📖 F — The English dictionary · page 8

fatherly — Everyday, meaning 1: Fatherly means kind, caring and protective, like a good father.↗ Example: The old man gave me a fatherly smile.↗ · She gave the lost boy fatherly advice.↗ · My grandad has a fatherly way with the dog.↗

fathom — Everyday, meaning 1: To fathom something is to understand it fully after thinking hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fathom is an old unit of length for measuring depth at sea, equal to six feet.↗ Example: I cannot fathom why the door was locked.↗ · No one could fathom the old man's riddle.↗ · He fathomed the trick at once.↗ · The sailors let down a rope ten fathoms long.↗ · Ten fathoms is about sixty feet.↗

fatigue — Everyday, meaning 1: Fatigue is great tiredness of the body or mind, after hard work, illness or lack of sleep.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Metal fatigue is weakness in metal caused by being bent or shaken many times, which can make it crack.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fatigues (plural) are loose army clothes for work or battle.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, formal) To fatigue someone is to make them very tired.↗ Example: After the long hike, we were overcome with fatigue.↗ · Fatigue can make it hard to concentrate in class.↗ · Drivers should stop and rest to avoid fatigue.↗ · The bridge was closed because of metal fatigue.↗ · The soldiers wore green fatigues.↗ · The illness left her with fatigue for weeks.↗ · The heat fatigued the runners.↗ · Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake.↗

fatigued — Everyday, meaning 1: Fatigued means very tired, worn out in body or mind (formal).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Metal that is fatigued has been weakened by being bent or loaded again and again.↗ Example: After the long hike, we were all fatigued.↗ · Fatigued drivers should stop and rest.↗ · The players looked fatigued in the last minutes.↗ · The doctor asked if she often felt fatigued.↗ · The fatigued metal in the bridge was replaced.↗ · He was too fatigued to finish his homework.↗

fatness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Richness or abundance, and also fat as a body feature.↗ Example: Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness.↗ (Writings PSA.65.12, JPS 1917)↗ · My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.↗ (Writings PSA.109.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.↗ (Writings PSA.73.7, JPS 1917)↗

fatso — Everyday, meaning 1: (rude, slang) Fatso is an insulting name for a fat person.↗ Example: The bully shouted «fatso» at him, and he went red.↗ · Calling someone fatso is unkind and can hurt for a long time.↗ · In the story, the boy who was called fatso became the hero.↗ · Our class rule is no name-calling, like «fatso» or «weirdo».↗ · She told a teacher when they kept calling her fatso.↗ · Never call anyone fatso, even as a joke.↗

fatten — Everyday, meaning 1: To make an animal or person fatter, especially farm animals before they are sold for meat, as in «fatten the pigs».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become fatter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To make something bigger, as in «fatten your wallet».↗ Example: The witch tried to fatten Hansel up.↗ · Farmers fatten turkeys before Christmas.↗ · Bears fatten up in autumn before they sleep for the winter.↗ · Cream cakes are fattening.↗ · The geese were fattening on grain.↗ · Saving pocket money will fatten your piggy bank.↗ · Better fatten me up; you will enjoy me much more.’↗

fattening — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Likely to make you put on weight, usually because it has lots of fat or sugar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Making an animal or person fatter, especially farm animals before they are sold.↗ Example: Cakes are tasty but fattening.↗ · Fizzy drinks are fattening because of the sugar.↗ · The farmer is fattening the lambs on fresh grass.↗ · The witch was fattening Hansel up in a cage.↗ · Nan says I need fattening up after being ill.↗ · Fried snacks are more fattening than fruit.↗ · He killed the other two geese for dinner, but built a little shed for Mimi in one of his rooms, under the pretence of fattening her under his own eye.↗

fatty — Everyday, meaning 1: Fatty means containing a lot of fat: «fatty food», «fatty meat».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fatty describes something made of fat: «fatty tissue», «fatty acids».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude) «Fatty» is an insulting name for a fat person; using it is unkind and hurtful.↗ Example: Chips and burgers are fatty foods.↗ · Eat fatty foods only now and then.↗ · The dog chewed a fatty bone.↗ · Fish oil contains fatty acids that are good for the brain.↗ · Calling someone «Fatty» is mean and is bullying.↗ · Cut off the fatty part of the bacon.↗

