📖 F — The English dictionary · page 45

frugal — Everyday, meaning 1: Frugal means spending little and making do with simple things; a frugal meal is small and plain.↗ Example: Grandma is frugal and never wastes food.↗ · They ate a frugal supper of bread and cheese.↗ · He lived a frugal life in a small cottage.↗

fruit — Everyday, meaning 1: Fruit is the sweet or juicy part of a plant that holds its seeds and that you can eat, like an apple, a pear, a plum or a banana.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a fruit is any part of a flowering plant that grows from the flower and holds seeds, so tomatoes and peppers are fruits too.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The fruits of work are its good results.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: anything a plant or land produces, such as crops; also the children born from a body.↗ Example: How many fruits are on the table?↗ · Mia has 3 apples and 4 pears.↗ How many pieces of fruit does she have?↗ · A bowl holds 12 fruits.↗ · Eat some fruit every day.↗ · Oranges, grapes and kiwis are fruits.↗ · Mum made a fruit salad for dessert.↗ · A tomato is a fruit in science but we cook it like a vegetable.↗ · Birds eat fruit and spread the seeds.↗ · King Vuislaf has an apple-tree which bears golden fruits.↗ · All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.↗ (Torah DEU.28.42, JPS 1917)↗ · The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God.↗ (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.↗ (Torah EXO.34.26, JPS 1917)↗ · and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits.↗ (Writings NEH.13.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.↗ (Writings PSA.107.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.↗ (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.↗ (Torah DEU.28.42, JPS 1917) · To my son Ciccu I leave the fruit.↗ (The Pink Fairy Book) · He caused Mem to predominate in Water, and crowned it, and combined it with others, and formed Earth on the world, cold in the year, and the fruit of the womb in mankind, being carried in the belly.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)

fruitage — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: fruit, or the crop of fruit that something bears (an old word).↗ Example: He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Torah DEU.32.13, JPS 1917)↗ · But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?↗ (Prophets JDG.9.11, JPS 1917)↗ · In days to come shall Jacob take root, Israel shall blossom and bud; and the face of the world shall be filled with fruitage.↗ (Prophets ISA.27.6, JPS 1917)↗

fruitcake — Everyday, meaning 1: A fruitcake is a rich cake full of dried fruit like raisins, currants and cherries, often eaten at Christmas and weddings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, rude) A fruitcake is a person who seems crazy or very strange; «nutty as a fruitcake» means very silly or mad.↗ Example: Grandma bakes a fruitcake every Christmas.↗ · Would you like a slice of fruitcake with your tea?↗ · The wedding cake was a rich fruitcake covered in icing.↗ · The fruitcake was cut into 16 equal slices.↗ · (informal) Our neighbour talks to his tomatoes — he's a bit of a fruitcake.↗ · (informal) «He's as nutty as a fruitcake,» laughed Dad.↗ · Fruitcake keeps for weeks in a tin.↗

fruitful — Everyday, meaning 1: Fruitful means producing much fruit or crops, so the land gives rich harvests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fruitful can mean useful and successful, giving good results.↗ Example: The fields were fruitful and the farmers were rich.↗ · After a wet spring the orchard was fruitful.↗ · They had a fruitful talk and solved the problem.↗ · And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'↗ (Torah GEN.9.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.↗ (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.9.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars; (Writings PSA.148.9, JPS 1917)↗ · My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill; (Prophets ISA.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; (Prophets ISA.32.12, JPS 1917)↗

fruitfulness — Everyday, meaning 1: Fruitfulness is the state of producing much fruit, crops or young animals.↗ Example: The fruitfulness of the farm fed the whole village.↗ · Spring brings fruitfulness to the fields.↗ · The king prayed for the fruitfulness of his herds.↗

fruitless — Everyday, meaning 1: Fruitless means producing no result; it fails to find or gain anything.↗ Example: They made a fruitless search for the lost ring.↗ · All his fruitless wanderings took years.↗ · Her fruitless wait ended when night fell.↗

fruity — Everyday, meaning 1: Fruity means tasting or smelling strongly of fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fruity voice is deep, rich and warm.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) Fruity can mean a bit cheeky or rude, as in a «fruity joke».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old, offensive slang) An unkind word once used to mock people; do not use.↗ Example: This yoghurt has a fruity taste.↗ · The shampoo smells fruity.↗ · Grandpa has a deep, fruity laugh.↗ · The drink was sweet and fruity.↗ · Try the fruitiest smoothie on the menu.↗ · The actor spoke in a rich, fruity voice.↗

frustrate — Everyday, meaning 1: To frustrate someone is to make them feel cross and upset because they cannot do or get what they want.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To frustrate a plan is to stop it from working.↗ Example: It frustrates me when my pencil keeps breaking.↗ · The rain frustrated our plans for a picnic.↗ · He felt frustrated because the puzzle was so hard.↗ · Don't let one mistake frustrate you.↗ · The guards frustrated the thief's escape.↗ · Being stuck in traffic frustrates Dad.↗ · When you are frustrated, take a deep breath and try again.↗ · and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.↗ (Writings EZR.4.5, JPS 1917)↗

frustrated — Everyday, meaning 1: Feeling upset and annoyed because you cannot do something or cannot get what you want, even though you try.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Stopped someone's plans from working: «The rain frustrated our plans».↗ Example: I got frustrated when my tower of blocks kept falling down.↗ · She was frustrated with the hard maths problem.↗ · When you feel frustrated, take three deep breaths.↗ · The baby was frustrated because she couldn't reach the toy.↗ · He felt frustrated by the slow internet.↗ · Their plans were frustrated by the storm.↗ · It's okay to feel frustrated; just don't give up.↗ · Already had they succeeded in placing Mount Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa, when this impious project was frustrated by Apollo, who destroyed them with his arrows.↗ · For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.↗ (Writings PRO.15.22, JPS 1917)↗

