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- flask noun (a flask, flasks)
A flask is a container that keeps drinks hot or cold, also called a vacuum flask or Thermos. - flaskful noun (plural flaskfuls)
1) A flaskful is as much as a flask can hold. - flat adjective (flat, flatter, flattest); noun (a flat, flats); adverb (flat)
Flat means smooth and level, with no bumps or hills. - flatfish noun (a flatfish, flatfish or flatfishes)
A flatfish is a fish with a flat body that lies on one side on the sea floor, such as a plaice, sole, flounder, halibut or turbot. - flatlined verb (flatline, flatlines, flatlined, flatlining); noun (a flatline)
died; the heart stopped, so the line on the heart monitor became flat. - flatly adverb
Flatly means completely and firmly, with no doubt: "She flatly refused.". - flatten verb (flatten, flattens, flattened, flattening)
To make something flat or flatter by pressing or rolling it. - flattened verb form (past of «flatten»: flatten, flattens, flattened, flattening); adjective (flattened)
Made flat or flatter, for example by pressing, rolling or squashing. - flatter verb (flatter, flatters, flattered, flattering); adjective (flatter — comparative of flat)
To praise someone too much, often not sincerely, to please them or get something. - flatterer noun (plural flatterers)
1) A flatterer is someone who praises you too much, often to please you or to get something from you. - flattery noun (flattery — uncountable)
1) Flattery is praise that is too much or not sincere, often given to please someone or to get something from them. - flatworm noun (a flatworm, flatworms)
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. - flavor noun (plural flavors); verb (flavors, flavored, flavoring); American spelling of «flavour»
1) The flavor of food is how it tastes. 2) To flavor food is to add something to it, such as herbs or garlic, so that it tastes of… - flavour noun (flavour, flavours — UK; flavor — US); verb (flavour, flavours, flavoured, flavouring)
Flavour is the taste of food or drink: a lemon flavour. - flaw noun (a flaw, flaws)
A flaw is a small mark, crack or fault that spoils something. - flawless adjective (flawless)
1) Flawless means perfect, without any mistakes, marks or faults. - flax noun (no plural)
1) Flax is a plant whose stems are spun into thread for making linen cloth. 2) Flax can also mean the thread spun from it. - flay verb (flays, flayed, flaying)
1) To flay an animal is to strip the skin off it. 2) (old use, cruel) To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin. - flea noun (a flea, fleas)
A very small jumping insect without wings that lives on the skin and fur of animals and people and sucks their blood. - fleck noun (a fleck, flecks); verb (fleck, flecks, flecked, flecking)
A fleck is a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of something, like a fleck of paint or dust. - fledged adjective (from the verb «fledge»: fledges, fledged, fledging)
A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly. - fledgling noun (a fledgling, fledglings); adjective (fledgling)
A young bird that has just grown its feathers and is learning to fly. - flee verb (flee, flees, fled, fleeing)
1) To flee is to run away from danger or from a place, quickly. - fleece noun (a fleece, fleeces); verb (fleece, fleeces, fleeced, fleecing — informal)
The woolly coat of a sheep, or the wool cut from one sheep in one piece. - fleecy adjective (fleecier, fleeciest)
1) Fleecy means soft and woolly, like a sheep's fleece. 2) Fleecy can describe soft white clouds. - fleet noun (a fleet, fleets); adjective (fleet — literary)
A group of ships, especially navy ships, that sail together. - fleming proper noun (Fleming, Flemings — a surname; also an old word for a person from Flanders)
1) Fleming is a family name. The most famous is Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic… - flemish adjective (Flemish); noun (Flemish — the language; the Flemish — the people)
Flemish means to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, or its people. - flesh noun (flesh — uncountable); verb (flesh out, fleshes out, fleshed out)
Flesh is the soft part of the body of a person or animal, between the skin and bones, mostly muscle and fat. - fleshy adjective (fleshy, fleshier, fleshiest)
Fleshy means thick, soft and juicy, especially describing fruit or plant parts, like a fleshy peach or fleshy cactus leaves. - flex verb (flex, flexes, flexed, flexing); noun (a flex, flexes — UK cable; a flex — slang showing off)
To flex means to bend a part of your body, like your arm or fingers. - flexibility noun (flexibility — uncountable)
Flexibility is the ability to bend easily without breaking. - flexible adjective (flexible, more flexible, most flexible)
Something flexible can bend easily without breaking, like rubber or a plastic ruler. - flexion noun (flexion, flexions)