fault — Everyday, meaning 1: If something is your fault, you are the one who caused a mistake or a bad thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fault is a weak or bad part in someone's character: «His only fault is that he is late».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fault is something wrong in a machine: «an electrical fault».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In science, a fault is a crack in the Earth's crust where rocks move.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In tennis, a fault is a bad serve.↗ Example: It's not your fault that it rained.↗ · Sorry, it was my fault — I broke the vase.↗ · The machine stopped because of a fault.↗ · Everyone has faults.↗ · Earthquakes happen along faults in the ground.↗ · She always finds fault with my drawings.↗ · The driver who crashed was at fault.↗ · If an adult hurts you, it is never your fault.↗ · Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying: 'I make mention of my faults this day: (Torah GEN.41.9, JPS 1917)↗ · There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us: Make brick; and, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people.'↗ (Torah EXO.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Clear Thou me from hidden faults.↗ (Writings PSA.19.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Without my fault, they run and prepare themselves; awake Thou to help me, and behold.↗ (Writings PSA.59.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.↗ (Writings DAN.6.5, JPS 1917)↗

faultless — Everyday, meaning 1: Faultless means with no mistakes or flaws at all; perfect.↗ Example: Her spelling was faultless.↗ · The princess had faultless manners.↗ · He gave a faultless answer to every sum.↗ · The palace walls were faultless, with not one crack.↗ · This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.↗ (Torah NUM.19.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins, that they may not have dominion over me; then shall I be faultless, and I shall be clear from great transgression.↗ (Writings PSA.19.14, JPS 1917)↗

faulty — Everyday, meaning 1: Faulty means not working properly because something is wrong with it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Faulty can describe thinking or reasoning that has a mistake in it.↗ Example: The lamp has a faulty switch.↗ · Don't use that faulty plug; it could give a shock.↗ · We took the faulty toy back to the shop.↗ · The fire was caused by faulty wiring.↗ · His argument was faulty because he left out a step.↗ · The car's brakes were faulty.↗ · Tell an adult if something electrical looks faulty.↗ · “What is there faulty in it?”↗ Flahri asked.↗

fauna — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) All the animals living in one place or at one time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used with «flora» (plants): «flora and fauna» = plants and animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fauna is also the name of a goddess in ancient Roman stories, the wife of Faunus.↗ Example: Australia's fauna includes kangaroos and platypuses.↗ · The rainforest has amazing flora and fauna.↗ · We studied the fauna of the rock pool.↗ · Please do not disturb the local fauna.↗ · The island's fauna is unique.↗ · Pollution harms the river's fauna.↗ · Fauna was the wife of Faunus, and participated in his functions.↗

faux — Everyday, meaning 1: Faux means fake or made to look like the real thing, used mostly for materials such as fur, leather or marble.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is borrowed from French, where «faux» means «false».↗ Example: My winter coat has a faux fur hood.↗ · The sofa is covered in faux leather.↗ · The pillars look like stone, but they are faux marble.↗ · Wearing a hat at the dinner table was a faux pas in Grandpa's house.↗ · Faux fur is kinder to animals than real fur.↗ · The shop sells faux flowers that never die.↗ · Her bag is faux snakeskin.↗

favor — Everyday, meaning 1: A favor is a kind act done for someone: «Will you do me a favor?».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Favor is help or support: a wind in favor of one ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Favor is approval or liking: to win someone's favor.↗ Example: Will you do me a favor?↗ · The wind was in our favor.↗ · Pinocchio won everybody's favor.↗ · The king showed favor to the youngest son.↗

favorable — Everyday, meaning 1: Favorable means good or helpful for you: favorable weather.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Favorable means showing approval: a favorable opinion.↗ Example: The wind was favorable, so the ship sailed fast.↗ · She chose a favorable moment to ask.↗ · Perhaps fortune will be more favorable to me.↗ · The judge gave a favorable report.↗

