortunate families.↗ · She was fortunate enough to see a whale.↗ · How fortunate that you brought an umbrella!↗ · He knew he was fortunate to have good friends.↗ · It is very fortunate that you came to-night.↗

fortunately — Everyday, meaning 1: Fortunately means happily, because something lucky has happened.↗ e.g. Fortunately, it did not rain.↗ Example: Fortunately, it was near evening, and the dwarfs came home.↗ · Fortunately, the rain stopped before the match.↗ · I forgot my coat, but fortunately I was not cold.↗

fortune — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large amount of money: «That car cost a fortune».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Luck, good or bad, especially luck that affects your life: «good fortune».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: What will happen to a person in the future: «tell someone's fortune».↗ Example: The pirates hoped to find a fortune in gold.↗ · That new phone must have cost a fortune!↗ · By good fortune, it stopped raining just before the race.↗ · Jack left home to seek his fortune.↗ · The fortune teller said I would travel far.↗ · My fortune cookie said, "Kindness brings joy."↗ · She made a fortune selling her inventions.↗ · It is most extraordinary good fortune."↗ · And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!'↗ And she called his name Gad.↗ (Torah GEN.30.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD changed the fortune of Job, when he prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.↗ (Writings JOB.42.10, JPS 1917)↗ · But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that offer mingled wine in full measure unto Destiny, (Prophets ISA.65.11, JPS 1917)↗

forty — Everyday, meaning 1: Forty is the number 40, four tens.↗ Example: There are forty pupils in the hall.↗ · A box holds forty pencils.↗ · He ran forty metres.↗ · Forty minus twelve is twenty-eight.↗ · The lesson lasts forty minutes.↗ · Forty is double twenty.↗ · Grandpa took forty winks after lunch.↗ · "Six, eight, ten--twenty, forty," said he.↗ · And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.↗ (Torah GEN.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.↗ (Torah NUM.13.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming.↗ (Torah GEN.50.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land had rest forty years.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he had judged Israel forty years.↗ (Prophets 1SA.4.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.↗ (Writings EZR.2.24, JPS 1917)↗

forum — Everyday, meaning 1: A forum is a place, meeting or website where people discuss a topic and share views.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An online message board where people post questions and answers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In ancient Rome, the forum was the main public square for markets and meetings.↗ Example: I asked a question on a gaming forum.↗ · The town held a public forum about the new park.↗ · The Roman Forum was busy with traders.↗ · Our school council is a forum for pupils' ideas.↗ · Don't give your address on an online forum.↗ · The forum has rules about being kind.↗ · Close to the Forum of Rome stood the so-called temple of Janus, which, however, was merely an arched passage, closed by massive gates.↗

forward — Everyday, meaning 1: Forward means toward the front, in the direction you are facing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Forward means toward the future: look forward to something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To forward a letter or message is to send it on to someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A forward is a player who attacks in some sports.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To come forward is to offer yourself to do a job, or to step up to speak or help.↗ Example: The frog jumps 3 steps forward.↗ · Count forward by 5 from 20.↗ · The car moved forward 50 metres.↗ · She took 4 steps forward and 2 back.↗ · We did forward rolls in PE.↗ · I look forward to the holidays.↗ · Please forward this email to your mum.↗ · Step forward when I call your name.↗ · The bear came forward as umpire.↗ · Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts. — And they set forward.↗ (Torah NUM.10.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.↗ (Torah NUM.10.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.↗ (Torah NUM.10.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; (Writings JOB.23.8, JPS 1917)↗ · their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.9, JPS 1917)↗

fossa — Everyday, meaning 1: A fossa is a slim, cat-like meat-eating animal that lives only in Madagascar, the island's top predator.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In anatomy, a fossa is a small hollow or dip in a bone or the body.↗ Example: The fossa leapt through the trees after a lemur.↗ · Fossas live only in Madagascar.↗ · A fossa looks like a cat but isn't one.↗ · Its long tail helps it balance on branches.↗ · The doctor pointed to a small fossa in the skull bone.↗ · The fossa is the largest predator on Madagascar.↗