frustrating — Everyday, meaning 1: Frustrating describes something that makes you feel cross and upset because you cannot do or change it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Frustrating is the «-ing» form of «frustrate».↗ Example: It's so frustrating when the ball keeps going over the fence.↗ · Learning to ride a bike can be frustrating at first.↗ · It was a frustrating day; nothing went right.↗ · Losing the last piece of the puzzle is frustrating.↗ · Waiting for the bus in the rain was frustrating.↗ · The game was frustrating, but fun in the end.↗ · The bad weather kept frustrating the climbers' plans.↗ · Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children.↗

frustration — Everyday, meaning 1: A cross, upset feeling you get when you cannot do something or cannot get what you want.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A thing that causes this feeling.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Frustration can also mean the act of stopping someone's plans from succeeding.↗ Example: He kicked the ball in frustration when he missed.↗ · Learning to ride a bike can cause frustration at first.↗ · Take a deep breath when you feel frustration.↗ · One frustration of camping is the rain.↗ · She groaned with frustration at the long sum.↗ · Talking to someone can help you let your frustration go.↗ · But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do.↗

fry — Everyday, meaning 1: To fry food is to cook it in hot oil or fat in a pan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fries (plural) are long thin pieces of potato cooked in oil, called «chips» in the UK and Ireland.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fry are very young fish just hatched.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Small fry" can also mean unimportant people or things.↗ Example: Can you fry an egg for me?↗ · Mum fried the fish in a little oil.↗ · I'd like a burger and fries.↗ · The fry swam in the shallow water.↗ · Let's make a stir-fry with vegetables.↗ · Fry the onions until they are soft.↗ · In the UK, fries are usually called chips.↗ · Don't worry about him — he's just small fry.↗ · "No small fry for me," he said.↗

frying — Everyday, meaning 1: Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A frying pan is a flat, shallow pan with a long handle used for frying.↗ Example: Dad is frying sausages for breakfast.↗ · The smell of frying bacon filled the house.↗ · Put the frying pan on the stove.↗ · Turn the pan handle inward when frying.↗ · Frying uses more oil than baking.↗ · We went out of the frying pan into the fire when the second storm came.↗ · Hot oil spat out of the frying pan.↗ · ‘No; they are frying pancakes in Europe just now,’ said Little Lasse; and he wanted to jump ashore, but he could not.↗

fsh — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) FSH stands for «follicle-stimulating hormone», a chemical messenger in the body that helps grown-ups' bodies develop and have babies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spelling of a soft hissing sound, like air or a fizzy drink, as in «Fsh! went the can».↗ Example: FSH is a hormone made in the brain.↗ · The doctor checked her FSH level.↗ · «Fsh!» went the bottle when Dad opened it.↗ · The snake made a soft «fsh» sound.↗ · In the comic, the rocket said «FSHHH».↗

ft — Everyday, meaning 1: The short form of «foot» or «feet», a unit of length in the imperial system; 1 ft = 12 inches, about 30 centimetres.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) Short for «feat.» or «featuring» in song titles, usually written «ft.» or «feat.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (in names) «Ft» is short for «Fort» (Ft Worth).↗ Example: The room is 12 ft long and 10 ft wide.↗ · My dad is 6 ft tall.↗ · The fence is 4 ft high.↗ · 1 yard = 3 ft, so 2 yards = 6 ft.↗ · The plane flew at 30,000 ft.↗ · The rug covers 50 sq ft.↗

fudge — Everyday, meaning 1: Fudge is a soft, sweet candy made from sugar, butter and milk, often with chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To fudge something is to avoid giving a clear answer, or to change facts or numbers a little to make them look better.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A fudge is an unclear compromise that hides a problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, euphemism) "Oh fudge!" is a polite way of saying a swear word when something goes wrong.↗ Example: Gran makes chocolate fudge for the holidays.↗ · We bought fudge at the seaside shop.↗ · Don't fudge your results; write what really happened.↗ · He fudged the question and didn't really answer.↗ · Oh fudge, I've dropped my ice cream!↗ · The recipe needs 400 g of sugar for the fudge.↗ · Cut the fudge into 24 squares.↗ · The plan was a fudge that pleased nobody.↗

fuel — Everyday, meaning 1: Fuel is something that is burned to make heat or power, like petrol, gas, coal or wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Food is fuel for your body because it gives you energy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To fuel something means to give it fuel, or to make a feeling or situation stronger.↗ Example: Cars need fuel to go.↗ · Coal, oil and gas are fossil fuels.↗ · Wood is a fuel for the campfire.↗ · Food is fuel for your body.↗ · We stopped to buy fuel at the petrol station.↗ · Keep fuel away from flames.↗ · His unkind words fuelled the argument.↗ · Then go and get fuel and light a fire.’↗ · And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.18, JPS 1917)↗

fuelled — Everyday, meaning 1: Fuelled means given fuel such as petrol, gas, coal or wood, so that it can work or burn: «a plane fuelled for take-off».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fuelled means made stronger or bigger, especially feelings, ideas or fights: «Anger was fuelled by rumours».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As part of a word, «-fuelled» tells what something runs on: «diesel-fuelled», «coffee-fuelled».↗ Example: The rocket was fuelled and ready to launch.↗ · The fire was fuelled by dry leaves.↗ · Rumours fuelled the argument.↗ · The old power station was coal-fuelled.↗ · We fuelled up with pancakes before the hike.↗ · Her success was fuelled by hard work.↗ · The car was fuelled at the petrol station.↗