Flexion is bending a joint so that the angle between the bones gets smaller, like bending your elbow or knee. - flick verb (flick, flicks, flicked, flicking); noun (a flick, flicks)
To hit or move something with a quick small movement, for example with a finger. - flicker verb (flicker, flickers, flickered, flickering); noun (a flicker, flickers)
To flicker is to shine unsteadily, getting brighter and dimmer quickly, like a candle flame. - flier noun (a flier, fliers); also spelled flyer
A flier is a person or thing that flies, such as a pilot, a bird or a passenger on planes. - flight noun (flight, flights)
A flight is a trip in an aeroplane: «our flight to Dublin». - flightless adjective (flightless)
1) Flightless means not able to fly. It is used for birds and insects that have wings but cannot fly. - flinch verb (flinch, flinches, flinched, flinching); noun (a flinch)
To flinch is to make a small, quick movement backwards or away because of pain, fear or surprise. - flinders noun (plural, old-fashioned); proper name (Flinders)
Small broken pieces or splinters, as in «smashed to flinders». - fling verb (fling, flings, flung, flinging); noun (a fling)
To fling something is to throw it hard and carelessly. - flint noun (flint; a flint, flints)
A very hard grey or black stone that makes sparks when struck against steel, and breaks into sharp edges. - flip verb (flip, flips, flipped, flipping); noun (a flip, flips)
To flip something is to turn it over quickly, like a coin or a pancake. - flipper noun (a flipper, flippers)
A flipper is a flat, wide limb that seals, turtles, penguins and dolphins use for swimming. - flipping adjective (flipping — mild swearing, UK, Ireland, Australia); adverb (flipping); verb form (flip, flips, flipped, flipping)
a soft stand-in for a stronger swear word, to show annoyance or for emphasis: «It's flipping freezing». - flirt noun (plural flirts); verb (flirts, flirted, flirting)
A flirt is someone who plays at liking another person to win their attention. - flit verb (flit, flits, flitted, flitting); noun (a flit — UK, Scotland)
To flit is to move or fly quickly and lightly from one place to another, like a butterfly or a bird. - float verb (float, floats, floated, floating); noun (a float, floats)
To stay on top of water or another liquid without sinking. - floating verb form (float, floats, floated, floating); adjective (floating)
Floating means staying on top of water or another liquid without sinking. - flock noun (flock, flocks); verb (flock, flocks, flocked, flocking)
A flock is a group of birds or sheep together. - floe noun (a floe, floes; also ice floe)
1) A large flat sheet of floating ice on the sea. - flog verb (flog, flogs, flogged, flogging)
To beat someone hard with a whip or stick as a punishment (now illegal in most places). - flogging noun (a flogging, floggings); also the -ing form of flog
A beating with a whip or stick as a punishment. - flood noun (a flood, floods); verb (flood, floods, flooded, flooding)
A flood is a large amount of water covering land that is usually dry. - floodplain noun (a floodplain, floodplains; also flood plain)
1) A floodplain is the flat land beside a river that gets covered with water when the river floods. - floor noun (floor, floors); verb (floor, floored — to knock down or to surprise)
A floor is the flat part of a room that you walk on. - floorboard noun (a floorboard, floorboards)
1) A floorboard is one of the long flat pieces of wood that make a wooden floor. - flop verb (flop, flops, flopped, flopping); noun (a flop, flops)
To flop is to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are tired. - floppy adjective (floppy, floppier, floppiest)
1) Soft and hanging down loosely, not stiff: «a dog with floppy ears». 2) Weak and limp: «a floppy plant needs water». - flora noun (flora – uncountable; floras, rarely)
All the plants that grow in a particular place or at a particular time. - floral adjective (floral)
1) Floral means made of flowers or decorated with patterns of flowers. 2) Floral can also describe a smell like flowers. - florentine adjective (Florentine); noun (a florentine, florentines)
From or about Florence, a famous city in Italy known for art and the Renaissance. - florin noun (plural florins)
1) A florin is an old coin of money, once worth two shillings in British money, and used in other countries long ago. - florist noun (a florist, florists)
1) A person who sells and arranges flowers. 2) A shop that sells flowers (often «the florist's»). - floss noun (floss, dental floss — uncountable); verb (floss, flosses, flossed, flossing)
Dental floss is a thin thread used to clean between your teeth. - flotation noun (flotation, flotations); UK also floatation; verb float
Flotation is floating, or the ability of something to stay on top of water. - flounder verb (flounder, flounders, floundered, floundering); noun (a flounder, flounders or flounder — a fish)
A flounder is a flat sea fish that lies on the seabed, with both eyes on one side of its head. - flour noun (flour); verb (flour, floured)