fossil — Everyday, meaning 1: A fossil is the remains or shape of a plant or animal from very long ago, kept in rock.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fossil fuels are coal, oil and gas, made from ancient living things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Informally, an old fossil is a joking name for an old-fashioned person.↗ Example: We found a fossil of a shell on the beach.↗ · Fossils tell us what dinosaurs looked like.↗ · Mary Anning was a famous fossil hunter.↗ · Coal and oil are fossil fuels.↗ · The museum has a fossil of a huge fish.↗ · Fossils form very slowly over millions of years.↗ · Footprints can also become fossils.↗

fossilisation — Everyday, meaning 1: Fossilisation is the very slow process, over thousands or millions of years, by which the remains or traces of a living thing are turned into a fossil, usually in rock.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) Fossilisation is when ideas, habits or a language stop changing and become fixed.↗ Example: Fossilisation takes millions of years.↗ · Only a few dead animals ever go through fossilisation.↗ · Quick burial in mud helps fossilisation.↗ · Shells are often found because they survive fossilisation well.↗ · We drew a comic strip of the stages of fossilisation.↗ · Teeth and bones are the parts most likely to survive fossilisation.↗

fossilise — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) To slowly turn into a fossil, where a dead plant or animal is preserved in rock over millions of years.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of ideas or habits) To become fixed and unable to change, as in «Their ideas had fossilised».↗ Example: The dinosaur bones fossilised over millions of years.↗ · Footprints can fossilise in mud that turns to rock.↗ · Soft parts like skin rarely fossilise.↗ · We made a fossilised leaf print from plaster.↗ · Mary Anning found a fossilised ichthyosaur.↗ · Grandpa jokes that his old car is a fossilised wreck.↗

fossilised — Everyday, meaning 1: Turned into a fossil: the remains or print of a plant or animal that has slowly turned to stone over millions of years.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) Old-fashioned and unable to change, like ideas or rules stuck in the past.↗ Example: We found a fossilised shell on the beach at Lyme Regis.↗ · The museum shows a fossilised dinosaur egg.↗ · Fossilised footprints prove that the animals walked here.↗ · Amber can hold a fossilised insect inside it.↗ · Over millions of years, the tree trunk fossilised into stone.↗ · My uncle says the school rules are fossilised and need updating.↗

foster — Everyday, meaning 1: To look after a child for a time in your own home when the child's own family cannot care for them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To look after an animal for a time until it finds a new home.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To help something grow or develop: «foster a love of reading».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Connected with fostering: «foster parent», «foster child», «foster family».↗ Example: My friend lives with her foster parents.↗ · We fostered three kittens until they found homes.↗ · Some children stay in foster care for a few months.↗ · A good teacher fosters curiosity.↗ · Our foster dog is learning to walk on a lead.↗ · Foster carers give children a safe, loving home.↗ · Jurgen and his foster parents went past this castle.↗

fosterling — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A fosterling is a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not its own parent.↗ Example: The king raised the orphan as his fosterling.↗ · His fosterling lamented that the hard art would never be mastered.↗

foul — Everyday, meaning 1: Very dirty, smelly or unpleasant: «a foul smell».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in sport) An action that breaks the rules, like tripping or pushing another player.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To break a rule against a player in a game.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To make something dirty: «Dogs must not foul the park».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (of weather or mood) Very bad: «foul weather», «a foul temper».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Rude: «foul language».↗ Example: The rubbish bin has a foul smell.↗ · The referee blew the whistle for a foul.↗ · He was fouled just outside the box.↗ · Please clean up after your dog so it does not foul the path.↗ · We stayed inside because of the foul weather.↗ · Foul language is not allowed in class.↗ · She was in a foul mood after losing her keys.↗ · In basketball, after five fouls a player must leave the game.↗ · The foul vapour of the beast and horror at its strangeness now overcame the prince, and he fainted.↗ · And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'↗ (Torah EXO.7.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah EXO.7.21, 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)↗ · And as for My sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.↗ (Prophets EZK.34.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.↗ (Prophets ISA.50.2, JPS 1917)↗