favorably — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that shows approval or liking: he looked favorably on the plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Compare favorably» means to be judged as good as or better than something.↗ Example: The king looked favorably on the young prince.↗ · Our cake compares favorably with yours.↗ · She was favorably inclined to help us.↗

favored — Everyday, meaning 1: Favored means given special help or kindness by luck or by a ruler, or chosen above others.↗ Example: She was favored by fortune.↗ · The youngest prince was the king's favored son.↗ · Which of the four lands was most favored?↗

favorite — Everyday, meaning 1: Your favorite is the one you like best.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A favorite is a person or team that most people think will win.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A favorite can be someone liked more than others, which may be unfair.↗ Example: Her favorite fruit is apples.↗ · 12 children said red is their favorite color.↗ · He bought 3 of his favorite books.↗ · How many chose dogs as their favorite?↗ · What is your favorite subject?↗ · We made a bar graph of favorite pets.↗ · This song is my favorite.↗ · The blue team is the favorite to win.↗ · Another favorite pastime of Kintaro’s was to smash up rocks and stones.↗

favoritism — Everyday, meaning 1: Favoritism is unfairly treating one person or group better than others, because you like them more, not because they deserve it.↗ Example: The coach was accused of favoritism because his son always played.↗ · It's favoritism if the teacher only picks her friends' children.↗ · Jacob's favoritism towards Joseph made his brothers jealous.↗ · Parents try not to show favoritism.↗ · Favoritism in hiring is unfair to good workers.↗ · «That's favoritism!» my brother shouted when I got the bigger slice.↗

favour — Everyday, meaning 1: A favour is a kind thing you do to help someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «In favour of» means supporting or agreeing with something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To favour someone is to treat them better than others.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A party favour is a small gift for guests.↗ Example: Can you do me a favour and hold this?↗ · Thanks, I owe you a favour.↗ · Who is in favour of a trip to the zoo?↗ · The score was 3–1 in our favour.↗ · Mum said she would not favour one child over the other.↗ · We gave out party favours.↗ · She returned the favour and helped me too.↗ · Peter decided in favour of the land.↗ · neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.↗ (Torah EXO.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him.↗ (Torah GEN.39.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians.↗ (Torah EXO.3.21, JPS 1917)↗ · He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.↗ (Writings JOB.13.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing with favour.↗ (Writings PSA.145.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.↗ (Writings PRO.8.35, JPS 1917)↗

favourable — Everyday, meaning 1: Good for you or helpful; giving an advantage: favourable weather for sailing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing that someone likes or approves of something: a favourable report.↗ Example: The weather was favourable, so we went sailing.↗ · Seeds grow well in favourable conditions.↗ · The teacher wrote a favourable report about my work.↗ · The wind was favourable for flying kites.↗ · The plan got a favourable answer from the council.↗ · Warm wet soil is favourable to worms.↗ · The ship set sail for Christiansand in Norway, and as the wind was favourable it soon arrived there.↗ · 'Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will He be favourable no more?↗ (Writings PSA.77.8, JPS 1917)↗ · LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob.↗ (Writings PSA.85.2, JPS 1917)↗ · He prayeth unto God, and He is favourable unto him; so that he seeth His face with joy; and He restoreth unto man his righteousness.↗ (Writings JOB.33.26, JPS 1917)↗

favourite — Everyday, meaning 1: Your favourite is the thing or person you like best of all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Favourite as an adjective means liked the most, like your favourite colour or food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a race or contest, the favourite is the one expected to win.↗ Example: What's your favourite colour?↗ · Pizza is my favourite food.↗ · This book is an old favourite.↗ · Our survey showed apples are the class's favourite fruit.↗ · Which animal is your favourite?↗ · She's the favourite to win the race.↗ · It's not fair for teachers to have favourites.↗ · That song is my all-time favourite.↗ · Her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily.↗ · Kings' daughters are among thy favourites; at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.↗ (Writings PSA.45.10, JPS 1917)↗