Flour is a white or brown powder made by grinding grain like wheat; it is used to make bread, cakes and pasta. - flourish verb (flourish, flourishes, flourished, flourishing); noun (a flourish, flourishes)
To flourish is to grow well and be healthy and strong, like plants in good soil. - flow verb (flow, flows, flowed, flowing); noun (flow — uncountable; a flow)
Of a liquid, gas or electricity: to move along smoothly and steadily in one direction. - flower noun (flower, flowers); verb (flower, flowers, flowered)
A flower is the coloured part of a plant that blooms, like a rose or a tulip. - flowerpot noun (a flowerpot, flowerpots)
A flowerpot is a container, usually of clay or plastic, for growing a plant in, with a hole in the bottom for water to drain out. - flowery adjective (flowerier, floweriest)
1) Flowery means full of flowers. 2) Flowery language uses many fancy words, like flowers in a garden. - flowing verb form (flow, flows, flowed, flowing); adjective (flowing)
Flowing means moving along smoothly, as water does in a river. - flu noun (flu, the flu — uncountable; short for influenza)
1) An illness caused by a virus that gives you a high temperature, aches, a cough, a sore throat and makes you feel very tired. - fluctuate verb (fluctuate, fluctuates, fluctuated, fluctuating) — (formal)
1) (formal) To keep changing, going up and down, especially in amount, level or price. - fluency noun (uncountable)
Being able to speak, read or write a language easily, quickly and well. - fluent adjective (fluent; more fluent); adverb fluently; noun fluency
Able to speak, read or write a language easily and well, as in «fluent in French». - fluently adverb
1) Speaking, reading or writing a language easily, smoothly and well. 2) Moving or working smoothly, without stopping or stumbling. - fluff noun (fluff, uncountable); verb (fluff, fluffs, fluffed, fluffing)
Fluff is small soft bits of wool, dust, hair or feathers, like the bits in your pocket or under the bed. - fluffy adjective (fluffy, fluffier, fluffiest)
Soft, light and covered with fur, feathers or fine hairs, like a kitten or a chick. - fluid noun (a fluid, fluids); adjective (fluid)
A fluid is a substance that can flow, such as a liquid or a gas. - fluke noun (a fluke, flukes)
A fluke is a lucky chance, something good that happened by accident, not because of skill. - fluorescent adjective (fluorescent)
Very bright and seeming to glow, especially colours like bright yellow, orange or green. - fluoride noun (fluoride, uncountable)
Fluoride is a natural mineral that helps make teeth strong and protects them from holes (decay). - flush verb (flush, flushes, flushed, flushing); noun (a flush, flushes); adjective (flush)
To flush a toilet is to clean it by making water rush through it. - flustered adjective (flustered, more flustered); verb fluster
Flustered means nervous, confused and a bit embarrassed, especially because you are rushed or things are going wrong. - flute noun (a flute, flutes)
A flute is a musical instrument shaped like a thin tube, played by blowing across a hole near one end and pressing keys or covering holes. - flutter verb (flutter, flutters, fluttered, fluttering); noun (a flutter, flutters)
To move wings quickly and lightly, or to fly with quick small movements, like a butterfly. - fluttering verb form (fluttering, from flutter); adjective (fluttering); noun (fluttering)
Fluttering means moving quickly and lightly up and down or to and fro, like a butterfly's wings, a flag or falling leaves. - fly verb (fly, flies, flew, flown, flying); noun (a fly, flies)
To fly is to move through the air with wings, like a bird, an insect or a plane. - flyer noun (a flyer, flyers; also spelled flier)
A flyer is a small printed sheet of paper advertising an event, shop or service, handed out or put through letterboxes. - flyover noun (a flyover, flyovers)
A flyover is a bridge that carries one road over another road or railway. - flytrap noun (a flytrap, flytraps); usually «Venus flytrap»
A flytrap, or Venus flytrap, is a plant whose leaves snap shut like jaws to catch flies and other insects, which it then digests. - foal noun (a foal, foals); verb (foal, foals, foaled, foaling)
1) A foal is a baby horse, donkey or zebra. 2) When a mare foals, she gives birth to a foal. - foam noun (foam — uncountable; foams for kinds); verb (foam, foams, foamed, foaming)
A mass of many tiny bubbles on top of a liquid or made by mixing air into something, like the foam on the sea, on a bath or on a milkshake. - foamy adjective (foamy, foamier, foamiest)
1) Foamy means covered with foam or full of tiny bubbles. - focus verb (focus, focuses / focusses, focused / focussed, focusing / focussing); noun (a focus, focuses / foci)
To focus means to give all your attention to one thing. - fodder noun (fodder; uncountable)
Fodder is food such as hay, straw or grain given to farm animals like cows, horses and sheep.
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